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S o ldi ers o f M ex i can W ar C o nfe d e rate S o ldi e rs o f Civ il W ar F e d e ral S o ldi ers o f Civ il W ar S p ani sh -A m eri can W ar S oldi e rs o f Wo r ld W ar T r u ste es o f C e m ete ry C o mp any

P R E F A C E

We cherish the memory of the soldiers who gave their lives to the service of this country and who have thus secured for their nati ve State an honored name among the states of the

Nation . We rej oice that so many of the officers and men who won lasting fame for Kentucky during the wars in which this t republic has been engaged , and who laid down heir lives in the

' ’ n defe se of their country , have been removed to the State s

a the be utiful necropolis , and that they now rest in bosom of their native State and their bodies have become a p art of the i earth for which they gave their l ves . We rej oice that our fathers have preserved in granite and marble the names of wh o r those men fell in the defense of this count y , and by so ’ doing they testified to the world their regard for Kentucky s gallant dead . We are also proud of those great Kentuckians “ whose virtues and faithful service in civil life are lamps unto i ” . i our feet and l ghts unto our path Their purity of life , the r wisdom and their patriotism make their dust the most sacred heritage of a patriotic people . All a the n tions of the earth have honored , and have striven to perpetuate , the memory of their great and good . The a Jews c rried with them the bones of Joseph , their benefactor, i a during the r w nderings through the wilderness , while in search of the Promised Land . The pyramids of Egypt are monuments a to the great men of an e rly civilization . The ceremonies over the remains of the departed and the manner of disposing of the dead have differed among different. a nations , but all n tions have rendered homage to , and have d t an honored in some way , their epar ed heroes , d no people have ever arisen to power or greatness who have not striven the to perpetuate memory of their great men and women . No n natio , whether barbarian or civilized , has failed to show some 6 PREF ACE

a o f m rks respect and honor for their distinguished dead . We are told that the barbarians turned aside the course of a river i n C A a order that their hieftain , l ric , might be buried in the the wvateiz eh an ed i a ai n bed of the river , and g g to its natural

a a course so th t no foe could desecr te the grave of their hero . Eor h alf a century the people of Kentucky searched for a

“ secure an d perm anent place -i n which to deposit the ashes of r their loved and hono ed dead . Their efforts were finally

, rewarded an d the . i deal place W hich is now used for that pur u i n 1 845 pose was sec red the year . I t is eminently proper that the mortal remains of these disti n guished men should be gathered fr om all parts of the

a a fin d - a a e rth , and th t they should last resting pl ce in Ken ’ ” s I Y THE D A s a tucky C T OF E D , which overlook the c pitol of the St ate : n Ou r fathers have erected here the monumental

" colum n s upon whi ch have. been inscribed the names and deeds ’ of Kentucky s noted sons , in order that their children in all e m ma m a h tim to co e y ke their pilgrimage to t is holy shrine , as did the knights of old to the Holy L and ;th at they may re ad the

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' History of TCen tu cky as it has been carved - i n marble and

“ T he X granite . pens of enophon and Herodotus , of Livy and m i al m Tacitus , have ade mmort the na es of Greek and Roman ,

' who deserv e l ess x fro m posterity than do many of the great men wh n o s i n h - n o o w leep t e ecr polis of this Commonwealth .

h as m hi cem eterv her Kentucky ade t s temple of honor , and t he mortal remai ns of her g re at men have been’ gathered

th e a n d an d from State Nation from foreign countries , until these groun ds h ave become the Very Resting Pl ace of Honor

h WV s n s r A T e e tm i te bbey of this Commonwealth . They wh o c o n cei ved the ide a; of collecting into th is cem e ’ tery the ashes of Ke n tucky s distinguished dead conferred a l a t u o wh o am t sting benefi p n those c e after them , in tha it pre sented to their minds those conspicuous examples of p atriot ism and virtue whi ch are worthy of emulation . The coming gene ra tions of th i s Co mmo n wealth will regard a burial in the State Cemetery at Frankfort as t he most distinguished h onor ' which

: c . v t can be onferred upon their dead , and they will co e such honor as did th e English Capt ain who said to his men ashe went PRE FA CE

into battle , Now then for a victory or a tomb in Westminster A W e n a h as bbey . k ow not wh t the future in store for us bu om the B e we know that we are g g the way of all earth , that vond the dim unknown standeth God within the shadow , keep ” ing watch above his own . When we think of the so -called death of our gre at and a a cou n sci ou sn ess good , we h ve that men like these never die ; death to them is but a circumstance in their existence . We have a consciousness of their immortality that they are still with u s

‘ in spirit ; they revisit the scenes of their earthly activity and k s i W e commune with indred pir ts . believe that in a brighter and better world we shall meet and know them ; that they will all h live again ; yes , t at they do now live , for there is no death .

“ There i s no death but Angel forms ’ W alk o er the earth wi th silent tread ; y a The bear our best loved things way , A n d then we call them dead . Bu t ever near u s though unseen Their dear immortal spirits tread For all the boundless universe ” T e — h s lif t ere are no dead .

Th Au thor e .

KENTUCKY’S NECROPOLI S

A I CH PTER .

A I T H E I NCORPOR T ON .

The Frankfort or S tate Cemetery was incorporated by Act

K en tu ck l u F 27th 1 844 . of the v Legis at re , approved ebruary , f A The incorporators were Edmund H . Taylor , . G . Hodges , A : VVi n ate . . Henry g , Mason Brown , Jacob Swigert, P Co t Act B . l . . Phi ip Swigert , Orlando rown and M R S ealey ) The provided that seven truste es sho u ld be elected by the share

five holders , once every y ears . The proceeds of the sale of lots and all money that came to the corporation from any other source should be applied , first , to the reimbursement of those who had made ad vancements for the original outlay and pur chase ; and whatever should be paid afterwards , for all time to he come , should used to ornament and improve the grounds d fra l was and e v incidenta expenses . The Frankfort Cemetery h t e . second incorporated cemetery in the United States Mt . A n s . uburn , at Bosto , Mas , was the first The Act provi des that the groun ds shall be used for burial t h purposes only , and at no roads shall be Opened through the

I t. t grounds . prescribes tha in addition to their other duties the trustees shall preserve an accurate map and survey of the ’ n th e c s grou ds and lots , and have same re orded in the Clerk ffi the a u r an d ffi o ce of Fr nklin Co nty Cou t , also in the o ce of the A I t the Clerk of Court of ppeals . is made their duty to add such fixtures as may be necessary for the use or ornament of the off t grounds , with power to lay and sell burial lo s , etc . When a burial lot is purchased the trustees shall give a a certificate thereof, under the seal of the corpor tion , which I f s shall vest the purchaser with title . thi title is not trans ferred by the grantee it shall descend or pass by devise as other real estate . 1 0 H I STORY OF T H E FRA NKFORT CE M ETERY

Section 5 provides : A n y person defac1 n g an y of the tomb or the stones , monuments enclosures , or inj uring any of u grounds , shrubbery, fixt res or buildings , or in any manner damaging the grou nds 3of th e corporation , shall b e punished

' by fine or imprisonment and be liable to the corporati on for A c civil damages . There was an amendment to this t which to an d provided for the superintendent reside on the grounds , whic h vested hi m and other employees of the company with police power to arrest persons trespassing and committing was depredations and offenses in the g rounds . This approved A ri l 7th 1 888 p . 1 6th 1 845 A W a On February , , mbrose . Dudley and Eliz r G . Dudley , his wife , conveyed to the F ankfort Cemetery Com “ ’ - as t pany thirty two acres of land , then known Hun er s con si derat1 on a Garden the for which was three thous nd , l I n 1 9 1 1 eight hundred and one dol ars . the year the com as M an d pany purch ed from rs . Bessie L . Exum others thirteen d su m re acres , for which was pai the of th e thousand and

-five l n ow twenty do lars . The grounds consist of one hundred s x acres of land , the original cost of which was i thousand , eight n - hundred and twe ty six dollars . I n the year 1 890 the company erected a chapel at an a expense of bout seven thousand doll ars . This building is of artistic design and is located on the brow of the hill overlook R I t in g the Kentucky iver and the City of Frankfort . adds materially to the beauty and convenience of the grounds . When the company secured the or1 gi n al tract of land it m Carm 1 ch ael e ployed Mr . Robert as landscape gardener . This gentleman was not only learned in hi s profession but he also ’ had several years e x perience in Scotland prior to this employ h a ment . The symmetry and armony which prevails every p rt

. of these grounds proclaim that a master mind had planned the original construction and em bel lishment thereof: I n the y ear 1 9 1 9 the company reconstructed the approach or d1 i v eway to these grounds at a cost of about six thousand A m a a dollars . bout twelve inches of well prepared ac d m was overlaid wi th about four inches of rock asphalt ; this makes a i substantial and beau t ful driveway . H I S TORY o n T HE FRA NKFORT CE M E TE RY 1

’ ‘ 1 T he T h e l ocation of these grou n ds i s deal . contour of the land is sufficiently undulating to f urnish a ' variety of scenery an d at the same time i t is level enough for the purpose a r for whi ch it was set aside . Mr . Carmich el died in the yea 1 858 and was buried i n the grounds whi ch he had done so t much o beautify .

' I n a were o en ed January , the books of the comp ny p

the a the e d to for s le of lots , d e s only a very few of which have been recorded .

I n e 1 847 . b the y ar the Legislature of Kentucky , y resolu

‘ m 1 n u 1 r1 n 1 tion , appointed a com ittee for the purpose of q g nto the policy and expediency of causing a suitable monument to be erected at the most eligible point in Kentucky in honor of the officers and sol diers who have heretofore and wh o may

‘ hereafter fall in the defense of their country , and to mark the n a resti g pl ce of her illustrious statesmen ; also , report the most suitabl e place to be selected in which Kentucky may deposit h h r l t e ashes of e il ustrious dead . The committee reported that in discharge of those duties they visited the grounds of the Frankfort Cemetery , recently off e ' laid and improved , on the hill immediat ly above the capitol , “ ’ ” w kno n formerly as Hunter s Garden . They found it to be a spot of great beauty and remarkable for its commanding m n situation and ro a tic and picturesque scenery . The grounds

a - embr ce thirty two acres , enclosed by a secure and excellent

e an d ff s ri fenc of walnut cedar , which a ords perfect ecu ty to the place . Good buildings are provided within th e enclosure h for the superintendent who constantly resides there , and w ose du tv it i s to take care of the 1 m prov em en ts th at have alre ady been m ade and to superintend - such as the company may think proper hereafter to m ake to keep the grounds in neat and compl ete order and protect the same from the sli ghtest inj ury

I ts h ~ . i or trespass hig elevated s tuation , being about three hun d dred feet above the Kentucky River , affor s a fine and com mandi ng view of that stream which winds at the base of the

~e u ' hill r bl ff . From a portion of thi s grou n d you have a view of the capi tol and the greater portion of that part of the city F th e of rankfort north of river , the whole of South Frankfort, 1 2 H I S TORY o r T H F FRA NKFORT CE M ETERY

K en tu ckv an d a the bridge across the River, for m ny miles over i the surround ng country . u t The elevated sit a ion of this point , the purpose for which r s it has been set apa t , con ecrated and forever devoted and

. dedicated , the neat and tasteful manner in which it has been m i n the i t i proved , point it out opin on of your commit ee as the

most eligibl e point that could be sel ected for the erection of a. grand and splendid m onumen t for the purpose contemplated in the preamble and resol u ti on s p al so the most suitable place

to be selected as a public burying ground for Kentucky .

Your committee would further state that. by the charter of the company it is forever set apart as a cemetery ; no road can pass through it : i t i s not subj ect to execution or sale ; it can I never be used for other purposes . t has been handsomely laid o ff l ots i s v into small for the use of fam lies , portion of which ha e an d han dsom el been sold v enclosed . The proceeds arising from the s ale of the l ots are forev e1 to be applied to the improve n o f ment and or ament the grounds .

The letter which Judge Mason Brown , as chairman of “ the Cem eter v Company sen t to the committee states : You

l bv a wi l discover , the charter of the company , th t the Frankfort Cemetery is str1 ctl v a charitable and benevolent institution and wholly free from speculation or gain . The sole obj ect of the gentlemen who established i t was a desire that they and their

i g an d friends m ht have a secure , permanent beautiful spot in which to deposit the ashes of their dead ; that while living they

might. have pious h ands keep the briars and weeds from the h an d a graves of t ose they loved , when l id by their side , the same melancholy but con soling care might be bestowed upon

t - a them . The grounds of the cemetery embrace thir y two cres . There will have been expended during this and the ensuing a the al m su m ye r , in origin purchase and i provements , the of

v l l I t v twel e thousand do ars . s romantic situation and impro e

as thev i ments make it , bel eve , an interesting and beautiful spot . I am ch arged by the company to state that should it mee t the vi ews of your committee they will cheerfully convey to the a th e i St te beaut ful mound in the center of the grounds , which

1 4 H I STOR Y on T H E F R A N K E OR T CE M ETERY by the rust of the dowel pins whi ch were used to hold the blocks in place T he Statue of Victory which c rowns the work and the four eagles which guard the corners of the - die were sculptured in I taly from the models prepared by Mr . Launitz . " The other the an d relief figures on panels , the coat of arms the rest of the L-a n i tz b u . m arble work was executed y Mr . in New York City “ a th e s On the upper base , f cing west , is the in cription , The principal battles and campaigns in which her sons devoted their lives to their country are inscribed on the bands and beneath ffi the same are the names of her o cers who fell . The names of her sol di e1 s who died for their country are too numerous to ” i n be i n scr ed on a y column . On the north side of the u pper base 1 s a tablet on which is “ A a e . . inscribed Milit ry Monument rected by Kentucky , D 1 850 . On the east side of the same is Kentucky h as erected th1 s ” e an d column in gratitude equally to her offic rs soldiers . h Facing the sout is the coat of arms of Kentucky , with “ ” a the motto of the State : United we stand ;divided we f ll . On the bands are inscribed the names of twenty - two battles or cam pai gn s and beneath these b ands are the n ames of eighty -four f i n A a s o ficers who fell battle . biogr phical sketch of the e eighty - four m en would give the history of Kentucky for more

a than h lf a century . The names of these officers are as follows : Begi nning at the top band on the south side of the column are the words “ ” h ' Cerra Gorda ; on t e panel below which there is no name . “ ” th e On next band is New Orleans , and the next below that is

“ ‘ M assi ssi n awav on l , the panel be ow neither of which is there

an n h ofii cer inscribed y ame . This shows t at no from Kentucky h lost his life i n any of t e battles named . The next band is “ ’ ” on e marked St . Clair s Defeat , the panel b neath which is the “ ” : n ame of William Oldham . Then follows

“ ’ ” Estill s Defeat Capt James Estill Lieut South H I S ' I ‘ OR S o n T H E FRA NKF ORT CE M E TE RY 1 5

“ Tippecanoe

D avi ess Col . Joseph H . A m Col . bra Owen

Capt . Jacob Warrick

“ Fort Meigs

l Col . William Dud ey J Capt . ohn C . Morrison I Capt . Christopher rvine

Capt . Joseph Clark a Capt . Thom s Lewis

Blue Li cks

Col . John Todd

Col . Stephen Trigg M a j . Silas Harlan M M cBri de aj . William d Capt . E ward Bulger

Capt . John Gordon I Capt . saac Boone

On the east side of the monument all the bands and panels (seven in number) are without name of battle or officer killed except the last or lowest one on the column which is marked “ ” United States Navy .

Lieutenant John Gunnell Talbot Drowned at K ali hi kai 1 9 1 870 December , .

Lieutenant Hugh Willson M cK ee i 1 1 1 871 K lled in Corea June , .

‘ ‘ M aster Alfred Foree Drowned off Georgetown A l 1 2 1 872 pri ,

All i n m a du t the perfor nce of y. 1 6 H I STORY OF T HE F R AN K E OR T CE M m an v

J us t above the base i s inscribed :

B v o rder of the Legislature

The name of Col . J . J . Hardin 1 st I I n Of the Regt . llinois nfa try A son of Kentucky Who fell at the battle of Buena Vi sta I s inscribed hereon .

On the north side i s :

Mexico

Lieut . J . W . Powell

‘ Bon esbo rou gh Panel left without a nam e

H armon s Defeat

M cM u rtr Capt . J . y

“ ’ W ayne s Campaign

Col . John Hardin “ Monterey

u Maj . P . N . Barbo r

Buena Vista f “i lli am R M cK ee Col . .

Lieut . Col . Henry Clay l W Capt . Wi liam T . illis

A a n dj utant E . P . V ugh

Raisin A Col . John llen

Maj . Benj amin Graves ‘VOOl fOI ‘ k Capt . John H Capt . N . G . S . art e Capt . James Mead

Capt . Robert Edwards H I STORY OF T H E FRA NKFOR T CEMETERY 1 7

" Raisin

i M cCracken Capt . Virg l a Capt . Willi m Price

Capt . John Edmonson

Capt . John Simpson

Capt . Paschal Hickman l Lieut . John Wil iamson

On the west side is :

Thames

Col . William Whitley

Capt . Elij ah Craig

I ndian Wars John Floyd Nathan Hart Walker Dan iel W ' i lliam Christian Richard Cal l oway James Harrod

I ndian Wars ”

00 1 . William Lynn M aj . Evan Shelby M B a a aj . land B ll rd I n Capt . Christopher rvi e M cAfe Capt . William e a K C pt . John ennedy

I ndian Wars

r Ch ist . Crepps Rogers William Bryan t Tipton Chapman M cCracken 1 8 HI S TORY OF T H E mm x x r o m‘ CE M E 'J‘JCR Y

l ndian ' Wars e Capt . James Sh lby G Capt . Samuel rant

rvr S u . Willis Lee

" Little B1 g Horn By order of the Legislature r name of Lieut . John J . C ittenden 20” U I . S . nfantry A brave Kentuckian who was Killed ' in the battle of “ ” Li ttle Bi g Horn 25” 1 876 On the of June , While performing h i s duty

I i n s ri bed ‘ h r n s c e eo .

Raisin

Lieut . Robert Logan u Lie t . Thomas C . Graves v Lieut . Thomas O erton u Lie t . Francis Chinn Ensign Levi Wells Ensign S hawham

Raisin

S u r n A M m g . lexander ontgo ery S r n m 1 u g . Tho as C . Dav s

' u r n I S g . John rvine u u M cI l van e S rg . Thomas

a fou n da The b se of the monument is made of granite , the m I i a e tion of stone and the colu n of tal n marble . The whol b an e is inclosed v iron fence to prot ct the column from vandals , sometimes called relic hunters . u There are four cannons placed near the mon ment , two

' of which were taken from the en emy at the battle of Buena V b thee m ista , both of which were spiked v ne y before they were H I S T ORY OF TH E F R A NKFORT CE METERY

d he c ther ~two ~bel on ed to th e ' we surrendere . T g State and re

“ a taken from the State arsen l .

' ‘ To ‘ the north o f the State Monume nt is th e tomb Of Henry

‘ ~H W a Jr son r a . e as Clay , of the g e t commoner Lieuten nt

‘ ‘ ‘ i - of 3K u I n Colonel of two Reg ments ent cky nfa try . Near him

t m , Car F ry M S on his lef is the to b of y H , aj or of econd Ken

' ' ’ tucky R egiment ; the next o n e to ‘ him e n the left is th at of A N n Cardwel l l one a Col djutant G . , and the ast in th t row is . XV M K Al l w . c ee . s e a . R of the e officers f ll hile in the disch rge

, ° of their d1 1 ty » at the battles of B uena Vi sta To the south of the m i li tary ' m on u m en t are the tombs of A E ’ c l . u a djutant M Vaughn of the First Kent ky C va ry, and l ‘ . . a o W T Wil is , C ptain of Second Regiment , both of wh m were

‘ ' f ‘ ‘ killed at B u en a V i sta; On the v west si de are the tombs of i ' f . o t e Ezek el H Fields , Lieutenant Colonel Firs K ntucky y an d m Cavalr , Ja es W . Moss , who was Captain of Company “ ” A i n M XVar an d th e was the exican , in Civil War he Captain “ ” A A w m . . a e i of Company C . S he s pro ot d to the pos tion of H l l . e ba n Colonel was kil ed at the tt e of Jo esboro , Georgia . Just north of the Clay tomb are two small markers ;on on e “ i n H 8r o . d is inscribed L eute ant C lonel R . King , Kentucky “ A 8th 1 8 y . . . d 66 Cavalr U S ; ied June . On the other i s Capt “

" A 3r ‘ . d . U A G Bacon , Kentucky Cavalry , . S . . ; killed at S acra K u m ’ 28th 1 861 " a ' 42 ” mento , ent cky , Dece ber the , , ged years .

‘ ” C aptain Baco n was killed in a hand to hand fight wi th General

i The A “ B' . G Bedford Forrest . . acon Post of the Franklin Cou n t A v . . G R . was so named to commemorate his name . On the extreme north of the military mound i sa m e nu

to or a ment erected the memory of Philip N bourne B rbour, by

‘ ” ‘ Kentucky to her brave and noble son . He was brevetted for ‘ valor in the F l ori da ' W ar and brevetted M aj Or for gal lantry in “ '

. at a of hi sc cov the Mexican War He fell the he d ommand , or and t ered with hon glory at the s orming of Monterey , Sep “ 21 st 1 846” tember , Near the B arbour monument an d just south of i t I s a small the S a a ha A . . R slab recently placed there by us nn C pter of D , “ ’

. e which marks the grave of Lieut Presley Nevill O Banion , 1 2th 1 850 74 ” who departed this life September , , aged years . 20 H I STORY O F T H E FRA NKFORT CEMETERY

This slab is about three feet long and eighteen inches wide . At the age of twenty he was Lieutenant under Commodore ’ O B an i on a Stephen Decatur to the Algerian Coast . Lieut . le d a fif the charge under Capt . E ton , who was killed when the ’ O B an i o n teen pirate ships were taken . , with seven of his men , was th e first to jump on shore and pull down the Algeri an A colors and raise the merican colors . This took place at Dene A Fortress . On his return to merica he was regarded as the hero e of the exp dition . The city of Philadelphia gave him a gold mounted saddle and the women embroidered a white satin cover s hi i for it . Congres presented him a j eweled sword and had s p c e 1 81 2 ture painted . He was in the Kentucky L gislature from to

1 820 Hi s . . wife was a daughter of a Revolutionary soldier . “ Between the Barbour monum ent an d the State Monument is a smal l stone m arked :

K n K een o r . Dr . John G . , Bo n in Frankfort, y , 20th 1 827 Oct . ,

‘ Bri ade S u r eon 9th 1 861 Commissioned g g Oct . , r Au 1 2th 1 864 Died in se vice at Memphis , Tenn . , g . , H a i A e . was Brig de Surgeon w th rank of Maj or U . S .

The fol l owm g 1 s a list of the Ken tuckians who were killed i n n the differe t battles of the Mexican War , and whose remains were brought back and buried in the State lot , near the State

M the n - : onument , at expense of the Natio al Government , to wit

M William H . axey H en r Sergt . v Wolf James Seston M aj or Updike Robert Latta

L . B . Bartlett Vista John Spratt Willi am Blackwell Vista 23 Ezra R . Price , Born Dec . , 1 81 7 7th 1 848 ;Died July , Joh n Ellingwood

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be marked grave of an unknown Mexican soldier . He might ” regarded as the typical unknown from Franklin County who h gave i s life for the honor of his country . The following is the story concerning this grave : \Vhen Captain Benj amin Cav Milam who is buried a short di stance south of the State

was or an 1 z1 n mound , g g his Franklin County Company of l war a Cava ry for the Mexican , young man from Shelby

K en tu ck v a County , , made applic tion to become a member of t i a bu t a u n a h s comp ny , on cco t of his extreme youth the Capt in refused to enlist hi m ; a few davs l ater he renewed his applica tion hi s widowed mother c ame with him and j oined in the re quest and thereupon he was enlisted ; he manfully bore his part i of the toil and hardships of the campa gn . Whe n C aptain Milam was ordered to charge the Mexic an L ancers at Beuna Vista he directe d the boy to rem ain in a place

a b a a of s fety , but he egged to p rticipate and said th t he would be called a coward if he did not do his part ; Captain Milam verv reluctantl y vielded his consent and after the battle the boy was found on th e battlefield pierced through by a Mexican was lance , his body returned with the other members of his

Com an v s l a p who lo t their ives at that b ttle , but by oversight a or some unknown reason his grave was left unm rked . The

on l v t i bu t a i s foregoing is rad tion , the gr ve there unmarked “ ” and i t h as become the typical unknown of the Mexi can

wh o l heroes gave their ives for their country . I n 1 851 the vear the Legislature of Kentucky , by com w m i . a iss oners , contracted ith Mr Robert E . L unitz for the erec tion of a monument to the memory of Col . Richard Mentor Johnson an d for which the S tate paid the sum of nine hundred a At was m doll rs . the time this work co pleted it was considered one of th e most beautiful monument al structures in the U nited States and thou gh the elements and vandals h ave greatly

i ts b marred eauty during the past half century , it still shows as I t i that a m ter in his art planned and executed the work . s

m h m i li ta r m ou n d located at the extre e sout ern point of the y . I t is made of I tal i an marble : the base i s of granite on which is A ' a shaft about ten feet tall and four feet square . good like h ness of Col . Jo nson is carved on the north side and c anno n s H I STORY OF T H E FR AN KFORT CEMETERY 3

a are on each corner . On the east side is inscribed Rich rd ’ M n Brv an s c 1 781 entor J ohnso , born at Station , Kentu ky , ; n 1 9th da died in Frankfort . Ke tucky , on the y of November ,

On the south side Col . Johnson is represented on horse c I back i n th e act of killing Te umseh . The ndian is on one

w . knee falling back ard , with a tomahawk in his hand On the west side is the following inscription : To the h t memory of Col . Richard M . Jo nson , a faithful public servan

a u for h lf a cent ry, as a member of the Kentucky Legislature and n i n and Representative Se ator Congress , author of the Sunday Mail Report and of the l aws abolishing imp risonment for debt in Kentu cky and i n the U nited States ; distinguished by hi s valor as a Colonel of a Kentucky regiment in the battle of the Thames : for four years Vice -President of the United

s n State . Kentucky , his native State , to mark the se se of his e v has c minent ser ice in the cabinet and in the field , ere ted this ” i n h er monument the resting place of illustrious dead . The s a h ft has a flag of stars and stripes around the top , falling to

s A one ide and crowned with a large merican eagle , which holds a laurel wreath in its beak . On the military mound sou th of the State monument i s a e the tomb of a soldier, editor, l wyer and poet, with the simpl “ ’ i O H ra A a C. nscription of Theodore , Maj or . D . ; died June 8th h h the . of recent date there as been added t e

” ‘ h I i i A furt er nscr pt on uthor of the Bivouac of the Dead . No o ther; poem has ever been written that can stir to such depth m the artial spirit of Kentuckians . ’ O H ara was th Col . admitted to e bar in 1 845 ; later he was appointed to a position in th e Treasury Department at Wash i n on i gt . He was a Capta n of Volunteers in the army agains t

A 20th 1 847 M r Mexico , and on ugust , , was brevetted aj o for l e gallant conduct in the batt of Contreras . He went with filibu steri n u g expedition to C ba , where he commanded a regi H e ment . became editor of the Mobile Register and was after w ards connected with the Louisville Sun and Frankfor t

Yeoman . He performed several diplomatic missions for the Federal Government and was prominent in the negotiations a regarding the Tehu ntepec grant . 24 H I STO RY OF T H E FRA NKFORT CEMETERY

During the Civil W ar he cast his fortunes with the Con federacy and was m ade Colonel of the 1 2th Alabama Regi ment

the ff Brecki n and subseq uently served on sta of Gen . John C . A W ridge and Gen . lbert Sidney Johnson . hen the rem ains of the Kentucky soldi ers wh o fell at Buena Vista were brought to ’ M O H r a . a a i m their native State , j wrote for that occasion the “ bv w a bl ac mortal poem hich his f me is esta ished , The Bivou h ” of t e Dead .

’ The m u ffled drum s sad r oll has heat The soldier s last tattoo ; ’ No more on life s p arade shall meet

The a n d br ve a fallen few . ’ O n fame s etern al camping - ground n are Their Sile t tents Spread , A n d glory guards the solem n round b a th The ivou c of e dead .

’ No rumor of the foe s advance i d Now swells upon the w n , No troubled thought at midnight hau nts Of loved ones left behind ; No vision of the morrow ’ s strife ’ The warrior s dream alarms , No braying horn or scream ing fife A ha a t dawn s ll call to rms .

i s w . The r hivered s ords are red with rust , l a are Their p umed he ds bowed , Their hau ghty ban ner trailed i n dust

I s h sh now t eir martial roud , An d plenteous fun eral tears h ave washed

s The red stain from each brow , A n d their proud form s i n battle gashed

A r e free from anguish now .

Th e n eighing steed the " ashing blade ’ sti rrm fr l The trumpet s b ast , H I STORY OF T H E FR AN K F OR T CEMETERY 25

a th e a The ch rge , dre dful cannonade , The din and shout are past : w ’ ’ No ar s wild note , nor glory s peal , Shal l thrill with fierce delight Th ese bre asts that never more sh all feel

r t The raptu e of the fi gh .

Like the dread northern hurricane l That sweeps his broad p ateau , Flu shed with th e triumph yet to gain Cam e down the serried foe : l h an d a Our heroes fe t the s ock , le pt To m eet them on the plain : A n d long th e pitying sky hath wept

A l s a bove our gal ant l in .

Sons Of our c onsecrated ground s Ye must not lumber there .

s Where. tranger ste ps and tongues resound A long the heedless air . ’ Your own proud land s heroic soil Shall be your fitter grave ; S h e cl aims from war his ri chest spoil

’ her brave The ashes of .

’ S O a i a . ne th the r p rent turf they rest , F ar from th e g ory fi e l d ’ Borne to a spartan mother s breast O n m an y a bloody shield ; The sun s hine of their native sky l m Smiles sad y on the here , An d ki ndred hearts and eves watch ’ The heroes sepulcher .

B est b d " on , em alme and sainted dead Dear as the bl o od ye gave ; N O impi ous footstep here shall tread The herbage of your grave " 26 H I S TORY OF T H E FRA N KFOR T CEMETERY

Nor shall your gl orv be forgot

While fame her record keeps , Or honor points the hallowed spot l Where va or proudly sleeps .

Yon marble minstrel ’ s voiceless stone I n deathless song shall tell , When man y a vanished year hath " own The storv h ow ye fell ’ n e Nor wreck , nor cha ge , no wint r s blight , ’ N or time s remorseless doom , Can di m one rav of hol v light

That gilds vour glorious tomb .

l ’ \l car the O H ara sarcophagu s is a small stone inscribed : f 1 . . 0 0 . . d T T Hawkins an o ficer in the Mexican War ; die Sept . 6 h 1 879 r 883—4 t . u 1 , Erected by order of the Legislat e of . I I CHAPTER .

A L OTS P U RC H ASED B Y T H E ST TE .

l n the year 1 851 the l e gislature passed an A ct authorizing and directing the Governor to purchase from the Cemetery b d 1 31 1 43 1 44 1 54 1 55 Company the lots num ere , , , and ’ in which to bu ry the rem ains of Kentucky s illustrious dead . The price paid for these lots was six hundred dollars ; they are locate d some distance south of the State monument .

h e i n s - ° T ere are eight R volutionary soldiers these lot , to wit l r C 9th A d . . ohn air ; born in Chester Dist ict , S , January , 7 57 M n 1 840 d 1 . Died at White Hall , ercer Cou ty , May , ; age 8 T t r t he 3 years . his monumen is e ec ed by t people of Kentucky the A in pursuance of a resolution of General ssembly , approved a h 5th 1 872 a M rc the , , as mark of their appreciation of his s as s l an d ervices a o dier a statesman . A s a soldier he entered the Revolutionary Army at the f t age of seventeen ;served through the war , first as a private , a er “ wards as aide -de - camp to General Sumpte r removed to Ken tucky in 1 787 parti cipated i n th e 1 ndian campaigns 1 79 1 -92

94 war i a 81 2 - 1 8 1 . a , and the with Great Br t in He comm nded the Kentucky troops at New Orleans as Brigadier- General under

e - Gen ral Jackson 1 81 4 1 5 .

As hi s a statesman . previous to removal from South Caro n li a , he served as a member of the State convention which i s n B rev ed the Co stitution of the United States . ecoming a

Cou n t citizen of Kentucky , he represented the v of Mercer in L l a 1 79 5-96 a a the egis ture . fterw rds frequently in both House I n 1 805 w s e . a a and S nate he elected to the United St tes Senate , u Tn 1 820 . was d to fill an nexpired term he electe Governor , an d m v ears Tn 1 831 h served a ter of four . e served a term in t s the United Sta es Congre s from Mercer District . He sleeps ” sl a an the eep of the br ve d j ust . a A . a was C therine wife of Gov John d ir , removed “ ” F from her home , Montrose , near rankfort , and buried in the A 28 H I STORY o r T H F. FR NKFORT CEMETERY

a A n fift — same grave with her husb nd . u ion in life of y six ” r h v v ea s in death t ev are not di ided . On the Chri stoper Greem i p monument i s the following : Thi s monument was erected bv the Legislature of Ken tu ckv to com memorate the public services of Christopher

r n t r the t n G ee up , hi d Governor of Commonwealth , by resolu io J l 6 h 1 874 approved anuary t . . A soldier o f the war of the Revolution and engage d in the

i the l n di an i h u s early confl cts with savages , he d sc arged his d tie

n d w an d a a . without fe r ithout reproach His capacity , fidelity usefulness in civil service is amply proven by his repeated ele

an d i n e i vation to long continuance office , executiv , leg slative h i a a t e . and j udici l , of h ghest gr de He served repeatedly in the

a a St te and Feder l Legislatures , filled the office of judge in

a s n an d sever l court . i ferior superior , and was elected Governor

w a A 1 804 . an d of the Common e lth in ugust , Patriot , soldier

s r u v state man , th o gh a long life of ser ice he distinguished him

i n war an d a an d self pe ce , died in the full enj oyment of the con

fiden ce hi s o r n 69th a a e A of c unt yme , in the ye r of his g , pril h 27 h 1 8 t e t 1 8 . ,

a a a a C pt in John Howell , g llant soldier of the Revolution , war wa ffi th served through the . He s an o cer in e First Jersey

. th e w a Regiment was in battles of Brandy ine , Germ ntown , M o nmouth an d Yorktown settled in Kentucky between 1 795

1 800 d O Cou n tv a 1 830 and ; die in hio , Kentucky , in the ye r .

Hi s r m ai n s e e m d a an d a e w r re ove to this pl ce , monument erec t ed by direction of j oi n t resolution of the General A ss embly Ja a 1 874 of Kentucky , approved nu ry , . I n 1 779 M aj or Rl an d Bal lard came to Kentucky at th e a e e a w C0 1 . a a g of eight en ye rs He s with . Bowm n on his e d I a I n 1 781 xpe ition to the ndi n town of Chilicothe . he was w l P i k w . a c a a ith Gen C rk in the attack on towns , and was ’ o i n a l w unded ction . He was with F oyd s party and survived

a I n 1 786 the defe t on Floyd s Fork . he was a spy for Gen .

a a a Cl rk on the expedition to the W b sh . He was presen t in ' 1 794 w en W av n e I hen G . routed the ndians at the Maumee

Rapids . He was a soldier in the War of 1 81 2 and was a captain in

30 H I STORY OF T H E FRA N K F OB T CEMETERY

General John Caldwell . Dedicated to the memory of General John Caldwell in pursuance of an order of the Legis l r 1 5th 1 831 atu e . of Kentucky, approved of January , The son w l : n of Robert and M . Cald e l he was born in Charlotte Cou ty , the da the Virginia , on y of and departed this life on h 1 804 A f o f R evol u 9t . of November , meritorious o ficer the t b tion . He was aken prisoner y the British at the siege of 1 780 Charleston in . Emigrated to Kentucky at an early day and was an ef fi i n olfi er Tn di an s A s e c e t c against the of the West . an evidenc of the hi g h estim ation in which h e was held by his country a was e a s men and of his c pacity to be useful he , aft r many ye r of distinguished services as a Senator, elected Lieut . Governor, h f ” w ich o fice he filled at the time of his death . “ o f To the memory of George Madison , fifth Governor was Kentucky . This monument erected in compliance with u 1 6th 1 874 a resolution of the Legislat re approved January , , which directed hi s rem ai n s to be removed from the old burial n h l grou d northeast of t e capito to this cemetery .

H e a a was soldier of the Revolution ry War , of the various fl w Tu sa con icts ith the dian vages of the frontier , particularl y n d th e a ai an d disti guishe in c mp gns of Scott Wilkinson , and in

s h S t A a v . the b ttle fought Clair and dair , in both of which he w was ounded . His milit ary c areer was gloriou s ly closed at the River

hi s a hi s Raisin , where heroic resolution s ved the troops under m a the g a i com nd from eneral mass cre , although result ng in honorabl e captivity for himself in the British prison of " uebec A like distinguished in civil employment , he served the

' St ate with probity and intelligence for more than twenty years

A A n an d was A u as uditor of Public ccou ts , finally elevated in 1 81 6 n gust , , by the una imous voice of the people of Kentucky the f w to highest o fice ithin their gift . u 53rd While in the p blic service , in the year of his age , on th e 1 1 th O 1 81 6 — of ctober , , his private and public virtues civil an d milita ry l ife were crowned by a death hallowed by religion ” evincing its consolation to the good and the brave .

Tn i th e R l a addit on to evo utionary soldiers named bove , the m sT o av o r T H E FR A NK F ORT CEMETERY 31 following fo u rteen n amed persons complete the list of those

- : G . buried in the State lot , to wit overnor James T Morehead ,

- B r . 7 7 1 854 . a r . . 1 9 ; William T y, B L Clark , John C Mason ,

J W . Judge John M . Elliott and Susan . Elliott , his ife , Col ° - s 1 81 0 1 86 . . Walter Chile , He was State Senator Milton B

l

- w . 4 1 64 . 1 82 8 as . Buster , , also State Senator Col Drury W Poor ,

Representative from Logan County , died at Frankfort . Col .

D ol l erhi de 1 81 2 at Thomas , a soldier in the War of , died 8th 1 827 was a Frankfort , December , . He Senator from h F a J n . Pulaski County . o F loor , Representative from Log n i A w A County ; Cather ne dair , ife of Governor John dair ; Joel B ri n ett C J a e . T . Hart and hief ustice C swell Judge W i lliam Taylor B arry was born in Virginia on

a 1 5th 1 784 y 1 796 was Febru ry , . came to Kentuck in , educated K A m VVo odfor d a . at entucky cade y in County , and Transylvani 1 805 He located in Lexington in the year , and commenced the t Tn prac ice of law . a short time thereafter he was appointed A ttorney General for the Commonwealth . He represented Favette County i n th e Kent u cky Legislature several times and su bsequ en tl v was in the State Senate and represented his dis

i n I n 1 81 2 h - - trict Congress . the War of e was aide de camp of

S helbv was b th Governor and at the attle of e Thames . He

a was Speaker of the Kentucky House of Represent tives , and

was a d I n later elected to a se t in the Unite States Senate . the co n test between the New Court and the Old Court he was a o r leader of the New Court Party with R wan , Bibb , Sha p and an d J Bledsoe . became Chief ustice of the New Court . Later he

m - beca e Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky .

a a On the election of General J ckson as President , he p

R - . arrv I n pointed Mr to the position of Postmaster General .

1 835 was a i at he ppointed M nister to Spain , but he died Liver way pool on his to his post of duty .

. 1 81 0 . B 1 877 Joel T Hart , sculptor and poet orn ; died . m th e u l A . J He ade b sts of Cassius M C ay , ndrew Jackson , ohn d . an y J Crittenden Henry Cla . Those of Andrew Jackson an d a al m Henry Cl y in the Historic Roo s at Frankfort , Kentucky . Hi s a du n a hi m n w ide l pro ctio s m de famous , amo g hich “ ” “ ” hi s A l are Venus de Medici . nge ina , etc . His l ast an d 32 H I STORY OF T HE FRA NKFORT CEMETERY

w was “tr a greatest ork iumph of Ch stity , on which he worked t a for more than twen y ye rs . This was the finest piece of statu arv i n A T ever seen meric a . t was destroyed when the court u ho se at Lexington was burnt . His l ast resting place is m arked by a square block of

u i n cy a w a an d o n m rble the top of hich slopes to the e st , “ a th e J h . a t e which is c rved Erected to memory of oel T H rt , by a B r 1 1 th 1 81 0 . o n a St te of Kentucky February , . Died M rch 2n d 1 877 hi m , . Seek not here but in the stone where he lives ’ ” hi s a in own rt s immortality .

J 1 79 7-1 854 T . t es . am Morehead , Small marker loca ed

i n a . . State lot ne r Governor Charles Scott James T Morehead ,

a was - a thoroughly educated l wyer , elected Lieutenant Gover

i n 1 832 G nor , and became overnor on the death of Governor 831 w f t hi 1 - as a l reat tt . u February , He a luent and gr cef spe aker an d strong writer : was Uni ted States Senator from

1 841 - 1 847 G h a was th e . overnor More e d doubtless best edu

d m n was th e ta e cate a who ever Governor of S t . “ ‘ R a n . i s On the . L . Cl rk mo ument found Beverl y Leonida T k B rn “i n terfiel d s a . o Cl r at Che terfield County , Vir ginia ,

F br r 1 1 th 1 808 th e Gau t m al a e u a v . e , Died in City of , Central A m 8th 1 860 A th e a a 1 . s a eric , M rch . representative from

s i n th e l County of Simp on Legis ature of Kentucky , as a mem

the a s as a a ber of Congress of United St te . deleg te of the Ken tu ck v convention which formed the present Constitution of the

Co m m o m veal th an d as s . Mini ter from the United States to Cen Am s h a a . a w tr l eric , Beverly L Cl rk di c arged every duty ith dis

i fidel i tv hi s ta r a n tinct on to himself , to S te and impe ish ble ho or ” hi { n t k h to s e u c t e a . country . y mourns loss of her p triot son “ s l A Kentucky by j oint re o ution of her General ssembly ,

‘ d 5th Tl ehru ary 1 868 approve of , , in memory of the services of h er distin gui shed son directed th at his mortal remains should

v th e Gau tem al a a A a be remo ed from city of in Centr l meric , he d i n th e where ied service of his country , to the public ceme terv at Frankfort and that thi s monument should be erected h h to mark t e spot where e slept . Near the Clark monument is a small pillow m arked John A C . Mason . Born in Montgomery County , Kentucky , ugust H I STORY OF T H E FRA NKFORT CE LI E T E R Y 33

4 h 802 r A TL s t 1 . , Mar ied nnie . Owens , of Owing ville , Kentucky , 6 h 1 847 A 4th 1 865 t . . June , Died ugust , Honored by the Un ited States of America for services rendered at the bat tle of

Monterey ; served six years i n the United States Congress . M t b M a 6th 1 820 assassi Judge John ilton Ellio t . orn y , ;

-cd as a 26th 1 879 nat for having done his duty Judge , March , ; a

i was statesman of sta nless honor . He a member of the Legis l atu re K en tu ckv a of , served three terms in the United St tes “ m A a e . Congress , and two ter s in the Confeder t Congress “ a Judge of pure heart stron g intellect , fearless , f ithful , kind and efficient as a Circuit Judge an d Judge of th e Court of Ap h ” was . peals , he without reproac On th e west side of col u mn : m an h e n a u As a was arde t , social , genial , by n t re a philanthropist ; h e wo n the l ove of his fellowmen by his gen er i ty w t a os . s and orth Devo ed as a husband ; a friend , faithful an d a u i a w j ust ; d t ful citizen an upright offici l . His cro ning

r w n d a . vi tues ere candor , integrity love of truth O n the north side of the stone is the bust of Judge Elliott , wh fin e ich is said to be a likeness . The column is crowned by

“ s at A l a t ue of straea , the Goddess of Justice , b indfolded , with th e l u sti ce n Sca es of J in her ha ds . I n this same locality i s the unique and beauti ful monu t m em orv th e ment erec ed to the of James Francis Leonard , on e ast face of which is a telegraph instrument with a hand opera t i n 30 g it , and beneath which are the figures . On the north “ side is James Francis Leonard . Born at Frankfort, Kentucky , 8th 1 834 i M September . D ed at Columbus , ississippi , July 29th 1 862 ll m a C . a , Ca ed ho e by the Gr nd hief Oper tor to work “

. O : a the eternal circuit above n the west side His comr des , th e O l ld Time Te egraphers , have caused his remains to be ‘ ’ h K u broug t back to his Old ent cky Home , and erected this ” “ m m . monu ent to his emory . O n the south side is : Abl aze

fl o f with genius and a ame with zeal , he caught the Spirit the electric force . The first sound reader . He interpreted th h ” telegraphic alp abet of Morse . HA E Tl " C PT R .

OT H ER P R OM JN E N' T PEOP L E B U R TE I ) I N T H E FRA NKFORT M CE ETERY . There are between ten and twelve thousand people buried h a a in t ese grounds , the aver ge being bout one hundred and

fif To i e . tv per year . g v a short history of each would require more space than the scope of this work will permit ; only a short sketch of some of the most prominent are given .

There are a n u mber of prominent. people buried in these wh o i grounds have no marker of any k nd , and the location of their graves are known to cmlv a few people who are n ow A n living . mo g this number can be named Judge Willi am Li n dse l M al v . . Judge Caswel Bennett , Judge P U aj or, Gener A Scott Brown Congressman . Y . Fitzpatrick and many others . 1 8012-1 881 1 Albert G . Hodges was identified with the his l tory of Kentucky for ha f a century . He commenced his news i n t w paper career Lexington , but married a Frankfor oman 1 826 and moved to Frankfort in . He formed a partnership

. a with James G Dana in the publication of the Comment tor . I n 1 833 a an d he began the public tion of the Commonwealth ,

l . was elected Pub ic Printer, which position he held for a quarter of a century . ( 1 820 Gen . John Rodman about sixty years of age ; 29l h 1 886 a died October , . He was one of the ablest l wyers in a n h i n the St te . He represe ted Old am County Kentucky Legis l atu re in 1 850 ; represented Franklin County in Kentucky l i n 1 859 A y a Legis ature , was elected ttorne Gener l of Kentucky

1 867 r - 1 871 e . in , and elected He was made reporter of the A 1 879 hi s as Court of ppeals in . During term reporter he pub li shed 78 79 - 808 1 82 and Kentucky Reports . n There is a very unique stone , an imitation of a woode cross , located near the Confederate lot , which cost perhaps two thousand dollars ; it has no inscription except the word “ r Mother . There is a tradition concerning it which has neve H I STORY OF T HE FRA NKFORT CEMETERY 35

fi the been veri ed , but whether true or not , the story illustrates “ " Tn marvelous in uence of the word mother . this lot is buried e a t the thre men . e ch of whom m urn , was husband of this mother ' as the fruit of these m arriages there were three sets of chi ldren : the m other died after the last husband had been l m l buried . She eft a s a l estate , and the children readily agreed

s d l i t to pend the two thousand o lars for the monument . But was more dif ficult for them to agree on the inscription to be “ placed on it ; after a short co n trov ersv the word mother was n d i wa a a t s . suggested , greed to by all 27 1 867 Judge Mason Brown died in Frankfort, January , ,

' 68 Col l e e an d at the age of years . He graduated from Yale g b r H e su seq uently graduated f om the law school at Lexington . an r a at d Governo Charles S . Morehead compiled work of gre “ ’ l a va ue to the leg l profession , known as Morehead and Brown s ” J was as Digest . udge Brown known one of the great lawyers ’ K en k was A of tu c v . He Commonwealth s ttorney for several a w years and was fter ards elected circuit j udge . He was Secre ar the i l t y of State during admin stration of Governor Char es S . was A Morehead , and he United States District ttorney for sev

hi s eral years prior to death . 3r Col . Robert H . King was Colonel of the d Kentucky l A Volunteer Cava ry . He enlisted in the Union rmy as First ’ A G w s t . a Lieu enant in Capt lbert . Bacon s company , which

. at raised in Franklin County O n the death of Capt . Bacon a L M Sacr mento , ieutenant King became Captain , then aj or Lieutenant - Colonel an d afterwards brevetted Colonel for gal lant an d u n meritorio s co duct . He commanded a brigade in Sher ’ “ h ” man s ride to t e sea . w i . . d A O G ates was a la yer of abil ty . He was ttorney Gen e K Slovern or w ral of entucky under Owsley . He as afterwards the I I President of Board of nternal mprovements . a 1 801 Thomas Todd was Judge of the Court of Appe ls in , 1 806 was A Chief Justice in , and ssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Sta tes from 1 807 to 1 81 6 l Charles S . Todd was Co onel on the staff of Gen . Harrison , in the War of 1 81 2 was Secretary of State under Governor

' Madison ; Representative o f Franklin County in the Kentucky 36 HI STORY OF T l l l tl FR A NK F ORT CE DI E T E R Y

1 81 7 A a s to Legislature in , and was the gent of the United St te

an Columbia d Minister to Russia under President Harrison .

W — fiv . e s a Dr . illiam C Sneed was for twenty year success ful practitioner at Frankfort . He contributed many valuable a rticles to the leading medical j ournals of the country . For

a was Hi s some ye rs he President of the State Medical Society . history of the Kent u cky Penitenti ary was so well written th at the Kentucky Le gislature had it published at the expense o f N 20th 1 862 the State . He died ovember , .

( 1 835- 1 9 1 8 was 22n d Gen . D . W . Lindsey ) Colonel of Kentucky Volunteer I nfantry and later was I nspector General W J of Kentucky . hen Gen . ohn H . Morgan made his raid 1 864 through Kentucky in , Gen . Lindsey , who was at that time ’ B a Commander of Second rigade of G . W . Morg n s Division i n h r under Gen . U . S . Grant the Sout , was requested by Gove nor Bramlette to return to Kentucky an d organize the home was I a guards . He appointed nspector Gener l of Kentucky , which g ave him the rank of M aj or - General and acting com

a a the A war m nder of all the milit ry forces of State . fter the

was a A a e an d as he ppointed dj ut nt General of K ntucky , such

a e a m d his report in two large volumes , which h ve been very s i a d useful in pro ecut ng cl ims for Federal Pensions . He die 1 9 1 7 in . n A Ge . e mbrose W . Dudley was for fift en years " uarter

- G the an d h - master eneral of United States , for t irty seven years

President of Branch Bank of Kentucky . He died in Septem 884 1 . ber ,

1 794- 1 869 a the Capt . John W . Russell ( ) was soldier in W ar 1 81 2 a of . He gained distinction as captain of a boat on a the Mississippi ; he had great physic l courage . His fight with the robber band of Lafitte in New Orleans m ade him famous “ al l a in the western country . When the ste mer General Brown was lost by an explosion his presenc e of mind and

a heroism saved the lives of six men . He was in the State Sen te

1 850 A a in and was instrumental in building the State rsen l , which was built in that year .

Lieut . John J . Crittenden was on the staff of General Cus

an d was eu ter , one of the sixteen officers (and three hundred

38 H I STORY OF T H E FRA NKFORT CEMETERY

7th be 6th 1 825 an d November (should the ) , , beneath this is , “ a What thou knowest not now , thou shalt know here fter . b The Confederate monument , erected y the Daughters of e was u n the Confed racy , dedicated to the Confederate dead , 1 892 I t i s I veiled in the spring of . of the finest talian marble

I - a a . of imported from the Carr ra qu rries , taly The base is granite . There is a life size statue of a Confederate soldier dressed in Confederate uniform at parade rest which crowns the column . The following are the inscriptions on the face of the base :

Our Confederate dead 1 861 -1 865

They sleep. What need the question now if they be right w . was or rong They know ere this whose cause j ust in God, ’

. a re the Father s sight They wield no w rlike weapons now, ’ i turn no foeman s thrust , who but a coward would rev le the ’ ” honored soldiers dust .

Reverse side :

Greater love hath no m an than this that a man l ay ” hi s down life for his friends .

W ’ est side

“The marble minstrels ’ voiceful tone I n de athl ess songs sh all tell When many a vanquished age hath flown The storv how ye fell ;

Nor wreck , nor change , nor winter blight , Nor time ’ s remorseless doom Shall dim one ray of holy light

That gilds your glorious tomb .

East side : H I STORY OF T H E FRA NKFORT CEMETERY

To e very man upon the earth

Death cometh soon or late, A n d how can man die better Than facing fearfu l odds For the ashes of hi s fathers hi s o And the temples of G ds.

I n a circle around the monu ment are fou nd the graves of - C sixty eight onfederate soldiers , the most of whom died of dis

at . ease , Frankfort , during the Civil War 1 920 Mrs . Jennie Chinn Morton died in . She was for many years connected with the Historical Society of Kentu cky ; “ ” was editor of State Register ; wrote Her Dearest Friend an d other poems . hi s Robert Burns Wilson died in New York , and body was returned to his ol d Kentucky home and l aid to rest by the side c I of Robert Carmi hael near the Boone monument . nscribed on hi s tomb is the following :

“f n n Robert Burns ilson Poet and Pai ter . Bor 30 h 1 850 3l st 1 9 1 6 t . . October , Died March , Until the day break and the shadows fiee away I will get me to the Mountain of Myrrh and to the Hill of Frank ” incense .

M r TVi l son a . won for himself a perm nent place in art and i s letters . His paint ngs and poems are regarded by critic as the

. s work of a genius His poems were publi hed in book form , ” L desi which he called Life and ove . He might h ave been g ’ n ated as H e es an d Nature s Poet . loved the tre birds and “ l A s brooks and f owers , and he sought them the hart panteth “ A after the water brooks . quotation from his Beside the ” Stream best illustrates the bent of his mind :

fiel ds— The breath of the song of birds , a The lifting leaf , the dancing be m , d The landscape wide , the grazing her s , c r a The moving musi of the st e m , d These , do not call for wasted wor s ; m e These , shall enfold in their dreams . 40 H I S TORY OF T H E E RA N K E OR T CEMETERY

1 823- 1 9 1 4 was e Gen . Simon Boliver Buckner ( ) educat d at West Point ; served through the Mexican War ; was brevetted first lieutenant for gallant conduct at Cheru bu sco ;was brevetted

a a - I n 1 860 a c pt in for bravery at Molino del Rey . he bec me

-i n - Commander Chief of the Kentucky State Guard , with rank

M a a was - a A of j or Gener l ; made Brigadier Gener l C . S . . ; was left i n command of Fort Donelson an d surrendered with his

a 1 862 a men . He was exch nged in and promoted to M j or

a A a a was Gener l . fter the b ttle of Chickamaug promoted Lieutenant -General ; was elected Governor of Kentucky in “ 1 887 O hi s m s : B oli ar . n to b is in cribed Simon Buckner .

A 1 823 a 8th 1 9 1 4 a st 1 . a . a e Born pril , Died J nu ry , Gr du t d

A a y 1 844 r U . S . Military c dem . Twice brevetted for gallant y 1 847 I i eu t A in Mexican War . . General C . S . . Governor of ” c 1 887 A Kentu ky . noble life devoted to duty , honor , country . Governor Willi am Goebel was a State Senator from 1 886 1 9 00 t to . He con ested the election for Governor of Gen . W . S .

T av l o r 1 9 00 Gov , before the Legislature of . . Goebel was Shot ’ S eci etar S f 1 9 00 A t from the window in the y of State o fice m . f er

th T i sl at re e 0 1: he was shot e eg u declared him duly lected Govern . He took the oath of office and died in the afte rnoon of the same d a 3rd 1 9 00 av . , Febru ry , Governor TVi lli am Goebel was a successful business m an

K en tu ck v and a successful lawyer . Perhaps no other man in

s wa a ever incurred such bitter oppo ition . He s hard fighter ;

n even his e emies admired his ability and his fighting qualities . He was a conspicuous member of the Senate at the time he con

a a tested the seat for Govern or . The Goebel monument is l rge

l i a block of so id gran te crowned by a bronze st tue of Gov . Goebel . “ th e an d On south side is , Erected by the people of Kentucky m i ’ other states in me or am of Kentucky s martyr , Governor n William Goebel . who devoted a d g ave his life in defense of ” “ h e h : A re a t rights of t e people . The question is the corpor ” s ? tions the masters or ervant s of th e people On the west. si de “ a al t i de th e l aw I is , Be c lm , by , forgave them , they do not “ u s O h s i s a a . nder t nd n nort ide , Governor Willi m Goebel . “ 4 h 1 856 a 3rd 1 9 00 Ja u a t . Born n ry . Died Febru ry , Tell my friends to be brav e and fe arless an d l ov al to the great commo n H I STORY OF T HE FRA NKFORT CEMETERY 41

Hi s l A h people . ast words . On the east side is ut or of the A - A nti lottery Law . The pioneer in merican railway rate i m regulating leg slation . The cha pion of school book legisla tion . n a a a Dr . Dunca R . Campbell , n tive of Scotl nd ; prominent minister of the Baptist Church ; was President of l Georgetown Col ege .

Henry W ingate was on the first. Board of Directors of the

. Cemetery Company , and a prominent banker of the city . He

n a . was a K ight Templ r of high degree His son , Lucien

Wingate , was the first person who was buried in the Frank fort cemetery . D 1 735 Th e Colonel . aniel Boone ( grave which t n visitors most frequen ly request to see is that of Da iel Boone , loc ated on the brow of th e hi ll overlooking the city and the

Ri ver l e a rO ri at-ed Kent ucky . The gislature of Kentucky pp p

su m h i a sufficient to ave his rema ns and those of Rebecca , his

re- wife , brou g ht from Missouri and . interred in a very beauti f l an d re- 1 3th u . picturesque spot ;this interment was on the day 1 845 r re t . e of Sep ember , Thousands of people were present , p senting every section of the State ; after the coffins were lowered the h m into grave , undreds of the passed by and each threw a I n 1 860 a handful of dirt into the open grave . the St te of Ken

ha . tucky built a ndsome monument to his memory , the panels w I of which ere of talian marble , but relic hunters so defaced

t o was I n 1 9 06 them hat the m nument practically destroyed . S the tate ass isted the Daughters of the A merican Revolution to renew the panels which are an exact reproduction of t-h original . The base is Georgia granite . The stone of the monu t Th e I men is from Boonsboro . new panels are talian marble . The State appropriated two thousand dollars for the purpose o f b l the helping to re ui d monument . The panel facing the south

fi w h I on e h s represents Boone in a ght it two ndians , of whom a been killed ; Boone has one foot on the dead I ndian and i readv hi s I to strike the other one with knife . The ndian has

wn readv s his war club dra . to trike . On the east side is Rebecca

Boone milking a cow . On the north side is a man and boy i n a : stand n g, faci g e ch other it is supposed to be Boone tel ling 42 H I ST ORY or T H E FRA NKFORT CEMETERY

d the boy where he wanted to be buried . On the west si e Boone is sitting in front of his cabin . with a slaughtered deer at his a u feet . The lot on which the monument is erected contains bo t a quarter of an acre . The first monument erected in the cemetery is a few feet I t northeast of the Boone lot , and is located on the Maj or lot . has no inscription on it ; the column is about eighteen inches square crowned with a pyramid four feet in height . A A M D D Rev . H . . M . Henderson , . . , . . was a e a minister in the M thodist Episcop l Church , South , of unusual learning and eloquence ; he was small of stature but broad minded , and popular with all classes of people . 28th A I A He was a captain in the labama nfantry , C . S . . , “ ” ~ and was known as The Soldier Preacher . Later he was com a Gen missioned Lieutenant Colonel , with the p y of a Brigadier I n 1 866 a eral . the fall of he became the p stor of the Methodist I n 1 871 h - : Church at Frankfort , Kentucky . ewas elected Super i n ten den t I u I n 1 874 wa re- of Public nstr ction . he s elected to v . a the same position . Dr Henderson was the author of se er l w c . books , some of hich were theolo gical and some were se ular ‘ Btovern or John Jordon Crittenden (1 786-1 863) was one s an d n of the greate t . proba the very greatest , man who has F H e been buried in the rankfort Cemetery . was the compeer

of Clay , Calhoun and Webster , all of whom he survived . When a young man he was an ar my officer ; he serv ed as Maj or in ’ d th e - General Hopkins expe ition to northwest, and was aide de b h e camp of Governor Shel y at t battle of the Thames . I n the year 1 81 1 he was el ected to represent Logan County

‘ in the Kentucky Legislature , and he continued to represent

for si x 1 81 7 that county terms , the last of which ( ) he was Speaker of the H ouse and during that term he was elected to the United States Senate . He represented Franklin County in

1 825-29 - 30- 31 1 832 the Legislature in and . He was the leader of the Old Court Party i n the controversy between the O ld

h I n 1 835 was re- Court and t e New Court . he elected to the United States Senate and was serving in that capacity when President Harrison appointed him Attorney General for the

w s h e a a United States , hich po ition resigned and was g in elected H I S TORY OF TH E FRA NKFORT CEMETERY 43 to the Federal Senate He resigned that position to

i n 1 848 m ake th e race for Governor . He also resigned the posi tion of Governor i n 1 852 to accept the appointment of Att o r A ney Ge n eral under President Fillmore . fter the expiration of his term as Attorney General he was again elected to the d Federal Senate . Governor Crittenden was serving his secon term as member of th e lower House of Congress from the A sh He was lan d District at the time of his death . the recognized h As leader of t e Peace Party . a man he was loved and honored , he d i n and as a statesman , was hel reverence by the people of hi s State and Nation . Two of his sons became distinguished during the Civil War ; one was a Maj or General of the Confederate States and a t th e other was a Brigadier Gener l of the United Sta es . Governor Crittenden was President of th e Border State

. i n 1 861 Convention , held at Frankfort . On the north side of

: e n r his monument is John Jordon Critt nden . Bor Septembe 1 787 l 20th 1 863 : l 0 h . O t . Died Ju y n south side is Erected a c by the St te of Kentu ky in honor of her illustrious son , John m R e resen J . Crittenden ember of the Legislature , Governor , p tati ve and Senator in Congress and Attorney General of United W : y y i i n States . est side For fift ears he devoted himself w th " i exible integrity, consummate wisdom and patr otic zeal to the hi cau se and ser vice of s native State and of his whole country . Hi s great talents m ade him preeminent in the elevated offices l hi m f A he filled , and p aced among the irst of merican states ’ ’ l l ds u i m s a . a a t t men Let the en tho be thy country s , thy ’ ’ ” t as God s and ruth s . These were among his l t words . They the u f were r le of his life , and are a ittin g inscription for his

Thehi sto rv th e n n w a hi s l o ftv tomb . of atio ill be r witness to

a s an d K en tu ck v i the m em o rv p trioti m , w ll ever cherish of her son

M A a rs . Emily Tubman , a sister of Landon . Thom s , was

i n - born and reared Frankfort . She donated twenty six thous and dollars for the purp o se of building the C hristi an Church at

n i d 1 1 th 1 872 n ai Fra kfort , ded cate August , She e dowed a ch r an d l si K U n i in Bethany College , material y as sted the entucky ersi t at M wa y and the Orphan School id y. 44 H I S TORY OF T H E FR ANKFORT CEMETERY

Captain John Cannon was own er and i n charge of the Robe rt

. z n e . E Lee , and gai ed national notoriety by defeating the Natch was t u l Captain Leathers in charge of the Na chez , a boat b i t at i n at d l C cinnati , Ohio , a cost of two hundre thousand dol ars , for t he T he express purpose of defeating the Robert E . Lee . race h ad ea a been talked of for many months prior to the gr t r ce . A t ’ 30th 1 870 one minute before five o clock on June , , the great Th race was started . e time from New Orleans to St . Lo u is was t - hree days , eighteen hours and twenty seven minutes , defeating

- the Natchez three hours and thirty one minutes . Perh aps no other race in all the history of the world w created such widespread interest . Many thousand people ere At on the river fronts to see the boats pass . night the banks w i do l ere almost a continual blaze of campfires . Mill ons of l ars O t the were waged o n the result . ne enthusias ic admirer of

at h who i i n the ci tv Of a all hi s ( as h N c ez , l ved N tchez , staked of

' an d then bet his home against thirty thousand dollars on the

‘ N a h i s ac a t u tc ez . Th r e made Capt in Cannon the mos famo s A man in merica .

a ai was C pt n Cannon born in Frankfort , Kentucky , in

1 880 a 1 81 0 and died at Frankfort in . His life was pr ctically

an d a . spent on the Mississippi , Red Ouachit rivers The great race of the Lee an d Natche z was an occurrence that gained wo rld - wide n oto ri etx Near the Boone monument is a stone m arked Robert 1 7th 1 858 40 H a a l i a . e C rmich e . D ed Janu ry , ; aged years ’ w fi n loc ated and as the rst superi tendent of these grounds .

g V y 1 835— 1 9 09 a J m a . ud e \ i lli a Linds ( ) was Capt in C S .

A was on staff of Generals B u ford and Forrest . Elected State 1 867 J A 1 876 Senator in , udge of the Court of ppeals in and becam e Chief Ju stice at forty- one years of age ; was elected St ate Sen ator from F ranklin County in 1 890 and United States 8 3 a 1 9 t . Sen tor in . He was one of the grea men of the nation

N o hi stone of an y kind m arks s grave . 1 8th 1 909 i l a w l . W l i m Crom e l died December , He was for

w r a t en tv v ea s Chief Clerk of the State Sen te . His memory

o m an d p owers f endurance were arvelous . J udge Patrick U psher Maj or (1 822 Was County

46 H I S TORY OF T H E FRA NKFORT CEMETERY

A R James ndrew Scott . epresented Franklin County in the Kentucky Legisl ature and was Master Commissioner of the r F anklin Circuit Court . He was a prominent lawyer of Frank r fo t for many years.

M cD on al d Pat , lawver , editor and Democratic politician , M arch 1 4th 1 9 01 H e i died , . was a Mag strate of Franklin County and was the best informed man on county affairs in m an v was the county . For years he editor and publisher of A The Western rgus .

a Miles R gland was killed in the World War . He was b u ried a short distance west of the State Monument on Augu st 7th 1 921 , . 6 I a 1 6th a t . Stew rt Hosler was a private in the U . S . nf n ry F 28th 1 91 8 a He was killed in rance July , , in the memor ble A drive of the merican troops on the western front .

I a a 1 801 “a Hon . Thomas Fr ncis M arsh ll ( s born j ra K v r u K en in F nkfort , . epresented Woodford Co nty in the 2 1 83 - 3 tucky Legislature . Served two terms in the Kentucky a u d Legisl ture from Lo isville . He returne to Woodford County W oo dfo rd I Vas and again represented in the Legislature . A 1 841 elected to Congress from the shland District in . Served

as Captain in a company of cavalry in the Mexican War . Rep resented VVoodford County in the Kentucky Legislature again 1 853 Jr in . He fought three duels , one with John Rowan , . , w t I V one ith James Wa son ebb . editor of the New York Courier

a was and Enquirer , and one with Gen . James S . J ckson . He an able lawyer and was one of the greatest orators Kentucky ~ Hi s W has produced . remains were removed from oodford 1 9 21 County in May , to the State Cemetery at Frankfort .

I ) al a Dr . T . . Elliott , a we thy physician of B rdstown , Ken

h wi h i s n l v a t o . tucky , came t rough Frankfort h d ughter They visited the Fran kfort Cemetery and she was so m uch pleased

with the beauty of the pl ace that. she told her father that sh e wanted to be buried there when she died and her father told h h r A her t at e request would be granted . few months later she

an d i n w u t died of a fever , compliance ith her request he bro gh a her remains to Fr nkfort , and since then he has had erected to H I STORY OF T H E FRA NKFORT CEMETERY 7

I a her memory a beautiful monument of talian m rble . He had

b . . u z. the work done y the noted sculptor, R E La nit E 8453- 1 91 9 r 1 . Mr . Charles ugene Hoge , Cont actor for rail

n . roads and public works . Preside t of Mason Ford Company ,

- o n . later, Hoge Montgomery C mpany , shoe ma ufacturers Presi N i Ci n dent o f State ational Bank . Pres dent of Frankfort

n i . ci n at Railroad Company . President Home Realty Company

K en tu ckv Director Theological Seminary , Center College , Capi K en tu ckv tal Trust Company , Central Traction Terminal m I Company and Com o nwealth Life nsurance Company . Mem h r h A C . u c . . ber College Board of Presbyterian , U S , and Elder t F . irst Presbyterian Church , Frankfort , Ken ucky M a ub Mr . Horatio Pleasant ason , builder of r ilroads and p lic works contractor . President of Mason Hoge Company . a President of Mason Hanger Comp ny . He built railroads

c ff - i and anals in di erent parts of the United States . Vice Pres o f dent State National Bank . P a n ter 1 852 Senator Thomas H . v ( Was elected 1 872 County Attorney of Greenup County in . Represented the

h i -first - Nint Congress onal District in the Fifty , Fifty second and

- was A Fifty third Congress . He j udge of the Court of ppeals

1 894 1 906 was h in ; was Chief Justice in . He elected to t e a 1 906 United St tes Senate in and served one term . l 1 833 Dr . Urban Valentine Wi liams ( Was Com m i ssI o n er of Publi c School s for Franklin County ; President of the School Bo ard of the City of Frankfort for sixteen years ; was member of the Faculty of the Kentucky Military I nstitute a n for sever l years . Was Preside t of the Franklin County Medi c al Associati on from th e time of i ts organization until hi s h l c deat , and was a so President of the Kentu ky Midland A s a sociation for m ny years . Represented the State of Kentucky

M a in the National edical Society at Atlanta , Georgia , by p m e n point nt of Gover or J C . W . Beckham . He was an eminent phvsi ci an wh o practiced his professi on for more than sixty years .

Bishop Benj amin Bosworth Smith . Was Bishop of the h I 1 830 . n C Episcopal C urch he was called to Christ hurch , n h Lexi gton , Kentucky . He was c osen Bishop of Kentucky in 48 H i sTOR Y OF T H E F RA NKFORT CEMETERY

83 P bli I 1 2 was u c . , and the first Superintendent of nstruction I n 1 868 he became the presiding Bishop of the Protestant

a N ew Episcopal Church in th e United St tes . He died in York 1 1 884 an d 3 st . City on May , He loved Kentucky he requested

s . th at his remains hou ld be brought back to rest in her soil . His request was complied with and after a funeral in New York his remains were brought. to Kentucky an d placed in the State Cemetery at Frankfort and marked by a monument of New m r r e o . England granite , erected to his y by the Diocese His funeral at Frankfort was one of the most imposing religious services ever hel d in the city ; three Bishops an d about. thirty s Clergymen took part in the service . 1 785 John J . Marshall ( Reporter of Kentucky A a Court of ppeals Circuit Judge ; eminent l wyer .

1 730- 1 823 I n 1 81 2 Martin D . Hardin ( was Maj or in A l ’ m Colonel l en s regi ent of riflemen . Was Secretary of State under Governor Shelby (1 81 2-1 6 ) was United States Sen ator 1 81 6 bv appointment of Governor Slaughter in . J d C I Col . John . Har in , member of ongress from llinois , 1 847 who was killed at the battle of Buena Vista in , and whose name was inscribed on the State monument by speci al act of L l the Kentucky egis ature , was the son of Martin D . Hardin . R Dr . W . B . odman , son of General John Rodman , was A Hi s one of the prominent physicians of merica . first work wa f of note s as a lecturer at the Je ferson Medical College . He

. an d had good address , a good voice in a short time he became I n one of the noted ph y sicians of this country . practice he was especially successful as a surgeon ; he was a pioneer in sev

s as a eral uccessful operations . such connecting the stom ch and l l a t . at a bowe s , and in the remov of umors He was the he d of a y his profession in Philadelphia . He also wrote the biogr ph

D r a of . Samuel D . Gross , which was work of considerable At d A merit . the time of his eath he was President of the meri can A i a Medical ssoc tion . i m R m . a Dr Will a od an , son of Dr . Hugh Rodm n , was the the S a an d s father of t te Board of Health , was one of its fir t members .

A v w h . a a as a h W . O erton . For sever l ye rs c s ier of t e F arm H I STORY OF T H E FR A NKFORT CEMETERY 49

K n tu ck v I n 1 864 . a a e . ers B nk , Fr nkfort , the year he was a cadet at the V irginia Military I n stitute an d was called to th service of the Confederate St ates in the valle y of Virgini a and 1 5th M a 1 864 at on the lines around Richmond . On the of y, , I d w . . . New Market , he , ith the other cadets of V M , were ordere to take a certain Federal b attery which had been p articularly A rm As co r s assed v . annoying to the Confederate the cadet p p ,

n th e m a s prep ari g for charge , so e of the veter n derided and “ ” s h a made fun of the i nfants a t ev were c lled . The charge was

A s the n w bv t an d gallantly m ade . ra ks ere thinned sho shell the lines were more Closel y drawn without a w aver or a fal tering h w as u s footstep t ese boys . many of whom ere not as long the g n Out they carried m ade the c harge an d captured the battery .

o f an d e . the two hundred fifty boys , mor than fifty of them fell A s th e corps made its return the veterans who had derided the “ ” infa nts took off their hats and gave them cheer after cheer

a in appreciation of their g llant conduct . J a 24th 1 787 Col . ohn Rodman U . S . A . Born Febru ry , i l 1 th 1 833 D ed July , . B n 1 772 W as Mrs . Margaretta row ( the wife of w t United States Senator John Bro n . She was eminen for a l a t lents , earning charity , piety and all the virtues which dorn

al fem e character . She organized the first Sunday School in M the ississippi valley . Lieuten ant A nth ony Crockett (1 758 Was Lieu

i n R a L aF a ette tenant the evolution ry War . When y was s at a a everely wounded the battle of Br ndywine , Lieuten nt r a a Crockett car ied him from the battlefield to pl ce of safety . He was a member of Virginia Legisl ature from Kentucky ; was later a representative from Franklin County to Kentucky Legisl ature ; for thi rtv years he was Sergeant - at-Arms of Ken tucky Senate ; was a soldier in the W ar of 1 81 2 ; was buried B I n 1 9 1 6 in the enson church yard . his remains were removed the to Revolutionary soldier lot in Frankfort Cemetery . b 4 h . a a t 1 762 Mrs Eliz eth Love , born Febru ry , ; died a 1 7th 1 846 . . a Janu ry , She was one of the strong char cters of pioneer days . Her husband was a Maj or in the Revolution ary

War . He came to Frankfort with General Wilkinson and SO H I STORY OF T H E FRA NKFORT CE LI E TE R Y

Off an d F helped to lay establish the City of rankfort . Mrs . Love was remarkable for her personal beauty , social and Christian L w was virtues . The ove Hotel , of hich she was proprietor , the ho most noted tel in the western country . She entertained A m an s aron Burr and v other noted men . She as isted Mrs . Margaretta Brown in organizing the first Sunday School in the s Mis issippi valley . "sh am Talbot (1 773 Was elected to the State 1 81 2 I n 1 81 5 e a s Senate in . he was elected to the Unit d St te

1 2 r - 8 0 e . Senate , and in he was elected M 1 791 Judge Thomas B . onroe ( Represented Barren County in the Kentucky Legislature in 1 81 6 was S ee retary of State i n 1 823 under Governor Adair ; was Reporter of A 1 825 I n 1 834 e the Court of ppeals in . he was appointed Judg i t ri a an d of the Un ted Sta es Dist ct Court by President J ckson , f - held that O fice twenty seven years .

n r General George Bibb Crittenden , son of Joh J . C it f fi e s M ex mo was tenden , served as o cer in war between T xa and ;

- A 1 867 Brigadier General C . S . was elected State Librarian in . “ Near the Boone monument is a stone marked Elison Wil li m n a e a so . The friend and companion of D niel Boon ; born A 1 9 th 1 766 A 1 1 th 1 850 pril , , in North Carolina ; died ugust , , ” K en tu ckv in Kenton County , .

’ William O Con n el l Bradley ( 1 847- 1 9 1 9 ) A special act of the K en tu ck v Legislature granted him th e right to practice was law when he was eighteen years of age . He elected prose euting attorney in 1 870 ; was elected Govern or of Kentucky in 1 895 1 908 , and to the United States Senate in .

C s 1 888 I n 1 861 Hon . Joseph . . Blackburn ( he

- - A I n was aide de camp to General William Preston , C . S . . 1 864 he had an independent comman d in Mississippi until the I n 1 871 close of the war . he represented Woodford County in I n 1 874 e the State Legislature . he was elect d to Congress in A a I n 1 898 s the shl nd District . he was elected United State I n 1 900 Senator from Kentucky . he was appointed Governor a G m b of P nama . Mrs . Terese raha , wife of Senator Black urn , O is buried near her distinguished husband . n the marker of HI STORY OF T H E FR ANKFORT CEMETERY 1 his grave is inscribed : He passed through life the friend of l al .

Hon J m . . . . . a es Blackburn , brother of Hon J C S Black at a A burn , was State Sen or and a M j or in the Confederate rmy Maj or Blackburn was highly recommended for the position of

a a a a United States M rshal . President Clevel nd indic ted th t he A would give him the appointment . bout that time a letter which the Maj or had written while he was Lieuten ant in the

a A Confeder te rmy , and which had been intercepted by federal w i a as . uthorities some forty years prior thereto , published Th s the letter told about great Confederate victory at Shiloh , and it further said that he hoped the time would come when he could ride through Yankee blood up to his saddle skirts . This a idle , boastful wish of the young Lieutenant prevented the p pointment of the Confederate veteran to the important position Of Marshal . 1 81 6 Dr . Luke P . Blackburn ( brother of J . C . S . a 1 835 and James Blackburn , was loc ted in Lexington in . I V hen cholera broke out at Versailles he was the only doctor i n wh o s the State answered the call for help , all the physician " e a having d from Versailles or died . Dr . Bl ckburn located I n 1 843 there . he was elected to the Kentucky Legislature o dfor I n 1 848 from W o d County . when yellow fever appeared O he a a in New rleans ag in answered the c ll for help , and he

I n 1 861 built a hospital at that place at his own expense . he bec am e attached as surgeon to the personal staff of General A C. . . s Sterling Price , S When the yellow fever visited Memphi h e volunteered his aid and rendered great service to that city He volunteered in more epidemics of cholera and yellow fever t han any other man has ever done . was 1 879 He elected Governor of Kentucky in . The monument erected to his memory by the Commonwealth of K en tu ckv Mav 27th The was unveiled on , Masons con e e ducted the cer mony, and addresses wer made by Hon . Wil M liam . Beckner and Gen . Basil W . Duke .

Hon 1 788- . 1 861 Robert P . Letcher ( ) was a soldier in the W ar of 1 81 2 ; represented Garrard Cou n tv in the Kentu cky L I 1 822 a . n egislature sever l times he was elected to Congress , 52 H I STOR Y OF T H E FRA NKFORT CEMETERY servin g i n th at c apaci ty for twelve years ; was Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1 838 ; was Federal Judge ; was 1 840 I n 1 849 was a ~ elected Governor of Kentucky in . he p 24th 1 861 pointed Minister to Mexico . He died January , . “ wi t Sagacity , integrity , social and benignity crowned his life a ri his with unt rnished honor and rare popula ty . His name is ” best epitaph .

1 802- 1 868 Hon . Charles S . Morehead ( ) represented Nelson 1 827 County in the State Legislature in , and moved to Frank A i n 1 832 I n 1 838 fort ; was appointed tto rney General . he was elected to Legislature from Franklin County ; was Speaker 1 841 1 844 of the House in and . He was elected to Congress in 1 847 I n 1 853 a . he was again elected to represent Fr nklin I n 1 855 wa was County . he s elected Governor . He a civil

u I V ar an d prisoner , sympathized with the So th during Civil I n 1 861 r lost a great part of his property . he served in Borde

State Convention and as Peace Commissioner at Washington .

1 800- 1 863 Gen . James Harlan ( ) was appointed Common ’ wealth s Attorney in 1 829 ; was elected to the Lo wer House of

1 837 W as . S ecretar Congress in . y of State under Governor

1 840- 1 844 I n th e 1 845 was d th Letcher . year he electe to e i n I n House of Representatives the Kentucky Legislature . 1 8 A 50 he was appointed ttorney General of Kentucky . Later

was a i a s A he ppointed Un ted St tes Di trict ttorney . Judge John J . a a M H rl n , ustice of the Supreme Court of the United States , wa a s n a a n s o of Gener l J mes Harla . Judge George Robertson M cK ee (1 81 0- 1 889 ) was Circuit Judge in Covington District ; was an able j udge and a str ong a a dvocate . He was nephew of Chief Justice George Robert son .

Ja a a was R e mes G . D n publisher of The Commentator and

- K n kv . A port er of the e tu c Court of ppeals .

J an a was ohn H . H n Clerk of the United States District Court and a prominent banker and business man of Frank fort , Kentucky . A a a . . . C pt in Ed Porter Thompson , C S , was Superintend ent of Public I nstructi on and Historian ; resigned as State “ ’ 1 890 Librarian in . He published his Young People s History

54 H I STORY OF T H E FRA NKFORT CEMETER Y

’ A w l a fter life s eary strugg e , can alw ys be found ; Go search for a monument and find if you can O was m an ne which erected to a moneyless .

’ “ M aj or Stanton s Jacob Brown is a pleasing little imagi native stor y based upon the uncharitable view which some peo ple take of women , illustrating how impossible it is to stop the ’ ” lady s tongue . “ I -I i s I n a m A Culex C r ine gives a history of Mosquito , ” ” l an d n ean thi , looking for Carmine , what he found and what bec ame of him . “ was y cri ti ci se b A His Parson Giles severel d y Dr . H . . M . i i Henderson . This cr tic sm was the beginning of a sharp con

rov ers - t y between Maj or Stanton in the Courier Journal and Dr .

Henderson in the Kentucky Freemason . p “ ” His Self-sacri fice is a satire which was well received and i ts greatly enj oyed at the time of first publication . I V CHAPTER .

T H E NA MES A N D L OCA TI ON OF SO BI E OF T H E NOTED PEOPL E B U I E D A T A N GI V I G TH E I C S H L D R FR KFORT, N OFF E E B Y H H I CI D S W H T EM , OR OT ER N ENT ORT Y OF NOTE .

1 757- 1 837 Hon . John Brown ( ) was elected to the Vir O ginia Legislature from Kentucky , and was sent to the ld Con gress from Kentucky before it was admitted as a state . He was

c n a also the first Senator from Kentu ky to the Federal Se te . a i s r d He served three terms in the United St tes Senate . He bu ie o n th e u t the first terrace overlooking city , a few yards so h of the Boone monument .

Judge Mason Brown is also in the same locality . I n the southwestern portion of the grounds can be found C A a aptain Benj amin J . Monroe , C . S . . Born at Fr nkfort , an d i M Kentucky , d ed at arshall City , Mississippi , of wounds re ceived at the battle of Shiloh in 1 862 ; and near him : is Maj or A T . homas B . Monroe , C . S . , born at Frankfort , Kentucky , J 3rd 1 833 a 1 850 i th e uly , was Secretary of St te in ; k lled at A 7 h 1 862 a t . b ttle of Shiloh , pril ,

Captain John M . Sharp of the United States Navy , was 28th 1 863 drowned in the Gulf of Mexico , May , . His body was never recovered but a nice monument was erected to his , “ : memory . Near this monument is one inscribed William S . N 1 800 Harris , U . S . . , born in Kentucky in ; entered the Navy 1 848 1 81 5 Tau x an . in ; drowned on the p Bar in Mexico , May ,

He was a brave , skilful and gallant Officer , and when in com I -sacri fici n mand of the ris , with self g heroism , lost his own life

m a desperate attempt to save that of Commander H . Pickney was and others . His life was without reproach . His death a Hi s becoming illustration of his prin ciples and his profession . ” I n t body was recovered from the sea and is buried here . tha “ A i same locality is found Joseph Belt , Sr . Revolut onary sol 30 h 1 751 1 2th t . dier . Born November , Died September 1 850 . 56 H I STORY OF T H E F RA NK F ORT ( JE M E 'J‘ER V

I n s that section can be found the la t resting place of Dr . M cCl u sk 1 841 -1 909 John y Blayney ( ) he was a broad minded , c a patrioti Christian gentlem n , who deserves special mention because of his services on behalf of Frankfort in the fight. for

H e was I n retaining the capitol . charge of the Presbyterian

a Church at Frankfort, Kentucky , for many ye rs .

a The grave of Professor B . B . S yre is found in the extrem e th e southwest corner of grounds . He was one of the mos t celebrated teachers in Kentucky ; his influence has been felt

th e an d t a a throughout State Na ion . He educ ted , at le st in

a as part, Gener l George B . Crittenden , General Thom L . Crit

. . a a tenden , Governor T T Crittenden , of Missouri , Feder l Sen I V tor George Vest , Senator J . C . S . Blackburn , General D . .

a I a an d a Lindsey , Judge P . U . M j or , Colonel S . . M . M j or , m ny oth er men who h ave been import ant factors in th e governme n t I V a a 0 . t of both st te and n tion . Professor . Crocke t , who suc

d d m an v cee e . . Prof B . B Sayre , taught a private male school for A a years . l rge number of the business and professional men in Fran kfort at the beginning of the present century were edu cated b ‘ hi m y . Some of the other prominent teachers who are buried in h n t ese grounds are Professor S . P . Browder , Superintende t of the Frankfort P u bli c Schools for many years ; Captain John

A . th e Thomas Gaines , C . S . . , who was Superintendent of pub a 1 821 lic schools in Louisville , and Maj or Martin S . H rmon (

1 848) of Ohio who taught French an d German at. the Ken a I tucky Milit ry nstitute .

Near the S ayre lot is th e Shaft. Of Congressman John White (1 802 who was Speaker of the Nation al House of Rep r I resentatives ; also Judge Ha ry nnes , Judge of the United

a n ' of c A St tes District Court a d the Kentu ky Court of ppeals ,

was . and Judge Van B . Young Judge of the Superior Court of

Kentucky .

a A r n Congressm n . Y . Fitzpat ick is buried in Colo el ’ m I a a n t . Sou h s lot ; his grave is not arked sh m T lbot , a ative “ of Virginia. and a pioneer of Kentucky : A statesman di stin a gu i shed in law and oratory ; c alled to the United S tates Sen te . H I STORY OF T HE FR ANKFORT CEMETERY 57

5th 1 837 h hi s Died September the , , bequeat ing virtues and worth . Chief Justice C aswell Bennett died in 1 894 ; no stone a l ot r marks his grave . He is buried in the St te nea Governors

Scott and James T . Morehead . A a General Scott Brown , djut nt General under Governor

M a o ffin a a n o t. g , is buried in front of the ch pel ; his gr ve is

a a w a hi s m rked . He possessed consider ble e lth at the time of death . A a a General Humphrey Marshall , C . S . . , has sm ll marker ,

b t h a i n th e a ou twelve by eig teen inches . His gr ve is located

a a a a a extreme e s tern p rt of the grounds ne r the e stern drivew y .

an d f e Judge B . Mills , legislator, lawyer and judge , his wi , a are Cornelia, who was daughter of Rev . Eli Smith , buried east of the State monumen t ;they were the parents of Evangelist

B . Fay Mills . a A n n w a e Rich rd Knott , and Mary Roberts , his ife , r

e . a we a w ar locat d j ust e st of the stern drivew y . They ere the p

ts n t s st en of Colo el Richard Knot , editor of the Loui ville Po , who has recently died . an d a John J . Vest his wife , H rriett , were the parents of

a a . Feder l Senator George Grah m Vest of Missouri . Their graves can be found east of the State monument near those of a K i zi ah Nichol s Smith and wife , Johnson , who were the par n Of e ts of Col . Nicholas Smith , one the editors of the New York “ an d d Tribune , of whom it was sai , He is the handsomest man A th e in merica . Col . Smith married daughter of Horace l Gree e y . The Frankfort Chapter of the D aughters of the A meri can Revolution has recently secured a lot located in the ex r t eme southwestern part of the grounds , for the purpose of collecting from all parts of the State the rem ains of the Revo l u ti on ar a h y soldiers , and eventually to erect monument to t eir I n th e memory . this lot has been collected remains of James A A Russell , lexander Wilson , Sr . , Colonel nthony Crockett , R ev th a an d . e . William Hickman and wife , and Rev John G no w wa . a s ife The Rev . William Hickm n justly recognized as

at Har the first Baptist preacher in Kentucky . He preached 58 H I STORY OF T H E FRANKFORT CEMETERY

rodsbu r 1 776 c g in , and he prea hed in different parts of K en n tucky for forty years . For ma y years during that period he was located at Buck Run church near the Woodford County

line . h . A The Rev Jo n Gano was the first to be buried in the D . . h R lot . He was per aps the g reatest Baptist preacher who eve r

. lived in Kentucky He was educated at Princeton College , and was recogni zed as b eing the most learned and eloquent

r . preacher in the western count y . He was the first chaplain of

the Kentucky Legislature , and there is a well founded tradi tion that he preached the first sermon ever pre ached in Fr ank

. a h fort Rev . Gano was a ch plain in t e Revolutionary I V ar

th e a and so frequently was he found in van in time of d nger , “ a as fi ht and so seldom in the rear , that he bec me known the g

ing chaplain of the army .

Th e D D a a s grave of Rev . Silas M . Noel , . . , is loc ted hort

d s . . . . istance outh of the D A R lot , near Governor Letcher He was educated for the law and was appointed A ssociate Ci rcuit

Judge under the O ld Constitution . He was a member of the F c rankfort Bar , and pra ticed his profession with success . th e h e After a few years he returned to ministry , where became one of the strongest and most successful preachers the B aptist h d Church ever a in the State . th e A a When great Reformer, lex nder Campbell , with his

new doctrine , divided almost every Baptist congregation in the m an c r . western ount y , Dr Noel was thought to be the only who could hold the Frankfort congregation together an d refute th e

arguments of Mr . Campbell . Another strong Baptist preacher buried in these grounds “ wa h e s Dr . John L . Waller ;for many years was editor of Bap ” “ ” “ ” ti st Banner , Western Recorder , Western Baptist Review “ ” and Christian Reporter . He was the first president of the “ s Bible Revision A sociation . At least three other preachers of n ation al reputa tion are

- A : ...... found here , to wit Bishop B B Smith , Dr H M Hender

R v are t e . son and . Philip S Fall , and there others of almos

a . equal note , such as Rev . George D rsie , Dr Benj amin Mills ,

. A a . a . . R ev . . Thomas N . rnold , Rev Thom s S M j or and Rev H H

Kavanaugh . H I STORY OF T H E FRA N KFORT CEMETERY 59

A -five - c bout twenty preachers , forty one do tors of medi cine and over eighty lawyers are buried in this cemetery . Many a a of these men had n tional reput tion .

a The biography of John J . Crittenden m kes two large I f e volumes . a lik biography of all the great men and women ar e who are buried here , and who worthy of such a history

Should be given , they would fill many volumes , and it would

a . was make the gre test history of Kentucky that ever written . O n th e brow of the hill j ust north of the ch apel can be found the graves of Thomas C . Jones , Clerk of the Court of Appeals and Mini ste r of the United States to Madeira (grave i s L not marked) . By his Side Judge William indsay , judge , statesm an and perhaps the greatest l awyer Ke n tucky h as ever

‘ a a h G n produced . His gr ve is also unmarked . Ne r t em is ra t A an d a 1 860 Green , uditor of State Secretary of St te from to 1 65 R M cK 8 . . ee , and across the driveway is R , congressman , r legislato and lawyer .

au v The S . F . J . Trabue lot is the largest of private owner ,

. a a a and it is the only one on which there is v ult . This v ult w s a . the work of the celebrated R E . Launitz , who built the Th e a a n State monument . angels th t gu rd the e trance to this ar vault e the products of his Skill . The only mausoleum in the grounds i s that of Frank r Heeney , recently const ucted at a cost of about four thousand I t s. dollar is of granite and marble , and has the appearance of

e I t. th e b ing a permanent structure . is located in eastern part c of the Catholi ground . A very unique monument is the o ne erected to th e memory 1 807 a a of Thomas N . Lindsey ( l wyer , st tesman and writer . Only a few inscriptions can be found i n any part of the I n a cemetery which are out of the ordinary . this cl ss is that Of Dan D riscoll (1 855 which is as follows :

th e a a t Here lies body of much l men ed youth ,

u t fo r r For sense disting ished , and es eemed t uth .

was Now he beginning to bloom ,

. " h e hi s o o n But alas left mother too s . 60 H I STORY OF T HE FRA NKFORT CEMETERY

On another is found Keziah B . Johnson . As much of ” virtue as could die .

a n Mrs . Jane Madison , wife of Governor George M diso , is buried in the Madison lot on the brow of the hill near the a a Boone monument . Mrs . M . Tr in Runyan , a noted te cher of

ad A s th e young l ies , and Mrs . gne Brawner Franklin , one of

a t n noted teachers of Frankfort , and m ny other excellen wome

are buried in these grounds .

M rs a 1 852 . Eudor Lindsey South ( teacher and

author , wife of Rev . J . K . P . South , established Excelsior Col l i ate I 1 878 th e eg nstitute in . She ranked well with educators “ e of the Stat . Her two books , Wayside Note and Fireside ” “ ” 1 884 an d Thoughts , published in , Luther in Rome , pub l i sh ed 1 890 w a b in , ere well received by the re ding pu lic

th e a throughout country . She lso wrote many poems and

a s a a a a rticle for m g zines , which received much f vor ble com

ment . Ja 1 799 n Mrs . ne Stephens Stout ( know by the many Confederate soldiers whom Sh e befriended during the T “ “ar as A at Civil unt Jane , was a strong southern symp hizer and g ave liberally of her time an d means to help the South

. r in the great internecine st uggle . A great m any of the monuments found in these grounds

s d s an d a are of arti tic e ign , some of them were expensive . Th t

A a th e a a of lexander , located ne r ch pel , is said to h ve cost ten

an d a A a thous d oll rs . Those of L . . Thom s , Hiram Berry ,

an d a ex en George B . Macklin , R . P . Pepper , m ny others are p an d sive well designed . Recently th e tomb h as come into great favor ; several very

n s h a handsome o e h ave been placed here during t e p ast few ye rs .

I n h as a a n a t is cl s can be n med th t of Joh W . Rodm n , George n a R v r . e . . Baker George Da sie , Governor Buck er , Wm E Br d

ley , and others . I d a Of a a nclu ing Hon . J . C . S . Bl ckburn , Governor Pan m ,

are t d - : there hirteen Governors buried in these groun s , to wit a Governors Christopher Greenup , Charles Scott , George M di

J A a are a son , ohn dair and James T . Morehe d in the St te lot

. o n n n t about e h undred feet south of th e State mo ume .

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. a Alvin Duvall , Caswell Bennett, George M Bibb , Willi m Lind as say , and Thom H . Paynter . : A \V United States Senators John Brown , John dair , . T . I i Barry , sham Talbot, Mart n D . Hardin , James T . Morehead ,

a . a Rich rd M Johnson , John J . Crittenden , Willi m Lindsay , 0 a William . Bradley , J . C . S . Bl ckburn , and Thomas H .

Paynter .

a : s State Libr rians Joseph J . Bullock , Ed Porter Thomp on , A . . e A W Vallandingham , G . . Robinson , G orge Bibb Gritten M den , and rs . Cornelia Wheat Bush .

a : Adjut nt Generals of Kentucky John B . Tilford , Scott B r A rown , Ma ene West , Thomas . Theobold and D . W . Lind

sey . Perhaps no othe1 cemetery in all the world is more beauti

at a fully located than the one Fr nkfort . The n atural scenery of these grounds an d th ei i surrou nd

u n s as ed t a h as n ings ai e q s . To his n tural beauty bee added i much by Skilled landscape gardening . The protect on which

' h as been given to the birds in the cemetery has c au sed m an v v i ariet es to make it their home . The excellent superintendent n ow in ch arge (1 920) who

a an d a are si x tv - is versed in bot ny ornithology , s ys there two al l varieties of trees now growing in these grounds , or nearly all of which are indigenous to Kentucky . There are also found about twenty - five var ieties of birds

th e r a a n g which make their homes , during summe se son , mo

these trees . A list of the trees include the following n amed varieties : i an d a The largest variet es are the white pine syc more . The was th e a a pine brought down river by Robert C rmich el , the 1 845 th e a . first superintendent of cemetery , who took ch rge in

A are u a mong the evergreens the hemlock , j niper , rbor vitae ,

n d a a . Norw y spruce silver fir The shrub evergreens , box ,

a a . holly , mahoni , and southern m gnolia are found here The are a s wahoo is also found here . There all the v rietie of the

a d . maple , Norway , red , sug r , Japanese , bir seye and silver To a i n the variegated foliag e is added the blooms of m ny trees , th e c d cluding atalpa , both red and white ogwood , juneberry, H I STO R Y OF T H E F R AN K FORT CEMETERY 63

red bud , horse chestnut, wild cherry and the double bloom peach . The maiden hair , white fringe , Normandy poplar , a smoke tree , purple leaf beech , purple Norway m ple and linn , al l black and red haw , ironwood , the varieties of the catalpa , th an d e red elm English elm .

The varieties of oaks include red , white , pin , burr, and are ash cork bark . There the blue and white , tulip , poplar , cut r leaf weeping birch , European larch , varnish t ee , service berry ,

’ a willow , boxelder , hickory , Washington thorn , bl ck gum , Eng ass l lish alder , chestnut, s afras , wa nut, Colorado blue Spruce “ h a ackberry , ced r , beech , cottonwood , pecan , butternut , mocker a a nut, sh gbark hickory , chinqu pin , sugar , rock and winged

a u elm , sug rberry , mulberry , osage orange , tulip , c cumber and a umbrella trees , pawp w , hazel , wild yellow plum , coffee tree ,

an d r yellow bud , leaved hop tree ; the hollies , black , red st iped

a a c an mount in m ples , bu keye , buckthorn , linden , basswood ,

eli ca - an d g , tupelo , great laurel , sour wood , silver bell , red , green

ash l al l black , with a profusion of f owering shrubbery in parts a of the grounds ;roses of every kind , lilacs , spire in three varie of ties , golden dell , rose Sharon , crepe myrtle , peonies , several w el i a den tzi a a kinds of magnolias , snowball , yg and hydrange . The arboretum found here is perh aps more n earl v complete

. h than that found in any ot er collection in Kentucky . The list of birds which has been given includes the fol

: - lowing Thrush , robin , red bird , which has been designated by

" “ ” A as a - James Lane llen The Kentucky Cardin l , blue bird

cat- a r a bird , mocking bird , kinglet wren , creeper , w rble , sw llow ,

u - a a i finch , h mming bird , oriole , lark and sever l v r eties of wood m peckers . There are also found a few squirrels and chip unks . I t i s a i n difficult to find , on a summer afternoon , more ’ r i n c te est g place than Kentu ky s Necropolis . t a s a th e Here lie three poe s of n tional note , two hi tori ns , c A a greatest s ulptor meric has produced , the greatest scout and

I i a. l aw ndian fighter , whose history sounds like fict on , great maker who relieved the Nation an d the State from th at i a cu bu s a known as imprisonment for debt , lawyers , st tesmen ,

soldiers , inventors and men of note in every walk of life ; here

is th e history of Kentucky carved in granite and marble . 64 H I STORY OE T I I E F RA N K F OR T CEMETERY

A s you walk through the streets of this beautiful City of ” th e ad a - a De , and re d the history , the heroic acts , the self s cri fici n w g conduct of these men and omen , you have a feeling of

s a exaltation , and you are impres ed with the ide that the ground on which you tread is holy ground ; th at i t has been consecrated by having deposited therein the mortal remains of the greatest

and best which the world has known .

’ On the day set apart for decorati n g th e graves of Ken ’ e 1 920 s a tucky s honored d ad , June , , the following line were re d ’ as a tribute to Kentucky s noted de ad :

’ A KENTUCKY S NO TED DE D .

’ t s a at Dis ingui hed de d , Kentucky s honored gre , We come your grave to decorate ' Our treasures of fra n kincense and myrrh

a u u We pl ce pon your sep lchre . are a e You living still , your honored n m I S written on the scrolls of fame ;

The examples of your life so shine , ’ n Th ev m ake your grave th e pilgrim s Shri e .

Your course of action h as defined The secret longings of your kind ; The achievements which you h ave wrough t

A re the best exponents of your thought . a a ss n a Br ve your deeds , de thle your me , ” a as a Great your f me , wish could cl im

Pure in purpose , strong in strife ,

For the common weal you gave your life .

The found ation of this State i s laid Upon th e record which you m ade ;

Your life has been a. guiding light w To teach the world the ay of right . a Those who died on foreign e rth , Far from the l and which gave them From the land they went to save

l Ve claim the ashes of our brave . H I STORY OF T H E FRA NK F ORT CEMETERY 65

h as Kentucky , with generous care , Brought home her dead from everywhere ; ’ W ith a mother s love she di d cre ate A a This , Westminster bbey of the St te . Your sacred dust has in this ground

A resting place of honor found , A place in which both Church an d State

a Have dedicated to the gre t .

a h a a Wom n , wit true and g llant he rt , Has always borii e as brave a part A s anyone has ever found On tented field or b attle ground ; A an d lways gentle , kind true ,

n a to fi d Man ever f iled n in you ,

A s mother , sister , friend or wife , Th e very best there is in life .

’ — n m e . Virtue , immortal , virtue woman s a

w- a How dim , how shado like is f me ;

th e How weak are all powers of earth , C ompared to th at which gave you birth ? Here your preciou s dust is found

s : Near this stone , beneath thi mound I n memory of your love and power

a a . We place thereon a fr gr nt flower . CHAPTER V 0

A roster of the soldiers buried in the State Cemetery , made u p of all the soldiers who served in the wars of the Nation , this list includes many names which h ave been previously men i n e t o d.

Those who served in the Revolutionary War : A Ai d John dair, Governor of Kentucky , de Camp to Gen eral Sumpter ; Maj or Bland Ballard ; Joseph Belt , Sr . , served l 0th 1 850 five years and seven months , died September , , aged 99 C t R e re years ; olonel Daniel Boone ; John Brown , the firs p sen ati ve in Congress and the first United States Senator from Kentucky ; General John Caldwell ; General Henry Crist ; Lieu A R ev a r ~ tenant nthony Crockett ; . John Gano , Ch plain ; Ch is O h er R t p Greenup (Governor of Kentucky) ev . William Hick I man , Chaplain ; Captain John Howell ; Harry nnis , Judge of United States District Court ; George Madison (Governor of Kentucky) ; Thomas Paxton ; James Russell ; Brigadier Gen t eral Charles Scott ; Thomas Todd , Justice of Supreme Cour ; e A Elias Williamson , a friend of Boon ; lexander Wilson , Sr . Soldiers of the War of 1 81 2-1 81 5 : Brigadier General John A dair (Governor of Kentucky) ; Maj or Bland Ballard ; Willi am Taylor B arry (Chief Justice of C a - M New ourt) John B . Bibb ; Colonel D niel Boone ; aj or John f . O a J Crittenden (Governor of Kentucky) , on Staff Gener l Col A h Cru m ba h Hopkins ; . nt ony Crockett ; Joseph u g ; Cap tain Thomas Dollarhide ; General Peter Dudley ; Captain A a . Walter Dudley ; M j or Martin D Hardin ; John . Holton ;

i - Col . R chard Mentor Johnson (Vice President) Robert P . d Letcher (Governor of Kentucky) ; Maj or Gen . George Ma i

r c A son (Governo of Kentu ky) ; Maj or lexander H . Rennick ; W Captain John . Russell ; James Shannon ; Maj or Solomon P . l r Th km r . oc o ton Sharp ; Richard Tay or , J , and Samuel . Soldiers who served in the Mexican War : a Maj or Philip Norbourne B rbour ; William W . Bayles,

°

. . a killed at Beuna Vista L B Bartlett, killed in b ttle ; Capt . H I S TORY OF T H E FRA NKFORT CEMETERY 67

' f O “i l li am a l v . i er H . P Beard Blackwell , killed at Beuna Vist ;

- B n B u o n a V . E och r t , killed at eun ista ; Col Simon Boliver Buckner (Governor of Kentucky ) Cyrus Calvert ; Henry A a l a . . C rty , kil ed at Beuna Vist ; dj utant G N Cardwell , killed in battle ;Col . Walter Chiles ;Lieut . Col . Henry Clay , son of the great Commoner killed at Beuna Vista ; Lieutenant Col . Thomas I Crittenden ; Surgeon Richard Davenport ; George n M H at n e . Davidso ; Newton Dea ;Tilford Dozier , killed Beuna I t i a y dwards at a . V st ; Henr , killed Beuna Vist ; John F Elling

w . ood , killed at Beuna Vista ; Humphrey Evans ; Charles R

‘

Featherstone ; Lieut . Col . Ezekiel H . Fields ; Maj or Carey H .

G A a r y . a F : B Stew rt ayle ; Lieut . C . W . Gilmore ; rah m Good a a a p ster , killed at Beuna Vist ; W . T . Green , killed at Beun J A Vista ;Col . John . Hardin ; mbrose W . Hampton ; Col . T . T .

H ' Hawkins ; Capt . Llewellyn arvie Col . Richard Mentor John at s son (Vice President) ; Clement Jones , killed Beuna Vi ta ; a Robert Latta , killed at Beuna Vista Col . Humphrey M rshall ;

a . . s C pt Thomas F Marshall ; John C . Ma on ; Capt . William H . M M cChesn M K e . c e axey ; John C . y ; James H D . e ; Col . Wil M K l l . c ee a a M cK ee liam R , ki ed at Beun Vist ; Robert ; Capt . A Benj amin Cave Milam ; John E . Miles ; . J . Mitchell ; Lieut .

. t James Monroe ; Sim P Montague ; John Edwin Moore ; Cap . A . . a James W Moss ; lexander G Morgan , killed at Beun Vista ; ’ M a O H ara j or Theodore , wrote the Bivouac Of The Dead ; A lmus W . Polsgrove , next to the last veteran of the Mexican war to die in Franklin County ; Lieutenant Joseph Powell , at a R killed Beun Vista ; Ezra . Price ; N . Ramey , killed at Al A ; a . . Beuna Vista fred Re d ; G Robinson ; John Sanders , d J A kille at Beuna Vista ; ohn . Scott ; James Seston , killed at Beuna Vista ; John Spratt ; William Walker Stephen s ; John T . . h . a Swigert ;Lieut hos H Taylor ;C . B . T om s , killed at Beuna J r . l . a Th r . o eau x Vista ; J Tha p , kil ed at Beun Vista ; Yves J , j oined the army the day before and was killed at the battle of

a l Thwai ts at a Beuna Vist ;Wil iam , killed Beun Vista ; John F . h u . a Todd ; Lie t T om s J . Todd ; Harvie Trotter , killed at Beuna ; a b Vista M j or Updike , killed in attle ; Benj amin Utterback , was 1 91 9 the last Mexican soldier in Franklin County , died ; Ad n a h juta t Edward P . V ug n , killed at Beuna Vista ; Thom as 68 H I S TORY OF T H E FRA N KFOR T CEMETERY

i I Vhi tehead s t Weigert , k lled at Beuna Vista ;John ;Jame Whi e ;

W I Vi l li s l a B : H n r t . e a . . v Capt in T , ki led euna Vista Sergt I V l f o . , killed at Beuna Vista a s m I Var 1 861 -1 865 : Confeder te oldiers the Civil ,

a ta R A 5th K en tu ckv I n f I A C p in obert llen , . ; J . bbott ,

1 8 36 - 1 9 1 7 6th I n f A J A A A , Ky . . , C . S . . ; ames lley ; C . . nder

I h F I n f A A CO 2n I f t . . . d n lorida R nderson , H , Ky . . ;

A B 8th v G . Ca . t . . . C kins ; eorge R acon , Ky , and scout for Gen r M R f d a . a ed o Forest ; aj or John P . Bacon ; C ptain Willi m Bean ;

L 4 h I n Berbri d J t f . e ieut . ohn Bell , Ky . ; John Berry ; g Black 1 t J . . . a r urn ; Col . C S Blackburn , Governor of P nama ; Maj o B 1 a st . James l ckburn , Co . H , Regt ; Surgeon Luke P . Black b v o f urn (Go ernor Kentucky ) ; Maj or Benj amin Blanton , on ’ A CO 2n d I n f Gen . Hood s Staff ; lexander G . Brawner , . H , Ky . . ; 2 I n f 7 h CO n d . t Thomas P . Brawner, . E , Ky . ;Jeremiah Brown ,

F 4th I n f O s T lorida Regt . ; D . M . Brown , Co . E , Ky . . ; ri .

Bauknight , Florida Regt . Lieut . Gen . Simon Boliver Buckner ’ I n ft am s (Governor of Kentucky ) , Col . Willi T . Bullet , Fore t s 4 h I n t f . at Command ; Lieut . George Bibb , Ky . , killed - Burnley I I I s u r e . . M rf e sboro ; Capt Fred Carter ; Coleman Carr ; E . Chri 42n I n f A 3r d . . . . d . tian , Ga . ; Lieut J Church , Ky Cavalry , ’ ’ m 3rd I I I I Morgan s Com and ; Robert Church , Ky . Cavalry ; . .

3rd a a a Church , Ky . C v lry ;Robert Cochrane ;M j or Gen . George C m 4th I n f G CO. B . rittenden ; Sergt . Ja es . Crockett , E Ky .

. l . l e A 31 st 1 864 A at . . . ost a g Jonesboro , ugust , ; T Dudley ; L

l s . I CO t . . J Dailey , . F , Ky Cav ; erry Downing ; Lieut . sham T . 4 I I V lli l E th n f . i m u . . a . a D d ey , Co , Ky ; T Dudley ; M j or Ben 5 h I n f 4 h u e t . . a t F . D vall , Surg on , Ky ; Cornelius Duv ll , Co . E , I n f E a Ky . . ;Maj or Humphry v ns , Tenn . Brigade ;J . K . Exum

4 h I f R . I V t n . . Co . E , Ky . ; obert Exum ; George Farmer ; Fen J s i wick ; Col . ame Fitzpatr ck ; Capt . Thomas B . Ford , Commis m a a : . . . . s ry Dep rt ent Gen Thompson B Flournoy ; J Fugate , Co 5 I : 6 h I n f h K n f t a . t y . . B , Gage , Florid ; Captain J h I n f 5t . W CO. . . . Thomas Gaines , K , Ky ; Capt . L Gray , Mi R 34 I n f Ga. e . . . . g ; Maj or J L Gibbons ; Glenn , Maj or J A : . lex Grant Tad Gray , Texas Regt ; Capt . Joseph R . Haddock ; I V : . . a . E . Hammond David C Hardin ; Lieut William H rdie ;

M . aj or Lewis E . Harvie Va Brigade ; Col . T . T . Hawkins , on

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I n f 4th I n f Florida . ; Thomas T . Price , Co . E , Ky . . ; W . T . P 4 h I n f Al a R t t . u rice Co . E , Ky . . ; Col . John Polk Prior , g : P l 2n d I n f . : Capt . S . V . Pence Sergt . N . M . u liam , Co D , Ky . A l 6th ri a : . . . mbrose " u r es R S Ray , Flo da ; Robert Redd ; Lieut 5 h K I n f a t . . a . CO. v James C Robb , K , ; Willi m Robb ; M j or

am 5th I n f t John Roberts ; Benj in F . Rogers , Co . K , Ky . . ; Cap . D 2 I n f 2 d . . . d H . B . Rogers , Co . , Ky ;W . T Richardson , Co . H ,

I n f G A Ky . . ; Eugene Scearce ; eorge Scearce ; Joe E . Scott , Co . .

9 th C v 4th I n f a . . . Ky . General Preston B Scott , Co E , Ky . , i o f t CO A 9th Medical D rector Departmen ; Thomas W . Scott, . ,

I Vi l li m a ' a . Ky . Cav . ; Se y John W Shannon ; Samuel W . Shan 4 h I n f t . non Co . E , Ky . ; Simmons ; S . F . Smith ; Capt . h 5th E . R . Smith , Commander of Georgia Post ; Martin Sout , I n f 5th I n f Ky . . ; Sam South Ky . . ; Thomas South ; Col . J . W .

. . . . h South ;Lieut J K P South , preacher in the Christian Churc , 1 921 n l t C v e . s a . died in F bruary , W J . Spe cer , Florida ; Jerry a 5 h K I n f D l n G h w t . a a to a . . t e as v . Sp ulding , Co K , , , , placed on th e t h corps of sharpshooters , and was almos daily engaged wit

y fo r t the enem four months ;Maj or Henry T . Stanton , brevet ed

con du ct ' G Maj or for gallant ; . H . Stone ; Norton Stoughton ; A . V a. Tabor ; Brig . Gen . Thomas H Taylor, rmy of ; Ed

a 1 Cav B 2n d I n f st . . . . . Thom s , Ky ;Col Timmons , Regt Texas . ;

a C pt . Ed Porter Thompson (State Librarian and Historian ) , 6 h I n f A t . . Ky . ; Capt . R . Thompson (for many years County l CO 4th I n f Judge of Frank in County , . E , Ky . . ;William 2 K I n f n d v . G . Thompson , . ; H . J . Trabue ; William Trabue ; “ ” fifteen graves in the Confederate lot marked unknown ; V al an di n ham a George R . g ; Washington Weight ; Hubb rd Vh h I i t i n t n 8t . t o . g , Ky Cav , grave not marked ; Capt . Robert 5th v . Ca . . Wingate ; Merrit Williams , Co E , Ky . ; Sergt H . C . I Vi ll i am s 7th a C " , Florida ; Gr nville Williams ; apt . H . . Will 2n I n f d . . a more Maryland ; G M rsh Woods ; R . K . Woodson , 4 h I n f 2n d 1 8 3 t . . 6 Jr Ky , killed at Murfreesboro , January , , he bec ame the volu nteer color bearer after three others had been killed in that famous ch arge m ade by Brecken ri dge on 5th I n a . . . f th t day ; Samuel D Winter ; J Wooley , Ky . ; Lieut . 5 h I n f h t . 7 CO. . . t G . W . Yates , E , Ky ;J Young , Florida . The names of the Federal soldiers and commissions held H I STORY OF T H E FR AN KFORT CEMETERY 71

1 6 h l h A CO t . . : . by them are as fol ows C arles mes , C , Regt U

A r A a . I V . . ars n aves . . S . Regul ; John g ; M rvin ; C pt R R Bacon ,

3r . d . 1 1 h Cav a . a t . . . Regt Ky C pt Albert G B con , Ky Cav , kill t a a 28th 1 861 b Gen . a ed y Bedford Forest S cr mento , December , ,

A n . . . F . the rankfort G . R . Post is amed for him ; Col J C B l : ailey ; Ferdinand Be l ; John Bell Vincent Berberich , Home Guards ; George Berry : Hiram Berry ; Thomas Black ; Josep h 9 l CO st . J . Bohannan , Co . E th Ky . Cav . ; . T . Bradley , B , Regt , I Vi lli am Capital Guards ; E . Bradley ; John Brady ; Fielding 9 h A Or t . . . . Bransom , Co . E , Ky Cav ; ndrew Brown ; Lieut Col l F 22n d I n f ando Brown , Jr Co . , Ky . . ;Yoder Brown ; Charles

1 842 - 1 91 8 85th I T . Boudinot , , was Sergeant Maj or of ndiana I B C y o . nfantr ; William Buckley ; John ullin ; Dennis Bergin , 22n I f B n n J u O. d . y C F , ; ohn B rk ; Flick ur s ; Sonn Burns , F , 22n d I n f 9 h av I t . C . . Ky . . ; Morris Caples , Co . E , Ky . ; Maj or N 7 h I n f E d C t . ardwell , Ky . ; John M . Coleman , Home Guard ;

A i I am es I V 1 6th ward B . Coleman , . Coll er ; Col . . Craddock , I n f I V h m ai 9 h t . Ky . . ; il a Cr k , Co . E , Ky Cav . , Maj or E . W . Cri tten den 1 2th Crittendon ; Col . Eugene , Ky . Cav . ; Maj or ’ m 31 d Gen . Tho as L . Crittenden , Ky . Cav . , Buell s Division ; G . Cru mbau h I 22n d I n f . CC. . . . C g , , Ky ; Capt . G W . Daniels ; I V 9 th K . a . v . . CO. John D niels . Co E , Cav ; George Daum , C , l 0th Y Cav i N . . . ; R chard Davenport ; James Dean ; Willi am h 9th I Vi l m . l i a Dean ; Jo n B Dryden , Ky . Cav Duke , Co . E , 9th K y i " . Cav ; ach Evans ;Timothy Forbush Charles Feather

st : . a one Capt Lewis Finnell ; Maj or Cary H . Fry ; Capt . D niel r 22n d I n f . . . i h r . G s e Garrard , J , Co Ky , killed in battle ; Bart 9th K CO. . H . . a a E , y Cav ; Philip Goins , Co , Fr nkfort B ttery ; 9th . . . . Jr Sandford Goins , Sr , Co Ky Vol ; Sandford Goins , . ; I Voodwi n 32n d I n f George Goldsmith ; George E . , Regt . Ky . . ; h 9 h F . . t Gibson Gra am , Co E , Ky . Cav . ; F . M . Graham ; Capt .

. G I 22n d n f f I . fi . . Gri e 1 9th K ray, Co , Ky ; James , Co . H , Ky .

I n f I V - . . 5 . . 5 th I n f er Lieut D Haley, musician , Ky . . ; Pet Har 9th . mon , Co E , Ky . Cav . ; Surgeon James T . Hatchett, Post Master at Frankfort for many years ; Howard Henderson ;John 2 . 2n d I n . F f T Henderson , Co , Vol . . ; William Henry ; Lieut . E d 1 9 h . . O t n C . f . . . CC 9th F Hogg, D , Ky I ; Thos Hosler, . C ,

. . . t Ky Cav Wes Hulett ; Thomas J Hu cherson , Home Gu ard ; 72 H I STORY OF T H E FRA NKFORT CE M ETERY

I Vi l li am K een on John Jenkins ; John Geter ; Maj or John G . ; b 3 rd . Surgeon T . Kersey ; Lieut . Col . Ro t . H . King , Co . B , Ky

i E 9 th Cav Cav . . . ; Dav d Kirkpatrick , Co . , Ky ; Frederick

K n r I ) I V A d K ev e . . . . ; Gen . Lindsey , j t . Gen of y ; Maj or 9th v Ca . J Thomas Mahoney , Co . E , Ky . ; ohn Marshall ; J . B . a ° n M cCart 22n d M uer Schuyler Mayhall ; Cor elius y, Co . F , I n f I M cCl u re 1 5th I n f Ky . . ;Lieut . Joseph , Co . C , Ky . . ;Capt .

I V l r 1 5 K I n f M K A M cC u e v . u c ee . T . , Co . C , th . L cien ; lex

‘ lI I I i w n 9 th K 32n c a . . . . d ander , Co E , y Cav ; J Fleming Meek , I f n 22 I n f . n CO. . Ky Ben Mercha t , F , Ky . Vol . ; C . C . Mer 22n d I n f a CO 9 h CO...... t chant, F , Ky Vol ; E M Merch nt , E ,

l 9th K . Ky . Cav . ; Tay or Merchant ; R . H . Mitchell , Co . E , y. 7 h -K I n v t f . Ca . . . a ; Brig . Gen . George W Monroe , y ; J mes Monholland ; W at Nickols ; Andy Norwood ; I saac Osborne : i l a 9th S be O . O s e . C . Coleman p wens ; M j or J R Pa ge , E , Ky .

I r I n f f Geo e 3rd . Cav . ; g Peiffer, Ky . ; William Pei fer ; W . G . t G R eock a Purdy ; obert L . Ready ; eorge ; Willi m T . Scott ; be 26th 1 850 I V Leon Scott ; Maj or J . M . Scott , died Octo r , ; . 5 h I n f t . . H . Scott ;Philip Selbert , musician , Ky ;Dan Sheehan ,

9 h av t S S m i th S m l t C . . a u e Co . E , Ky . ;Frederick Smi h ;Joseph ;

a Smith ; Lieut . William H . Sneed , Police Judge of Fr nkfort , K 22n d I n f . CO...... y , F Ky ;John R Spires ;Col Lyne Starling , 20 h I n f CO 9 th I n f t . . . . Ky Mounted ; John Sullivan , E , Ky 22n K I n f 32n I n f Ja d . . d . y . . Capt cob Swigert , ; James R Tate , ; a a n a Ta Col . L . P . Tarlton , R ilro d Commissio er ; C pt . Robert v 32n d I n f a 1 5 lor , Ky . . ; Lieut . L . Fr nklin Todd , Co . C , th Ky . I n f . , he lost his right arm at Chaplin Hill and was killed at 2n d 1 863 3rd Murfreesboro , January , ; Lieut . John H . Todd , I ' Cav . d . . . ;Capt . Harry . Tod ;Capt J R Todd ; Robert Trumbo ; A 22m . d John Veach ; D . C . Venable ; William T Walls , Co . , I f a s 1 868 n . a Co Ky . , died near Bl ck River , Mis , ; John W ller, . 9th v CO 9th . Ca . . . E , Ky ; J Wallace ; Joshua Warren , E , Ky . I V st . A . e W e Cav ; Jerome Weitzel ; Marine D . ; E delbert y a 9th Cav mouth , M ss . Vol . ; Jessie Whitehouse , Ky . . ; John S . 9th Williams , Co . E , Ky . Cav . ; Kit Willis ;James Willis . United States Navy : i a I Capt . T . Fred Carter ; W lli m S . Harris ; Calender . HI S TORY OF T HE FRA NKFO RT CEMETERY 3

M E w n s Lewis ; Alexander c a ; John M . Sharp ; Che ter Brooks , 1 921 marine corps , died February , . Soldiers of the Spanish -A meric an War :

Lieut . William N . Bridgeford ; Hord Brown , William Cul K i n kade a . a . ter, Cad D vis , J D . D vis , John B g , Clarence Mc A A S l en d r a C. . . . a e D niel ; M Netherton , D " uire , ndrew , Buell

Taylor . Soldiers Of the I Vorl d I Var : 1 49 a a . Frank Bus m , H rry T Conroy , William Chism , th

I n ft 48th 1 1 th 1 9 1 9 , Division , died at Brest , France , March , ; Charles Dickey ; Orvi d Herrick ; James Harris ; Thomas Miles ;

Oth o B . Marlow ; Newland Moffett Shryock ; Walter White ; an d S can l an d i Samuel E . Williams , Maj or Frank M . ; L eut . M E w n M E w n D D M s c a . . c a William , son of Rev W . L , . . ; ile a Ragland , Stewart Hosler ; Eugene Mitchell , N vy . I n addition to the above lists , which includes some of the names given below , the follow i ng are given to make more cer tain th e character of service rendered : Sylvester I Vel ch was chief engineer of Kentucky from 1 837 1 842 a M to ; Marine D . West, " uarter Master Gener l arine a of the United States ; C lender J . Lewis , Paymaster in the a United States Navy ; C ptain Breckenridge F . Blackburn died

1 867 - five A , aged thirty years ; Gen . mbrose W . Dudley , " uar G n e . t ter Master of the United Sta es for fifteen years ; Col . E . A . A H Taylor , U . S . . ;Col . John Rodman , U . S . . ;General Wil 1 840 . liam , Hardin , , United States ; Lieut Presley Nevil ’ O B n i A a o n . . f , lgerian War ; Lieut John J Crittenden , on Staf

. C I 25th 1 876 of Gen uster and was killed by the ndians June , , at the Little Big Horn when Gen . Custer with Sixteen officers e I and three hundred enlist d men were massacred by the ndians . 74 H I STORY OE T H F FRA NKFORT CEMETERY

A PRESENT BO RD OF TRUSTEES .

W John W . Milam , President . . F . Dandridge , T A a . hom s P . verill , Secretary W . Pruett Graham , I I . William Pruett , Treasurer . Swigert Taylor ,

George L . Payne Henry Craik , Superintendent .

N D I I N 1 890 TRUSTEES A OFF CERS .

A D U B O R OF TR STEES .

E I . . L . Samuel, . M Todd , W S . C . Bull , . H . Waggoner, W W . T . Reading , . J . Chinn ,

D W . Lindsey .

I S OFF CER .

E . L . Samuels , President . S . C . Bull , Secretary . ri n n den t I Vi lli am rai k S u e te . W . C . T . Reading , Treasurer , p

X I E EC U T I V E COMM TTEE .

E . L . Samuel W . J . Chinn , D . L . Lindsey .

I A I F N NCE COMM TTEE .

M . W H . Waggoner, J . . Todd , S . C . Bull

All of these officers are now buried in these grounds : 1 9 8 1 9 1 7 0 . . E . L . Samuel , ; D . W . Lindsey , W J Chinn , 1 892 1 04 1 9 1 2 9 . . ; Ben C . Milam , ; William T . Reading , ; J M

a . Todd , S . C . Bull , W . H . Waggener, Willi m Craik