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Lexington Cemetery

April 23, 2023

Lexington Cemetery is a private, non-profit 170-acre (69 ha) rural cemetery and arboretum located at 833 W. Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky.

Lexington Cemetery and Henry Clay Monument
One of the ponds at Lexington Cemetery
LocationLexington, Kentucky
Area170 acres (69 ha)
Built1849
ArchitectAdams, Julius W.; et al.
Architectural styleGothic, Romanesque
NRHP reference No.76000873 [1]
Added to NRHPJuly 12, 1976

The Lexington Cemetery was established in 1848 as a place of beauty and a public cemetery, in part to deal with burials from the cholera epidemic in the area. What became Lexington National Cemetery was established in 1861 to inter American Civil War casualties. It was designed by Charles S. Bell and John Lutz. It was originally 40 acres but has expanded to 170 acres[2] with more than 64,000 interments.

Its plantings include boxwood, cherries, crabapples, dogwoods, magnolias, taxus, as well as flowers such as begonias, chrysanthemums, irises, jonquils, lantanas, lilies, and tulips. Also on the grounds is an American basswood (Tilia Americana), which the cemetery claims to be the largest in the world. However, this claim is not supported by the National Register of Big Trees, which claims that the largest American Basswood is located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

Monuments

Two Confederate monuments were originally built in the cemetery, Confederate Soldier Monument in Lexington Ladies' Confederate Memorial (1874) and Confederate Soldier Monument in Lexington (1893). In 2018, two additional Confederate monuments were relocated here from downtown Lexington: John C. Breckinridge Memorial and John Hunt Morgan Memorial. All four monuments are individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Some notable people

The Lexington Cemetery maintains a list of notable interments,[3] others are listed here:

A

B

C

  • Henry Clay (1777–1852) – antebellum Speaker of the House, three-time U.S. Presidential candidate, architect of the Missouri Compromise
  • James Brown Clay (1817–1864) – U.S. Congressman
  • Laura Clay (1849–1941) – Suffragist
  • Mary Barr Clay (1839–1924) – Women's Suffrage movement leader
  • John Winston Coleman Jr. (1898–1983) – historian, author
  • Leslie Combs (1793–1881) – War of 1812 veteran, general
  • Robert Wickliffe Cooper (1831–1867) – Union Army officer – Civil War. Post-war service as 2nd Major of the 7th Cavalry (Gen. Geo. A. Custer). Died ignominiously before Little Big Horn.
  • Jesse Orin Creech (1895–1948) – World War I Fighter Ace
  • Rev Spencer Cooper, Trustee of Translyvania University 1829. Tended the sick in the cholera epidemic of 1833, became ill and never fully recovered. Minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Lexington. Owner of a Powder House (made gunpowder).

D

E

  • Andrew Eugene Erwin (1830–1863) – Civil War Confederate Army officer

F

G

H

  • Henry Hampton Halley (1874–1965) – author of the Halley's Bible
  • Roger Hanson (1827–1863) – Civil War Confederate brevet brigadier general
  • Hal Price Headley (1888–1962) – racehorse owner/breeder. A founder of Keeneland Racecourse. National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
  • Thomas H. Hunt (1815–1884) – Civil War Confederate Army officer
  • Thomas Hughes (1789–1862) Owned the farm later called Elmendorf Farm from 1855 to 1862. When he bought it from Carter Harrison, Sr it was called Clifton.
  • William Thomas Hughes (1832–1874) WT, son of Thomas, inherited the farm later called Elmendorf Farm in 1862. He began to buy land at high interest rates, and to build up the cattle herd. He was murdered by his uncle for defaulting on a loan.
  • Sarah Gibson Humphreys (1830–1907), author, suffragist

J

K

L

M

O

  • Howard W. Oots (1876–1955), Thoroughbred racehorse trainer, owner, breeder

P

R

S

  • George S. Shanklin (1807–1883) – U.S. Congressman
  • Jouett Shouse (1879–1968) – U.S. Congressman
  • Cincinnatus Shryock (1816–1888) – architect
  • William "King" Solomon, (1775–1854) – Town Drunk, Town hero – The Cholera Epidemic of 1833 killed 500 townspeople in 2 months ... King Solomon stayed in Lexington to dig graves, earning the lasting respect of the town.[7]
  • May Stone (1867–1946) – Cofounder of Hindman Settlement School with Katherine Pettit
  • King Swope (1893–1961) – U.S. Congressman

T

  • Barak G. Thomas (1826–1906), Thoroughbred racehorse breeder
  • Eliza Parker Todd – Wife of Robert Smith Todd and Mother of Mary Todd Lincoln
  • Levi Todd (1756–1807), One of Lexington's founders and grandfather of Mary Todd Lincoln
  • Lyman Beecher Todd, MD (18? – 1901) First cousin of Mary Todd Lincoln. Close friend of Lincoln. One of the doctors who helped treat the President the night of the assassination.
  • Robert Smith Todd (1791–1849) Father of Mary Todd Lincoln, Son of Levi Todd
  • William Henry Townsend (1890–1964) – historian and author

U–V

  • Thomas R. Underwood (1898–1956) – U.S. Congressman, Senator
  • Solomon Van Meter, Sr. (1818–1859) Farmer and importer of shorthorn cattle, Duncastle Farm
  • Solomon Lee Van Meter (1859–1928) Member of Kentucky State Legislature elected 1899, Farmer. Son of Solomon Van Meter. Owner of Shenandoah Hall on the Bryan Station Pike.[8]
  • Solomon Lee Van Meter, Jr. (1888–1937) inventor of the Ripcord Backpack Parachute son of Solomon Lee Van Meter.
  • 2nd Lt Solomon Lee Van Meter, III (1925–1953) Pilot died in Korean War, son of S.L. Van Meter, Jr.
  • James Albert Varney, Sr. (1910–1985) – Jim Varney's father
  • Jim Varney (1949–2000) – actor who was best known as Ernest P. Worrell
  • Louise H. Varney (1913–1994) – Jim Varney's mother

W

See also

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. ^ Linden, Blanche M.G. (2007). Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery. Cambridge, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press. p. 294. ISBN 978-1-55849-571-5. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
  3. ^ . Lexcem.org. Archived from the original on April 22, 2012. Retrieved October 18, 2012.
  4. ^ Pendleton, Phil; Aaron, Cameron (November 30, 2022). "Memorial service held for former Ky. Gov. John Y. Brown Jr". WYMT. Retrieved December 1, 2022.
  5. ^ Quinn, Justin (November 22, 2022). "Former Boston Celtics owner John Y. Brown passes at age 88". celticwire.usatoday.com. Retrieved December 1, 2022.
  6. ^ . Lexcem.org. Archived from the original on September 29, 2011. Retrieved October 18, 2012.
  7. ^ . Lexcem.org. Archived from the original on September 29, 2011. Retrieved October 18, 2012.
  8. ^ Meter, Benjamin Franklin Van (1901). Genealogies and Sketches of Some Old Families who Have Taken Prominent Part ... – Benjamin Franklin Van Meter – Google Books. Retrieved October 18, 2012.
  9. ^ "Secretaries of State". Apps.sos.ky.gov. Retrieved October 18, 2012.

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Coordinates: 38°03′40″N 84°30′32″W / 38.061°N 84.509°W / 38.061; -84.509

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Lexington Cemetery is a private non profit 170 acre 69 ha rural cemetery and arboretum located at 833 W Main Street Lexington Kentucky Lexington Cemetery and Henry Clay MonumentU S National Register of Historic PlacesOne of the ponds at Lexington CemeteryShow map of KentuckyShow map of the United StatesLocationLexington KentuckyArea170 acres 69 ha Built1849ArchitectAdams Julius W et al Architectural styleGothic RomanesqueNRHP reference No 76000873 1 Added to NRHPJuly 12 1976The Lexington Cemetery was established in 1848 as a place of beauty and a public cemetery in part to deal with burials from the cholera epidemic in the area What became Lexington National Cemetery was established in 1861 to inter American Civil War casualties It was designed by Charles S Bell and John Lutz It was originally 40 acres but has expanded to 170 acres 2 with more than 64 000 interments Its plantings include boxwood cherries crabapples dogwoods magnolias taxus as well as flowers such as begonias chrysanthemums irises jonquils lantanas lilies and tulips Also on the grounds is an American basswood Tilia Americana which the cemetery claims to be the largest in the world However this claim is not supported by the National Register of Big Trees which claims that the largest American Basswood is located in Montgomery County Pennsylvania Contents 1 Monuments 2 Some notable people 2 1 A 2 2 B 2 3 C 2 4 D 2 5 E 2 6 F 2 7 G 2 8 H 2 9 J 2 10 K 2 11 L 2 12 M 2 13 O 2 14 P 2 15 R 2 16 S 2 17 T 2 18 U V 2 19 W 3 See also 4 References 5 External linksMonuments EditTwo Confederate monuments were originally built in the cemetery Confederate Soldier Monument in Lexington Ladies Confederate Memorial 1874 and Confederate Soldier Monument in Lexington 1893 In 2018 two additional Confederate monuments were relocated here from downtown Lexington John C Breckinridge Memorial and John Hunt Morgan Memorial All four monuments are individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places Some notable people EditThe Lexington Cemetery maintains a list of notable interments 3 others are listed here A Edit George Madison Adams 1837 1920 Civil War veteran U S Congressman James Lane Allen 1849 1925 authorB Edit Milton K Barlow 1818 1891 planetarium inventor Frances Estill Beauchamp 1860 1923 temperance activist social reformer lecturer James Burnie Beck 1822 1890 Senator Charles Henry Berryman 1867 1946 Gen Mgr for James Ben Ali Haggin s Elmendorf Farm 1904 1914 Lexington Postmaster 1915 1917 President part owner of the Phoenix Hotel Lexington Kentucky 1920 Clifton R Breckinridge 1846 1932 John Cabell Breckinridge s son John Cabell Breckinridge 1821 1875 U S Vice President Civil War Confederate Major General Gay Brewer 1932 2007 golfer Charles Jacob Bronston 1848 1909 Commonwealth s Atty 10th Jud l Dist 1879 1895 Senator Kentucky Senate 1896 1900 respected local attorney Charles Jacob Bronston Jr 1882 1961 Democrat Kentucky House of Representatives 76th District 1940 1941 and 49th District 1948 1951 John Y Brown Jr 4 1933 2022 Governor of Kentucky 1979 1983 one time owner of Kentucky Fried Chicken KFC Boston Celtics 5 and other business ventures Sanders Dewees Bruce 1825 1902 Civil War Union Army general Aylette Buckner 1806 1869 U S Congressman Joseph Henry Bush 1794 1865 portraitist Abraham Buford 1820 1884 Civil War Confederate Army officer turfmanC Edit Henry Clay 1777 1852 antebellum Speaker of the House three time U S Presidential candidate architect of the Missouri Compromise James Brown Clay 1817 1864 U S Congressman Laura Clay 1849 1941 Suffragist Mary Barr Clay 1839 1924 Women s Suffrage movement leader John Winston Coleman Jr 1898 1983 historian author Leslie Combs 1793 1881 War of 1812 veteran general Robert Wickliffe Cooper 1831 1867 Union Army officer Civil War Post war service as 2nd Major of the 7th Cavalry Gen Geo A Custer Died ignominiously before Little Big Horn Jesse Orin Creech 1895 1948 World War I Fighter Ace Rev Spencer Cooper Trustee of Translyvania University 1829 Tended the sick in the cholera epidemic of 1833 became ill and never fully recovered Minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Lexington Owner of a Powder House made gunpowder D Edit Mary Desha 1850 1911 one of the four founders of Daughters of the American Revolution Herman Lee Donovan 1887 1964 fourth president of the University of Kentucky Benjamin Winslow Dudley 1785 1870 Gifted surgeon Appointed chair of surgery and anatomy at Transylvania University 1809 and again in 1818 Pioneered surgical procedures including removal of stones lithotomy and cranial surgery for epilepsy Ethelbert Ludlow Dudley Medical doctor and Civil War Colonel Basil Wilson Duke 1838 1916 Civil War General 6 George B Duncan 1861 1950 United States Army general in World War I Henry Clay Dunlap 1828 1872 Civil War Union brevet brigadier generalE Edit Andrew Eugene Erwin 1830 1863 Civil War Confederate Army officerF Edit Joseph S Fowler 1820 1902 Senator Ralph Wesley Foody 1928 1999 character actor G Edit John R Gaines 1928 2005 thoroughbred pioneer philanthropist John M Gaver Sr 1900 1982 U S Hall of Fame racehorse trainer Phyllis George 1949 2020 Miss America 1971 sportscaster First Lady of Kentucky 1979 1983 Randall L Gibson 1832 1892 Senator Civil War Confederate Army brevet brigadier general Thomas Boston Gordon 1816 1891 a founder of Beta Theta Pi fraternity Gordon Granger 1822 1876 Civil War Union Major generalH Edit Henry Hampton Halley 1874 1965 author of the Halley s Bible Roger Hanson 1827 1863 Civil War Confederate brevet brigadier general Hal Price Headley 1888 1962 racehorse owner breeder A founder of Keeneland Racecourse National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame Thomas H Hunt 1815 1884 Civil War Confederate Army officer Thomas Hughes 1789 1862 Owned the farm later called Elmendorf Farm from 1855 to 1862 When he bought it from Carter Harrison Sr it was called Clifton William Thomas Hughes 1832 1874 WT son of Thomas inherited the farm later called Elmendorf Farm in 1862 He began to buy land at high interest rates and to build up the cattle herd He was murdered by his uncle for defaulting on a loan Sarah Gibson Humphreys 1830 1907 author suffragistJ Edit John Telemachus Johnson 1788 1856 U S Congressman William Augustus Jones Jr 1934 2006 minister and civil rights leaderK Edit William P Kimball 1857 1926 U S CongressmanL Edit Thomas Lewinski architectM Edit Gene Markey 1895 1980 Hollywood screenwriter and producer and highly decorated U S Naval officer veteran of World War I and World War II Lucille P Markey 1896 1982 owner Calumet Farm wife of Gene Markey Alexander Marshall 1808 1884 U S Congressman Thomas Alexander Marshall 1794 1871 U S Congressman Henry Brainerd McClellan 1840 1904 Civil War Confederate Army officer author educator Byron McClelland 1855 1897 renowned Thoroughbred racehorse owner breeder Hugh McKee 1844 1871 Naval officer John McMurtry 1812 1890 builder and architect John Hunt Morgan 1825 1864 Civil War Confederate generalO Edit Howard W Oots 1876 1955 Thoroughbred racehorse trainer owner breederP Edit Katherine Pettit 1868 1936 Cofounder of Hindman Settlement School with May Stone and the Pine Mountain Settlement School with Ethel de Long Zande Rev Dr Charles Lynn Pyatt Dean of the College of the BibleR Edit James Reilly 1811 1863 politician George Robertson 1790 1874 U S Congressman Arthur B Rouse 1874 1956 U S Congressman Adolph Rupp 1901 1977 Hall of Fame basketball coachS Edit George S Shanklin 1807 1883 U S Congressman Jouett Shouse 1879 1968 U S Congressman Cincinnatus Shryock 1816 1888 architect William King Solomon 1775 1854 Town Drunk Town hero The Cholera Epidemic of 1833 killed 500 townspeople in 2 months King Solomon stayed in Lexington to dig graves earning the lasting respect of the town 7 May Stone 1867 1946 Cofounder of Hindman Settlement School with Katherine Pettit King Swope 1893 1961 U S CongressmanT Edit Barak G Thomas 1826 1906 Thoroughbred racehorse breeder Eliza Parker Todd Wife of Robert Smith Todd and Mother of Mary Todd Lincoln Levi Todd 1756 1807 One of Lexington s founders and grandfather of Mary Todd Lincoln Lyman Beecher Todd MD 18 1901 First cousin of Mary Todd Lincoln Close friend of Lincoln One of the doctors who helped treat the President the night of the assassination Robert Smith Todd 1791 1849 Father of Mary Todd Lincoln Son of Levi Todd William Henry Townsend 1890 1964 historian and authorU V Edit Thomas R Underwood 1898 1956 U S Congressman Senator Solomon Van Meter Sr 1818 1859 Farmer and importer of shorthorn cattle Duncastle Farm Solomon Lee Van Meter 1859 1928 Member of Kentucky State Legislature elected 1899 Farmer Son of Solomon Van Meter Owner of Shenandoah Hall on the Bryan Station Pike 8 Solomon Lee Van Meter Jr 1888 1937 inventor of the Ripcord Backpack Parachute son of Solomon Lee Van Meter 2nd Lt Solomon Lee Van Meter III 1925 1953 Pilot died in Korean War son of S L Van Meter Jr James Albert Varney Sr 1910 1985 Jim Varney s father Jim Varney 1949 2000 actor who was best known as Ernest P Worrell Louise H Varney 1913 1994 Jim Varney s motherW Edit Elisha Warfield 1781 1859 physician academic Thoroughbred racehorse breeder Ethelbert Dudley Warfield 1861 1936 college president Howard J Wells 1903 1955 Thoroughbred racehorse trainer owner breeder Daniel Carmichal DC Wickcliffe 1810 1870 9 Whig Democrat Secretary of State of Kentucky 1862 63 Newspaper owner and editor Lexington Observer amp Reporter 1838 1865 Katharine E Wilkie 1904 1980 author Elisha I Winter 1781 1849 U S Congressman Rev Louisa Mariah Layman Woosley 1862 1952 first woman ordained in the Presbyterian and Reformed tradition in 1889 by the Cumberland Presbyterian Church See also EditList of botanical gardens in the United StatesReferences Edit National Register Information System National Register of Historic Places National Park Service January 23 2007 Linden Blanche M G 2007 Silent City on a Hill Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston s Mount Auburn Cemetery Cambridge Massachusetts University of Massachusetts Press p 294 ISBN 978 1 55849 571 5 Retrieved 4 August 2019 Lexington Cemetery amp Cremation Notable People Lexcem org Archived from the original on April 22 2012 Retrieved October 18 2012 Pendleton Phil Aaron Cameron November 30 2022 Memorial service held for former Ky Gov John Y Brown Jr WYMT Retrieved December 1 2022 Quinn Justin November 22 2022 Former Boston Celtics owner John Y Brown passes at age 88 celticwire usatoday com Retrieved December 1 2022 Lexington Cemetery amp Cremation Notable People Lexcem org Archived from the original on September 29 2011 Retrieved October 18 2012 Lexington Cemetery amp Cremation Notable People Lexcem org Archived from the original on September 29 2011 Retrieved October 18 2012 Meter Benjamin Franklin Van 1901 Genealogies and Sketches of Some Old Families who Have Taken Prominent Part Benjamin Franklin Van Meter Google Books Retrieved October 18 2012 Secretaries of State Apps sos ky gov Retrieved October 18 2012 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lexington Cemetery Lexington Cemetery Lexington Cemetery at Find a Grave Coordinates 38 03 40 N 84 30 32 W 38 061 N 84 509 W 38 061 84 509 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Lexington Cemetery amp oldid 1140936407, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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