Kentucky Cemeteries

Friday was a 'down day' for the GeoWoodstock events. There was an early morning gathering and an evening gathering and we did not attend either, mostly because of driving distance and rush hour traffic in the city. Instead, we decided to drive to Lexington KY by way of state highways and back roads going to and Interstate coming back.

some of our back roads

paved but narrow

We stopped at several cemeteries which I am going to highlight on this Memorial Day. I am going to post 3 of them.

The Graveyard

The cemetery was along the highway. Most of the headstones were neat. The disturbing part, to me, was the tire tracks that were visible in and around the old headstones. Lots of trees within the block-sized cemetery. It is said to be very haunted by a ghost Civil War soldier riding horseback in the cemetery. Maybe the vehicles were chasing the ghost?

Cedar Heights Cemetery 

aka Fisher Cemetery 

aka Colored Cemetery in Paris KY

greeted by several ladies hoping we were there to volunteer

help was needed to get the grounds in shape for Memorial Day

people were placing flags at the headstones of black soldiers

guys with weed whackers had a good start

but there was much to do

(we struck out on the geocache at this cemetery)

We just found it interesting the cemetery was first known as the Colored Cemetery. It was founded in the mid 1800s and does not have a lot of known history. When the geocache was placed earlier in May, the owner stated the cemetery was in need of some TLC. The group we saw was doing just that.

Paris Cemetery

We should know better than to try to find cemetery geocaches around Memorial Day weekend. People are out and about putting flowers and wreaths or flags on the grave sites. When we got to where we needed to be at this cemetery, the caretakers were fixing the weed whacker and had no intention of moving. I grabbed my camera (would have anyway) and got some personal attention and information from the caretakers. 

This cemetery had more tall, spired grave markers than in any cemetery I have ever seen, so I asked him if there was a reason. A family trying to show their wealth? His thought was they were closer to heaven. Hmmmm.

cemetery was founded in 1847

known for the Confederate Monument

list of 150 Confederate soldiers

I will post the historical stops in Lexington in another post. We went there because it was within 100 miles and had geocaches along the way and in the city. It also had traffic issues. More on that later.

Happy Memorial Day