Lexington_Cemetery Knowpia

	Lexington Cemetery and Henry Clay Monument
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	One of the ponds at Lexington Cemetery
Location	Lexington, Kentucky
Area	170 acres (69 ha)
Built	1849
Architect	Adams, Julius W.; et al.
Architectural style	Gothic, Romanesque
NRHP reference No.	76000873
Added to NRHP	July 12, 1976

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

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 edit

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 edit

The 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) – author

B 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
Henry M. Bosworth (1860–1942) – Kentucky auditor of public accounts from 1912 to 1916, Kentucky state treasurer from 1904 to 1908
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, turfman

C 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

Hoover Dawahare, (1928–2004), businessman and politician
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 general

E edit

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

F 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 general

H 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, suffragist

J edit

John Telemachus Johnson (1788–1856) – U.S. Congressman
William Augustus Jones, Jr. (1934–2006) – minister and civil rights leader
Jim Varney (1949–2000) - American actor and comedian

K edit

William P. Kimball (1857–1926) – U.S. Congressman

L edit

Thomas Lewinski, architect

M 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 general

O edit

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

P 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 Bible

R 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 coach

S 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. Congressman

T 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 author

U–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 mother

W 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 & 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.

References 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 & 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 & Cremation | Notable People". Lexcem.org. Archived from the original on September 29, 2011. Retrieved October 18, 2012.
^ "Lexington Cemetery & 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.