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Lexington Cemetery

 
Wikipedia: Lexington Cemetery
Lexington Cemetery and Henry Clay Monument
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
One of the lakes at Lexington Cemetery
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Area: 170 acres (0.69 km2)
Built/Founded: 1849
Architect: Adams, Julius W.; et al.
Architectural style(s): Gothic, Romanesque
Governing body: Local
Added to NRHP: July 12, 1976
NRHP Reference#: 76000873 [1]

Lexington Cemetery 170 acres (0.7 km²) is a private, non-profit cemetery and arboretum located at 833 W. Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky. It is open to the public from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Lexington Cemetery was established in 1849 as a place of beauty and a public cemetery now containing over 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.

Within the cemetery are three places which are on the National Register of Historic Places separately from the main cemetery: Confederate Soldier Monument in Lexington, the Ladies' Confederate Memorial, and Lexington National Cemetery.

Contents

List of notable people buried or entombed here

The cemetery also contains the graves of:

A

B

C

  • Henry Clay (1777-1852) - (antebellum Speaker of the House)
  • 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
  • Wickliffe Cooper (1831-1867) - Civil War Union Army officer
  • Jesse Orin Creech (1895-1948) - World War I Fighter Ace

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 Handbook
  • Roger Hanson (1827-1863) - Civil War Confederate brevet brigadier general
  • Thomas H. Hunt (1815-1884) - Civil War Confederate Army officer

J

K

M

R

S

T

  • Barak G. Thomas (1826-1906), Thoroughbred racehorse breeder
  • William Henry Townsend (1890-1964) - historian and author

U-V

  • Thomas R. Underwood (1898-1956) - U.S. Congressman, Senator
  • 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

  • Elisha Warfield (1781-1859), physician, academic, Thoroughbred racehorse breeder
  • Katharine E. Wilkie (1904-1980) - author
  • Elisha I. Winter (1781-1849) - U.S. Congressman

See also

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23. http://www.nr.nps.gov/. 

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