Lexington Cemetery Company records, 1849-1985, 1860-1930 (bulk dates)
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Lexington Cemetery Company records, 1849-1985, 1860-1930 (bulk dates)
- Creator
- Lexington Cemetery Company.
- Extent
- 3.2 cubic ft, 9 oversized volumes.
- Subjects
- Clay, Henry, 1777-1852.
- Breckinridge family.
- Hunt family.
- Morgan family.
- Lexington Cemetery Company.
- Cemeteries--Kentucky--Lexington.
- Business records--Kentucky--Lexington.
- Lexington (Ky.)--History.
- Payrolls
- Arrangement
- Organization and arrangement.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- The Lexington Cemetery was established in Lexington, Ky. in 1849 on West Main Street. It underwent extensive construction and expansion in 1890-1891 when the chapel was built. One of the cemetery's most impressive monuments was erected in 1857 at Henry Clay's grave site. Among other notable families with members buried there are the Hunt-Morgans and the Breckinridges.
- Scope and Content
- Records from the Lexington Cemetery Company of Lexington, Ky. comprise this accession. They are most complete from the 1860s to the 1930s. Among the holdings are nine volumes of time books (1866-1902), financial records, including payrolls, bills, receipts and invoices. Section books contain lot diagrams. There are five index volumes of lot ownership from 1849 to ca. 1945.
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