1775 was among the circle at McConnell’s Spring who named the town of
Lexington, gave a large parcel, situated near his old steam mill, between
Broadway and Upper, and bordering Bolivar on the North, for a city cemetery.
Under a large marble slab incised with his name and years, Maxwell himself was
buried here in 1819 beside his mother and wife. The cemetery nevertheless
passed afterwards through various hands; a workhouse was built and a factory
for spokes and wheels. Later a tobacco redryer was erected on the site, and, with
entrepreneurial expedience, the ground—up tombstones of Lexington’s pioneers
were placed in its foundations.28 (Similar ingenuity was shown in making rubble
from the W. T. Barry monument from the old courthouse lawn, and placing it in
the foundations of the Harrison city school/’29) Fragmentary remains from the
”Roman burying ground” on Third Street have been sunk in concrete at the rear
of the lot, where they may still be Viewed.30 The Presbyterian burying ground,
once called Waverly Square, between Fifth and Sixth Streets and South Upper

‘ and Limestone, was dismantled after the Lexington Cemetery was established,
and many of the graves once there were relocated to West Main Street}1

There are a number of references to family burying grounds on nearby

farms. The Allen farm, near the intersection of Georgetown and N andino Roads,
is an example. Mrs. Jane Wilkins (sister of William Short, Thomas Jefferson’s
secretary in France) was buried on the farm of Dr. Frederick Ridgley, in a
cemetery later lost to the signal yard of the Southern Railway near South
Broadway and Angliana Avenue.32 One of the most—often mentioned burial sites
is the family vault of Gen. George Trotter. The Trotters occupied ”Woodlands,”

, a country house of unique architectural features situated where the Woodland
Park pool is presently sited (at the end of Park Avenue).33 The family burial
vault was located to the rear of the pleasure grounds, at the present 327 Lafayette
Avenue. Covered with earth, it resembled an Indian mound. It was vandalized
by youths in 1898, who removed the skull of General Trotter and the name—plate
from his coffin. In the mid—twentieth century the Trotter family remains were
reinterred in the Millersburg Cemetery, the family vault was leveled, and a

, house was built on the city lot.34

The most frequently mentioned cemetery in this group of invitations is the
Episcopal Cemetery founded by Christ Church on Third Street in 1833.
Established during the period of the Gothic Revival, it is graced with a handsome

. sexton’s cottage of cruciform plan, adorned with bargeboards and pinnacles.
Although burials ceased in the cemetery in the mid-nineteenth century, and
some of its graves were moved to the new Lexington Cemetery, the Episcopal
Burying Ground and its cottage remained in place, though they fell gradually
into decay.35 In the early years of the twentieth century Judge James Hilary
Mulligan of Maxwell Place went there seeking the monument of the artist John
Grimes, and he responded in elegiac tones to the obvious neglect of the disused
site:

The tottering headstones, the broken urns, the effaced inscriptions, tell the

story, as does the riot of brambles and weeds that met over the hundreds

of forgotten graves. The hum of the busy heedless city drifts over its

desolation, and the chill autumn air, the sere brown leaves and bared trees
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