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 (69 ha)
Built:	1849
Architect:	Adams, Julius W.; et al.
Architectural style:	Gothic, Romanesque
Governing body:	Local
NRHP Reference#:	76000873
Added to NRHP:	July 12, 1976

Lexington Cemetery is a private, non-profit 170-acre (69 ha) 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, in part to deal with burials from the cholera epidemic in the area. It now contains 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.

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

Some notable people

The Lexington Cemetery maintains a list of notable interments [1], others are listed here:

A

• George Madison Adams (1837–1920) - Civil War veteran, U.S. Congressman
• James Lane Allen (1849–1925) - author

B

• Milton K. Barlow (1818–1891) - planetarium inventor
• 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
• 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
• 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

• 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

• Herman Lee Donovan, (1887–1964), fourth president of the University of Kentucky
• Benjamin Winslow Dudley (1785–1870), surgeon
• Ethelbert Ludlow Dudley, Medical doctor and Civil War Colonel
• Basil Wilson Duke (1838–1916) - Civil War General [2]
• 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

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

F

• Joseph S. Fowler (1820–1902) - Senator

G

• John R. Gaines (1928–2005) - thoroughbred pioneer, philanthropist
• John M. Gaver, Sr. (1900–1982) - U.S. Hall of Fame racehorse trainer
• Randall L. Gibson (1832–1892) - Senator, Civil War Confederate Army brevet brigadier general
• Gordon Granger (1822–1876) - Civil War Union Major general

H

• Henry Hampton Halley (1874–1965) - author of the Halley's Bible Handbook
• Roger Hanson (1827–1863) - Civil War Confederate brevet brigadier general
• Hal Price Headley (1888–1962) - American racehorse owner/breeder
• Thomas H. Hunt (1815–1884) - Civil War Confederate Army officer

J

• John Telemachus Johnson (1788–1856) - U.S. Congressman

K

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

L

• Thomas Lewinski, architect

M

• 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 - 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

R

• James Reilly (1811–1863) - politician
• George Robertson - U.S. Congressman
• Arthur B. Rouse (1874–1956) - U.S. Congressman
• Adolph Rupp (1901–1977) - Hall of Fame basketball coach

S

• George S. Shanklin (1807–1883) - U.S. Congressman
• Jouett Shouse (1879–1968)- U.S. Congressman
• Cincinnatus Shryock, 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. [3]
• King Swope (1893–1961) - U.S. Congressman

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
• 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. Owner of Shenandoah Hall [4]
• Solomon Lee Van Meter, Jr. (1888–1937) inventor of the Ripcord Backpack Parachute
• 2Lt 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

• Elisha Warfield (1781–1859), physician, academic, Thoroughbred racehorse breeder
• Ethelbert Dudley Warfield, college president
• Daniel Carmichal "DC" Wickcliffe (1810–1870) [5] 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

See also

• List of botanical gardens in the United States

External links

• Lexington Cemetery