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Bracken County Cemeteries

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  • Bracken County Cemeteries
    Tombstone Transcriptions and Photographs Contributed by Suzan Taylor

  • Demoss-Fisher Cemetery

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All transcriptions and photographs were taken by Suzan Taylor and contributed for use by the KYGenWeb. Suzan has undertaken a project to record several Bracken County cemeteries and add them to this site as time permits. We all owe a big "thank you" to Suzan for sharing this important resource with family historians.

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Items in [brackets] are transcriber notes.
Entries are displayed in alphabetical order by surname.



Demoss-Fisher Cemetery, Bracken County, Kentucky

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Cemetery Overview

This cemetery is on private property located on 1019/Lenoxburg-Foster Road about a quarter mile from KY Route 9. It is in very bad shape and I could only locate a small number of stones that are said to be there.

img [Same stone]
Maria E. Anderson
1831-1872
Eliza E.
1865-1871
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Caleb Biddle
Sept. 1861
Aged 77 years


img John Clark
Born 1820
Died Mar. 24, 1881
Aged 61 Yrs.
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Valentine Metzger
Died Aug. 13, 1881
In the 66 years of his age



img Gone Home
[Name couldn't be read only letters
of it. From the BCHS it is:]
Harvey Riadon
Born Dec. 7, 1830
Died May 10, 1877
Happy soul thy days are ended
All thy mourning days below
Go by angel guards attended
To the sight of Jesus go.
[At the bottom of the stone it says:] Silcott & Hyette
Felicity, O.
img Elmer
Son of
T. B. & A. B. Taylor
Died Apr. 4, 1872
Aged 7 Mo. & 19 Da.





These two stones are inside an iron fence. There is no gate to the fence.

img James Thomas Taylor
Born Aug. 10, 1832
Died April 18, 1860
img Mary Louisa Taylor
Died Aug. 30, 1859
Aged 21 yrs. 5 mos. 11 ds.

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J. H.
Son of T. B. & S. E. Taylor
Born Nov. 11, 1873
Died Oct. 19, 1875


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[Toppled stone]
Sarah Armenia
Wife of H. C. Taylor
Born Sept. 27, 1840
Died March 3, 1872



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Anna Schoolfield
born Oct. 10, 1862
died Sept. 26, 1881


img Benjamin F. Schoolfield
Feb. 20, 1835
Oct. 23, 1862





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Daniel Biddle
1864-1891


img Frank Mc. Hannah
Died July 31, 1865
10 months 15 days





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J. H. W. Demoss
Died March 13, 1868


img Susan M. Fisher
Died Aug. 19, 1871





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W. Flietz[?]
[no dates]


img Infant Hannah
Son of W. & V.J. Hannah
Died Oct. 16, 1857
10 days





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William M. Math
Died Aug. 23, 1867
Aged 77 years 10 months 22 days


img Kittie B. Mullen
1839-1880





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Lorenzo D. Spees
Died May 21, 1849
27 years

img Lorenzo P. Spees
Born Oct. 8, 1849
Died Oct. 11, 1877
Aged 28 years 3 days






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Mary E. Schoolfield
Born June 7, 1883
Died Apr. 3, 1884


img Josie R. Taylor
Born Apr. 10, 1874
Died Sept. 18, 1874
Son of A.D. & A.L. Taylor





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Joseph C. Young
Born April 27, 1826
Died Feb. 3, 1864


img Morgan Young
Died July 23, 1852
28 years





img Broken Stone #1 img
Broken Stone #2



img No Visible Writing #1 img

No Visible Writing #2



img Toppled Stone img

Base #1



img Base #2 img

Base #3



img Field Rock #1 img

Field Rock #2



img Field Rock #3


Contact the Bracken County Historical Society about inventories contained in their copyrighted books, Bracken County Cemeteries & Burial Sites 1796-1999 and Bracken Co. Cemetery Location Map.

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