Shelby Travellers Rest Burying Ground Cemetery Lincoln Co, Ky

Shelby "Travellers Rest" Burying Ground Cemetery
Located off Hwy 300 about one mile from Junction City

Photos and cemetery submitted by Yvonne Lay Logue unless otherwise stated
All photos have to be taken over the fence as the gate is locked

Stone flat on ground 3' x 6' says: In Memory of five of the nine children of Susanna Preston Shelby and John Warren Grigsby All were born at Travelers Rest exceptAlfred Shelby who was born in Florence Italy All five died and are buried here. There names below Lillie Shelby 12-02-1860 / 12-27-1860 Alfred Shelby 10-12-1851 10-1862 Susah Shelby 12-01-1852 / 10-1862 ( this is how you spell her first name) Mary Ashley Shelby 2-28-1855 / 10-1862 Letitia Wallace 11-25-1861 / 10-1862 The parents and their children who lived to maturity are buried in the Lexington Cemetery (Lex. Ky.) Virginia Shelby - Hart Preston - Louisiana Grigsby Arkell Erected by the surviving child Susanna Preston Shelby Grigsby in 1953	Lois Carson Nicholasville, Ky
McDowell, Alfred died 8/10/1827 age 2	Lois Carson Nicholasville, Ky
McDowell, Margaret 6/27/1820 - 4/3/1821	Lois Carson Nicholasville, Ky
McDowell, Sally Ann no date
McDowell, Sarah L. died May 5, 1827 age 8	Lois Carson Nicholasville, Ky
Nelson, Mrs. Nancy died 8/27/1815 - age 25	Lois Carson Nicholasville, Ky
Shelby, Alfred Nov. 12, 1831 - Feb. 24, 1848 The only sons of Alfred & Virginia Hart Shelby	Lois Carson Nicholasville, Ky
Shelby, Catherine (Infant) b: April 19, 1801 aged 1 mo 15 days Footstone C.S. there is nothing on this stone that can be seen but is on the roster outside the fence which was put up by the state in 1939	Yvonne Lay Logue
Shelby, Issac 9/1750 - 6/1821	Lois Carson Nicholasville, Ky
Shelby, Isaac died June 15, 1827 age 17 (Son of Evan Shelby)	Lois Carson Nicholasville, Ky
Shelby, Isaac Dec. 11, 1750 - July 18, 1826 (Expired without a pang Full in Hope of Immortality)	Lois Carson Nicholasville, Ky
Shelby, Isaac April 25, 1828 - Dec. 2, 1848	Lois Carson Nicholasville, Ky
Shelby, John 3/5/1807 - 10/11/1825	Lois Carson Nicholasville, Ky
Shelby, John Mark no date	Lois Carson Nicholasville, Ky
Shelby, Joseph Weisiger died April 23-1852 son of Evan & Nancy	Lois Carson Nicholasville, Ky
Shelby, Letitia 2/12/1827 - 2/20/????	Lois Carson Nicholasville, Ky
Shelby, Mrs. Susan March 18, 1761 - June 19, 1833	Lois Carson Nicholasville, Ky
	Lois Carson Nicholasville, Ky

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