Riley Wells Cemetery
This Cemetery is listed as Wells Cemetery # 3 page 425 of the new Christian County Cemetery Book February 2004.
From Hopkinsville at intersection of East 7th Street and Highway 107 N, take Highway 107 N for 14.5 miles.
Turn left at Red Bridge and go about 4.6 miles. Turn left on a dirt road and go about 1 mile. This cemetery is near
Bull Creek. You cannot get to the cemetery in a car.
Photos, inscriptions and annotations are from Wanda Nell Wells Barnes. Wanda last visited this cemetery
in 2001 with her husband Sherrill Barnes and her brother Kenneth Wells. Wanda and Kenneth
are the great great grandchildren of Riley and Mary Ann (Polly) Grace Wells.
December 14, 1850
Daughter of John and Grizzy Jordan
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1824-1869 Edmund Riley Wells was born June 4, 1824 the son of
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Inf. Of N. D & Dora
Daughter of Novie D. Wells and Dora Alice Lamb |
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September 21, 1887
Daughter of Finis Wells and Margaret C. (Tiny) Wells |
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February 4, 1851
William Henry Wells was the son of
He married 4 February 1875 to Octavia L. Jordan |
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Mary Ann Wells
Mary Ann was the daughter of William Grace
August 31, 1826 and Nancy McLean. March 27, 1908 Wife of Edmund Riley Wells She was known as Polly |
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There are several sandstone or fieldstone markers. Hubert and Hershel Wells are listed in this cemetery,
but they are buried at Johnsons Chapel Cemetery with their parents and other family members.
Kenneth O. Wells and Sherrill Barnes, the old gate to the cemetery.
Photo 2001
©Wanda Nell Wells Barnes
©Western KY History & Genealogy