Mr. Lindsay, a state representative, rode his horse from Frankfort in a cold rain and caught pneumonia and died. His distraught wife went to bed, turned her face to the wall, and ten days later joined him in death, leaving behind seven children. John Allen, a major in the Revolutionary forces and judge in the First District Court of Bourbon, lies in Section I, near the Massie mausoleum. His grave is marked by a statue of an angel. Section H, one of the oldest sections of the cemetery, holds some of the more interesting monuments.
None is more indicative of life than that of the lady with the dust cloth.
Legend has it that her husband wanted to remember her as he always found her when he returned from work - leaning against the pilaster of the stairway and holding a dust cloth. Fanniebelle Hutchcraft Sutherland taught in Paris City schools prior to opening her own private school on Main Street. An active involvement in Federation of Women's Clubs led her into political office. She was the first female police judge in Paris and was the first woman to become a municipal judge south of the Mason-Dixon line. The grave is marked by a tall pink granite stone which adjoins the Croxton lot.