Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-11-17
Will be the Name of the
Old Cemetery on Sixth
Avenue.
AUXILIARY COMMITTEE
x4Aspppooiinnttsd TO Assist in the
Work of Reclaiming the
Abandoned Spot.

The council committee for the i'm
provement and preservation OF the
old,Igraveyard at the foot of Sixth
avenue, west, held its first formal
meeting day or two ago.
The committee consists of Council
men.John B. Galbreath and Geo. E.
Randle and Mayor Meacham.
Recently five ladies were appointed
as an auxiliary committee and at
athe meeting held for organization
i've other ladies were added to this
committee:
Mrs. Alex 6. Warfeld,
Mrs. Henry D. Wallace,
a Mrs. Green Henry Russell,
Miss Julia Arnold,
Miss Ellen Young,
iss Katie Mcdaniel.
Miss Lucy Whitlock,
Mrs. S. A. Edmunds,
Mrs. Hampton Fox,
Mrs. Mary B. Campbell.
Most of the members of the aux
iliary committee have accepted and
all are enthusiastic in the work to
which they will give their attention.
About four years ago the Ken.
tuckian complied list of 1877 names
of persons buried in the old ceme-
terry from 1872 to 1852. Only one
body was buried there later than
S1852, that of DR.. A. Weber. who
was buried Dec. %, 1873 In adj
dition to the published list probably
20 others who were buried in the
graveyard are known, their head
,stones having been entirely de-
@stroyed. All told about 200 names
can be compiled and there are prob
ably so more unmarked graves OF
unknown persons.
Very few of the headstones re-
main as they were originally. Many
of them were native limestone slabs.
Some have crumbled away, some
have been broken, some have fallen
= flat and some that remain standing
have had all lettering obliterated by
the action of the elements. One
headstone is almost surrounded by
the trunk of great elm tree three
feet in diameter, that has grown up
in the grave.
/, The committee has agreed that
the name Pioneer Graveyard"
will be an appropriate one and it
will probably be so named.
The committees will hold another
meeting in the near future and per-
feet the plans for the contemplated
improvements. 1t is expected that
Ithe central feature will be the erec-
lion of suitable monument to the
pioneers upon as large scale as the
money to be raised will justify.
Walks will be laid out and graveled
or concreted, trees will he set out
and some kind of an enclosing wall
or fence put around the lot, which
contains about two acres. All OF
cSthis work is to be taken up in detail
and the preparation of the plans will
be Turned over largely to the ladies'
aud larry committee. This commit
tee Is expected to perfect its own
organization shortly, elect chair
man and appoint subcommittee to
devise ways and means for securing
the funds needed.
The ground should be cleared Of
broken stones and the walks laid out
this winter and the trees to be plant
ed set out by spring and the erection
of the monument should be begun
early in the spring and its unwilling
next summer should be made the
occasion of Hopkinsville Home
Coming Defendants % cs the pio-
Xeers whose graves are to be cared
for should be invited to deliver .ad-
dresses and the exercises to be held
on the grounds made memorable in
every way.
1t is expected that the business