The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1916-08-03
NOTABLES
Rest In Capital Cemeterv--Twelve Gov.
errors, Ten Senators, Seven Am
bassadors And Six Generals
Buried Al Frankfort.
frankfort State Journal,

ching in columns of tours. has seen
thirty seven different governors seated
the executive chair of the Common
wealth of Kentucky in the last l2I
years; and of these, who came and
went during their earthly careers,
twelve have returned to rest in the Gem
etry overlooking the capitol in which for
brief tenure they enjoyed that soothing
flattery that honor's voice invokes.
Forty-four distinguished citizens have
been sent by the Commonwealth to rep
resent it in the United States Senate,
and of these. ten. obeying a command
more imperative even than that of the
people, have joined the ranks of their
own generation, sleeping upon the hill.
top above Kentucky's capital
Within this noted burymg ground
repose the bones Of soldiers who fought
for liberty of conscience and the free
ON Of the sea; for the State sovereignty
and to preserve the Union; to protect
their wilderness home from the sullen
savage; to liberate Texas firm the ty-
rany of Mexico; to extend the bless
ings of self government to the strug-
Cling Cubans.
The glory Of self-sacrifice is enshrin-
ed upon the tombstones of scores of
men who wore the shoulder straps of
authority upon the bloody fields of
half dozen wars.
This is not all. Judges, State officers
famuos lawyers. noted doctors. artists.
scientists, poets and philosophers min
gle their dust upon the hilltop with
that Of those. who
Along the cool, sequestered vale of
life
Have kept the noiseless tenor of their
way"
Buried in the cemetry are:
Governors Christopher Greenup.
Charles Scott. George Madison. John
Adair. James I. Morehead. John J.
Critterden, Robert P. Letcher. Chas. 5.
Morehead. Luke p. Blackburn, Will
liam o. Bradley. Simon Bolivar Buck
ner, William Goebel.
United States Senators 80 John
Brown. John Adair. W. T. Barry.
Isham Talbot, Martin d. Hardin, Jas.
7. Morehead. Richard NJ. johnson,
John ]. Crttenden, William Lindsay.
WO. Bradley.
Chief Justices Harry lnnis. Thorn
as Todd. Alvin Duvall. Caswell Ben
net. William Lindsay.
Ministers and Ambassadors - Mar
tin ID. Hardin, Alexander Robinson
Mckee, Beverly l.. Clark, W. 7. Bar
ry. TIC. Jones. William Taylor. Robt
p. Letcher.
Among the distinguished names
carried upon tombs in the cemetry
are Colonel Thomas Dollarhide "lsl2,"
Judge John Milton Elliott, assassiuated
in office in 1873; Beverly Leonidas
Clark. who died in Guatemala, while
minister there: John c. Mason, honored
for distinguished valor at Monterey.
and member of Congress: General Hum
phrey Marshall,C. 5. A.; Captain I'd
Porter Thompson. c. S. A.. historian;
Major Martin 5. Harmon: General Ma
rine ID. West, u. 5, A.; Captain b. c.
MILAN. Mexican War; Colonel J. w.
Craddock. NC. s.; Major A. H. Rem
nick, 1872; Major j. A. Grant, c. S. A.
General Thomas A. Taylor, c. $. A.
General Thomas l.. Crittenden. c. S. A.
There are six general officers ard
nearly hundred commissioned officers
of various wars buried in the cemetry
and are monuments to the memory of
soldiers and sailors whose bodies never
were recovered from the deep or the
field of battle.
OF course, there is a tomb of Daniel
the cemetry the graves Of men and
women who were the contemporaries
and friends of Daniel Boone. Robert
Burns Wilson and Henry I. Stanton,
known as Kentucky poet laureate,
author of The Moneyless Man. and
Theodore O. Hara, author of tho Div
ouac of the Dead, sleep there.
The Daughters of the American Rev
olution, and former Representative l..
F. johnson have done much of late to
increase local and general interest in
this burying ground of the State. and
one notable project already well under
way is bringing to the cemetery from
neglected or unmarked graves the bod
les of heroes of the Revolution. which
are being placed in the d. A. X lot,
where the government will erect mark
ers at their graves.