Fleming County Farm Cemetery

Known as Poor Farm or Infirmary

File 20,  Fleming Co. Cem. #67

No known records

Compiled and submitted by Daniel Wyatt and Mary Bishop

Formally managed by Thomas Wilson Harris, John Albert, & Minnie Jones.

Location:  About 13 miles from Flemingsburg on Ky. 32 (Morehead Road) about 1 mile before the Rowan County line.  The cemetery is on the left in the woods near the green house on the Weaver farm.

The cemetery may contain as many as 100 graves.  All but two are unmarked rock stones which were lined up in rolls.  The cemetery is now all grown up into woods and honeysuckle.

  1. Crume, Bryant - Military Marker Kentucky Pvt Co C 801 Pioneer Inf. World War I, March 4 1895 - Dec 3 1961.

  2. T  RA 1898 only marking on rock stone.

  3. Dotson, Elijah (in unmarked grave per Ersil Ward).

  4. Simmons, Joe (unmarked grave).

  5. Lewman, James Frederick 10 Jun 1858 -23 Dec 1940 in unmarked grave per Brenda Lewman.  “When James got mad at the family, he would go and stay at the farm.  He had a friend (Wilson Harris) who lived there.  The County Farm burned down and all the records were probably destroyed."

  6. Hunt, Eulah Marie  Still Born 1954 Unmarked Grave per Teresa Hunt Brooks.

  7. Andrew McKee, b. 20 April 1840, d. 20 January 1913, father James McKee, mother Lula Plummer.

  8. Mrs. Ucartha Ukhee, d. February 3, 1913. Parents not given.  Info. from Death Certificate.

  9. Betsy “Betty” Harmon age 86, born 1823, d. October 15, 1914, D/o Daniel Harmon & Mary Polly Grose.  She was Gr. Gr. Aunt of Mary Bishop.  Mary Bishop’s Great Uncle John Albert Jones & his wife Minnie ran the poor farm for a while.  Information provided by Mary Bishop.

  10. Jane Groves, b. 1831, d. March 26, 1911 Parents not given.  Information from death certificate.

  11. Manerva Watson d. December 22, 1911 Parents not given.  Information from death certificate.

  12. James Freeman, age 45, d. March 3, 1912 Parents not given.  Information from death certificate.

  13. Olive Humphries, b. 26 August 1912 , d. 15 November 1912 (syphilis) Father William Humphries, mother Ethel Mullian.  Information from death certificate.

  14. John Crawford, b. 1 September 1915, d. 1 August 1916, father William Crawford, mother unknown.  Information from death certificate.

  15. Laura Humphries, (Colored)  d. 17 March 1916. Parents not given.  Information from death certificate.

  16. Froad, George Jr. (Unmarked Grave) b. 21 March 1917 d. 24 March 1917, father George Froad, Mother Bettie Prichard.  Information from death certificate.

  17. Froad, Harry (Unmarked Grave) b. 21 March 1917 d. 30 March 1917, father George Froad, Mother Bettie Prichard.  Information from death certificate.

 

Death Certificate Info. Provided by Mary Bishop.
Visited by Daniel Wyatt May 2009