COKE CEMETERY
The Coke Family Cemetery is in the woods off Bonds Mill Road near the ruins of the old Thomas & Elizabeth Coke house,
which is described in The McKee and Bond ‘History of Anderson County 1780-1936’.
It began as a 2-room cabin finished in 1799 on Thomas Coke’s land grant near McBrayer. It remained in the Coke family for four generations;
and has belonged to the Sims family for many years. Though the house is now in ruins,
the chinked logs can be seen where the weatherboards have fallen. A large fireplace is in the center of the house.
The cemetery is surrounded by a rock wall and overgrown. There are graves in four rows.
All but three are fieldstones with head and footstones discernable. We could see evidence of 13 graves.
|
Name |
Birth Date |
Death Date |
Inscriptions |
| Susan Ann Coke1 | 25 Jun 1827 | 8 Jan 1865 | Wife of Nathan H. Coke |
| Elizabeth R. Coke | 18 Feb 1809 | 16 Dec 1889 | Wife of Robert K. Coke |
| Virginia J. Harrison2 | 29 Nov 1807 | 28 Dec 1852 | Wife of Rev. J.C. Harrison |
| Thomas Coke3 | No inscribed marker | ||
| Esther Wright Coke3 | No inscribed marker |
1 Nathan H. Coke, 24, m. Susan A. Towson, 34, 31 Oct 1861; Married by J.H. Walker
2 John C. Harrison m. Virginia Cocke, 19 Sep 1839; Consent: father Thomas Cocke; Surety: Robert Coke; Mar. by W. Holeman.
1,2 Anderson County, Kentucky Marriages 1831-1875, Compiled by RP Moore. Nelson Co. Genealogical Society, Bardstown, KY
3 Assumed to be buried here
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