Breckinridge County KyArchives Photo Tombstone.....Tar Fork, Campbellite Church 
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Cemetery:           Tar Fork #2/Tar Fork Campbellite Church Cemetery
Name:               Campbellite Church Tar Fork
Photo can be seen at:
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Tar Fork – Breckinridge County, Kentucky
Submitted by ATHS Admin on July 4, 2013 - 7:13pm

by Francis W. Keenan – Brockport, New York

The Campbellite Christian Church between Mattingly and Tar Fork on County Route
692 has a number of graves of Civil War soldiers in the cemetery aside the old
church. They were: B. H. Bates, Pvt., Co. A Infantry, Green River Battalion,
USA; Thomas H. Bates, Co. K, 3rd Kentucky Cavalry, USA; Hiram Blair, Co. L, 3rd
Kentucky Cavalry, USA; Charles L. Goff, Cpl., Co. D, 12th Kentucky Cavalry, USA,
and a messenger boy at age 15; James Monroe Marlow, Sr., Pvt., Co. F, 16th
Kentucky Infantry, USA; Samuel Muffett, Sgt., Co. K, 3rd Kentucky Cavalry, USA.
The land for this church and cemetery was donated by John and Susan Hinton and
E. B. and Bettie Barber.31


Additional Comments:
The description of the church and prior land owners is an excerpt from an
article in an Ancestral Trails Historical Society quarterly.  It was graciously
submitted by Jan Pate, through Linda Sandidge.



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