CEMETERY: Gearhart-Carpenter Cemetery, Carter County, KY Copyright (c) 1998 by Chris Mowery. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. cmowery@comsource.net ************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legalrepresentative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ********************************************************************* To reach the Carpenter-Gearhart Cemetery of Tar Kiln (Often called, incorrectly, Tark Hill) go west past the Red Light at the Olive Hill Pharmacy to the next block. The road that dead ends there into U. S. 60 is numbered 986. This is the Ben's Run Road (Oldtimers call it that) or Airport Road. The next block is a fourway stop. Continue straight ahead across what was a railroad crossing and then the bridge Over Tygart and keep to your left. You will travel 3.1 miles up this road before you turn onto a gravel road. Just after you pass Easterling's Furniture on your right there is a small, one-lane gravel road leading up the hill. Turn up this road. At the top of this hill .3 of a mile later you will come to the Ross Cemetery with a chain link fence around it. There is no more gravel on the road from this point on. One half mile (.5) later, following this country dirt road of one lane you will arrive in a pasture field where two large twin oaks mark the southern point of the Carpenter-Gearhart Cemetery. When you enter the cemetery you will discover it to be 25 paces wide. The first 30 paces are clear and there are no graves. The next 35 paces have been cleared and there are graves that are in the following plot of the cemetery. The last 50 paces are covered with trees and is in great need of clearing. Beginning at the far or east end of the grave yard under the trees and underbrush the following graves can be found. Reading from right to left, or North to South, these are the graves. Row One Grave #1 - D. V. Carpenter, Apr 6, 1858-May 25, 1918 ´"Farewell Dear Wife, Children and All, A Father From You Christ Doth Call" Grave #2 - Susie, wife of D. V. Carpenter, Oct 31, 1863-Aug 6, l903 "Gone but not forgotten" Grave #3 - Retta M., daughter of D. V. & Susan Carpenter, Aug 14, 1886-Oct 22, 1902 Grave #4 - Elizabeth, daughter of D. V. & Susan Carpenter, Dec 8, l888?-July 21, 1890 Grave #5 - William L., son of D. V. & Susan Carpenter, Apr 7, 1891-Oct 19, 1892. Grave #6 - Susie, daughter of Marion & Lillie Gearhart, Aug 8, 1896-May 2, 1897. Grave #7 - Ralph Gearhart, Mar 17, 1909-July 5,1934 (Susie's Stone stands erect, but Ralph's Stone lies flat: Both were moved to Pleasant Valley Cemetery). Row 2 There are at least 7 unmarked graves: most don't even have a sandrock marker. Row 3 Grave #15 - Sherman Gayheart - son of W M & M J Gayheart, Mar 15, 1889-July 9, 1889: More sunken graves in this row without any markers. Exact number impossible to tell. Therefore no more graves are numbered because it is impossible to do so correctly. Row 4 Adam Carpenter, Aug 8, 1869-Mar 11, 1920 (May have been Hulda Carpenter's Husband) Beside him is at least two unmarked, sunken graves. Row 5 Has at least two, perhaps more, unmarked, sunken graves. Row 6 At least two, probably more, unmarked, sunken graves. Row 7 On the south side are these two monuments: not known if other graves are in this row. Melvina, wife of George Greenhill, April 15, 1878-November 3, l902 (Her monument has been broken) George Greenhill, 1872-1921. Row 8 Pearlee, daughter of Elmer & Zella Carpenter, Born Sept 6, BLANK-died June 30, BLANK Row 9 3 graves are marked by rocks; the fourth grave is: Lottie Greenhill, 1870-1928. Row 10 No discernible graves in this row. Row 11 One discernible grave marked by a sandstone. Row 12 No discernible graves in this row: it brings you out of the woods into the cleared section of the cemetery. Row 13 Ralph, son of Mr. & Mrs. J. P. (James Perry) Carpenter, May 12, 1923-Sept 18, 1923. Talmage E., son of Mr. & Mrs. J. P. Carpenter, Mar 17, 1921-Mar 18, 1921. Between Row 13 and 14 on South Side One Grave: Edward Branham Mar 28, 1916-June 24, 1943 Row 14 Retta, daughter of B. F. Gearhart, Feb 10, 1915-Jan 21, 1936 LAFE, son of B. F. Gearhart, Aug 15, 1912-June 3, 1921. DOUBLE MONUMENT: Benjamin F. Gearhart - Rosa Gearhart July 1, 1882-Nov 7, 1955 May 31, 1881-Dec 26, 1966 Row 15 2 Sandstone Markers (Probably D. K.'s Children) DOUBLE MONUMENT: David Kelso Carpenter and Nancy J. Jan 3, 1869-Jan 3, 1922 May 29, 1869-Apr 29, 1953 Row 16 One grave only: Luther Lee Carpenter, Jan 21, 1899-May 21, 1935. Row 17 Carl Stanley Gearhart, October 8, 1923-Aug 11, 1931. Edwin Gearhart, Mar 2, 1937-Mar 2, 1937 Blank space of 16 paces. Row 18 William L. (Lincoln) McDowell, Sept 23, 1885-Oct 5, 1940 (Only grave in this row). Row 19 R. A. (Richard Anderson) Carpenter, No 5, 1909-Dec 6, 1928 SLENDER DOUBLE MONUMENT ON ONE GRAVE AND IT HAS FALLEN; Martha M. Carpenter, Feb 9, 1906-Aug 29, 1925--Aggie Carpenter, Mar 9, 1871-Feb 24, 1925) (Her grave, beside Martha's, is marked by a sandrock: She was killed by the kick of a cow that no one but Martha could milk.) The next grave on the south side of Aggie is marked by a sandrock. It is Harrison Carpenter's grave but there are no dates nor name given. Now you are 30 paces from the fence: there is no gate anywhere.