CEMETERY: Parker 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. ********************************************************************* The Parker Cemetery is located on Square Lick on a point over-looking the Square Lick Road. To get there from Olive Hill, Kentucky you will travel up Road #896 commonly called Airport Road or Ben's Run Road by the Oldsters. You proceed two miles up #896 from the four-way stop in Olive Hill. There is a narrow, black-topped road to your left across a low-water bridge that goes over Ben's Run Branch. Turn left up this road keeping to the black-top for a distance of 1.4 miles. You have come a total distance of 3.4 miles from Olive Hill. There is a large iron gate to your left that is locked and a no trepassing is tacked high on the gatepost. It is best to go on up the road a short distance to a nice brick house where Johnnie Jordan, the owner of the property, resides and get permission to go to the cemetery. After getting permission to enter go through this gate and down a "cow-path road" to the highest point in front of you. This is the Parker Cemetery that contains the following graves. After you open the gate, or draw-gap (The Cemetery has a good fence around it.), the first grave in Row One has a nice marble monument. It reads: Joseph Parker, Pvt. 159 Def Brigade, W. W. I. Born March 10, 1897 - Died August 23, 1945. Grave Two: Marked by wooden crosses. Grave Three: Unmarked Grave Grave Four: (Home-carved Stone) B. T. Law: 4-1926 - D. Jul 1946. Grave Five: Unknown infant marked by firebrick. Grave Six: Unknown - Wooden Cross Marker Grave Seven: Unknown - Wooden Cross Marker Grave Eight: Unknown - Wooden Cross Marker ROW NUMBER TWO Begins nine paces from the fence: Grave # 1 (9) - Firebrick markers - Unknown Grave # 2 (10) - Firebrick markers - Unknown Grave # 3 (11) - Firebrick markers - Unknown ROW NUMBER THREE The footstones of graves two and three have the same marking: that is, HIACK DE 1 - SP 18. Could not determine if this was a company mark on the firebrick but thought to be just that. These were the only discernible graves in row three. ROW NUMBER FOUR Row four begins seven paces from the fence. ALLIAN, daughter of Pete and Maud Greenhill. Dec 27, 1924 - April 18, 1924. THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE OF THIS CHILD READS: GLADYS ALIENE, BORN DECEMBER 27, 1924 - DIED APRIL 18, 1925. Only grave in Row four. Grave # 12 from beginning. ROW NUMBER FIVE GRAVE # 1 (13) - JOE GREENHILL; November 19, 1861 - October 27, 1935. Six paces from the fence: Tombstone has fallen backwards into grave: Grave needs filling. GRAVE # 2 (14) - J. D. Greenhill - 1943 - 1943. GRAVE # 3 (15) - Infant marked by plain stones. ROW NUMBER SIX GRAVE # 1 (16) - Six paces from the fence - Fire-brick markers - Unknown Only discernible grave in this row. ROW NUMBER SEVEN There is a blank space of about two rows where there are no discernible graves. Then there is a large double monument with two graves that needs filling. The names on the momument are Ed and Bo Layne but no dates are given. There is one more sunken grave beyoun the maker toward the corner in what would be another row. These are graves # 17, 18, and 19.