Fayette County KyArchives Cemeteries.....Brown-Harrison Family Cemetery - Complete Survey ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Margaret H. Kannensohn En4cer48@aol.com January 25, 2005, 8:14 pm Abstracted By: Margaret H. Kannensohn 1020 Russell Cave Rd. "Old Richardson Place" Lexington KY Private property Last Name First Name Middle Name Birth Death Comment --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brown Joshua 3/25/1838 8/29/1838 Brown Latetia Porter 12/6/1820 9/5/1825 Brown R. C. Harrison 7/21/1822 9/8/1828 Brown Samuel M. 12/9/1790 10/22/1844 Brown Theodore Carter 5/25/1836 7/4/1836 Brown Virginia H. 3/11/1819 9/17/1823 Buckley Edwin P. 6/23/1840 12/13/1840 Harrison Ann Cabell 3/9/1771 7/27/1840 w/o Robert C. Harrison Sr. Harrison Ann C. P. 12/19/1822 1/28/1824 Harrison II Carter Henry 9/30/1796 10/9/1825 h/o Caroline Russell Harrison Harrison Mary H. 4/9/1791 6/10/1834 Harrison, Sr. Robert C. 6/14/1765 9/9/1840 h/o Ann Cabell Harrison Lausdale Sarah Isaac 1/17/1834 7/14/1836 Richardson Susan R. 11/19/1821 2/11/1824 Additional Comments: Robert C. Harrison, Sr. moved to KY around 1805. He was b. in Cumberland Co. VA, the son of Carter Henry Harrison I and Susannah Randolph. He married Ann Cabell 14 February 1788. Harrison's family was and continued to be distinguished, including two U.S. Presidents as well as members of Congress, military leaders, and other prominent government & business leaders. Harrison's grandson, Carter H. Harrison II, became a five-term mayor of Chicago who was assassinated in November 1893. In 1838, Caroline Russell Harrison, widow of Carter Henry Harrison II, was listed in the City Directory as owning 90 acres of land on "Russel" Rd. eight and one half mis. from the Courthouse. Robert C. Harrison owned 800 acres on the same road one and a half mis. closer to the Courthouse. In a 1930 survey, Miss Mary Potts Hagyard reqported the existence of 14 headstones at this site. She reported the death year for Samuel M. Brown as 1841, but "The Observer Record" for 26 October 1844 reported that he was one of five men killed by an explosion on the steamer "Lucy Walker" in that year. Susan Richardson was the young daughter of Samuel A/Q. and Mary Harrison Richardson. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/fayette/cemeteries/ncm26brownhar.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/kyfiles/