Fayette County KyArchives Cemeteries.....Foley 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 31, 2005, 4:56 pm Abstracted By: Margaret H. Kannensohn Trinity Pentecostal Church "Old Republican Church" Higbee Mill Road Lexington KY Last Name First Name Middle Name Birth Death Comment -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Foley Gabriel 5/11/1816 9/5/1838 s/o John & Jane Roberts Foley Turpin Unnamed Son age one Additional Comments: This cemetery is located on private property owned in 1989 by one John A. Neal. The family is that of Richard Foley, one of the first makers of gunpowder in the county. [See KY Gazette, 4 May 1793, p. 3, col. 4: "Richard Foley advises he has for sale a quantity of gun powder made by him at his powder mill on South Elkhorn five mis. from Lexington." See also 11 May 1793, p. 3, col. 4. Nancy Foley Johnson reported this cemetery in the Winter 1989 issue of the Fayette County Genealogical Quarterly (p. 102). It was her belief that it originally had been a family site which expanded to include neighbors. Gabriel Foley's grandparents were Richard & Margaret Wilson Foley who settled here around 1789. John Foley's will was admitted to probate in Bk D-337 in April 1818. It had been executed three mos. earlier. He named his wife, "Jenny," sons Thomas, Lorenzo Dow, and Gabriel, as well as his daughters: Polly, Sarah, Letitia, Margaret, Jane and Julianne. Among his executors were his brother, William, and James Mars. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/fayette/cemeteries/ncm36foleyfam.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/kyfiles/