CEMETERY: CLEVER-CLEAVER CEMETERY, LARUE COUNTY KY
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Transcribed by: Gaye Hill rjhistory@yahoo.com
Date: Sept 2004
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To find this cemetery, take US31W between Glendale and Sonora, KY and go 
east on Siberia Road-Highway #1517 about 2.2miles and you will came to a 
gravel road to the right(south) marked Clever (yes the sign is mispelled)  
Cemetery road.  Take this road back about .3 and follow it to the left-west.  
You have come to the CLEAVER Cemetery - Larue County, KY.  It is a well 
kept area and fenced on the east, south and west sides.
 
Herman L. STEWART
Sept 19, 1927
May 13, 1994
"In Loving Memory"
 
metal marker
Henry Lee ROWE
1912-1997
Manakee Funeral Home
 
"In Loving Memory of Our Sister"
Clara Della BAILEY
July 30, 1918
July 25, 1992
 
doublestone
FREEMAN
Earnest Sr.                          Geneva S.
Sept 19, 1919                       Dec 16, 1920
Dec 5, 1979                          Jan 11, 1989
Married July 27, 1944
 
James Franklin STEWART
Sept 30, 1887
Apr 3, 1974
"Gone But Not Forgotten"
 
James Albert STEWART
Kentucky
S1
US Navy
World War II
June 25, 1924
Nov 8, 1970
 
Sarah Mattie May STEWART
Dec 1, 1892
Jan 15, 1962
"Gone But Not Forgotten"
 
"At Rest"
Jessie W. STEWART
1913-1971
 
"Father"
J. Virgil STEWART
1881-1961
"In Memory of Julia STEWART"
 
Chester STEWART
May 1, 1892
Mar 23, 1954
 
doublestone
STEWART
Arthur B.                          Ora
Sept 1, 1893                     Jan 15, 1898
Sept 3, 1953                     Mar 10, 1976
 
doublestone
CLEAVER
Clarence L.                       Georgia J.
1893-1961                         1897-19__(no further date given)
"Father"                             "Mother"
 
"Mother"
L. Della LEWIS
Apr 25, 1881
Mar 28, 1968
 
Geraldine SWEENEY
Jan 4, 1940
May 5, 1940
 
Cassie STEWART
1888-1935
 
doublestone
CLEAVER
Smith                        Betty Ann
Born 1883                  Born 1880
Nov 28, 1944              Apr 30, 1964
 
doublestone
CLEAVER
Otis S.                      E. Belle
Dec 25, 1884             Apr 23, 1895
Mar 5, 1965               May 3, 1986
 
photo plaque
"Bill"
Herbert Haskell BRASHEAR
Dec 12, 1919
July 22, 2003
Husband of Mary
"Hello World"
back of stone 
"We Love You"
Children
Yolanda Curtis
Dolvina Tim Farley
Ron and Sonya
 
McDonald BRASHEAR
1898 "Father" 1974
"Thy Will Be Done"
 
Gonzella BRASHEAR
1903 "Mother" 1996
"Thy Will Be Done"
 
doublestone
DUVALL
Merritt                     Martha Geneva
Sept 22, 1902          Aug 16, 1900
-------------------           Sept 22, 1990
 
This stone was embedded into a large area of shrubbery
Annie GOOCH
Mar 10, 1883
Mar 1, 1927
 
doublestone
"I grow young as I grow old"
BRASHEAR
Earnest Raymond Sr.         Sallie Mae
Dec 18, 1912                     Jan 30, 1913
May 5, 1975                      Apr 28, 1998
 
doublestone
COFER
Jessie B                           Gabriella
1872-1941                         1877-1957
 
"Erected by the M. & D."
Rev. J. W. BRASHEAR
Mar 1, 1875
Jan 8, 1959
"I have fought the good fight.
I have finished my course."
 
Rachel Dorothy BRASHEAR WOOD
1912-1988
"Gone From Sight But Not From Our Hearts"
 
metal marker
Jeanelle M. FAULKNER
1956-2004
Manakee Funeral Home
 
Teri Elizabeth FAULKNER
Aug 16, 1982
Nov 13, 1982
"Infant Daug of 
Terry and Jeanette"
 
doublestone
COFER
Wed Jan 5, 1943
"Father"                         "Mother"
Charlie L.                       Sarah E. CLEAVER
Feb 21, 1916                  Sept 1, 1921
Sept 19, 1977                 -----------------
 
Jesse COMBS
of color
Born Jan 11, 1825
Died Jan 21, 1887
stone "Brown - N. Albany, Ind"
 
This stone is embedded into a large growth of shrubs
and is broken
Henry L
Son of D & A 
COFFER
Born Apr 16, 1872
Died Sept 15, 1876
"Suffer little children to come unto me
and forbid them not for of such is the
kingdom of Heaven"
 
This stone is more visible, but is embedded into 
a small clump of oak trees
"Gone Home"
Rachel J.
Wife of
W. D. HILL
Born Feb 11, 1870
Died Sept 6, 1887
"She was but words are wanting to
say what Think what a wife
should be she was that"
 
Vuluis D. NEVITT
Kentucky
PFC 1908 Engr. AVN,. BN.
World War II
 
doublestone
This stone is under a small tree and easy to miss
NEVITT
James                            Minnie
Feb 12, 1870                   Sept 10, 1880
May 25, 1958                  --------------------
 
Gillie
Wife of 
Ben STILES
Aug 18, 1827
May 24, 1903
 
Susan Frances
Dau of George & Martha
STUART
Born Mar 24, 1886
Died Aug 5, 1886
"Sleep on sweet babe
And take thy rest
God called thee home
When he thought best"
 
There are indentions and fieldstones that indicate 
other graves and clumps of vegetation that obscure
other stones, mostly in the southeast corner.