Roberts - Slavans Cemetery, McCreary County, KY

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McCreary County Kentucky Cemeteries Vol. I
published 1990
Author, Robert Ernest Stephens
Copied as written with permission/Kenna Austin

Robert/Slavans Cemetery
Nearby Town: Hilltop/Yamacraw
Date(s) copied: 23Feb1986

Number of Graves identifiable by inscription: 33
Number of Graves Unidentifiable: 14

Location: From Yamacraw Highway Bridge across Big South Fork travel toward
Monticello on KY 92.  Go 8.8 miles to the J. Morrow Rd., which goes NE
(right) just beyond the Skullbones Knob.  Travel this road .4 mile to find
the cemetery, just beyond a power line and East of the road.

BURKE, Kathleen				15July1925		1Sep1983

BURKE, Lanny Bruce			9Aug1950		8Mar1969
	Photograph on stone.

BURKE, Wayne Hensley			14Sep1952		7Mar1969
	Photograph on stone.

CLARK, Hulen E.				5Feb1903		14May1985	OSSW
	Loving memory.								Ida Mae

CLARK, Elisha Wayne			29Sep1955		29Sep1955
	Asleep with Jesus.

CLARK, Ida Mae				9Mar1905		8Oct1978	OSSW
	Epitaph same.									Hulen E.

CLARK, Preston				5July1965		6July1965

CLARK, Randell				8May1945		5Feb1949

CLARK, Raymond				30July1928		18Aug1930

COFFEY, Carol Lisa				28Mar1962		28Mar1962	Baby

JONES, Batie					1907			1982
	Hickman Funeral Home marker, only.

JONES, D.		(No dates)
	Field stone for foot marker.


JONES, Jessica Nicole			1978			1978
	Also, McCreary County Funeral Home marker.

JONES, John		(No dates)
	Home made concrete marker.

JONES, Luther R				1900			1976		OSSW
	Epitaph same.									Myrtle K.

JONES, Myrtle K.				1908			(One date)	OSSW
	Mother married July 16, 1928.   				Father.	Luther R.
	Also, McCreary County Funeral Home marker.

JONES, Rosie		(No dates)
	Home made concrete marker.

JONES, Stella			(No dates)
	Gone but not forgotten.  A field stone for foot marker.

LEWIS, Druse				11May1890		17Nov1975
	Gone but not forgotten.

LEWIS, Glinna				14Aug1928		(One date)	OSSW
											Rosten

LEWIS, Johnie				1889			1956		Father
	Gone to a better home.

LEWIS, Wendell Kenneth			23Feb1946		20Jan1981

LEWIS, Rosten				25Nov1925		9Dec1982	OSSW
											Glinna

ROBERTS, Barrie W.			28Nov1981		30Nov1981	OSSW
	Infant Dau. And son of Mary & Kenny Roberts				Sherri Renee
	Son.										& Carrie M.

ROBERTS, Carrie M.			28Nov1981		3Dec1981	Barrie W.
	Infant daughters & son of Mary & Kenny Roberts.				Sherri Renee.
	(Daughter)

ROBERTS, Emma J.				6Apr1898		23Jan1982

ROBERTS, Jacqueline Leigh			9Nov1962		22Dec1962	Baby
	He that reapeth thee will not slumber.

ROBERTS, Joe K.				28Jun1886		18Jun1962	OSSW
											Emma J.


ROBERTS, Sherri Renee			28Nov1981		31Mar1982	OSSW
	Infant daughters and son of Mary & Kenny Roberts.				Barrie W.
											Carrie M.

ROYSDEN, Stephen		(No dates)
	Aluminum marker only.  Baby's grave beside Jessica N. Jones.

SLAVEN, A. B.				4Jan1860		19Feb1915
						1-4-1860		2-19-1915

SLAVEN, Elizabeth				12Jun1835		29July1914
						6-12-1835		7--29-1914

TUCKER, Dora				10July1873		22Aug1922

	SUMMARY

This cemetery was begun on 29 July 1914, when Elizabeth Slaven was buried.
She was followed on 19 February 1915 by A. B. Slaven.  Really we should
name this little cemetery the Slaven Cemetery.  Just a little way West was
the Slaven School and community, which was probably named for this old
family.  However, after these two burials, for the next three decades there
was but one burial in each ten year period.  These burials were Clarks and
a Tucker.  Finally, the Roberts, Jones, and Lewis families began to use the
cemetery.  When we visited someone called it the Roberts Cemetery.  The
last burial was Hulen E. Clark on 14 May 1985.

It is a beautiful location, well maintained and the graves are decorated.
It is fenced to keep out livestock that are pastured in the surrounding
fields.  There will be many burials here in the future.  Already from 1980
to 1986, there have been 9 burials, which amount to 1/4 of all the burials
in previous years.