CEMETERY: Staples Cemetery, Little Bend Rd., Wolf Creek/Battletown, Meade County, KY
Also known as Steve Hardin Cemetery or Bob Riddle Cemetery or William Hardin Cemetery

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The cemetery is located in Meade County, Battletown (Wolf Creek) Little Bend Rd.  It was called by my 
family the "Staples' Family Cemetery," but I have heard it called the Steve Hardin/Bob Riddle Cemetery 
and the William Hardin Cemetery.  

The person who owned this cemetery recently sold the land in two sections and  the new owners have run a 
fence through the middle and I am afraid it will disappear soon.

There are only three readable tombstones left in the cemetery, but evidence of several grave sites.  I 
suspect at least one Revolutionary War Veteran  Joshua Rentfro, fought with the Henry County, VA , 
Militia with General  Greene he was born 07/01/1757 and died 09/15/1815.  One of his daughters and two 
son-in-laws are buried there.  I also suspect my G-g-g-grandfather Samuel Staples born 1784, died 1816.  
Below is the stone transcriptions that can be read.

In Memory of
Ruth Staples
 Late Consort Of    
 Samuel Staples
 Departed this life  
 April 7th  1830    
 Aged 44 years  


Here Lies 
The Remains Of   
 John Staples   
 He Was Born 
 Oct 13th AD 1785
  Died 1815

His foot stone reads.
 John Staples
was born Oct ?  and
departed this life the
27th July 1815    


 Sacred to the memory of
Catharine E. Staples 
 Late Consort of
 John H. Staples
 who departed this life
  March 20th  1833   
  Aged 23 years  and 7 months   
             
There is also a fragment of stone found that read died April ?  Aged 24 years 


Transcribed by : Dennis Staples, Gray, Ga  31032