Lott Hayden Cemetery, Nicholas Co., KY

Copyright (c) Sept 2001 by Bob King. This copy contributed for use in the 
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The LOTT HAYDEN GRAVEYARD is located on a knoll surrounded by trees about 100 yds. north
of the old Lott Hayden brick farmhouse, now the Brierly farm, on the north bank of Hinkston 
Creek, (old Lot Young Rd., now Somerset Rd.), Route 57, near Sharpsburg, Nicholas Co.,
Kentucky. This family cemetery is the resting place of my 3rd great grandparents, Lottimore
& Mary (Bryan) Hayden. Lott Hayden is a direct descendant of Mayflower pilgrims John & 
Priscilla Alden. Mary Bryan was the first white child born in Bryan Station in 1779. 

The following graves are found there: 

Lott Hayden  1764-1827 
Mary Bryan Hayden  1779-1852 
May Hayden  1794-1815                           daughter of Lott Hayden by first wife 

Robert Cochran Young  1803-1869                 husband of Mary Hayden 
Mary Hayden Young  1808-1867                     5th daughter of Lott & Mary Hayden                                     

Children of: 
    Lot D. Young & Belle (Davis) Young          son of Robert & Mary Young 
         Willie Young  1869-1872 
         Mary E. Young  1878-1881 
         Camie Young  1872-1882 

Infant daughter of: 
    William P. & Sarah F. Young  May 26, 1851   son of Robert & Mary Young 

The above information was taken from the "History of Nicholas County" first published in 1976
by the Nicholas County Historical Society. 

I visited the cemetery in August of this year & found the site to be in extremely poor condition
& overgrown with trees & shrubs. The headstones were barely legible & some had fallen over or at
were an angle. The surrounding rock wall had fallen down in some places. 

I am looking for suggestions on how I might go about having the cemetery cleaned-up, headstones 
re-inscribed & the site generally restored. I would be interested in paying someone to have 
this accomplished.