Keown Cemetery, near Select, Ohio County, Kentucky ***************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. Commercial entities must ask for and receive permission from submitter before downloading. Contributed by Alice Warner Brosey Date Submitted: 12 Dec 2006 ***************************************************************************** On the farm of Ellis Chinn, mailing address 448 Cook Ln Cromwell, KY 42333 Ellis Chinn is not related to the people buried in the cemetery and therefore does not keep the cemetery up. He says if there are any relatives to those buried in the cemetery and they contact him, he may keep the cemetery in better condition. Directions: Turn E onto 505 (only one direction to get there from) off of 231 between Cromwell and the Butler County line. Left if coming from Cromwell, Right if coming from Butler County line. Pass through Select, and turn left on the first street past a bridge (over a stream) called Cook Lane. Continue up Cook Lane and turn in at Ellis Chinn Residence, 448 Cook Lane. Two electric fences are between his house/road and the cemetery. Inquire at the house before going up to the cemtery. Cemetery is extremely overgrown and animals are only partially kept out. Graves located and survey photographed on May 31, 2006 by Alice Warner, accompanied by Glen and Kathleen Warren; outside knowledge is on a second line of text following the individual Surname Given Names Date of Birth Date of Death Other info on Stone photo name KEOWN John J H Jul 29? 1831 Nov 14 1899 keowjjh2.jpg, keowjjh3.jpg KEOWN Malissa Aug 26 1821 Feb 14 1871 wife of J H keownmal.jpg KEOWN T M May 29 1819 Jul 22 1903 keowntm.jpg KEOWN Damy Jan 1 1826 Jun 30 1899 wife of T M keodamy1.jpg RAFFERTY M J Mar 2 1873 Jul 22 1874 dau of BP and M raffermj.jpg RAFFERTY B P Apr 11 1840 Jan 1 1900 rafferbp.jpg RAFFERTY Martha Jun -- ---- Dec 7 1929 rafferm.jpg KEOWN Nancy Feb 18 1845 Feb 28 1932 keownanc.jpg KEOWN Joseph A Mar 26 1870 Feb 24 1938 keownjoe.jpg KEOWN Estill S Mar 4 1881 Jan 5 1911 keoestil.jpg KEOWN T M Sept 17 18-- Mar 20 1888 son of Wm S and M A keowtm1.jpg, keowtm2.jpg BAIZE Erastus P Aug 7 1884 Nov 10 1897 children of G N and F baizeep1.jpg, JAMES Samuel Aug 11 1844 Feb 2 1855 jamessam.jpg child of Mosby "Mode" James and Elizabeth Coffee Hobdy James. JAMES Mosby Jan 15 1812 Jan 11 1873 jamemode.jpg son of William "Billy" James and Catherine "Kitty Ann" Parker. Father of Minerva, Melvina, Robert, Agnes, Lycurgus, Samuel L, John H, Margaret M and Martha. JAMES Elizabeth Mar 11 1815 Dec 2 1879 wife of Mosby James jameeliz.jpg Elizabeth Coffee Hobdy, daughter of Thomas Hobdy and Elizabeth Brackin, wife to Mosby James. JAMES John Oct 25 1846 Dec 6 1884 jamejohn.jpg son of Mosby "Mode" James and Elizabeth Coffee Hobdy James. JAMES Ella Aug 2 1876 Dec 14 1891 jameella.jpg JAMES Rosa Warley Mar 12 1857 Feb 27 1893 wife of R G jamerowa.jpg JAMES Adrain Dec 27 1883 Nov 29 1911 jameadri.jpg JAMES Samuel M Jul 7 1879 May 12 1912 jamesaml.jpg FERGUSON Timothy Co. C 11th KY Inf. There were many graves marked only with fieldstones, no engravings. Overviews: view1.jpg: view up hill to the cemetery; view2.jpg: view on valley below from the cemetery itself; view3.jpg: view of cemetery from one edge. You can make out TM Keown's marker in the distance on right. Note: in 1986 Glendon Warren noted all the JAMES graves in the cemetery. He noted an Adrian V James, b. 12-27-1883 d. 11-29-1911, Co H 18th KY INF (Military stone for the same Adrian James of above. On the normal stone, his name is indeed spelled Adrain.)