Alexander Duncan Homestead
The family burial ground is just a few feet from the collapsed home. In the 1970's this house was still standing. Time and time again I wish I had captured a photograph before the old building has fallen or been demolished.
This is off Hwy. 53 between LaGrange and Hwy. 42.
Barnhill Cem.
The cemetery is bigger than appears. Many stones are off their bases and lie flat on the ground. There are also many smaller stones. Cemetery was mowed at the time but limbs were scattered on the ground. This is the location of the Rowzee marker that is now surrounded and entwined with a tree trunk. The cemetery is in the middle of a fairly new subdivision, off Highway 53, between Ballardsville and La Grange. These photographs were taken July of 2005.
Floydsburg Cemetery
This is the older section of the cemetery. July 2005
The groundskeepers are quite friendly, and helpful. The cemetery is beautiful and well maintained. Even in a cemetery such as this I recommend a soft to medium brush as tombstones do not get individual attention. Most of the markers in this section were so aged I could not read them without brushing them off first.
Did George W. Redman & Mary E. Ashcraft Redman donate the land for the Joachim Cemetery or Chapel that once stood there? I reckon so.
This deed recorded in Hodgenville, Larue Co. Courthouse October 8, 1863:
'This indenture made this 8'th day October 1863 between Geo. W. Redman & _____ Redman his wife of the first part & ..Rev. Martin John Spalding Bishop of Louisville and his successors of the second part witnesseth that the said parties of the first part for and in consideration of $5.00 to there in hand paid the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged have granted and sold and do by these presents convey unto the said party of the second part for use of the Catholic Church one acre of land lying & being in the County of Larue & State of Kentucky & bounded as follows:
Beginning at a stone corner of George Redman 500 acre survey
thence with a line of the same a west course 20 poles
thence a south corner & ...right angles with the 1st line ...thence an east course and ...with the first line...20 poles thence a west course at right angles with the 3rd? line 8 poles to the beginning containing one acre & including the new Catholic Chapel
and the said parties of the first part bind theirselves to forever warrant and defend the same in the said party of the second part. In testimony of which they have ...affixed their signatures.
Done at Hodgenville the day and date above written October 8'th, 1863.
I. Erastus R. Burba Clerk of the Larue County Court State of Kentucky do certify that on the 9'th of October 1863 G. W. Redman & Mary E. Redman parties to this deed to the Bishop of the roman Catholic Church acknowledged and delived the same before me in my office to be their act & deed & the same was ordered to record and I have this day truly recorded the same together with this certificate. October 23'rd, 1863.
I. O. O. F. Cemetery, Carrollton
