Old Fredonia Cemetery

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Old Fredonia Cemetery
Photos by Donnie Boone
April, 2010



In Oct. 2, 2010 a Grave Marking Ceremony is planned for Robert Leeper
by the Gov. Isaac Shelby Chapter, KYSSAR, assisted by the Ohio Valley Chapter,
INSSAR of Evansville, In. and the Gen. John Caldwell Chapter, KYSDAR, of Princeton, Ky.

Also the same day they will do a grave marking for John Elder and James Hawthorn in the Livingston Presbyterian Church/Centerville Cemetery which is down the hill about 100 yards.





Graves of Robert and Jane Leeper


Robert Leeper
Who Departed This Life
Jan. 25 th 1823
In The 64th Year Of His Age



Jane N. Leeper
Feb. 28, 1766 - May 3, 1850


Elizabeth M. Harmon
Feb. 25, 1807 - May 15, 1837
dau. of R. Leeper


In Memory of
Miss Joannah Leeper
Daughter of R. T. & E. Leeper
Died April 10, 1839
Aged 16 Y 1 M


A. L. Pemberton M. D.
died June 18, 1833
Aged 33 years


At the north side of this cemetery is what appears to be a separate area with other graves.
Among them is the grave of a black Civil War Veteran. A ceremony will be held at his
gravesite by members of the Jim Pearce Camp CSA out of Princeton, Ky.


Sergt.
Jas. Byrd
Co. D.
8th U. S. C. H. A.
(March 12, 1842-Dec. 6, 1913)
(birth & death date from death cert.)



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