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Hunters Bottom Cemetery

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Location	:	Locust, Carroll County, USA
Coordinate	:	38.7262700, -85.2802930
Description	:	The earliest known burial in this cemetery is Sarah Walton Watkins Morris, the sister of George Walton, a Signer of the Declaration of Independence from Georgia. When she died in 1801 the land belonged to her husband Rev. Joshua Morris, a noted early Kentucky Baptist minister. The tract was later owned by George Boone, a brother of Daniel Boone. In the 1870's and for many years after the land belonged to the Cornelius Deweese family, but eventually the property was taken over by a gravel pit. Some had referred to the old cemetery as the... Read More	The earliest known burial in this cemetery is Sarah Walton Watkins Morris, the sister of George Walton, a Signer of the Declaration of Independence from Georgia. When she died in 1801 the land belonged to her husband Rev. Joshua Morris, a noted early Kentucky Baptist minister. The tract was later owned by George Boone, a brother of Daniel Boone. In the 1870's and for many years after the land belonged to the Cornelius Deweese family, but eventually the property was taken over by a gravel pit. Some had referred to the old cemetery as the "Deweese Farm Cemetery." A compilation of Carroll County Cemeteries called the old cemetery "Standard Materials Cemetery," and gave it the number "43." The old location was noted on topographical maps, which indicated its approximate location was 38.733236° -85.280064° There were only a few marked stones and graves marked by field stones when in September 1983 the Martin Marietta Corporation applied to the Carroll County Fiscal Court for permission to move the cemetery. A state archaeologist issued an opinion that the cemetery was only stones that had been moved there from another location. Permission was granted to move the stones but digging soon revealed actual graves, and in the moving process they found many more than were expected. The individual remains were placed in small wooden boxes and reburied next to the hill behind the gravel pit, with a few marked stones and foot stones, and other graves marked with small metal markers with codes scratched into them. Sarah Morris's stone had gone missing prior to the move but in 2013 it turned up in Madison, Indiana. It was given to a local cemetery restorer, Bob Mann, by a person who had received the stone with a pile of gravel he had ordered 30 years before. Mann determined where the stone came from and found the original base of the stone in the relocated cemetery. The cemetery was overgrown and had been badly neglected, with the small metal markers illegible and chewed up by grass trimmers, and marked foot stones that were not placed with their companion stones. In September and October of 2013 Mann and Donna Denning repaired the Morris stone, cleaned the cemetery, and researched how the cemetery move was conducted 30 years before.

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Hunters Bottom Cemetery is located at Kentucky Highway 36 Locust, Carroll County ,Kentucky , 40045USA.
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Latitude: 38.7262700
Longitude: -85.2802930

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