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Trotter Family Vault

Memorials	:	1
Location	:	Lexington, Fayette County, USA
Coordinate	:	38.0324290, -84.4923520
Description	:	Please don't ask for photo requests, the location is gone. This was called the Trotter Family Vault and cemetery started by Col. James Trotter on his property in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. It was used for the Trotter family and some of the friends or acquaintances of the family. The vault was used up to 1850 according to records found. In 1899, young male vandals removed some of the skulls and items, prompting a family member to seal it shut. By 1900 the heirs starting making plans to sell the property and by 1913 the city... Read More	Please don't ask for photo requests, the location is gone. This was called the Trotter Family Vault and cemetery started by Col. James Trotter on his property in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. It was used for the Trotter family and some of the friends or acquaintances of the family. The vault was used up to 1850 according to records found. In 1899, young male vandals removed some of the skulls and items, prompting a family member to seal it shut. By 1900 the heirs starting making plans to sell the property and by 1913 the city was still not sure what they would do with the Trotter Vault. From the Lexington Leader 21 Mar 1901: The sale of lots on the old Trotter property on East High Street, now going on, forcibly reminds one that the juggernaut of modern improvement has little regard for the tombs of Lexington's Pioneers…The Trotter graveyard is the last to follow suit and bow to the demands of municipal extension. By 1953 they removed the bones and remaining 5 skulls, the rest had turned to dust. 23 May 1953: "Remains of cemetery removed to Millersburg for reburial" All that remained of six bodies in the old "Trotter Tomb" on Lafayette avenue was to be reburied this morning in the Millersburg cemetery." The vault was described as being 10 feet deep, 6 bricks thick and containing two rooms separated by an archway. To enter it you had to go in through an iron door and down some steps. Also they had found 2 slabs in each room mounted on a brick base in each room. They had found 2 of them knocked over and broken. According to the 1953 article, the historian had found the names of 22 people who had been buried in the vault and cemetery grounds. It was often mistaken for an Indian Mound as the years went on, as the ground and plants started to cover it up. Again, according to the historian, the mound was located in a vacant lot between 318 and 326 Lafayette Ave., Lexington, Kentucky. Over the years, Col. Trotter's land changed hands to different owners. The family vault is also referred to as being on 'the old Alford place, rented by Mr. Marshall' and 'on the farm of Miss Lucy Berry.' Here are a few names of some known people buried within the vault or cemetery grounds, a few possibles and looking for the others.

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Latitude: 38.0324290
Longitude: -84.4923520

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Trotter Family Vault

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