Cemetery Rebirth

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I wanted to post my exciting news! One of my family burial grounds in Montgomery County, Kentucky has a hope for new life! A gentleman contacted me wanting directions. He's involved with the SAR/DAR and has family laid to rest there. He contacted the property owner and is going back next week for photos and a survey! This has been a dream of mine for 25 years!

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Great news Pam!

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Thanks!

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Exciting. I just stumbled across your post and wanted to share your excitement.

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Thank You!

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This is very exciting news, Pam! How wonderful. 

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Thanks for posting this. Following! I looked at location and am likely to have ancestors buried here. So I adopted Lydia Cawood (curiously my Harlan County paternal grandmother is connected to Cawoods) but found her LNAB is Colliver, as is my 2nd ggrandmother. They have to be related somehow. Is this cemetery located on the "plantation" of James Colliver-50? He also had two brothers. Lydia married Dudley Cawood, and after she died, he remarried and ran off to Lexington and disappeared, so Lydia must be buried in Colliver territory, I surmise.

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I don't know about it being on a plantation but that is very interesting! It is partly on Bunker Hill Road and partly on Plum Lick Road. My understanding is it was the Johnson Farm. [[Johnson-59583|John T.]] and [[Battershell-57|Margaret  (Battershell)]] Johnson have a large monument there. John's Sister [[Johnson-59581|Mary Susan (Johnson) Dale (abt.1803-)]] is my 3rd Great Grandmother. I believe her and her husband [[Dale-2345|Robert  Dale (abt.1793-1844)]] are there as well.

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Joseph Colliver and family settled on Aarons Creek, Montgomery County. He died 1808. There is an Aarons Creek Road, but the actual creek meanders all over. My 3rd great grandfather 's house is at Little Rock on 537 (5.3 mi from this cemetery), and other Bantas lived near Plum. If you look at a "real" map, haha I mean not Google Maps, but old fashioned type, you see how these are all within a six mile radius to each other, and all borderline Bourbon, Nicholas, Montgomery and Bath Counties. I checked GEDmatch (i just uploaded mine Wednesday) and you and I have no shared DNA, but I guarantee we have some connections! I said "plantation" because of something I read about a Colliver . They must have had property in this vicinity. I will keep studying. Thanks.

I forgot to add that on Family Search a tree has Abner Colliver b 1815  married to Julia Ann Wilson and their son Joseph Colliver for whom there's a birth record.

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That is so interesting! My Papaw grew up Mon Arron's Runn, but the family moved to Stone road in Little Rock, in the 40's.

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What a nice name for a road. Plum Lick. Did someone taste a plum or did they get a lickin’?

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Maybe they was very tired when they named the road. My Papaw use to say he was "Plum Licked!" When he came in from the fields!