Ritchey and I fell in love with Maysville when we visited there last October – the city, the people, the history – the cemeteries!  I had previously visited only three of the nine northern Kentucky counties we visited – all along the mighty Ohio River.  I look forward to a return visit! 

The following are various gravestones from the Maysville Cemetery, Mason County, Kentucky.  As you can tell it was a beautiful fall day!

Louis, born August 16, 1858, died December 12, 1881.  Helena, born July 12, 1852, died October 13, 1854.  Mary Louise, born January 8, 1847, died June 5, 1848.  Children of L. & E. Collins.  Maysville Cemetery, Mason County, Kentucky.

Louis Collins, born February 28, 1814, died July 28, 1886.  His wife, Elizabeth, December 23, 1821 – March 7, 1915.

John H. Langhorn, drowned by falling from the Steamer Companion on the night of January 27, 1833, aged 32 years, 7 months and 16 days.  Theresa A. Caldwell, wife of John H. Langhorn, born May 19, 1808, died November 1, 1832.  Mary, their daughter, died September 1, 1832, aged 2 years, 4 months and 13 days.

John Trotter Langhorne, born January 4, 1779, died June 30, 1839.  Elizabeth Baxter, wife of John Trotter Langhorne, born November 26, 1798, died February 5, 1879.

Thomas Young, Virginia, Captain in Col. J. Crockett’s Regiment, Revolutionary War, 1751-1837.

James B. Robinson, born October 26, 1798, died August 11, 1851, aged 55 years, 9 months and 19 days.

Lucretia, wife of James R. Robinson, born November 15, 1810, died Friday, May 14, 1869.

Anderson

In memory of father, J. Paul Ort, born Berrenburg Province Hessen Germany, died in Maysville, Kentucky, November 9, 1861.  In memory of mother, Kathrina Ort, born Rotemburg A. D. Fulda Province Hessen Germany, died in Ohio, May 6, 1873.