Lexington Deaths for 1823 – Fayette County

By Kentucky Kindred Genealogical Research on July 22, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

Kentucky Obituaries, 1787-1854. Compiled by G. Glenn Clift, 1977.

For the year 1823, taken from The Lexington Record.

Thomas Prather, of Louisville, late president of the Louisville Branch Bank. Died in February 1823. R 2/10
L. McConnell, of Lexington. Died April 19, 1823. R 4/21
Mary Hawkins, widow of the late P. Hawkins, of Lexington. Died April 17, 1823. R 4/21
John Higbee, of Fayette County. Died April 28, 1823, aged 65 years. R 4/28
Lucretia H. Clay, third daughter of Henry Clay. Died on Wednesday, June 18, 1823, aged 15 years. R 6/23
Crowford Masterson, of Danville. Suicided Monday July 8, 1823. R 7/14
Cornelius Coyle, of Lexington, a native of Ireland. Died July 17, 1823. R 7/21
Thomas M. Prentiss, of Lexington. School-master and former librarian of the Lexington Library. Died Friday July 18, 1823. R 7/21
Absalem Cavins, of Franklin County. Died August 9, 1823. R 8/18
Miss Maria Von Phul, of Edwardsville, Ill., formerly of Lexington, Kentucky. Died in August 1823. R 8/18
Captain Abraham Ward, of Frankfort. Died in August 1823. R 8/25
Thomas Barr, of Fayette County. Died August 1, 1823, at New Orleans. He was about 45 years of age. R 8/25
William Nelson, oldest son of Capt. Thomas Nelson, of Lexington. Died in August 1823, at petite Gulph, on the Mississippi River. He was a graduate of Transylvania Medical College. R 8/25
Francis M. Taylor, late a student at Transylvania University. Died August 26, 1823, aged 20 years, at his father’s in Shelby County. R 9/8
John P. Aldridge, of Jefferson County. Died in August 1823. R 9/8
Nancy Bates, widow of Alvin Bates, deceased, of Jessamine County. Died Monday, September 1, 1823. R 9/8
Reuben Ewing, of Logan County. Died in September 1823. R 9/15
James Mosby, of Russellville [Logan County]. Died in September 1823. R 9/15
Russell Lewis, of Frankfort, formerly Deputy Sheriff of Franklin County. Died in September 1823. R 9/15
Gwyn R. Tompkins, of Fayette County. Died September 16, 1823. R 9/22
Elizabeth Smith, widow of the late Capt. Rowley Smith, of Shennandoah County, Virginia. Died in Todd County, Kentucky, July 26, 1823, aged 70 years. R 9/22
Thomas Ficklin, of Scott County. Died September 18, 1823, aged 81 years. R 9/29
Bardley, daughter of Thomas Ficklin, of Scott County. Died in September 1823. R 9/29
Helen H. Johnson, wife of William Johnson. Died at Great Crossings in September 1823. R 9/29
Sarah Dallam, of Hopkinsville. Died in September 1823, a few days before the death of her father, Francis Dallam, of the same place. R 9/29
Nancy Dougherty, relict of the late Thomas Dougherty, of Lexington. Died September 24, 1823. R 9/29
James Innis, of Blue Spring on North Elkhorn. Died Wednesday September 24, 1823. R 9/29
Joseph Singer, of Fayette County. Died September 26, 1823. R 9/29
William Arnold, of St. Louis. Died September 26, 1823. He was a native of Ireland. R 9/29
William Stokes, of St. Louis. Died in September 1823. He was a native of England. R 9/29
Sanford Keen, of Lexington. Died Saturday morning October 4, 1823, aged 38 years. Obituary in R 10/6
Laurence Leavy, of Louisville. Died Thursday October 2, 1823, aged 25 years. He was a son of William Leavy, of Lexington. Obituary in R 10/6
Sarah Cavins, of Scott County, consort of Absalem Cavins. She died in September 1823. R 10/6
General Martin D. Hardin, of Franklin County. Died in October 1823. R 10/13
Joseph B. Lapsley, of Warren County. Died in September 1823. R 10/13
Cuthbert S. Anderson, of Frankfort. Died in Logan County in October 1823. $ 10/13
James Hawkins, of Woodford County. Died October 7, 1823, aged 39 years. Obituary in R 10/20
Mrs. James Hawkins, widow of James Hawkins, of Woodford County. She died October 9, 1823, aged 35 years. See Above. Obituary in R 10/20
Mary B. Kendall, consort of Amos Kendall, editor of the Frankfort Argus, and daughter of the late William Woolfolk, of Jefferson County. Died Monday October 13, 1823. R 10/20
N. Destrehan, of New Orleans. Died in October 1823. R 10/27
Major Joseph Anderson, of Murfreesborough, Tennessee. Died in October 1823. R 10/27
Reverend Ambrose Bourne, of Todd County. Died in October 1823. R 10/27
James Stone, of Fayette County. Died Monday October 6, 1823. Buried on the Tuesday following at 11 o’clock in the family burying ground of William Stone. Obituary in R 10/27
John H. Barnes, clerk of the Circuit and County Courts of Estill County. Died October 2, 1823, at Irvine. R 10/27
Joseph Crockett, Jr., of Nicholasville. Died at the residence of Daniel B. Price, October 15, 1823, aged 37 years. Obituary in R 11/10
Jesse D. Winn, of Fayette County. Died October 22, 1823, aged 72 years. R 11/24\Martin Whiting, of Natchez. Died in November 1823. R 11/24
Reed, consort of Thomas B. Reed, of Natchez. Died in November 1823. R 11/24
Joshua Humphries, of Lexington. Died November 23, 1823. R 11/24
Mary Hardin, consort of Gen. William Hardin, of Frankfort, keeper of the Penitentiary. Died December 7, 1823. R 12/22
Edward Howe, of Woodford County. A Revolutionary soldier. He died December 16, 1823, aged 80 years. R 12/22
Thomas Bullitt, of Louisville. Died December 10, 1823, aged 47 years. R 12/22
Margaretta McCall, of Surrogate, Sulphur Well in Clark County. Died December 22, 1823, aged 48 years. She left her husband and ten children. R 12/30