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Quick Trip to Kentucky to Buy a House – and Visit the Linton Cemetery

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Ritchey and I were in Kentucky last week for something very important – to visit the Linton Cemetery! Well, perhaps ad additional item made the top billet! We bought a house and will be moving back to Kentucky in early October. It has been a great five years in Michigan, but I am glad to be going home! Easier to research, visit cemeteries, courthouse – and it will be nice to be close to family and friends!! I can just imagine the suppers and visiting that will go on. You know I love to cook almost as much as much as I love genealogy.

While there we did visit the Linton Cemetery in Washington County. It was a beautiful day.

Even though there is a bit of dark in the clouds it did not rain! You can see the iron fence of the Linton Cemetery. Redemption Point Church of God has made a cemetery around the family cemetery. They keep the grounds immaculate!

I bought a new phone in December and until I took the photos didn’t realize what a difference it made in taking photos of gravestones. At first I thought it was just the sun, but later in the week, even in the tree filled Bellevue Cemetery in Boyle County, the pictures are amazing! The clouds look dark, the sun was behind me.

Eight stones are in the cemetery.

In memory of John Linton who departed this life December 4th, 1836 in the 86th year of his age.

In memory of William Moran, Sr., who died 3rd January 1838, aged 63 years, 10 months and 17 days.
William Linton, 1790 – after 1860, Eliza Lyon Moran Linton, 1800 – after 1860.

At first I couldn’t see William Linton’s stone from the gate – but his is beside wife Eliza’s. There are no dated on their stones. In the 1860 Washington County Census William is listed as 69 and Eliza 68. I did not find them in the 1870.

John L. Edwards, born October 12, 1800, died December 23, 1883.
Milly N. Linton Edwards, born June 29, 1806, died February 25, 1873.
Benjamin Franklin Linton, June 16, 1777 – February 22, 1861. His stone is illegible.

Everyone in this cemetery is a relative – John Linton (4th and 5th great-grandfather), William Moran (4th great-grandfather), William Linton and Eliza Lyon Moran (3rd great-grandparents), Benjamin Franklin Linton (4th great-uncle), John and Milly Edwards (1st cousin 4 times removed).

I guess you could say this is my favorite cemetery!

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  1. I am so interested in checking these names listed, as you and I are related as earlier found out. I am in Loudoun Co. Va. .. Moran, Edwards and Lyon connection. Thank you so much for sharing the photos and information. Betsy Caylor Carter

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    • Hello
      This is my family line. It has been rewritten and covers up. This cemetery is not real. Most of the people aren’t there. My family doesn’t know who is truly there either. If you would like the truth let me know.
      Also this cemetery is on Reed/Spaulding land my ancestors last slave homeland.

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  3. Phyllis and Richie,
    So happy you are returning to Kentucky! I hope we can arrange a visit once you get back. I come to Lexington regularly. Would love to go with you on one of your cemetery visits.

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  5. Can we not do this. This cemetery is on Reed/Spaulding land. My great grandmas last slave homeland. This cemetery is out of place. Half of these people are not there. This history is not real. This is part of my family line and I would like the truth told if you’re going to tell it. So I am informing you that this is not real. I have done the research.

    Thank you

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      • Hello
        I have been researching my family lines for 3 years. I have John Hancock Linton being buried somewhere else. And since I am Keene I had to determine my history with Elizabeth Linton. Supposedly she marred someone in the Keene family. Elizabeth Linton married William Moran. Again both not there. Also I have talked with the Linton since we are cousins. They have no clue either. So until they can actually prove it with death certificates it didn’t happen. Lastly this cemetery is on Reed/Spaulding land. The last owners of my great great grandmother. The simple fact that this cemetery is there needs to questioned. When my family starts looking for themselves this comes up. For all my family knows both side s it could be my slave family burried there.

  6. Thanks for your work! I descend from Catherine Jennings Linton b. 1748 d. 1824. She married William Joseph Lewis b. 1748 d.1820.she was the daughter of Susanna Hancock and Moses Barton Linton.

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  8. I’m also a decent of Moses Linton, my grandmother was Emma Linton from Butler County, Alabama. Would love to know more about the family. Does anyone know where the family is really buried if they are not in the Linton cemetery? You can get in touch with me by my e-mail. brendacarden@bellsouth.net I’m also on Ancestry

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