Date: May
21, 2001
Cemetery: Brick Union Church Cemetery
Established: @1860's
Street: Route One
Type: Road-public
City: 3 Miles outside Flemingsburg, KY on Route 32
Township: Flemingsburg
County: Fleming
State: Kentucky
Nation: United States
Zip: 41041
Nearby: Route 32 and Coskery Pike and Secress Crossing
Location: Rural-agricultural
Land: Flat
Water: No
Features: Trees, neglected overgrowth
Sign: No
Land Type:
Access: Open
Enclosure: Natural
Gate: None
Status: Abandoned
Size: Small
Unmarked graves: Yes
Gravestones: at minimum 20
Broken gravestones: Yes
Toppled gravestones: Yes
Buried gravestones: Unsure
Removed Gravestones: Unknown
Weather problems: Yes
Pollution problems: No
Oldest grave: approx 1860's
Newest grave: early 1960's
Association: No
Records: Yes
Inventory: Yes
Records location: Karen Curato, Fleming County Historical
Preservationist
Condition: Cemetery neglected
Vandalized: Yes
Police report: No
VA: Gravestones-Overturned
VA: Gravestones-Broken
Overgrowth: Gravestones-Disturbing
Vegetation: Trees
Vegetation: Ground-Cover
Vegetation: Vines
Drainage: Good
Problem: Apathy
Problem: Disintegrating Headstones
Work Status: Work underway - Minor improvements made
Owner: Cemetery
Use:
Bordering: Agricultural
Change: Same
Reason:
Visited: Rarely
Archeology: No
Contacted:
Other Information
This cemetery did belong to The Brick Union
Church which was razed many years ago. It contains the graves of many
Civil War soldiers, African Americans, and family plots up to the 1961.
There is no known caretaker or maintenance group. It is not only a
cemetery of historical significance, but one that is in dire need of
ongoing grounds keeping. I do know my family wishes to mark graves of
family members as well as keep the cemetery as a historical grounds.
Dire need of funding to hire regular grounds keeping and maintenance.
HELP!
Support
Karen Curato, Fleming Historical Society and
Preservationist, Fleming County Court House.
Submitted by:
name: Jeffrey Reeves
Email: kyrider@gte.net
