Date: April 13,
2001
Cemetery: Fern Hill Cemetery
Established: 1882?
Street: Hwy.60 west
City: about 3 miles from city limits of Owensboro
Township:
County: Daviess
State: Ky.
Nation: U.S.A.
Zip: 42301
Nearby: Between Worthington Rd. & Booth Field Rd. on
Hwy. 60
Reached by: Crossing property-private
Location: Rural-woods
Land: Hillside
Water: No
Features: Very over-grown. Large trees in and around grave yard.
Large amount of day lillies and some daffodils. Someone has been
bull-dozing around the grave-yard. Trees have fell over top of graves.
Sign: No
Land Type: Private
Access:
Surrounded by: None
Gate: None
Status: Abandoned
Size: Medium
Unmarked graves: Yes
Markers:
Gravestones: 31
Broken gravestones: Yes
Toppled gravestones: Yes
Buried gravestones: Yes
Removed Gravestones: Unknown
Weather problems: Yes
Pollution problems: Unknown
Oldest grave: 1882
Newest grave: 1945
Association: No
Records: Unsure
Inventory: Unsure
Records location:
Condition: Cemetery in danger of destruction
Vandalized: Yes
Police report: No
VA1: Overturned gravestones
VA2: Broken gravestones
Vegetation: Disturbing-graves
Vegetation: Disturbing gravestones
Vegetation: Damaging gravestones
Vegetation problem: Trees
Vegetation problem: Overgrown-ground cover
Vegetation problem: Moss
Vegetation problem: Overgrown-vines
Drainage: Good
Problem: Disintegrating Headstones
Work Status: No work started as of yet
Owner: Cemetery
Use:
Bordering: Woods
Change: Unknown
Reason:
Visited: Unknown
Archeology: Unknown
Previous contacts: No-one.
Other information
This cemetery has some of my family buried in
it. For along time you could not get to it. Someone has bought the
property recently {last few years} and has been clearing out around it.
This owner was contacted about this cemetery by my son, and the owner
denied a cemetery being there. My son quickly corrected him with the
knowledge of knowing great-grandmother and 2 great-aunts and other
relatives being buried there. At one time there was also a church with
this cemetery. My Grandfather told me of a burial in this cemetery in
the 1950's, trying to dig for this grave they kept digging into other
graves due to not being marked. No marker could be found today for
anyone buried in the '50s. There are more graves than we counted, you
can tell by the way the tombstones are scattered about.
Submitted By:
name: Judy Bailey
Email: latewing@bellsouth.net
