Cemetery: Old Picketts Chapel Cemetery
Other: Pickett Cemetery
Sign: No
Street: Portland Rd or road # 1702
City: Milltown about 15 miles from
Columbia
Township:
County: Adair
State: Kentucky
Nation: USA
Zip: 42728
Status: Abandoned
Size: Medium
Directions: from columbia take hwy 61
north about 10 miles go left on hwy 768 for 5 miles turn right
just past tarters chapel church this is road # 1702 go for 1 mile
til you get to the kesslers grocery bear left for 3 miles or so
you will se Picketts Chapel church on your left the cemetary is
about 300 yards behind the church in a wooded area in the field
there is a newer cemetary next to the church this is the one used
currently the old one is larger and is overgrown
Type: Road-public
Location: Rural
Terrain: Level
Watersource: No
Features: overgrown huge trees and brush
some trees fallen over but has an old fence around it
Property: Private
Access: Open
Enclosure: Fence-Broken
Gate: Non-locking
Established: 1830
Gravestones: 50
Oldest: 1830
Newest: 1974
Removed: No
Relocated: No
Repairs: Yes
Methods: Adhesives
Restoration: Yes
Association: Yes
Records: Unsure
Inventory: Unsure
Availability:
Landscaping: No
Paths: No
Trees: Yes2
Crypts: No
Fencing: No
Brickwork: No
Ironwork: No
Sculpture: No
Fountains: No
Roads: No
Buildings: No
Cement: Yes
Granite: Yes
Marble: No
Native: Yes
Slate: Yes
Others: Yes
Wood: No
Materials: Unsure
Architectural: Yes
Angels: No
Draperies: No
Fraternal: Unsure
Hands: Yes
Lambs: Yes
Monograms: Unsure
Plants: Yes
Photos: Yes
Religious: Yes
Scrollwork: No
Urns: No
Carvings: Yes
Condition: Cemetery neglected
Unmarked: Yes
Broken: Yes
Toppled: Yes
Disintegrating: Yes
Buried: Yes
Weather: Yes
Pollution: No
Vandalized: Yes
Report: No
VA: Gravestones-Overturned
VA: Gravestones-Broken
Overgrowth: Gravestones-Damaging
GroundCover: Yes
Moss: Yes
Vines: Yes
Drainage: Good
Problem: Apathy
Owner: Religious
Use: Agricultural
Bordering: Agricultural
Change: Same
Reason: Agriculture
Visited: Rarely
Archeology: No
Habitat: Yes
Contacted: looked into attorney generals
website but it looked too complicated to mess with
Surnames:
Beard, Burris, Keltner, Pickett, Rodgers,
Rogers, Stotts
Other Information:
Lots of nice stones but so much vegetation,
some are covered up there was an effort by the community a few
years ago to clean up the graveyard it went through, lots of
overgrowth removed, but it was never maintained after that, so it
is in the same shape again lots of stones have been trampled by
cattle.
Support:
adair county historical society
Submitted by:
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name: Brent Beard
Email: c_lliford1@yahoo.com
Date: 07/30/2002
