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Rockbridge Baptist Church Cemetery 
Willisburg, Washington County, Kentucky


Date: July 5, 2000

Cemetery Name: Rockbridge Baptist Church Cemetery
Street: 460 Rockbridge Lane
City: Willisburg
County: Washington
State: Kentucky
Nation: USA
Zip: 40078
Land Type: Private
Status: Active
Graves within: Several hundred, including Civil War Veterans
Oldest grave: 1700's
Records: No
Inventory: Yes
Owner: Unknown by me, the church sits on the Cemetery property, but it is not Church property.
Problem's
Cemetery about to be destroyed
Overgrown-trees
Broken Headstones
Buried Headstones
Disintegrating Headstones
Fallen Headstones
Removed Headstones
Vandalism

Location

A Miss Sanders has a book about the Cemetery in the Washington County Court House in Springfield, Kentucky. Original Cemetery records were destroyed in a fire. Stones are in terrible shape, some are gone, others are broken or unreadable. Rockbridge Baptist Church members try to keep it up as best as possible, but the Cemetery is not part of the Church. The Church is a small country church with few members. Most of them are older. There is a Cemetery fund where they try to get family members to donate money for its upkeep. I want to know if there is any way I can get funding to get it fixed up since it does have Civil War Vets. buried there, Who do I contact? I am the Church Historian and there aren't any maps or anything on the grave sites if there are not markers.

Description

Graves are in bad shape and need to be filled. Some stones destroyed, missing, broken, unreadable. Heavy brush around the fence line, there's a hard-to-get-along-with- farmer which owns the property on the other side. He doesn't want damage to his side of the fence in cleaning. If the tree or bush grows his property he doesn't want it damaged. The Church members try to keep it mowed and looking nice.

Other Problems

 

Previous Contacts

you are the only one. didn't know of any one else. We the members of Rockbridge Baptist Church try to keep it looking nice. But we don't have the funding to do what needs to be done.

Current Status

On going.

Submitted by / Contact for additional Information:

name: Linda Stacy
Email: waslcs@earthlink.net


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