Grissom Cemetery
Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky, USA
"From Hopkinsville at intersection of 107 N. and East 7th Street go on 107 N. 14.5 miles turn left at Red Bridge Road go 5.2 miles where road forks-go right. Cemetery .3 miles on right in brick wall in the woods."
(The cemetery is off the Cary's Bridge Road)
John W. Grissom provided in his will "6thly, now my further wish that so much of my perishable property be sold as my wife may be advised, will be sufficient to inclose a pieces of ground that I have named to my family, ten by twelve feet in the clear in the following manner (to wit) either a substantial cast iron railing wall put up or a stone wall of good stone laid in good lime morter not less than three feet, eight inches high nor less than eighteen inches thick, the walls with a heavy cap stone that cannot be easily thrown down. And this inclosure to have a good substantial iron gate with a good lock, all to be done in a plain substantial manner. Which my will is that it be used as a place of _______for myself and my wife Sarah.
John W. Grissom also left land "thirteen rod square that I have given to the Methodist Church South to build a Church on and to the neighborhood for a standard school house, also one one acre of land fronting on the Greenville Road on the west side of said road including the highest point of the mentioned, where I propose to be buried. Both these lots reserved not to be subject to sale or transfer and the last named to be used only for a family burying ground."
"From Hopkinsville at intersection of 107 N. and East 7th Street go on 107 N. 14.5 miles turn left at Red Bridge Road go 5.2 miles where road forks-go right. Cemetery .3 miles on right in brick wall in the woods."
(The cemetery is off the Cary's Bridge Road)
John W. Grissom provided in his will "6thly, now my further wish that so much of my perishable property be sold as my wife may be advised, will be sufficient to inclose a pieces of ground that I have named to my family, ten by twelve feet in the clear in the following manner (to wit) either a substantial cast iron railing wall put up or a stone wall of good stone laid in good lime morter not less than three feet, eight inches high nor less than eighteen inches thick, the walls with a heavy cap stone that cannot be easily thrown down. And this inclosure to have a good substantial iron gate with a good lock, all to be done in a plain substantial manner. Which my will is that it be used as a place of _______for myself and my wife Sarah.
John W. Grissom also left land "thirteen rod square that I have given to the Methodist Church South to build a Church on and to the neighborhood for a standard school house, also one one acre of land fronting on the Greenville Road on the west side of said road including the highest point of the mentioned, where I propose to be buried. Both these lots reserved not to be subject to sale or transfer and the last named to be used only for a family burying ground."
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- Added: 7 Jan 2008
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2244966
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