Whitesides Burying Ground in La Grange, Kentucky

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Get directions Dunaway Lane
La Grange, Kentucky 40031 United States

Coordinates: 38.41560, -85.41392
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Whitesides Burying Ground is located on the east side of Dawkins Road about two miles northwest of LaGrange, and is the cemetery listed as #120 in Edna Scott McKechnie and Willada Rickman Dent's Oldham County Records, Volume I, Cemeteries. Most of the graves are marked merely with field stones, so I relied heavily on obituaries and funeral home records to supply the identities of those buried here.

A visit on Aug. 5, 2011 has revealed a much improved condition for this family cemetery. The area has been developed and Dunaway Road has made access to the cemetery easy. Thanks to R. D. Dunaway and his family for granting me permission to spend time on their private property. They are thoughtful custodians of the Whitesides Burying Ground. The loose fieldstones and broken headstone pieces have been collected and deposited together on site.

Joseph Whitesides (1772-1855) and his brothers, Martin and James, settled near the location of Whitesides Burying Ground between 1797 and 1799. On Jul. 26, 1827 he purchased from William Taylor for $100 the 120 acres between Brush Creek and the Old Westport Road (present-day Dawkins Road) where he had been residing for nearly three decades. His descendants continued to live in the area until the early 1900s

(Todd Whitesides)