Eli H Brown Farm Cemetery in Bloomfield, Kentucky

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Get directions 730 Springfield Road
Bloomfield, Kentucky 40008 United States

Coordinates: 37.90296, -85.31166
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This beautifully maintained cemetery originally called Fairfax Cemetery, is located on the 1000+ acre Eli H. Brown farm just outside of Bloomfield Kentucky on Highway 62 (KY 55). The cemetery was established by John Stone in 1794 when his mother Rebecca Davis Stone died en route to the farm from Virginia, and he named the cemetery after her birthplace Fairfax County Virginia. According to property and U.S Census records the farm and cemetery have been in the John Stone / Eli Brown family continuously since at least 1790. The lineage of the family farm can be traced within the cemetery as well, the current owners are Eli Huston Brown IV and his sister's children, Eli the IV and Mavin Martin's father Eli H. Brown III (1906-1974), his father Eli H. Brown Jr. (1875-1945), his mother Nancy Washington Dorsey Brown (1845-1885), her mother Nancy Bass Stone Dorsey (1820-1854), her father Eli Hammond Stone (1792-1826), and his father John Stone (1748-1813) the owner of the farm in 1790 and the person that established and named the cemetery in 1794. To date there are 8 generations of this family buried in the cemetery. The cemetery records are house at the Filson Historical Society in Louisville.