Old Fishing Creek Cemetery
Oil Center, Pulaski County, Kentucky, USA
The records of the Fishing Creek Baptist Church from 1813 to 1949 have been digitized and are available on FamilySearch (FHL microfilm 8264571, item 1). The date of death is included in the records for some church members.
The Wolf Creek Dam, near Jamestown, Kentucky, the construction of which was authorized in 1938, is part of the Federal Government's plan to control floods on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and to develop their tributaries.
The construction of the Wolf Creek Dam created Lake Cumberland, which is Kentucky's greatest fishing and boating lake. At it's largest, Lake Cumberland has a surface area of over 63,000 acres and a shore line of 1,255 miles.
The development of Lake Cumberland also necessitated the movement of many people, both living and dead, from the area. The dead were reinterred in several existing and new cemeteries in the surrounding area. According to the records of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 123 cemeteries and the bodies of approximately 2,800 persons were relocated, in preparation for the establishment of Lake Cumberland.
A 67-page report with the title "Graves of the Lake Cumberland Basin" was written by Asher L. Young in 1974. This report has been digitized and is available on FamilySearch (FHL microfilm 928212, item 5). In this report there is a cemetery with the name "Denham Cemetery" that is identified as a Reinternment Cemetery. On pages 2-3 is a list of 27 unnamed graves that were moved to Denham Cemetery.
The records of the Fishing Creek Baptist Church from 1813 to 1949 have been digitized and are available on FamilySearch (FHL microfilm 8264571, item 1). The date of death is included in the records for some church members.
The Wolf Creek Dam, near Jamestown, Kentucky, the construction of which was authorized in 1938, is part of the Federal Government's plan to control floods on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and to develop their tributaries.
The construction of the Wolf Creek Dam created Lake Cumberland, which is Kentucky's greatest fishing and boating lake. At it's largest, Lake Cumberland has a surface area of over 63,000 acres and a shore line of 1,255 miles.
The development of Lake Cumberland also necessitated the movement of many people, both living and dead, from the area. The dead were reinterred in several existing and new cemeteries in the surrounding area. According to the records of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 123 cemeteries and the bodies of approximately 2,800 persons were relocated, in preparation for the establishment of Lake Cumberland.
A 67-page report with the title "Graves of the Lake Cumberland Basin" was written by Asher L. Young in 1974. This report has been digitized and is available on FamilySearch (FHL microfilm 928212, item 5). In this report there is a cemetery with the name "Denham Cemetery" that is identified as a Reinternment Cemetery. On pages 2-3 is a list of 27 unnamed graves that were moved to Denham Cemetery.
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- Added: 7 Jan 2015
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2565182
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