Blanton-Salyer Family Cemetery
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Blanton-Salyer Family Cemetery

Oil Springs, Johnson County, Kentucky, USA

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    Coordinates: 37.77589, -82.94016
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This small family cemetery began with one memorial when George B. Blanton made room on his farmland for the burial of his son George Blanton, Jr., who died at the age of 2 years, 3 months, and 25 days on July 19, 1948. A year and seven months later, George Blanton's first grandson, Phillip Arthur Salyer, age 1 year, 5 months, and 26 days, succumbed to encephalitis on December 12, 1949 in Columbus, Ohio and his parents, Arthur and Jewell (Blanton) Salyer brought him back to their Eastern Kentucky home area for burial. Thirty-one years later, George B. Blanton would join them and eleven years later his wife, Rushia (Jackson) Blanton would be laid to rest by his side in 1991. Since 1991, no other graves have been added. The family plot is located on county highway 825 about a mile south of US 460 and is nestled on a hillside across the creek, only accessible through the nearest residential property about 100 yards to the South.
This small family cemetery began with one memorial when George B. Blanton made room on his farmland for the burial of his son George Blanton, Jr., who died at the age of 2 years, 3 months, and 25 days on July 19, 1948. A year and seven months later, George Blanton's first grandson, Phillip Arthur Salyer, age 1 year, 5 months, and 26 days, succumbed to encephalitis on December 12, 1949 in Columbus, Ohio and his parents, Arthur and Jewell (Blanton) Salyer brought him back to their Eastern Kentucky home area for burial. Thirty-one years later, George B. Blanton would join them and eleven years later his wife, Rushia (Jackson) Blanton would be laid to rest by his side in 1991. Since 1991, no other graves have been added. The family plot is located on county highway 825 about a mile south of US 460 and is nestled on a hillside across the creek, only accessible through the nearest residential property about 100 yards to the South.

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