Ormsby Graveyard *Located: 8521 LaGrange Road. Go into the gates for The Brook at KMI. The graveyard is near the tree line separating the campus from the neighborhood next door, past the visitor parking lot. The cemetery is on the grounds of what was once the Ormsby family home. The house, Maghera Glass, still stands, and is on the National Register of Historic Places.

This transcription was taken from "The Kentucky Genealogist". Vol. 25, No. 1, dated Jan.-Mar. 1983, a quarterly publication of the Kentucky Historical Society.    These works are probably the greatest I've found for finding anything related to Kentucky genealogy.  I highly recommend anyone look for them.  They are wonderful!   Pease email your coordinators if you have any questions regarding this cemetery.  The birthday calculator was used to obtain a couple of birth dates:  http://www.obitcentral.com/calc.htm  (note from editor of publication:  The Ormsby Mansion, once the Administration Bldg of KMI, burned to the ground in July of 1982) *(The current listing says that the house burned to the ground in 1982, but it is still there).

• Interments:

• The interments already listed for Mattie and Unknown son of Richard S. and Jane O. Herr are correct

• The listing for Herr, Unknown, wife of Richard S. Herr is incorrect. Her name is Jane Ormsby Herr. The inscription on the stone says:

Jane Ormsby Herr  Married June 25, 1858 to Richard S. Herr  Daughter of Col. Stephen and Martha S. Ormsby

Additional names to be listed: These are all on one stone:

Stephen Ormsby

Judge First Circuit Court

Jefferson County, Ky 1803-1810

U.S. Congress 1811-1817

Born Castle Dargan, County Slico Ireland 1759

Died Jefferson County, Ky 1849
 

Stephen Ormsby, Jr.

Colonel Louisville Legion 1844

Mexican War 1846-1847

Born 1803 Died 1869
 

Martha Sherley Ormsby

Three of their children Louisa-Edward-Louis

• Unknown (looks like a child’s headstone, but is unreadable)

• Unknown (looks like a child’s headstone, but the name is unreadable). Inscription: He shall lead his flock like a shepherd. He shall gather the lambs in his arm and carry them in his bosom.

• Unknown (looks like it says Lulie or Louie. If this is one of Stephen and Martha’s children, it could be either Louisa or Louis).

• Slaves. Inscription: In memory of the slaves who lived here. The truth has made you free. John-1-32

*Additional information Contributed by Ellen White (as of May 2015)