CEMETERY
INFORMATION AND RECORDS
Links to African-American
Cemeteries in Boyle, Casey, Garrard, Lincoln, Marion and Mercer
Counties:
Central Kentucky
African-American Cemetery Association, LLC
CHURCHES
Brown, Richard C. Keepers of the faith : Black churches in Boyle County.
The originals of these four articles appeared in Danville 's "Kentucky Advocate" on the four Sundays of Black History. Danville, KY,
1993.
CENSUS
RECORDS
Danville and Boyle County
African-Americans in Census Records
CITY
DIRECTORIES
Danville and
African-Americans in City Directories
DEATH RECORDS
Kentucky Death Records Index, 1911-2000. Index only, but can lead to other information
Death Records from Kentucky
Vital Statistics
FUNERAL
PROGRAMS
African-American
Funeral Programs. Over 1500 Funeral Programs from
Boyle and surrounding counties
GENEALOGY
Danville and Boyle County,
African-American Family Histories
Register of Free Blacks in
Boyle County 1852 -- Free Blacks had to prove they had been either born
free or freed before the Kentucky Constitution of 1850
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HISTORY
History of African-American Communities in Boyle
County, including general information, as well as specific articles on
Clifton, (Little) Needmore, Persimmon Knob, Shelby City, Sleettown and
Wilsonville.
Brown, Richard C. Keepers of the faith : Black churches in Boyle
County.
The originals of these four articles appeared in Danville 's "Kentucky Advocate" on the four Sundays of Black History. Danville, KY,
1993.
MARRIAGE RECORDS
Marriage Records:
Transcriptions of the first 20 volumes of "Colored" marriages
in Boyle County
MILITARY
RECORDS
Camp
Nelson Photographic Collection, 1864
Military Records, Boyle and
Surrounding Counties, Civil War to World War II
National Park Service, Soldiers and Sailors Database, Civil War
OBITUARIES
African-American Obituaries
from the Danville Advocate-Messenger
ORGANIZATIONS
Denis, Michael J. History of African-American
Women's Clubs in Danville and Boyle County
Grey,
Charles DeRoy. Centennial anniversary of Doric Lodge #18.
Charles DeRoy Grey
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SCHOOLS
Rosenwald Schools in Kentucky
1917-1932, Kentucky African-American Heritage Commission
Danville and Boyle County
"Colored" Schools
VITAL
RECORDS, KENTUCKY
Kentucky Vital Records Index: Deaths 1911-1986 and 1987-1992; Marriages 1973-1993; Divorces 1973-1993
WILLS
AND PROBATE RECORDS
Boyle County Wills listing
slaves
PUBLICATIONS
IN THE BOYLE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY:
Grey, Charles D. Centennial anniversary of Doric Lodge #18, F&AM,
PHA, Danville, KY : June 25th, 1888 Ed. S. Miller, WM -- 1988 Charles D. Grey, WM. [Danville, KY : Doric Lodge #18, 1988.] 67 p.
Grey, Charles D. The Bate Chatterbox. Danville, KY : Bate High School Alumni Association, [2005], 329 p. : ill., photos.,
spiralbound.
Grey, Charles DeRoy, compiler. Bate High School, Danville, KY, 1912-1946. Danville, KY: Bate High School Alumni Association, [2003], 256 p., ill., photos,
spiralbound.
Grey, Charles DeRoy. The Batesonian’s. Danville, KY: Bate High School Alumni Association, [2005], 208 p., ill., photos,
spiralbound.
Sleet, Moneta. Special moments in African-American history, 1955-1996: the photographs of Moneta Sleet, Jr., Ebony magazine's Pulitzer Prize winner.
Chicago : Johnson Publishing Company ; [New York] : Distributed by St. Martin's Press, 1998. 184p.
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