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THE LEWIS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Lewis County Historical Society
318 Lexington Avenue
P.O. Box 212
Vanceburg, KY 41179-1115
Books For Sale: Cemetery books are $10.00 per book plus $3.00 postage.

Book 1. Firebrick Free. W.M.Bentley Heirs, Ford Family,Unknown maybe Smith, Thompson. Greene. Wright Family, Plot, Black-Steele-Bruce.Steele,Morris Hill.
Book 2. Harr-Johnson,Zornes,Veach.Howland,Crystal Dawn.Quincy Methodist, Truitt-Woodsworth. Basset,Soldiers, Jamison,Granny Thomas,Greenbrier,Skidmore Family,Maysield,Hook Farm graveyard, Bruce,Spy Run,Skidmore,Hubbard,Skidmore-Christy,McGinnis-McDowell,Sullivan, Willis-Cooper.
(Cemeteries located below Quincy & above Garrison)
Book 3. Clure,Maddy,Old Tannery Church CEm,Howard,Jordan Riley,Stafford Hill.Richardson-Stamper, Hannibal,Armstrong,Horsley-McCally,Blankinship,Liles,Stone,Hamilton-Vally Vies, Mosby, Gose Family Plot, (Cem:located from Garrison,Laurel & Camp Dix areas)
Book 4.Black Oak, Evans,Abbott, (Cem: located in the Black Oak & Vanceburg area)
Book 5.Woodlawn,Clarksburg,Webster, (Cem: in city of Vanceburg & the Clarksburg area)
Book 6.Stallup,Flinders,Aills,Bivens,Fairmont,Kissick,Doyal,Gilbert,Muses Chapel,Carrs Methodist, Bedinger,Corns,Stevenson,Moore,McClurg,Vance-Purak,Pine Grover,Shelton-Himes,Collins,Lane-Lang,Meyer, Hendrickson,Ellis,Wilson,Nash, (Cem: located Quick's Run & Concord area.)
Book 7.Cedar Grove,Conley,William HardyFamily, McEldowney, Esham, Crawford, Aldrige, Stdham, Sargent Branch, Meadows, Mt.Zion, Ackley-Mineer, IndianCreek, Crawford, Gulley, Stamm, Crawford, (Cem located in the Holly,Petersville & Indian Road areas.)
Book 8. Pleasant Ridge,Valley,Mefford Farm, Middleton, Toncray, McDaniel, Riggs, McCoy, Wm.Esham Hackworth, May,Oak Ridge,Holland,Million,Jones,Donaldson.
( Salt Lick,Oak Ridge area.)
Book 9. Burtonville,Hinton,Pollitt.Grigsby,Davis,Kelty,Thorp,Carr,Canaan Church, Plummer, Ruggles, Gaiiiee, Debell-Singleton,Trussell,applegate,Gillespie,Tollesboro. (Cem: located in the Burtonville & Tollesboro areas.)
Book 10.Pell,Pierce,Vergne,Old Mawk,Morgan,Nolen,Laurel Point,Gilliam,Stamper,Walnut Grove, (Cem: located on KY 59 & area around going to Carter Co, line.)
Book 11. Ellis.Bethany, Hord-Dunaway,Sullivan,Tolle,Shelton,Gilbert.Doyal, Benjamin Bayless, Unknown maybe Hampton, Wilson-Morrison, Wilson-Nash, Wilson.
(Cem: located in Cabin Creek area Bethany is in Mason Co, but many Lewis Co, people buried there.)
Book 12. Waring,Potter, Lewis Co,Memorial Gardens. (Cem: located in Black Oak area.)
Book 13. Bethel,Mt.Tabor. (Cem: in Ribolt area.)
Book 14. Bloomfield,HeathLewis, & Pine Valley, all in Lewis Co, Mt.Gilead (Mason Co,) Mt,Carmel (Fleming Co)
Book 15 & 17. Miscellaneous Cem: (Burials in Cem: found in the local Newspaper.)

 

Societies and Organizations and Libraries

Lewis County Public Library
422 2nd Street
Vanceburg, KY 41179-1094
(606) 796-2532
 
Kentucky Department for Libraries & Archives
http://www.kdla.net/
P.O. Box 537
300 Coffee Tree Road
Frankfort, KY 40602
Phone #: (502) 564-8300
Fax #: (502) 564-5773
Kentucky Historical Society
http://www.state.ky.us/agencies/khs/
Kentucky History Center
100 W. Broadway
Frankfort 40601
FAX #: (502) 564-4701
Phone #: (502) 564-1792
Tri-State Genealogical Society
Willard Library
21 First Avenue
Evansville, IN 47710
Phone: 812.425.4309 Send Email
Sons of the American Revolution
National Headquarters
1000 South Fourth Street
Louisville, KY 40203
Phone: 502.589.1776
Society of Kentucky Pioneers
1516 Elliott Drive
Jeffersonville, In 47130
Southern Historical Association
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506
The Filson Club Historical Society
1310 South Third Street
Louisville, KY 40208
The Kentucky Genealogical Society
PO Box 153
Frankfort, KY 40602
KYOWVA Genealogical Society
PO Box 1254
Huntington, WV 25715-1254
Historical Confederation of Kentucky
PO Box H
Frankfort, KY 40602-2108


Libraries, Archives, Museums

Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
PO Box 537
Frankfort, KY 40602-0537
Phone: 502.564.8704
John Fox Jr. Memorial Library
Duncan Tavern, DAR Shrine and Historic Center
323 High Street
Paris, KY 40361
Murray State University
Forrest C. Pogue Special Collections Library
One Murray Street
Murray, KY 42071-3309
University of Kentucky
Margaret I. King Library
Department of Special Collections and Archives
Lexington, KY 40506
Western Kentucky University
Kentucky Museum and Library
1526 Russellville Road
Bowling Green, KY 42101-3576
 
 

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