Salem Cemetery 1888

 The following deed for a public burying ground in Salem, Livingston County, Kentucky can be found in Livingston County Deed Book 10, page 249. This cemetery is still in use today, making it 134 years old.

“This deed of gift and transfer made and entered into this 16 day of July in the year of our Lord One thousand eighty eight, Between Asa Alvis, M.H. Utley and T.W. Lowery, of the county of Livingston and State Of Kentucky of the first part and the citizens of the town of Salem and those living Adjacent to … town of Salem and their heirs of the second part, all of the County and State aforesaid, witnesseth That the said parties of the first part has [sic] this day given unto the said parties of the second part a certain tract or parcel of land  … for the purpose of a public Burying Ground  … containing by survey One acre, be the same more or less. To have and to hold with all the appurtenances thereunto belonging. And the parties of the second part to forever warrant and defend the right and title of said land from them … In testimony hereof we have set our hands and seals this day and date above written. [signed] T.W. Lowery, Sallie Lowery, Acy [sic] Alvis, M.C. Alvis, M.H. Utley, S.M. Utley.

 State of Kentucky, County of Livingston} Sct. I, J.M. Worten, Clerk of the County Court for the county and state aforesaid, hereby certify that the foregoing deed to the Citizens of the Town of Salem, was this day produced to me in my office, and ordered to be recorded, the same having been duly acknowledged by T.W. Lowery, Sallie Lowery, Asa Alvis, M.C. Alvis, M.H. Utley and S.M. Utley before J.M. Roney, my Deputy to be their act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned, as appears by an endorsement thereon in said Deputy’s hand writing in these words, to wit: “Ack’d March 19^th 1889. J.M. Worten, Clk. By J.M. Roney, D.C." Recorded 20 March 1889.      

 Published 30 Aug 2023, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/