Tombstone Tuesday - William Hamilton

Here lies the body of

William Hamilton

Departed this life 

Oct. 27, 1800

Aged 50 yrs.

Buried Livingston Presbyterian Church Cemetery, near Fredonia, Caldwell County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 15 March 2013.  This cemetery is on private property near the site of the church and across the Marion Road from the former location of the old town of Centreville, once the seat of justice of Livingston County, Kentucky.

Published 17 June 2014, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Tombstone Tuesday - James Huey Hamilton

James Huey

Son of

J.E. & L. Hamilton

Born

Dec. 30, 1851

Died

June 23, 1852

Buried Smithland Cemetery, Smithland, Livingston County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 14 April 2011. The lamb is often found on tombstones of children.

James Huey Hamilton was the son of James E. Hamilton and Lucinda Bishop, who married in Gallatin County, Illinois 4 December 1839. James E. Hamilton was a blacksmith, according to the 1850 and 1860 Livingston County census records. 

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by Brenda Joyce Jerome, CG

Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog

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