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Graveyard Hill Cemetery

Artemus, Knox County, Kentucky, USA

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Get directions West Fortney Branch Road, Artemus, Kentucky 40903

Coordinates: 36.83991, -83.81673
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An interesting old family burial area and one hard to find is Graveyard Hill. It is located on a high hill in Artemus, Kentucky between the site of Alexander Frank Hays' old homestead on Stinking Creek and the Gatliff Coal Company's Ada coal tipple. It is unmarked on topographic maps and only alluded to in family records. Only the fortuitous contact with a fifth-cousin allowed me to visit this site in 2006. The hilltop is approximately 50 feet wide by 200 feet long and contains perhaps 100 graves. One end is covered in rows of approximately 20 small field stone markers, speculated to be the family slave area. A large, thick concrete slab set in 1909 covers the graves of Mary, Sallie and Polly Hays. Immediately west of the slab are two small, old stones with readable markings for Jonas and Letitia Fortney. Other stones were unreadable or hidden by a thick cover of leaves.

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