The cemetery is near the northeast corner of the intersection of Lena Ward road and Coakley road, also known as Pleasant Valley Road or Hwy 569, on top of a rise in the open field.

Some descendants recently placed a long overdue granite marker at the grave site. Contributors were from six states: California, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, and Kentucky – all very proud of their ancestor, James Monay.

PREFACE TO PAPER WRITTEN BY RAY PERKINS:
"Monument Placed at the Grave of an American Frontiersman and Kentucky Pioneer"

James Monay: Mooney: Money – the fancy French name that has so many different spellings: Monnett: Monay: Muny. It is still difficult yet today to know how to correctly spell it. In Green County, Kentucky, during the early 1800's, the surname was Muny or Money. In the 1700's, the name was pronounced and spelled: Mooney.

James Monay: Mooney: Money Sr. was my great, great, great, great grandfather, through my Noe family ancestors located in Green County, Kentucky. My father, Willis Perkins, had been born and raised only several miles from the ol' James Money Sr. farm, located in Green County, Kentucky. He had told me a little about our ancestor, James Monay: Money, when I was but a young boy. I was told that James Money was an Indian fighter, and that he came into Kentucky with Daniel Boone back in 1769. I had been told that James Money had three wives and a bunch of kids. I knew that his oldest daughter had been named Elizabeth. She had married Daniel Noe and they lived at a place called "The Sinks" in Green County, Kentucky. Elizabeth Noe was my great, great, great grandmother (this information had been passed down from past generations in the Noe-Perkins families of Green County).

My father, Willis Perkins, had taken me to the grave site of James Money Sr. back in 1958. He had always been interested in his ancestry, and he told me about the Money, Noe, Marr, Milby, Calhoun, and Perkins families from Green County.

I always wanted to know more about James Money. It took me nearly ten years of research to figure out the life of this early Kentucky pioneer.

A stone monument was placed at the grave of an American frontiersman and Kentucky pioneer in Green County, Kentucky. The granite marker was placed in 2012 by several descendants of James Monay Sr., a historic figure in Kentucky's earliest recorded history.

James Monay could have been born as early as 1727 in Calvert County, Maryland. There are no existing records that show his exact birth date. His father was William Monett: Monay' and his mother was Elizabeth Kent Monett: Monay. The family had moved to America – New York, in 1681.

James Monay became an adult in the majestic Allegheny Mountains of Colonial America: Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina. He lived during the time of the conflict between the British, the French, the Native American Indians, and the Colonial Americans. James Monay lived in the frontier wilderness when he was a young man. This was his world – a time in our American history when Colonial Americans were first expanding westward – crossing the Appalachian Mountain range into "Kaintucke territory," an untamed land that was the hunting ground for the Shawnee, Cherokee, Delaware, Wyandot, and other Indian tribes.
Ray Perkins

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Ray Perkins worked diligently on excavating and restoring this burial ground. He and Jamie Money placed gravel and new fencing around the burials. As Ray worked, he discovered many other burials here mostly of small children judging by the size of the mounds. He worked on restoring this burial site for weeks in the summer heat of 2012. It took a toll on his health and he died in Oct 2015. The cemetery has now grown back over unfortunately.