This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RAB.2ACI/2835.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Taken _verbatim_ from 'Cemeteries of Adair County, Kentucky, Volume 7 (1989), pages 46-47: 'Halsall Cemetery [is] located on the farm of Mrs. Garnett Loy at the end of Hutchinson Road, off Hwy 767, 4 miles north of Columbia. Cemetery has waist high stone wall around it. [7 grave markers listed] 'There are two graves outside this rock wall. One is of a baby, identity unknown, grave unmarked. The other, however, is of: 'Owens, Dr. Hector, born between 1809 & 1815 (census), died in the cholora epidemic of 1873. His grave is surrounded by a small stone wall.' *************** Dozens of male children in Adair County -- and a few in surrounding counties -- from the 1840s through the early 1870s were named Hector O. or some variation thereof in honor of Dr. Owens. At least one couple went so far as to name their son Doctor H.