In a message dated 4/4/00 9:46:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << Subj: Re: [KYBATH] Re: LOWER SALT LICK CEMETERY Date: 4/4/00 9:46:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time From: [email protected] (Barbara W. Ingram) To: [email protected] The UPPER SALT LICK CEM is located on Route 211 from Rt 36 toward Salt Lick it is on the left sort of behind the UPPER SALT LICK CHURCH.......big cem with lots of little plots fenced off........ You could ask at Crouch Groc which is in the area...... Please visit my Menifee County community at: http://communities.msn.com/MenifeeCountyKentuckyGenealogy&naventryis=106 http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/i/n/g/Barbara-Ingram/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 9:03 AM Subject: [KYBATH] Re: LOWER SALT LICK CEMETERY > In a message dated 4/4/00 7:30:06 AM Eastern Daylight Time, PQui104990 writes: > > << > Hi Vivian; > > Just thought I'd drop in to see if you might be able to help me with a > little info., my husband and I are planning a trip soon to Bath Co., Ky. > again, we've been going just about every year for past 6 years but I haven't > been able to locate the Lower Salt Lick Cemetery yet, I've even been to the > Powell Funeral Home and no one has been helpful in telling me where it is > exactly located, I've been up and down the road 211 south of Salt Lick and > still haven't found it, could you tell me exactly where the cemetery is since > you've been there? Kathy (Libby Tzu) went to Salt Lick last week for a few > days researching and went to the cemetery I told her about behind Pergram's > property where I found Van Norris and his wife buried (and a few snakes as > well) she SD. they found out there was a cemetery way on back in the same > field in a woods but was afraid to go into it because it was all overgrown, I > never knew it was there, no road leading to it, is that the Lower Salt Lick > Cemetery? I've always heard that where our family is buried the Cemetery is > near a lake and on 211 south of Salt Lick and is the Lower Salt Lick > Cemetery, does any of this sound familiar? Well, I'll let you go, wondered > if maybe you could help me out with location of the cemetery so when I go > back down there I can look it up. > > Thanks a bunch, > Patty >> > > Patty, > I have been there but I can't tell you how . It sits on a hillside and I > remember we drove thru a field to get there. > As you look at the grave markers you realize it was probably started as a > family cemetery and was put there because it was land unfit for cultivating. > The big trees now were probably just saplings as evidenced by the > displacement of the grave stones. Some have been literally pushed from their > original location by the tree growth. > Lots of fallen leaves and lots of Snakes in the right season. > We wore big high boots and I was still scared. > > I do remember a quarry of some sort in the back of it as there were some men > target practicing with live bullets and we immediately headed for the car. > I am forwarding this to the Bath Co. List for help since I am so bad at > giving directions. > > Good Luck in your search. > Vivian > >> Thanks Barb, I am sure Patti will appreciate this information. Wish I were going too. Blessings! Vivian