This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.breckinridge/4521/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The Eastern State Hospital Cemetery Project became a Special Project of the Ky GenWeb on December 13, 2006. The website has address was changed to: http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/esh/. There are some exciting changes taking place. The hospital cemetery is estimated to have as many as 4500 or more persons buried in it. There are 3 marked graves and one large tombstone. Our goal is to find the names of as many of these individuals as possible. To do this we will need all the help we can get. Locating information prior to the 1911 mandatory registration of deaths is very difficult. We ask that anyone who has any information to please pass it along for inclusion. Newspapers obits are excellent sources of information as well as local county court records/commitment papers. Currently I am gathering death certificates of those who died at the hospital. We have the years 1911 to 1915 posted, but with partial information listed. We are reworking this to include other data such as: place of birth, usual residence, name of parents and their place of birth, occupation, length of stay, cause of death & contributory cause of death. The majority of these persons were from counties other than Fayette and some were also born in other states and countries. Other data already posted includes: 1860 and 1870 Mortality Schedule of hospital deaths; individuals who were patients at the taking of the 1890 Veterans Census; patients listed in the 1870 Federal Population Census; 1833 & 1849 Cholera Deaths and some newspaper accounts of hospital deaths. In the coming months I will be working on gathering more census data, court records of deceased patients, lunacy bonds and locating more newspaper accounts. There are pictures of the Eastern State Hospital Cemetery taken in Nov. 2006. If any one wants information how to obtain a relatives records e-mail address is [email protected] Death certificates can be obtained through 1955 and the 1956 death certificates will out in the next 2-4 months. Jerry Taylor is webmaster and I am the co-ordinator for the Eastern State Hospital Cemetery Project. Thanks, Mary Hatton & Jerry Taylor ([email protected])