K WRIGHT wrote: > Thanks a million Pat, fpr your message, do you know any thing about the cemetery > I am looking for info on members of Duncan family who died early in 1814, where they may have been buried,Would this cemetery be called Pioneer Cemetery? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Pat Settle > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 1:14 PM > To: KYJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [KYJEFFER] Info on Long Run Church > > According to "The Encyclopedia of Louisville", page 525-26, > "Long Run Baptist Church. Located in eastern Jefferson County on Flat Rock Rd., the Long Run Baptist Church is one of the oldest existing Baptist congregations in the Louisville area................ > This goes on for several more paragraphs, giving the history of the church. > Last paragraph: "A new building was completed in 1961, the same year that the site, with the ruins and the cemetery, was deeded to the Jefferson County Fiscal Court, which maintains it as a public shrine." > Sources: Ira V. Birdwhistell, "Gathered at the River; A Narrative History of the Long Run Baptist Association" (Louisville 1978); Thomas C. Fisher, "Morgan Hughes Station and Long Run Baptist Church,"; the Filson Club History Quarterly (20 Oct. 1946): 279-90; George Barry Harkness, "Adapting to a Changing Community at Long Run Baptist Church,"; Frank M. Masters, "A History of Baptists in Kentucky (Louisville 1953); J. H. Spencer, "A History of Kentucky Baptists," vol. 1 (Cincinnati 1886). > Author: Gregory A. Thornbury > K WRIGHT <jmjwright@msn.com> wrote: Hello List Members, > > I am looking for information on Long Run Baptist Church, how would you find information > on there graveyard? From info I have it was founded ca 1794-79, in or near Louisville, > Thank you so much for any information you could share. > > Jeannine Wright > jmjwright@msn.com > > ==== KYJEFFER Mailing List ==== > http://www.usgenweb.org > Home of the oldest and largest volunteer not-for-profit genealogy organization on the web. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > --------------------------------- > Do You Yahoo!? > New! SBC Yahoo! Dial - 1st Month Free & unlimited access > > ==== KYJEFFER Mailing List ==== > http://www.migrations.org > If your information isn't in our database, submit it today! > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > ==== KYJEFFER Mailing List ==== > Submit your information to the Jefferson Co., KY History and Genealogy project. See http://home.ix.netcom.com/~gsdownr/usgw/jefferson1.html for information on how to submit. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 The Pioneer/Western cemetery was established in 1830 according to the article in "The Encyclopedia of Louisville". (It is listed under..Cemeteries) It officially closed in 1893 and many of those buried were removed and buried in other cemeteries. Much of this cemetery lies in ruins and only a few records remain. Janis