Taken from the "LYNDON LORE" book published by the Lyndon Homemakers Club.... Dorsey - Lawrence Cemetery The land from Wood Road and Whipps Mill Road, extending to Shelbyville Road was the farm of L.L. Dorsey, who had more than 1,000 acres that ran almost to Middletown. Dorsey was a noted trotting and harness horse breeder and too his horses all over the country for matches. Susannah Lawrence, one of the children of Lieut. Benjamin Lawrence of Maryland, married Edward Dorsey and they journeyed with their families in 1802 from Maryland to Kentucky --thus, the connection between the Lawrence and Dorsey families. It is said that they travelled over 800 miles and built a large comfortable house in a grove of trees. The estate of the Dorsey and Lawrence families was so beautiful and desirable that they named it "Eden." Benjamin Lawrence died here in 1812 at the age of 73 and was laid to rest on the vast estate and they called the spot "Vale of Eden". The cemetery is located on grounds of the University of Louisville music school near Whipps Mill Road.(Now U of L Shelby Campus) On a visit to this cemetery we found it so damaged by vandals, tombstones knocked over and broken and the large stones defaced by age and weather, that it was difficult to read them. Two , Susan Ann Harrison and Mary Lawrence were discernable. But the Kentucky Historical Register lists the names of Benjamin Lawrence and his wife Urath Lawrence, also Benjamin Lawrence, Jr., Leven Lawrence and his wife Mary Dorsey, also Rebecca Lawrence Winchester. Mrs. Wm. Perry, found one of the stones lying along the road in front of their property on Whipps Mill Road. It had been broken, evidently by someone trying to carry it away. So she took it into her yard and it stands propped against the barn. The name on it is Mary Matilda Dorsey, Daughter of Eli and Martha Dorsey, died 1815, 15 years old. Part of this information was obtained from: Counties of the Ohio Falls Compiled in 1882 Out of print. Cheers, Laura