Greetings, My gg-grandfather VERNON ALEXANDER WHEAT born circa 1819 in Adair County, Kentucky married ELIZABETH OWENS of Boyle County (then Mercer), Kentucky practiced medicine in and around Parksville, Mitchellsburg, and Brumfield. According to pension papers filed by his children several years after his death, he had been a contract surgeon for the Union Army Hospital located in Lebanon in 1864 having moved his family there for that reason. He had died in 1864 of camp dysentery according to the recollection of his children and others involved in the pension papers. My real problem is in locating where Vernon is buried. His widow, in dire straits and with several minor children had taken up keeping a toll gate on a road, out of Perryville, I presume, where she died after having lost all her records in a house fire. His children stated that the physicians who had attended him were now deceased or had left the area for parts unknown. They distinctly recalled the date and cause of his death, but stated he was buried in a county cemetery at Lebanon which had no sexton. No name was given for the cemetery. The fact that he lies in an unknown graveyard, probably in an unmarked grave, has troubled me for years. At one time, I did stop by the courthouse in Lebanon and looked around the National Cemetery there finding nothing after a brief search. My dilemma is in finding where VERNON ALEXANDER WHEAT IS buried. Does anyone know of any existing Marion County death records for the period? Are burial records available for Marion County for the period? Has there been an effort to identify every cemetery in the county regardless of how remote or how small? I would really appreciate any clues or suggestions. I have lived in Nebraska for years, but my real home is Perryville, Kentucky where I grew up and to which I return at least once a year. It will always be home. Jack