My friends - Today, we are beginning a new series for McCracken County. Counties in KY were required, at an early day, to establish a "poor house" (later known, more politely, as a "county sanitarium"). Associated with these poor houses there was usually an adjacent cemetery, in which were buried those who died in the poor house, or died after being taken to a hospital from the poor house. These poor house cemeteries are a challenge for family historians, since records on who was buried in them can often be slim or non-existent, and rarely were grave markers placed, other than small footstones or some other very inexpensive marker, if anything at all. We do have some records for burials beginning in the early part of the 20th century in the McCracken County Sanitarium/Poor House. We will begin in 1909(there are no extant records prior to 1909) and continue to about 1925. I will probably not post burials beyond 1925 or 1930, as we would be touching the edge of living memory if we go further. I have the records up to about 1965 and can check a later sanitarium death record, should there be a valid need. I would need to be contacted via private e-mail for that. Subscribers to the McCracken and JP lists can obtain the full dataset for a person shown in the listing below by sending a request to me. These datasets vary widely in their content, from containing a good deal of information to having almost none. All of them have the date of death; most of them have the place of death(such as "Riverside Hospital", "County Sanitarium", and, sometimes, an exact city address where the death occurred); some have a part or all of the birth date, some only have the age, while some have neither; a few show where the person was born; all show ethnicity(many are African-American) and some show the cause of death, as well as whether a Coroner's Inquest was ordered. Some also show the row and grave number in which the person was buried. Parents are usually *not* shown for the infants, although there are some that may read, "Infant child of Jane Smith, etc." As always, your continuing assistance in not resending this entire message back to be with the request is appreciated. Tomorrow, we will move over to Fulton County. -B ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ McCracken County - Burials in Poor House Cemetery - Part 1 (M)=Male (F)=Female (AA)=African-American (NGG)=No Gender Given Johnson, Mose, age 25 (AA) Ayers, William, age 40 Wright, Hattie, age 25 (AA) Lyman, Harmon Vincent, age 4 months (AA) Ellison child(daughter of Blanchie Ellison), still born (AA) Loving, ------, age 1 month (M) (AA) Collins, ------| Collins, ------|male twins, still born (AA) Anderson, ------ (M) stillborn Rogers, Homer, age 25 (AA) Deferr, Mary, age 66 James, S.W., age --- Mobbs, Clyde (infant) Holyfield, Sally, age 79 (AA) Jones, Sarah, age --- Prince, Lucy Jane (infant) Cole, Hattie, age 20 McCann, James, age 51 Tucker, ------, age --- (F) Brown, H.P., age 30 Huff, Mary, age ---- Faughn, ------ (infant) Gipson, John (AA) (Shot) Futrell, Mrs. Nettie, age --- ~to be continued~ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++