Thank you for posting some very interesting information about the Johnson graveyard at Lamb. My wife and I thought we knew all about it, but evidently there are 2 Johnson graveyards in the Lamb area. Below is an excerpt from my wife's new book. Now for the Flowers connection. I think I found in Jimmie Harrison Taylor's "Highlights of Capital Hill" that William G Hunt was married to a Flowers, probably before he married Kitty Shive. They had a daughter Puss Hunt who married a Wood Gosnell. I haven't been able to definitely find this Wood Gosnell, although there was a contemporary Woodford Gosnell who married a Susan Lane in 1873. There are a few Shive family graveyards in the Subtle area of Metcalfe county, and I think the Fountain Run - Tracy area Shives are probably related to them, but there is a Shive graveyard here at Capital Hill in southern Barren county near the Allen county line. According to neighborhood lore, Shives and Hunts are buried here. There were several Shive - Hunt intermarriages, but the Shive family seems to have left Barren county by about 1880 or so. Daine & Martha Harrison Fountain Run JOHNSON CEMETERY Located in Monroe Co., 1.6 miles south of Lamb, 250 yards east of Milburn farm house. On hillside 50 yards north of barn. Copied Mar 20, 1999. BROWN, Mary E. Apr 11, 1867 Jan 15, 1937 CROSS, Abraham Dec 15, 1838 Jun 27, 1903 CROSS, Ala B. Jun 14, 1889 Nov 17, 1890 CROSS, James A. Sep 1, 1882 Jan 28, 1900 CROSS, Rebecca A. Dec 26, 1847 Mar 4, 1910 w/o Abraham JOHNSON, Betsy Jul 26, 1827 Nov 14, 1881 Second wife of James JOHNSON, James Oct 29, 1815 Aug 20, 1881 Masonic emblem JOHNSON, Jane A. Jul 20, 1817 Oct 22, 1855 d/o James Johnson POLAND, Infant Jan 6, 1906 Jan 6, 1906 d/o H. T. & B. C. SHIVES - HUNT CEMETERY >From Hwy 87, turn right at Tracy Methodist Church onto 921. Follow 921 about 1.3 miles and turn left onto the Capital Hill Church Road. Follow about 2 miles and bear to the right. Follow this to Capital Hill Church and again bear to the right. Almost immediately, a lane goes off to the right. Follow this through a gate and about ½ mile past a barn. Continue to another barn and some outbuildings. Cemetery is in a patch of trees in front of this barn. It is almost destroyed and only a few field stones remain. Legend has it that the Shives and Hunt families are buried here.

Thanks for a very informative reply! Didn't know there was someone in Fountain Run who shared a common interest in these families. I grew up on a farm between Lamb and Flippin, and went to school at Fountain Run and Gamaliel. The Johnson Cemetery you listed I know about--and included it in my published listing of both of these cemeteries, in Kentucky Ancestors, back in 1992. I didn't give it a name, but always identified it in my mind with Abraham Cross. I'm not sure whether it appears in Peden/Gorin or not. The Johnsons buried there were Methodist, and members of Bethel Methodist Meeting nearby. Cross was also a Methodist, but not sure why he is buried in that cemetery. The Samsons and Howards owned this farm when I was a boy. I grew up on the farm immediately behind it, now owned by Garner Pare. Bethel Church stood down on Bethel Branch, on the farm of my great great grandparents, Elzia & Elizabeth Douglass Arterburn--later called the Ralph Proffitt place, now owned by Scott Davis. Interesting about William G. Hunt--is it possible there could have been another one? My William was married to Catherine Shive on 20 Apr 1856, and he was still with his parents in the 1850 Barren County Census. Could be he had a short marriage in between, but don't recall seeing any record of it in Barren County marriages. Catherine died well before Billy, and there could have been a second marriage, but if so she too must have pre-deceased Billy, since no spouse is mentioned in the Will. I seem to recall that James Shives was part owner of the Fountain Run mill near the turn of the century, according to Lucy Albright--I think. The Shive cemetery I am thinking of is the Shive-Orville Martin Cemetery, near the Metcalfe-Barren County line. Catherine's parents are there. Nice to hear from you! Charles __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com