History of the Lebanon Community Cemetery
Established Circa 1825
The Lebanon Community Cemetery is located adjacent to the Lebanon Baptist Church in northwestern Franklin County, Kentucky about three (3) miles west of Highway 421 North on Lebanon Road near the Shelby County line. Tombstones on the site with legible inscriptions show the earliest date of death as 1840 for John P. Sanfors (age 54),
Anna Catherine Madison (age 26), and J.R. believed to be John Rodgers who lives nearby) whose marker is a field stone. Martin Snook dies in 1845 at age 51 and three Snook children have sates between 1843 and 1946. There are numerous other markers made of field stones, especially those nearest the Church have been unearthed and reset Since the Church was established nearby in 1825, the probability exists that burials in this Cemetery go back at least to that date, less than 50 years after our National Independence. The historical significance of the Cemetery is depicted, in part, by the military veterans buried there which includes someone from most of the United States conflicts. Known Veterans include Zachariah Lee Sr. – War of 1812; Confederate soldiers: John B. Pulliam, J.M. Pulliam, Thomas Pulliam, Wm. (Ebin) Thompson, Wm. Watkins; Union soldier: John Sanford; WWI: Ambrose Aldridge, Willie Fleming, Darcie Moore, Calvin Peyton, Chester Pulliam, Rodger Pilcher; James Blaine Toombs; WWII: Henry L. Allison, Duard Baker, Estill Christopher, John Delling, Ernest K. Lewis, Kenneth J. Moffett, Zach R. Pulliam, Jr., Jerry Lee Quire, Garnett Roach, Edgar C. Rodgers, Roy Brent Rodgers, Fred Allen Sams, Wm. Schultz, Harold B. Snow; Leo E. Southland Wm. Wentworth, Alvin Willard, Korean Conflict: Selbert Kendall, Raymond T. Semones, Thomas B. Willard; Viet Nam: Wm. David Sams; Other time periods: Albert Hutcherson, Eugene Johnson, John R. Lewis, and Albert MacDonald. There are approximately 1500 plots in the cemetery with about 90 percent filled. There are numerous known graves without markers. The Cemetery’s most historic surnames (at least 134 with 1900 dates) are Adcock, Allen, Aynes, Baker, Beckley, Botkins, Brawner, Browner, Buford, Barnes, Clark, Cole, Coleman, Deakins, Dowden, Duncan, Ford, Gordon, Graves, Grugan, Hackett, Hardin, Harrod, Herrell, Holmes, Hooper, Hulett, James, Johnson, Jones, Kendall, Lee, Long, Madison, McDowell, Miller, Moore, Morris, O’Nan, Pace, Payton, Peyton, Penn, Peters, Poole, Pulliam, Raisor/Razor, Reeves, Roach, Rodgers, Samples, Sanford, Sheridan, Snook, Stivers, Terrell, Tracy, Wade, Waits, Waldner, Warren, Watkins, Welch, Wiley, Wilborn, York, and Yount. Surnames added since 1900: Aldridge, Allison, Anderson, Blankenship, Booth, Brewer, Cain, Campbell, Chism, Christopher, Cook, Curry, Dempsey, Denton, Downey, Fleming, Goins, Gore, Gray, Green, Hampton, Harlow, Hedges, Hooper, Hudson, Hulette, Hutcherson, Lacy, Leesnitzer, Lewis, Lopez, Lyon, Lynn, McCann, McDonald, Marcum, Markoff, Martin, Metts, Mitchell, Moffett, Monfort, Nash, Parris, Perkins, Pilcher, Quire, Rearden, Renfroe, Robertson, Rogers, Sams, Schultz, Searce, Semones/Semonis, Shannon, Slattery, Small, Smith, Snavley, Southerland, Tackett, Thompson, Toombs, Tyre, Vest, Ware, Webster, Wentworth, Wesley, Willard, Wright and Yazell. Source “Church and Family Graveyards of Franklin County” by KY Genealogical Soc. 1976; WWI & II . Veterans: VFW; Civil War Veterans, Charles Hall, CW Historians; & on site review.
