POLSTON CEMETERY |
---|
aka Old Stephen Goodman Cemetery” |
Kessinger, Hart County, Kentucky |
The Polston Family Cemetery is located off Highway 88, seven miles west of Munfordville, Hart County, Kentucky, in the area known as the Kessinger Community. From Hwy 88, turn at the POLSTON FAMILY CEMETERY sign and go about one-fourth mile back across rolling farmland to the cemetery that lies on a hill. The Polston Family Cemetery was established about 1850 and is located on what was once known as the Old Stephen Goodman Farm in the 1800s and early 1900s; but known as the Isaac Martin Presley Farm in 1930-1971. Stephen Goodman (1777-1850) was the first known person buried in this cemetery. There 49 or 50 known burials in this cemetery. All information is provided by Edith Presley Bastin, a great-great-granddaughter of Stephen Goodman and Elizabeth Searcy Goodman. All information and photos provided by Edith Bastin |
History of the Polston/Poston - Goodman Cemetery
Layout of graves in the Polston/Poston - Goodman Cemetery
|
Name |
Birth Date |
Death Date |
Notes/comments |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 Sep 1888 |
11 May 1915 |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Abt. 1800 |
Bef. 1900 |
W/o Stephen Goodman. Lime Stone marker was weathered with age and unreadable. Grave site is at head of daughter Elizabeth Goodman Polston. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1777 |
Aft. 1850 |
H/o Elizabeth Searcy. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
5 fieldstones in Goodman Row. This section is marked with 5 Goodman tin markers. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
JAGGERS, Eliza Thomas "Lizie" LOTHERY |
12 Oct 1883 |
13 Feb 1946 at 3:15 p.m. Forestville, Hart Co., KY |
D/o Hannah "Bittie" Seaton & William "Bill" Lothery. Eliza was grand-dauter of Rebecca Polston & John A. Seaton. Eliza was w/o Martin VanBuren Jaggers. Source: Eliza's Death Cert #10966 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
JAGGERS, Martin VanBuren |
14 Mar 1879 |
14 Jan 1923 at age 43, Rowletts, Hart Co., KY |
H/o Eliza Thomas "Lizzie" Lothery. S/o Nancy C. Caswell & William Louis Jaggers. Source: Matin's D.Cert #1311 and Eliza's D. Cert.#10966 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LATHERY, Arthur | Mar 14, 1916 | Jun 24 1917 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LOTHERY, Unknown |
|
|
3 field stones unmarked in Lothery Row |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
24 Nov 1866 |
17 Feb 1886 |
Sister to John Alex (or Elliex) Mathews who married Bonny Anna Edwards. Bonny was sister to Martha Jane "Mattie" Edwards Poston. Harriett was d/o Isaac Mickel Mathews & Francis Elizabeth Ellen Logsdon who are buried in Center Point Baptist Church Cem on hwy 88. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MATHEWS, Baby | 17 Feb 1886 |
17 Feb 1886 |
Marked only by a field rock next to Baby’s mother Harriet Mathews with a Mathews tin marker |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1963 |
1963 |
Tin marker |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 Oct 1892 |
04 Jun 1931 |
W/o Louis Robert Philpott. D/o James Church Lothery & Sarah Nutt |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
24 Feb 1885 |
30 Jan 1955 |
H/o Clara Belle Lothery. S/o Lewis W. Philpott & Elizabeth Atteberry.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PHILPOTT, Sandra K. |
1963 |
1963 |
*KBIndex:
*KDIndex:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PHILPOTT, Unnamed |
|
|
Un-named S/o Willie Philpott. Marked with field stone |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PHILPOTT, Unknown |
|
|
7 field stones with no names and no dates are located to the left as one enters the gate. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Abt 1787 |
17 Dec 1875 |
H/o Jane Milligan |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 Nov 1832 |
27 May 1904 |
H/o Elizabeth Goodman & S/o Andrew Polston & Jane Milligan. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
28 Apr 1867 |
17 Apr 1885 |
D/o Andrew M. Polston & Elizabeth Goodman. Died during childbirth. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
28 Aug 1858 |
21 Oct 1885 |
D/o Andrew M. Polston & Elizabeth Goodman. Died at birth of daughter, Anna Eliza Polston (md. Archie Logsdon) buried in St. Stephens Cemetery, Section H-15-25, Preston St., Louisville, Jefferson Co, KY |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1895 |
1895 |
S/o George James McClellan Polston & Disty B. “Elizabeth Baptista” Caswell |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 Jul 1873 |
10 Sep 1912 |
W/o George James McClellan Polston. D/o Marion T. Caswell & Mary Abigail Jaggers |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 Feb 1837 |
01 Feb 1910 |
W/o Andrew M. Polston. D/o Stephen Goodman & Elizabeth Searcy. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 Oct 1902 |
08 Aug 1912 |
D/o George James McClellan Polston & Disty B. “Elizabeth Baptista” Caswell |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
28 May 1873 |
01 Aug 1950 |
S/o Andrew M. Polston & Elizabeth Goodman. H/o Disty B. “Elizabeth Baptista” Caswell |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1838 |
10 Aug 1896 |
S/o Andrew Polston & Jane Milligan. H/o Margaret Ruth White. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1790 |
Bef. 17 Dec 1875 |
W/o Andrew Polston & M/o Andrew M. Polston & James David Polston. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 Jun 1910 |
Spring 1911 |
D/o George James McClellan Polston & Disty B. “Elizabeth Baptista” Caswell |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1896 |
1896 |
D/o George James McClellan Polston & Disty B. “Elizabeth Baptista” Caswell |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 Aug 1877 |
21 Jan 1948 |
S/o Andrew M. Polston & Elizabeth Goodman. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
4 Polston field stones with no given names and no dates are in the Andrew M. Polston row. One field stone could be Rebecca Polston Seaton (sister to Andrew M. Polston) & another field stone could be Rebecca's, Hannah Seaton Lothery and another stone could be Eliza Thomas "Lizzie" Lothery Jaggers (d/o Hannah Seaton Lothery) |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
30 Dec 1882 |
03 Apr 1885 |
d/o Stephen Douglas Poston & Martha Jane “Mattie” Edwards |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 Aug 1890 |
23 Apr 1893 |
D/o Stephen Douglas "Doug" Poston & Martha Jane Edwards |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 May 1866 |
07 Jan 1897 |
W/o Stephen Douglas Poston. D/o William Asbury "Billy" Edwards & Nancy Josephine "Josie" Harrod. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 Sept 1884 |
04 Jan 1886 |
D/o Stephen Douglas "Doug" Poston & Martha Jane Edwards |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 Feb 1862 | 03 Mar 1953 |
s/o Andrew M. Polston & Elizabeth Goodman |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 Mar 1931 |
20 Mar 1931 |
Return to Hart Co. Cemeteries Menu |
---|