Vicki Cox
Published: 2018-07-11
Total Pages: 264
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Our Family's Hallowed Ground is a history of the people buried in the Wells- Lyons Cemetery, a 150-year-old rural family cemetery in eastern Kentucky. The book follows the land ownership from the Governor of Kentucky to Edmund Wells in 1837 to its current day owners. It explains early Kentucky land ownership processes and chronicles this farmland through the lives of those buried there. The book describes the burial traditions and the closed societal culture of 19th and 20th century Appalachian inhabitants and informs the reader of the plight of rural family cemeteries today. While most people highlighted are named Wells or Lyons, there are over 200 other surnames included in the book. The stories represent the facts as determined by the author after more than 20 years of research. Incidents and relationships are documented with both primary and secondary sources. There are celebratory stories about marriages, births and financial success and heartbreaking ones about deaths, addictions and even murder. Together they create a fascinating book about real people living real lives.