About Frankfort Cemetery
Frankfort Cemetery is a cemetery near Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky. Wikidata records 87 notable people buried here, including Richard Mentor Johnson, Daniel Boone and John Adair. The nearest other listed cemetery is Frankfort State Hospital and School Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the east. The nearest funeral home we know of is Harrod Brothers Funeral Home in Frankfort, about 0.8 mi away. It is one of 20 cemeteries we list in Franklin County, and 20 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Frankfort. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Frankfort Cemetery
Among them: 23 US representatives, 17 governors, 16 US senators, 7 Civil War veterans, 7 Mexican-American War veterans, 7 War of 1812 veterans, 6 writers, 3 physicians.
- Richard Mentor Johnson1780-1850Vice president of the United States from 1837 to 1841
- Daniel Boone1734-1820American pioneer and frontiersman
- John Adair1757-1840American politician
- Simon Bolivar Buckner1823-1914Confederate Army general
- Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.1886-1945American lieutenant general during World War II
- John J. Crittenden1787-1863U.S. Attorney General and politician from Kentucky
- Elizabeth Ann Hulette1960-2003American professional wrestling manager, announcer and ocassional professional wrestler
- George M. Bibb1776-1859American politician
- Luke Pryor Blackburn1816-1887American physician and governor of Kentucky
- J. C. W. Beckham1869-1940Governor of Kentucky
- Augustus Owsley Stanley1867-1958American state and federal politician
- Lawrence Wetherby1908-1994American politician
Show all 87 notable burials
- William Goebel1856-1900Governor of Kentucky; American politician
- William O'Connell Bradley1847-1914Politician from the US state of Kentucky
- William T. Barry1784-1835American politician
- Charles Scott1739-1813Governor of Kentucky from 1808 to 1812
- Christopher Greenup1750-1818American politician
- Edwin P. Morrow1877-1935American politician
- George Madison1763-1816American politician
- James Turner Morehead1797-1854American politician and lawyer
- Thomas Todd1765-1826United States federal judge
- George B. Crittenden1812-1880Confederate Army general
- Humphrey Marshall1812-1872United States Congressman and general in the Confederate States Army
- Solomon P. Sharp1787-1825American politician
- Charles S. Morehead1802-1868US politician, 20th governor of Kentucky
- John Brown1757-1837American lawyer and statesman, Virginia
- Martin D. Hardin1780-1823American politician
- Robert P. Letcher1788-1861American governor of Kentucky
- Thomas H. Paynter1851-1921American politician
- Thomas Leonidas Crittenden1819-1893Union Army general
- William Lindsay1835-1909U.S. Senator from Kentucky
- J. C. S. Blackburn1838-1918American politician
- Johnson N. Camden Jr.1865-1942American politician
- Paul Sawyier1865-1917American artist
- Presley O'Bannon1776-1850American politician
- Simeon S. Willis1879-1965American lawyer and politician
- Isham Talbot1773-1837American politician
- John White1802-1845Prominent U.S. politician during the 1840s
- Henry Crist1764-1844American politician
- James Harlan1800-1863American politician and lawyer
- John Calvin Mason1802-1865American politician
- South Trimble1864-1946American politician
- Thomas Y. Fitzpatrick1850-1906American politician
- Joel Tanner Hart1810-1877American sculptor and poet
- Thomas Francis Marshall1801-1864American politician
- Beverly L. Clarke1809-1860American politician
- John Caldwell1758-1804American politician
- John Milton Elliott1820-1879American politician
- Samuel McKee1774-1826American politician and lawyer
- Theodore O'Hara1820-1867Confederate Army officer
- Ann Mary Butler Crittenden Coleman1813-1891American author
- Harry Lee Waterfield1911-1988American politician
- Henry Clay1811-1847American politician
- Henry Thompson Stanton1834-1898American poet
- Parker Watkins Hardin1841-1920American lawyer
- Robert A. Alexander1819-1867American horse breeder
- Thomas H. Taylor1825-1901American official who fought for the Confederate States of America
- Willard Rouse Jillson1890-1975American historian, academic and geologist from New York
- George Davidson Todd1856-1929American politician
- Nathaniel G. S. Hart1784-1813American lawyer
- Allen Hiram Atwater1817-1889American politician
- Edmund Haynes Taylor1830-1923Born 12 Feb 1830; died 19 Jan 1923
- Edward Ellsworth Underwood1864-1942American physician
- Emily Harvie Thomas Tubman1794-1885American philanthropist
- Mason Brown1799-1867American politician
- Orlando Brown1801-1867Kentucky politician, newspaper publisher and historian
- Chapman Coleman Todd1848-1929American naval officer
- George Muterdied 1810American judge
- George W. Monroe1835-1869American general
- John Simpsondied 1813American attorney and politician
- Landon Addison Thomas1799-1889Politician
- Walker Baylor1762-1822
- William L. Rodman1858-1916American surgeon
- Emma Gowdy Collins1854-1943American poet
- Harry Innes Todd1818-1891American steamboat captain, sheriff, and politician
- Jane Bledsoe1769-18289 Oct 1763 - est. 1828
- John Harris Todd1795-1824
- John M. Scott1812-1850Scott, John M; class of 1835
- Margaretta Mason Brown1772-18381772-1838
- Maria Knox Innes1796-1851
- Philip Norbourne Barbour1813-1846American soldier
- Preston W. Brown1775-1826American physician
- Sarah Lee Crittenden1821-18878 Jan 1821 - 27 Mar 1887
- Sarah O. Crittenden1787-1824
- Thomas Willmott Freeman1871-1945Mechanical engineer
- William Edward Railey1852-1943American geneologist and author
People whose Wikidata entry gives Frankfort Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
Map
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What Frankfort Cemetery offers
Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.
Nearby cemeteries
- Frankfort State Hospital and School CemeteryFrankfort, KYCemetery0.2 mi
- Green Hill CemeteryFrankfort, KYCemetery1.7 mi
- Choatville Church CemeteryFrankfort, KYChristian cemetery3.1 mi
- Choateville Church CemeteryFrankfort, KYChurch cemetery3.1 mi
- Antioch Church of Christ CemeteryFrankfort, KYChurch cemetery3.8 mi
- Cook CemeteryFrankfort, KYCemetery3.8 mi
- Sunset Memorial GardensFrankfort, KYMemorial park4.3 mi
- Bethel Baptist Church CemeteryFrankfort, KYBaptist cemetery5.0 mi
- North Benson Church CemeteryFrankfort, KYChurch cemetery5.7 mi
- Harvieland Methodist Church CemeteryFrankfort, KYMethodist cemetery6.2 mi
Funeral homes near Frankfort Cemetery
- Harrod Brothers Funeral Home0.8 miFuneral home · Frankfort · (502) 227-4526
- Rogers Funeral Home0.8 miFuneral home · Frankfort · (502) 223-3481
- Lecompte Johnson Taylor Funeral Home3.3 miFuneral home · Frankfort · (502) 223-5858
- Frankfort Monument Co7.5 miMonument dealer · Lawrenceburg · (502) 875-2745
- Ritchie & Peach Funeral Home9.9 miFuneral home · Lawrenceburg · (502) 839-5151
- Noon & Son Funeral11 miFuneral home · Lawrenceburg · (502) 839-6901
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