Lexington Cemetery in Lexington-Fayette, Kentucky
Also known as The Lexington Cemetery
About Lexington Cemetery
Lexington Cemetery is a church cemetery near Lexington-Fayette, Fayette County, Kentucky. It lies about 2.8 mi east of Lexington-Fayette. Wikidata records 138 notable people buried here, including Jim Varney, John C. Breckinridge and Henry Clay. The nearest other listed cemetery is Forest Hill Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the northeast. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Bluegrass Cremation Service, Llc in Lexington, about 0.5 mi away. It is one of 25 cemeteries we list in Fayette County, and 34 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 4 of the 25 listings in Fayette County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Lexington-Fayette. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Lexington Cemetery
Among them: 19 US representatives, 13 Civil War veterans, 12 writers, 7 US senators, 5 Mexican-American War veterans, 5 physicians, 5 World War I veterans, 4 basketball players.
- Jim Varney1949-2000American actor and comedian
- John C. Breckinridge1821-1875Vice president of the United States from 1857 to 1861
- Henry Clay1777-1852American politician from Kentucky
- John Breckinridge1760-1806American politician
- Kenny Rollins1923-2012American basketball player
- John Y. Brown Jr.1933-202255th governor of Kentucky
- Henry Skillman Breckinridge1886-1960American Olympic fencer, lawyer and politician
- Sophonisba Breckinridge1866-1948American lawyer, social reformer, social scientist and civil rights activist
- Wallace Jones1926-2014American basketball player
- John Hunt Morgan1825-1864Confederate Army general
- Ralph Foody1928-1999American actor
- Gordon Granger1821-1876Union Army General
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- Randall L. Gibson1832-1892Confederate Army general and U.S. Senator
- Adolph Rupp1901-1977American college basketball coach
- James B. Beck1822-1890United States Representative and Senator from Kentucky
- James Lane Allen1849-1925American novelist and writer from Kentucky
- Mary Cyrene Breckinridge1826-1907Wife of vice-president of the U.S.
- Wilhelmenia Fernandez1949-2024American opera singer
- Abraham Buford II1820-1884Confederate Army general
- Basil W. Duke1838-1916American General of the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge1846-1932Confederate military officer and politician
- Joseph S. Fowler1820-1902American politician and senator
- Mary Carson Breckinridge1881-1965American nurse
- Thomas R. Underwood1898-1956American politician from Kentucky
- George Madison Adams1837-1920American politician
- John T. Johnson1788-1856Attorney, politician, and Stone-Campbell minister
- John Y. Brown, Sr.1900-1985American attorney and politician, Kentucky
- Laura Clay1849-1941American suffragist
- American politician
- Gay Brewer1932-2007Professional golfer
- James Brown Clay1817-1864American politician
- Mary Barr Clay1839-1924American suffragist leader
- Ben Ali Haggin1882-1951American artist
- John B. Breckinridge1913-1979American politician
- John Barnes Chance1932-1972American composer
- Jouett Shouse1879-1968American politician
- Rosa Vertner Jeffrey1826-1894American poet and novelist
- Scott Breckinridge1882-1941American fencer and gynecologist
- Arthur B. Rouse1874-1956American politician
- Joe B. Hall1928-2022American college basketball coach
- Joseph Cabell Breckinridge Sr.1842-1920United States general
- Mary Jane Warfield1815-1900Wife of Cassius M. Clay
- Mary Wharton1912-1991American botanist
- Roger Hanson1827-1863American General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
- Sarah Gibson Humphreys1830-1907American author, suffragist
- Thomas Alexander Marshall1794-1871United States politician
- William P. Kimball1857-1926American politician
- C. M. Newton1930-2018American college basketball coach
- Charles Chilton Moore1837-1906American newspaper editor
- Elisha I. Winter1781-1849American politician
- George B. Duncan1861-1950American major general
- Henry Brainerd McClellan1840-1904American officer in the Confederate States Army and teacher
- Henry Clay McDowell1832-1899Union Army officer
- James McChord1785-1820American Presbyterian minister
- Ralph Kercheval1911-2010American football player
- Sanders D. Bruce1825-1902American racehorse owner
- Thomas Clay McDowell1866-1935American horse trainer
- Aylette Buckner1806-1869American politician
- Benjamin Winslow Dudley1785-1870
- Claude M. Johnson1852-1919United States printer who was Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing from 1893 to 1900
- Clyde Johnson1917-1997American football player
- Desha Breckinridge1867-1935American newspaper editor and publisher
- Elisha Warfield1781-1859American medical researcher
- Ethelbert Ludlow Dudley1818-1862American physician
- George S. Shanklin1807-1883American politician
- George T. Beck1856-1943American politician and business entrepreneur in the U.S. state of Wyoming
- Horace S. Beattie1909-1993American mechanical engineer and IBM executive
- James Carson Breckinridge1877-1942American Marine Corps general
- James Kennedy Patterson1833-1922British academic
- John Wesley Hunt1773-1849American businessman
- Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, Jr.1833-1915American politician
- Roger W. Barbour1919-1993American herpetologist
- Charles Kerr1863-1950American lawyer and judge
- Ethelbert Dudley Warfield1861-1936American academic administrator
- Frances Estill Beauchamp1857-1923American suffragist, temperance leader, philanthropist
- Frederick Van Lennep1911-1987American advertising executive and horse breeder
- Jesse Creech1895-1948American fighter ace from World War I
- John Bryan Bowman1824-1891American lawyer and educator
- Josephine Russell Clay1835-1920American racehorse breeder
- Leslie Combs1793-1881
- Mikhail Wehbe1942-2022Syrian diplomat
- Robert F. Stephens1927-2002American judge
- Silas Totten1804-1873American clergyman and educator
- Wickliffe Cooper1831-1867United States Army Officer
- William Russell1758-1825American soldier, pioneer, and politician from Virginia and Kentucky
- Amy C. King1928-2014American mathematics educator
- Charles Henry Breckinridge1844-1867American Civil War Army officer
- Charlton Hunt1801-1836American lawyer and politician
- Herman Lee Donovan1887-1964American educator and college administrator
- Hogan Yancey1881-1960American football player
- John Breckinridge1797-1841American clergyman and editor
- John L. Dodge1865-1940American harness racing trainer-driver
- John Wilson Townsend1885-1968American Kentucky historian from Kentucky
- Katherine Helm1857-1937American portraitist
- Robert Smith Todd1791-1849American lawyer, businessman, and politician
- Samuel M. Wilson1871-1946American lawyer and historian
- Sweet Evening Breeze1892-1983American drag queen and health care worker
- Thomas Boston Gordon1816-1891American lawyer and judge
- Thomas Brown McClelland1886-1980American horticulturist
- Alexander Jeffrey1815-1899Business executive, president of the Lexington Gas Company
- Alvin Eleazer Evans1878-1953American lawyer and legal scholar
- Alza Jessamond Hentschel Stratton1911-1982American artist
- Anna Maria Boswell Shelby Gratz1808-1882
- Anne Clay McDowell1837-1917Wife of Henry Clay McDowell
- Benjamin Gratz1792-1884
- Carl H. Fortune1900-1987American physican and author from Ohio. Wrote: The Lexington Clinic, 1920-1980.
- Charles Christopher Dudley Short1913-1978
- Claude M. Johnson1818-1861
- Countess Camilla Hoyos1880-1953Peerage person ID=53977
- D. Vertner Johnson1848-1900
- Elisha Warfield1744-1818
- Elizabeth L. Humphreys1800-18741800-1874
- Foxhall Daingerfield1883-1933
- Fred Wharton Rankin1886-1954American surgeon
- H. Walter Hargreaves1912-1998Economist
- Henry Martyn Skillman1824-1902American physician
- Henry Timberlake Duncan1800-1880Lawyer, 1800-1880
- James H. Baker1835-1912Of Kentucky; missionary, merchant, and farmer
- James Reily1811-1863
- 1888-1945
- Lucretia Hart Clay1781-1864Wife of Henry Clay
- Maria Gist Gratz1797-1841
- Mary Boswell Webb Ford1827-1916
- Matthew Thompson Scott1786-1858American banker
- Oliver Anderson1794-1873American military personnel, businessman
- Richard Downingdied 1870Race house breeder d. 1870
- Robert Carter Harrison1765-1840
- Robert Clarke Caswall1839-1910Canadian-American clergyman
- Sallie Ann Baker1842-1924Of Kentucky
- Tobias Gibson1800-1872Louisiana planter and slaveholder
- Tucker Woodson1804-1874American lawyer and politician
- Virginia Harrison Castleman1806-18954 Jul 1806 - Jun 1895
- Wesley Hunt Tilford1850-1909Millionaire
- William Harrison Polk1843-1920American journalist and genealogist
- William Hugh Jansen1914-1979Folklorist
- William Temple Withers1825-1889Confederate general, horse breeder
- Wimberly Calvin Royster1925-2014American mathematician
People whose Wikidata entry gives Lexington 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 Lexington 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
- Forest Hill CemeteryLexington-Fayette, KYCemetery0.2 mi
- Lexington National Cemetery833 West Main Street, Lexington, KYNational cemetery0.2 mi
- Calvary CemeteryLexington-Fayette, KYCatholic cemetery0.3 mi
- Cove Haven CemeteryLexington-Fayette, KYCemetery0.3 mi
- Eastern State Hospital CemeteryLexington-Fayette, KYCemetery0.8 mi
- Highland Memorial CemeteryLexington-Fayette, KYCemetery1.0 mi
- Fayette County Infirmary CemeteryLexington-Fayette, KYCemetery1.4 mi
- African Cemetery No. 2419 East Seventh Street, Lexington, KYCemetery1.8 mi
- Hillcrest Memorial ParkLexington-Fayette, KYMemorial park2.2 mi
- Gorham CemeteryLexington-Fayette, KYCemetery4.3 mi
Funeral homes near Lexington Cemetery
- Bluegrass Cremation Service, Llc0.5 miCremation provider · Lexington · (859) 523-9661
- Milward Funeral Directors0.9 miFuneral home · Lexington · (859) 252-3411
- Hawkins Funeral Home1.1 miFuneral home · Lexington · (859) 255-7633
- O L Hughes & Sons Mortuary1.5 miMortuary · Lexington · (859) 233-7112
- Premier Mortuary Services1.5 miMortuary · Lexington · (859) 293-0120
- Smith & Smith Funeral Home1.6 miFuneral home · Lexington · (859) 255-6273
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