About Mount Olive Cemetery
Mount Olive Cemetery is a cemetery near Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky. It lies about 1.1 mi northeast of Paris. The grounds sit at about 866 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 11 notable people buried here, including Garrett Davis, Robert Trimble and John Fox. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 498787. The nearest other listed cemetery is Fisher Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the north. The nearest funeral home we know of is Lusk-mc Farland Funeral Home in Paris, about 1.0 mi away. It is one of 20 cemeteries we list in Bourbon County, and 12 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Paris. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Mount Olive Cemetery
Among them: 2 US representatives, 2 writers, 1 football player, 1 journalist, 1 Supreme Court justice, 1 US senator.
- Garrett Davis1801-1872American politician
- Robert Trimble1776-1828United States federal judge
- John Fox1862-1919American journalist, novelist and short story writer from Kentucky
- Alexander D. Orr1761-1835American politician
- Ezekiel F. Clay1840-19201840 - 1920
- Frederick Alfred Wallis1869-1951Commissioner of United States Immigration
- Robert T. Hinton1878-1948American football and basketball coach
- Edna Talbott Whitley1891-1984Kentucky historian
- Edward Fretwell Prichard Jr.1915-19841915-1984 , lawyer, public official, and educational reformer
- Oscar H. Burbridge1821-1890American farmer and politician from Kentucky
- Robert Farris Adair1833-1907American farmer, Bourbon County, Kentucky
People whose Wikidata entry gives Mount Olive 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
38.19979, -84.26937
What Mount Olive 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
- Fisher CemeteryParis, KYCemetery0.2 mi
- Paris CemeteryParis, KYCemetery0.3 mi
- Clay CemeteryParis, KYCemetery4.7 mi
- Smith CemeteryParis, KYCemetery6.6 mi
- Ruddels Mill CemeteryParis, KYCemetery7.1 mi
- Clintonville CemeteryLexington-Fayette, KYCemetery8.0 mi
- North Middletown Thatchers Mill Road CemeteryParis, KYCemetery9.5 mi
- Gist Family CemeteryWinchester, KYFamily cemetery9.7 mi
- Millersburg Colored CemeteryCarlisle, KYCemetery9.7 mi
- Stoker CemeteryCarlisle, KYCemetery9.7 mi
Funeral homes near Mount Olive Cemetery
- Paris Monument Works0.8 miMonument dealer · Paris · (859) 987-2580
- Lusk-mc Farland Funeral Home1.0 miFuneral home · Paris · (859) 987-2500
- Hinton-Turner Funeral Home1.3 miFuneral home · Paris · (859) 987-1555
- Pruitt Funeral Home9.5 miFuneral home · Millersburg · (859) 484-3302
- Wagoners Chapel13 miFuneral home · Cynthiana
- Drake Whaley McCarty Funeral Home13 miFuneral home · Cynthiana · (859) 234-6333
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