Journalists buried in Kentucky
Wikidata records 27 journalists as buried in 12 of the cemeteries we list in Kentucky. Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville holds the most, with 13. Kentucky has the 17th highest count of any state, out of 1,833 nationally.
People with journalist among their recorded occupations.
Map of cemeteries
Each point is a cemetery; open it for everyone recorded there.
Journalists buried in Kentucky
- Orlando Brown1801-1867Kentucky politician, newspaper publisher and historianFrankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, KY
- George D. Prentice1802-1870American newspaper editorCave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- J. Lawrence Smith1818-1883American chemist, mineralogist, and student of meteoritesCave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- Marshall W. Taylor1846-1887African American minister and journalistCave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- William J. Simmons1849-1890African-American teacher and journalistEastern Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- Harvey Magee Watterson1811-1891American politicianCave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- John Haldeman1855-1899American baseball playerCave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- American politicianLexington Cemetery, Lexington-Fayette, KY
- Edmund Lyne Starling1840-1910American journalistFernwood Cemetery, Henderson, KY
- Simon Bolivar Buckner1823-1914Confederate Army generalFrankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, KY
- Joseph Alexander Altsheler1862-1919American novelistCave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- John Fox1862-1919American journalist, novelist and short story writer from KentuckyMount Olive Cemetery, Paris, KY
- William Harrison Polk1843-1920American journalist and genealogistLexington Cemetery, Lexington-Fayette, KY
- Henry Watterson1840-1921American journalist and politicianCave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- Mary E. Britton1855-1925African-American physicianCove Haven Cemetery, Lexington-Fayette, KY
- Lewis Craig Humphrey1875-1927Newspaper editorCave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- Irvin S. Cobb1876-1944American writerOak Grove Cemetery, Paducah, KY
- Post Wheeler1869-1956American diplomatRiverside Cemetery, Hopkinsville, KY
- Thomas R. Underwood1898-1956American politician from KentuckyLexington Cemetery, Lexington-Fayette, KY
- Wallace Irwin1875-1959American writerCave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- Mordecai Ham1877-1961American Evangelist preacherCave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- Basil Davenport1905-1966American literary critic, academic, anthologist, and authorCave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- Henrietta Bingham1901-1968American socialite, journalist and horse breederCave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- David Alexander1907-1973American journalist and mystery writer from Kentucky.Grove Hill Cemetery, Shelbyville, KY
- Don Whitehead1908-1981American journalistResthaven Cemetery, Harlan, KY
- Barry Bingham, Sr.1906-1988American journalistCave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- Anne Braden1924-2006American activistEminence Cemetery, Eminence, KY
Everyone on this list, by year of death. People without a recorded death year come last.
Deaths by decade
- 1860s1
- 1870s1
- 1880s2
- 1890s3
- 1900s1
- 1910s4
- 1920s4
- 1940s1
- 1950s3
- 1960s3
- 1970s1
- 1980s2
- 2000s1
By recorded year of death, for the 27 people with one.
Where they are buried
- Cave Hill Cemetery · Louisville, KY13
- Lexington Cemetery · Lexington-Fayette, KY3
- Frankfort Cemetery · Frankfort, KY2
- Oak Grove Cemetery · Paducah, KY1
- Eastern Cemetery · Louisville, KY1
- Mount Olive Cemetery · Paris, KY1
- Resthaven Cemetery · Harlan, KY1
- Cove Haven Cemetery · Lexington-Fayette, KY1
- Eminence Cemetery · Eminence, KY1
- Riverside Cemetery · Hopkinsville, KY1
- Grove Hill Cemetery · Shelbyville, KY1
- Fernwood Cemetery · Henderson, KY1
Other notable burials in Kentucky
How this list is made
A person is on this list when their Wikidata entry gives a cemetery we list as their place of burial and also carries the statement this list is built on. We do not add anyone by judgment, so the list reflects how complete Wikidata is: some people are missing, and burial places can be disputed.
Names, years and descriptions are shown as Wikidata records them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists.