PRESTONOLDCEM  
OLD PRESTON
 CEMETERY
   
ALSO KNOWN AS
  
JOHNSON
 CEMETERY

    
THE OLD PRESTON CEM, IS LOCATED IN THELMA, JOHNSON CO KY, ON HILL
BETWEEN CHANDLER ST., & JIM GAMBLE DRIVE. 

Documented: Oct.02 2002
By: Walter Preston, Alice Preston Riley & Hazel Siler

RED: Additions made to original listing

BRAGG, Arthur                          1884            1934
STRATTON, Benjamin E.           --------Oct.10 1916--------     West Virginia Sergt. 3 CAV.

STRATTON, Mary                         1856            1925

STRATTON, Charles F.            Jan.19 1886     Dec.28 1930

STRATTON, Charles W.            Oct.02 1852     Apr.27 1928

PRICE, Samuel                   Jan.18 1906     Nov.07 1906

FERGUSON, Myra Wanda            ---------Feb.22 1926-------     [one date only] 

FERGUSON, Anna Lois             ---------Feb.22 1926-------     [one date only]         

FERGUSON, Ella Nora             ---------Feb.22 1926-------     [one date only] 

SAMMONS, T. F. [Thomas]         Dec.15 1854     Aug.15 1923     h/o-Nancy (Music) Sammons    

SAMMONS, Nancy M. (Music)   89  Aug.11 1855     Oct.23 1944     (OBIT)
 
SAMONS, Neva    [age 5yrs 8mo]                  Nov.11 1914     (one "M"in last name)

PRESTON, Mary E.(VanHoose)  92  May 17 1853     Dec.04 1944     (OBIT)[doublemarker]       

PRESTON, Sant   [Sanford]   86  Feb.22 1856     Nov.24 1941     (OBIT)[doublemarker] "GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN"


MAYO, Louvina                   Oct.09 1859     Aug.25 1901 "A TENDER MOTHER AND FAITHFUL FRIEND"

JOHNSON, S. Ellen               May 25 1852     Jul.15 1881     w/o-S.J. Johnson "DO NOT GRIEVE AFTER ME"

PRESTON, Jefferson              Feb.15 1850     Jan.23 1873

HALL, Christopher C.    [age-26yrs]             Jun.   1871

MURRY, Samuel                   -----------     -----------     Ky  Mil WAR of 1812

PRESTON, William [doublemarker] Dec.20 1823    Jan.12 1896    
PRESTON, Susan * [doublemarker] May 03 1828     Jan.10 1912     w/o-William Preston  [no date struck for dod]



*:According to Mitchell Hall, Susan Murray Preston, daughter of Samuel Murray, was born
May 3, 1828.  She died on Mud Lick on Jan. 10, 1912,  and her body had to be hauled in a
sled to the burying ground at Thelma.

At least 6 unmarked graves (fieldstone markers)

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