THE BACON FAMILY CEMETERY, BARREN CO., KENTUCKY

There are only five graves in this Bacon Family Cemetery and has been referred to as the Old Bacon Burying Ground. Silvanus Bacon, wife Sarah Carey Bacon and three of their young children : Julie Ann, John Martin and Emory Bacon are buried here. Silvanus son Elbert and wife Mary Virginia lived on the farm and Elbert's son Joe Maxwell Bacon also lived on the farm and he was the one to keep up the Bacon Burying Ground. Joe Maxwell is buried in the Glasgow Municipal Cemetery

Bacon Family Cemetery

Bacon land on both sides of Poplar Grove Road

Bacon Family Cemetery

Bacon Family Cemetery

Bacon Family Cemetery

Bacon Family Cemetery

Bacon Family Cemetery

Bacon Family Cemetery

I should have poked around in the cemetery

Bacon Family Cemetery

I love the iron gate around the cemetery and here you see the barbed wire fence enclosure

Bacon Family Cemetery

Bacon Family Cemetery

Bacon Family Cemetery

The Bacon home place as seen from the Bacon Cemetery

Bacon Family Cemetery

Bacon Family Cemetery

Bacon Family Cemetery

Bacon Family Cemetery

This is the Poplar Grove Road where you turn to go to the Silvanus and Elbert farm & cemetery and other Bacons were also farther out this road

Payne Cemetery

Union No. 2 Cemetery