Index to Locations
Private or family graveyards
Crab Orchard Redd Cemetery
Stanford Buffalo Springs Cemetery
Stanford Shelby Traveller's Rest
Burying Ground
Private or family
graveyard
Lincoln County, Kentucky
Redd
Cemetery
Crab Orchard, Lincoln County, Kentucky
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
Politicians buried
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Robert G. Redd (1842-1908) —
of Miles City, Custer
County, Mont.
Born in Knox
County, Ky., August
16, 1842.
Democrat. Physician;
mayor
of Miles City, Mont., 1889; member of Montana
state senate 11th District, 1889-92.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Crab Orchard, Lincoln
County, Ky., February
21, 1908 (age 65 years, 189
days).
Interment at Redd Cemetery.
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Buffalo Springs
Cemetery
Stanford, Lincoln County, Kentucky
Politicians buried
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Harvey Helm (1865-1919) —
of Stanford, Lincoln
County, Ky.
Born in Danville, Boyle
County, Ky., December
2, 1865.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1893-94; Lincoln
County Attorney, 1897-1905; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Kentucky, 1900;
U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 8th District, 1907-19; died in
office 1919.
Died in Columbus, Lowndes
County, Miss., March 3,
1919 (age 53 years, 91
days).
Interment at Buffalo Springs Cemetery.
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George Mosby Davison (1855-1912) —
also known as George M. Davison —
of Stanford, Lincoln
County, Ky.
Born in Stanford, Lincoln
County, Ky., March
23, 1855.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Kentucky state legislature, 1880; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 8th District, 1897-99; defeated,
1898.
Died, from Bright's
disease, in Stanford, Lincoln
County, Ky., December
18, 1912 (age 57 years, 270
days).
Interment at Buffalo Springs Cemetery.
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Leonard Evans Carson (1900-1972) —
also known as Leonard Carson —
of Crab Orchard, Lincoln
County, Ky.
Born in Turnersville, Lincoln
County, Ky., July 4,
1900.
Democrat. Farmer; horseman;
state
government employee; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives 42nd District, 1938-39.
Died, in Haggin Memorial Hospital,
Harrodsburg, Mercer
County, Ky., February
9, 1972 (age 71 years, 220
days).
Interment at Buffalo Springs Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of James Thomas Carson and Susie Belle (Carter)
Carson. |
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Shelby
Traveller's Rest Burying Ground
Stanford, Lincoln County, Kentucky
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
Politicians buried
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Isaac Shelby (1750-1826) —
Born in Frederick County (part now in Washington
County), Md., December
11, 1750.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1779; member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1782; delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1792; Governor of
Kentucky, 1792-96, 1812-16; general in the U.S. Army during the
War of 1812.
Welsh
and English
ancestry.
Died of a broken blood
vessel in the head, in Lincoln
County, Ky., July 18,
1826 (age 75 years, 219
days).
Interment at Shelby Traveller's Rest Burying Ground.
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Relatives: Son
of Evan Shelby and Letitia 'Leddy' (Cox) Shelby; married, April
19, 1783, to Susannah Hart; father of Susanna Hart Shelby (who
married James
Shannon); grandfather of Anna Nelson Shelby (who married Beriah
Magoffin); great-grandfather of Beriah
Magoffin Jr.. |
| ![](hand.gif) | Political family: Shannon-Shelby
family. |
| ![](hand.gif) | Shelby counties in Ala., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Mo., Ohio, Tenn. and Tex. are
named for him. |
| ![](hand.gif) | The town
of Shelby,
New York, is named for
him. — The city
of Shelbyville,
Illinois, is named for
him. — The city
of Shelbyville,
Indiana, is named for
him. — The city
of Shelbyville,
Missouri, is named for
him. — The city
of Shelbyville,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Isaac Shelby (built 1944 at Brunswick,
Georgia; mined and wrecked in the Tyrrhenian
Sea, 1945) was named for
him. |
| ![](hand.gif) | See also National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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