NEW BEECH GROVE CEMETERY

New Beech Grove Cemetery, January 1999

 

            New Beech Grove Cemetery is located on McHaney Mill Road across from New Beech Grove Baptist Church, about 8 miles southwest of Lexington. The cemetery is mostly white.

 

Probable Black Burial

Parsons, Bethel, Apr. 3, 1892-Aug. 11, 1899 (disintegrating concrete marker)
[This marker sits off by itself, at the base of a tree on the north fence line. The marker is a nonprofessional concrete marker of a style frequently seen in black cemeteries in Madison County.]

 

1900 Census, Henderson County, Crucifer District
Dwelling 114/Family 117

Noah Parsons Mollie Parsons Millie Parsons Lora Parsons Felix Parsons Nash Parsons Lusy J. Parsons

Head Wife Dau. Dau. Son Son Dau.

B B B B B B B

M F F F M M F

Jan. 1854 Mar. 1857 Mar. 1883 Mar. 1886 Mar. 1889 July 1891 Aug. 1894

46 43 17 14 11 8 5

M 23 years M 23 years S S S S S

Noah Parsons and his parents were born in Tennessee. Mollie Parsons was born in Tennessee, her mother was born in Virginia, and her father was born in Tennessee. Mollie had given birth to 8 children, 7 of whom were still living.

 

In Dwelling 113, Family 116

Cora Parsons

Servant

B

F

Mar. 1884

16

S

 

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