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Reinette Jones, Special Collections Librarian and African American Studies Academic Liasion at the University of Kentucky, has spent untold hours in her research on Kentucky African Americans.  Her presentation on notable Madison County African Americans was extremely informative and entertaining.

February 11, 2019:  Glyn Green was asked to serve as a board member for the society.  Glyn is a retired teacher and football coach from Madison Central and Madison Southern High Schools. He is currently a real estate appraiser and has a love of history and Madison County.

January 21, 2019:  The Bogie Family - Jesse, June Ed, Billy June and Billy Reed Bogie donated the date stone from the James Bogie house dated October 11, 1811.  The initials JB are written above the date.  The stone is currently at the Richmond Tourism house awaiting display there.

The family also donated photographs of the College Hill Baseball Field and a baseball scorebook from the 1930's with several names of young men from the College Hill area.  A story will be published in Heritage Highlights at a later date with more information.

October 18, 2018;  Chester Zoeller, author and Bourbon distiller, made a presentation to the society on the topic of Bourbon in Kentucky.  Mr, Zoeller has written a couple of books on the topic:  Bourbon in Kentucky:  A History of  Distilleries in Kentucky and Kentucky Bourbon Barons:  Legendary Distillers From the Golden Age of Whiskey Making as well as producing a poster "Spiritus Frumenti" of Kentucky Bourbon bottles.  Mr, Zoeller brought three bottles of his Jefferson Reserve for tasting.

On October 15, 2018, the society donated $250.00 to the Waco Elementary School Junior Historical Society for the purpose of defraying costs to attend the Kentucky Junior Historical Society's fall conference in Frankfort.  The Waco students captured 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in every catagory in which they competed.  The group won the 2018-2019 KJHS History Bowl.  They also received the  Rookie Club of the Year Award.  Foster Banks was recognized as being the  Kentucky Junior Historical Society Outstanding Member of the Year.  Chris Workman was recognized as being the KJHS Outstanding Sponsor of the Year.

MCHS is very proud of the accomplishments of this group.

Pictured are:  Foster Banks, Chris Workman (sponsor and 5th grade Social Studies teacher), Caden Coleman, Sharon Graves and Brylee Barrett.

October 9, 2018.  Laurie and Fayette Brown III of North Carolina drove to Richmond to donate a contemporary "copy" of the original plat to the city of Richmond.  Laurie is a direct descendant of William Miller.  The plat now resides in the Archives of EKU's Crabbe Library.

Thursday, December 13, 2007
Another Cemetery Destroyed - Cemetery Law

I had a call earlier this week from a neighbor. She was looking for information on the Blanton Cemetery on Dodd Road: photos, lists of burials or anything else I could find. Using the Vockery cemetery books I was able to give her a listing of the names they found, but no photos. I've been in this cemetery and it was a mess, but I will also guarantee that there were many more than nine burials here. The nine names we had covered 40 years of burials and 8 different surnames. Sounds like a community cemetery to me.

My neighbor was very upset as some of her family was buried here. She has already called the Attorney General and local authorities. The stones are still there, but they were bulldozed into a big pile and the ground leveled. When I can get photos I'll post them, but now I wanted to post a link to a web page at U of L which compiles all Kentucky Revised Statutes regarding cemetery laws.

Time permitting I would also like to do deed research and see if the cemetery was excluded from the deed for the surrounding land. Any volunteers to do this research?
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