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George and Lucretia Yarbrough Tomb Stone


 
 
  
 

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Surname : Yarbrough
Submitted by :
Myra Nickla (DreamWalk)
Date submitted : Dec 30, 2007

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Description :
Yarbrough and Sims Cemetery Hwy. 97, between Sedalia & Tri City, South Graves County

Burnett's Chapel Methodist Church Sedalia, Graves County, Kentucky
Sedalia Kentucky , Graves County, Yarbrough and Sims Cemetery.
George and Lucretia lived in a log cabin located in Graves C o., Ky.,
where Yarbrough Cemetery is today. Some call it the Yarbrough-Sims
Cemetery. The story has been told that when George Yarbrough and his
son,George R. Yarbrough, died, they were buried in the family garden,
that is when Yarbrough Cemetery was started. Robert Louis Sims told,
that his grandmother, Virginia Belinda Yarbrough, told him, that George
and George Yarbrough Jr died of that "bad disease". We haven't
figured out just what that disease was.George Yarbrough Jr and father and mother are buried together it reads on stone George Yarbrough 25/August/1795 died 03/August/1848
Lucretia born 29/February/1796 and died 13/February/1884 in Farmington, Graves County, Kentucky, .age 87 years, 11 months, 15 days



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