Historical Marker

History of Eastern Cemetery

15 acres incorporated in 1854 for Methodist Episcopal Church. By 1872 it doubled in size. Clarke & Loomis designed wake house 1891. Eastern Cemetery Corp. built 1st crematorium in KY in 1935. Modern building erected 1957. Cemetery abandoned 1989 when overburial exposed. Investigators say about 100,000 people in 30,000 graves.

People of Eastern Cemetery

Resting place of diverse races, nationalities, veterans (Mexican War to Vietnam War). 1st black KY legislator Charles Anderson Jr; Boxer Rudell Stitch; Mayor Philip Toppert; William J. Simmons of Simmons College of KY; educator Albert E. Meyzeek; Bishop Henry Bascom; Russell Neighborhood's Washington Spradling.

Dedicated on April 8, 2018.