Lexington Cemetery

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Lexington Cemetery and Henry Clay Monument
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
One of the lakes at Lexington Cemetery
Location:	Lexington, Kentucky
Area:	170 acres
Built/Founded:	1849
Architect:	Adams, Julius W.; et al.
Architectural style(s):	Gothic, Romanesque
Added to NRHP:	July 12, 1976
NRHP Reference#:	76000873 ^[1]
Governing body:	Local

Lexington Cemetery 170 acres (0.7 km²) is a private, non-profit cemetery and arboretum located at 833 W. Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky. It is open to the public from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Lexington Cemetery was established in 1849 as a place of beauty and a public cemetery now containing over 64,000 interments. Its plantings include boxwood, cherries, crabapples, dogwoods, magnolias, taxus, as well as flowers such as begonias, chrysanthemums, irises, jonquils, lantanas, lilies, and tulips. Also on the grounds is an American basswood (Tilia Americana), which the cemetery claims to be the largest in the world. However, this claim is not supported by the National Register of Big Trees, which claims that the largest American Basswood is located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

The cemetery also contains the graves of:

George Madison Adams (1837-1920) - Civil War veteran,U.S. Congressman
James Lane Allen (1849-1925) - author
Milton K. Barlow (1818-1891) - planetarium inventor
James Burnie Beck (1822-1890) - Senator
Clifton R. Breckinridge (1846-1932) - John Cabell Breckinridge's son
John Cabell Breckinridge (1821-1875) - U.S. Vice President, Civil War Confederate Major General
Gay Brewer (1932-2007) - golfer
Sanders Dewees Bruce (1825-1902) - Civil War Union Army general
Aylette Buckner (1806-1869) - U.S. Congressman
Abraham Buford (1820-1884) - Civil War Confederate Army officer, turfman
Joseph Henry Bush (1794-1865) - portraitist
Henry Clay (1777-1852) - (antebellum Speaker of the House)
James Brown Clay (1817-1864) - U.S. Congressman
Laura Clay (1849-1941) - Suffragist
Mary Barr Clay (1839-1924) - Women's Suffrage movement leader
John Winston Coleman Jr. (1898-1983) - historian,author
Leslie Combs (1793-1881) - War of 1812 veteran, general
Wickliffe Cooper (1831-1867) - Civil War Union Army officer
Jesse Orin Creech (1895-1948) - World War I Fighter Ace
Benjamin Winslow Dudley (1785-1870) - surgeon
Henry Clay Dunlap (1828-1872) - Civil War Union brevet brigadier general
Basil W. Duke (1838-1916) - Civil War General
Andrew Eugene Erwin (1830-1863) - Civil War Confederate Army officer
Joseph S. Fowler (1820-1902) - Senator
John R. Gaines (1928-2005) - thoroughbred pioneer, philanthropist
John M. Gaver, Sr. (1900-1982) - U.S. Hall of Fame racehorse trainer
Randall L. Gibson (1832-1892) - Senator, Civil War Confederate Army brevet brigadier general
Gordon Granger (1822-1876) - Civil War Union Major general
Roger Hanson (1827-1863) - Civil War Confederate brevet brigadier general
Thomas H. Hunt (1815-1884) - Civil War Confederate Army officer
John Telemachus Johnson (1788-1856) - U.S. Congressman
William P. Kimball (1857-1926) - U.S. Congressman
Alexander Marshall (1808-1884) - U.S. Congressman
Thomas Alexander Marshall - U.S. Congressman
Henry Brainerd McClellan (1840-1904) - Civil War Confederate Army officer, author, educator
Hugh McKee (1844-1871) - Naval officer
John Hunt Morgan (1825-1864) - Civil War Confederate general
James Reilly (1811-1863) - politician
George Robertson - U.S. Congressman
Arthur B. Rouse (1874-1956) - U.S. Congressman
Adolph Rupp (1901-1977) - Hall of Fame basketball coach
George S. Shanklin (1807-1883) - U.S. Congressman
Jouett Shouse (1879-1968)- U.S. Congressman
King Swope (1893-1961) - U.S. Congressman
William Henry Townsend (1890-1964) - historian and author
Thomas Rust Underwood (1898-1956) - U.S. Congressman, Senator
Jim Varney (1949-2000) - actor (Ernest P. Worrell)
Katharine E. Wilkie (1904-1980) - author
Elisha I. Winter (1781-1849) - U.S. Congressman