Brierly Graveyard
The Brierly Graveyard is located near Bald Hill, Ky. on Tanner Branch, west of U.S. 68.
The site of the graveyard was chosen while Leonard Brierly (Lennie), son of Robert and Rebecca Ward Brierly, was picking blackberries with his mother. He came to a small cedar tree and told her that when he died he wanted to be buried beneath it. That fall he became ill and died. His wish was fulfilled.
Those buried in this graveyard are:
|
First
|
M
|
Maid Name/Last Name
|
Birth
|
Death
|
notes
|
| Leonard (Lennie)
|
|
Brierly
|
1871
|
1880
|
|
| Oral(Orval)
|
W.
|
Brierly
|
1875
|
1918
|
|
| Robert
|
|
Brierly
|
1850
|
1930
|
|
| Rebecca
|
|
Ward / Brierly
|
1849
|
1937
|
|
| William
|
Robert Roy
|
Brierly
|
1908
|
1910
|
|
| Jessie
|
O'Rear
|
Brierly
|
1911
|
1913
|
|
| William
|
Davis
|
Brierly
|
1924
|
1926
|
|
| *Thomas
|
Henry
|
Brierly
|
1852
|
1937
|
|
| *William
|
Ambry
|
Brierly
|
1855
|
1929
|
|
| Lorene
|
|
Ward
|
(no dates)
|
|
|
| *Darius
|
|
Workman
|
(no dates)
|
|
|
| Elizabeth
|
|
Workman
|
(no dates)
|
|
|
| Willie
|
|
Askins
|
(no dates)
|
|
|
| Mollie
|
|
Askins
|
1873
|
1943
|
|
| Rena
|
|
Brierly
|
1888
|
1890
|
|
| Bertha
|
May
|
Brierly
|
1892
|
1894
|
|
| Bertha
|
|
Workman
|
?
|
1897
|
|
| Nancy
|
|
Smitson / Brierly
|
1827
|
(no date)
|
Leonard Lyons wife
|
| Martha
|
Ellen
|
Brierly / Toomey
|
1848
|
October 25, 1888
|
d/o Leonard & Nancy Smitson Brierly
|
| Hobert
|
|
Kelley
|
(no dates)
|
|
|
| Lute
|
|
Kelley
|
(no dates)
|
|
|
| Melia
|
|
Kelley
|
(no dates)
|
|
|
| Shell
|
|
Henderson
|
(no dates)
|
|
|
| Jim
|
|
Henderson
|
(no dates)
|
|
|
| Ed
|
|
Henderson
|
(no Dates)
|
|
|
| Pete
|
|
Henderson
|
(no dates)
|
|
|
Data compiled by Miss Alpha Brierly.
*Unmarked graves
information from the book "History of Nicholas County
up date information Submitted by: Sandra Griffett
Copyright ©2006
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