John D. Ross Cemetery
Boyd County, Kentucky
Directions: Route #3, r. Bolts Fork Rd. Rt. #773. Cemetery is on right. Orange gate - keep closed please. Up hill. Cemetery on top of hill on your left.
GPS reading at road 38N 14.81.161N 82N 44.75122W at entrance to cemetery road at Rt. 773. At cemetery on top of hill N38N 14.923 W82N 44.763. [2001 GPS accurate reading.] Latitude 38 15'8"N; Longitude 82 41'18"W. Rush quadrangle map.
Read 8 March 1969 by Evelyn Scyphers Jackson. Inactive. KHS Cemetery Project, cemetery #120. Typed reading labled "Old Ross Cemetery" contains plat drawing dated March 8, 1969 [see photo scan below]. Eighteen graves identifiable by inscription. At least 12 unidentifiable.
2000 bank acct, Community Trust Bank, Ashland, established to repair cemetery.
2000 photographed by Teresa Martin Klaiber.
2001 five foot chain link fence has been placed around downed stones. Boys Farm has cleaned and stacked stones. None have been up-righted at this time [2001]. Sign paid for from fund has been placed at bottom of hill leading up to cemetery announcing "John D. Ross Cemetery, First Boyd County Judge." Gravel road to cemetery has large washed areas from 2001 rains.
Attorney General Cemetery Survey Form submitted 8/2001 by Teresa Martin Klaiber. Family applied for grant funding March 2004 for road repair. Visited by Boyd County Cemetery Board May 2004.
Photographed May 2004 by Teresa Martin Klaiber
| LAST NAME | GIVEN NAME | CEMETERY | BIRTH | DEATH | SOURCE | DATE | Military | COMMENTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BARBER | MINNIE A. | JOHN D. ROSS | 11-27-1886 | 7-19-1888 | KHS | 1977 | DAU/O L. H. & JULIA BARBER | |
| BARBER | WILLIAM | JOHN D. ROSS | 5-19-1863 | KHS | 1977 | |||
| LUCAS | JOHN | JOHN D. ROSS | 12-17-1853 | 5-28-1878 | KHS | 1977 | ||
| PERY | MARY H. | JOHN D. ROSS | 8-25-1799 | 7-27-1884 | KHS | 1977 | ||
| RIFFE | DIMMA G. | JOHN D. ROSS | 6-23-1843 | 12-29-1906 | KHS | 1977 | W/O PETER RIFFE | |
| RIFFE | DAVID | JOHN D. ROSS | 10-19-1868 | 9-15-1869 | KHS | 1977 | ||
| RIFFE | EDDIE | JOHN D. ROSS | 1-23-1870 | 1-23-1870 | KHS | 1977 | ||
| RIFFE | IDA MAE | JOHN D. ROSS | 1874 | 1917 | KHS | 1977 | ||
| RIFFE | JOHN D. | JOHN D. ROSS | 6-18-1878 | 12-15-1878 | KHS | 1977 | ||
| RIFFE | LUVERNA G. | JOHN D. ROSS | 12-2-1872 | 10-17-1873 | KHS | 1977 | ||
| ROSS | JUDGE JOHN D. | JOHN D. ROSS | 5-24-1808 | 8-20-1894 | KHS | 1977 | ||
| ROSS | MARTHA J. | JOHN D. ROSS | 11-16-1831 | 7-12-1885 | KHS | 1977 | NEE LESLIE, 2ND W/O JUDGE JOHN D. ROSS | |
| ROSS | SUSAN | JOHN D. ROSS | 1-4-1813 | 11-1-1857 | KHS | 1977 | NEE LOCKWOOD, 1ST. W/O JUDGE JOHN D. ROSS | |
| ROSS | LAURA B. | JOHN D. ROSS | 4-1-1869 | 8-6-1887 | KHS | 1977 | DAU/O J.D. & M. J. ROSS | |
| ROSS | J. L. | JOHN D. ROSS | 1864 | KHS | 1977 | 28Y. 7M. 25 D. | ||
| ROSS | TARLISSA | JOHN D. ROSS | 8-12-1863 | KHS | 1977 | 25Y. 1M. 24D. | ||
| ROSS | MURTEL | JOHN D. ROSS | 5-18-1889 | 8-19-1889 | KHS | 1977 | DAU/O J. H. & B. ROSS | |
| ROSS | SOPHY | JOHN D. ROSS | 2-23-1886 | 10-2-1886 | KHS | 1977 | DAU/O J. H. & B. ROSS |
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#25 is gate taken in 2000
#66 Shows Gate being opened by Cemetery Board member 2004
#rossjd2000 shows Judge Ross stone prior to family restoration.
#067 shows Judge Ross stone after restoration. Pictures also indicates new chain link fence.
Map drawn during KHS project dated March 1969.
If you wish to share information on this cemetery contact the Boyd County Cemetery Board at tklaiber@deliverancefarm.com
Copyright 2004 Teresa Martin Klaiber