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 Starkie Thomas Cemetery, Cadiz, Trigg County, Kentucky, USA


Latitude: 36.78155, Longitude: -87.85698 | Click to get directions to Starkie Thomas Cemetery
Starkie Thomas Cemetery

Notes:
The Starkie Thomas cemetery was established in 1825 and the earliest burials are thought to have been enslaved African-Americans owned by Starkie or his brothers. The first Thomas family members interred at the site were Starkie and Mary (Bridges) Thomas’s daughters Adeline (7 years old) in June 1838, and Peachie (6 months old) in August 1838. Generations of Starkie and Mary’s descendants have been and continue to be laid to rest at this site.

A large area within the cemetery includes an undetermined number of unmarked graves of African American slaves and their descendants. Two small modern markers designate the plot as that of “Thomas Slaves”. Family lore suggests that descendants of Thomas slaves continued to bury their dead at the cemetery for several generations following emancipation.


Headstones

 Thumb Description Status Location Name (Died/Buried)
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Starkie Thomas Cemetery
Cadiz, Trigg, Kentucky
Find a Grave: #1884457

 		     Durwood Stanley Bridges (d. 27 Jun 1924)
Frieda Nell Bridges (d. 18 Sep 2017)
Henrietta Gabriella Bridges (d. 29 Dec 1929)
William Durwood Bridges (d. 10 Feb 1978)
Willie Jefferson Coleman (d. 24 Sep 1914)
Mary Magdalene Cunningham (d. Nov 1910)
Julia Dyer (d. 1887)
Nora A Harris (d. 1972)
Mason Hamilton Hughes, Jr (d. 9 Jul 1959)
Bettie Jean Poe (d. 4 Jun 2000)
Hattie Lee Ricks (d. 1962)
Nancy Jane Rogers (d. 19 Mar 1875)
(Infant Daughter) Sumner, (2) (d. 1910)
(Infant Son) Sumner (d. 11 Mar 1915)
Benjamin Miles Sumner (d. 10 Jul 1933)
Derwood Floyd Sumner (d. 14 Mar 1951)
Eugene Lewis Sumner (d. 8 Jan 1985)
Julia Louise Sumner (d. 10 Apr 1936)
Mattie Maud Sumner (d. Feb 1994)
Hugh Delbert Thomas (d. 9 Nov 1944)
James Douglas Thomas (d. 18 Mar 1980)
James Elmer 'Elmo' Thomas (d. Oct 1912)
James Jasper Thomas (d. 28 Jan 1903)
Jane Thomas (d. 19 Aug 1956)
John Alex Thomas (d. 22 Dec 1982)
John Spurlin Thomas (d. 1937)
Jonathan Starkie Thomas (d. 1939)
Martha Thomas (d. 6 Jun 1876)
Ocie L Thomas (d. 29 Jul 1991)
Samuel Ott Thomas (d. 30 May 1983)
Starkie Thomas (d. 7 Apr 1952)
Starkie William Thomas (d. 4 Jul 1950)
William B Thomas (d. 9 Jul 1901)
William Clyde Thomas (d. 18 Sep 1965)
Gilbert Wall Wallace (d. 28 May 1962)
 

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