Clayborne Cemetery Perry Co

Contributed by: Jan Monnin

25 November 2009

Clayborne Cemetery was a small cemetery once located near the mouth of Tom's Creek. The cemetery consisted of seven graves. All seven graves and four markers were removed to Howard United Methodist Church Cemetery when Kentucky Reservoir was created.

Clayborne Cemetery is discussed in two works about Kentucky Reservoir cemeteries. One is James L. Douthat's Kentucky Lake Reservoir Cemeteries, Volume 3. The other is The Kentucky Lake Cemetery Relocation Project by Judith Ann Maupin. These are referred to as Douthat and Maupin in notes below. Both may have worked with original handwritten records. The Douthat work includes maps showing the relative positions of the seven graves in the original and relocation cemeteries. The following is the link to the digital image of this book:

http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FH21&CISOPTR=69016&CISOSHOW=68841

There are a couple known transcriptions of this cemetery:

This cemetery was catalogued and relatives interviewed about this burials for the Kentucky Lake Reservoir Project. Grave removal and reburials done on 09 March 1943.
David & Leo Donahue recorded these markers at the Howard United Methodist Church Cemetery on 28 Dec 1988;
David Donahue checked this on 02 October 2004;

In the list below, I’ve started with what is recorded on the new searchable TnGenWeb site, compared it to the other transcriptions and made a note of any differences.

Grave ID	First Name	Middle Name	Other Name	Surname	Birth Date	Death Date	Any other notes about this burial	Photo of the tombstone	Photo of the person or couple
125263	Sarah	M		Allen	28 Apr 1815	10 Oct 1855	per Douthat, she was age 40. Information was given by Harlyn Claybourn.
125264	Martha	Jane		Corin	31 Mar 1822	19 Mar 1840	per Douthat, she was age 17 at her death in 1840. Information was given by Harlyn Claybourn.
125265	Betsy			Howard	12 Dec 1785	24 Mar 1859	per Douthat, she died in 1862 at age 55. Information was given by Mary Gentry, a niece.
125266	Lewis	P		Speece	-	1838	per Douthat, this was Lewis Speece who died in 1838 at age 38. Information was given by Harlyn Claybourn.
125267				Allen	-	-	per Douthat, this was an Allen child and date of death was unknown. Information was given by Harlyn Claybourn.
125268	E	A		Corin	-	-	Per Douthat, no information known about this burial.
125269	Sandy			Howard	1805	1863	per Douthat, she died in 1863 at age 58. Information was given by Mary Gentry, a niece.