Poplar Flat Cemetery committee announces Memorial Day service
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Wednesday, May 11, 2016 — The Poplar Flat Cemetery at Woodlawn will hold annual Memorial Day Service 2 p.m., Sunday, May 22, 2016, at the Cemetery.
The cemetery is located at the end of Poplar Flat Cemetery Road (if inclement weather, the service will take place at Woodlawn/Beech Fork United 
Methodist Church, 4110 Woodlawn Road.
Dixie Hibbs, descendant of several persons buried in the cemetery, as well as a historian, author and former mayor of the City of Bardstown, will be the speaker.
Poplar Flat Cemetery is one of the oldest in Nelson County. Joseph Ferguson, founder of what is now known as the Woodlawn/Beech Fork United Methodist Church, moved to Nelson County from Virginia in 1784 and made his home in “Popular Flat.” The first meeting house, known as Ferguson’s Chapel, was erected at what is now the site of the Poplar Flat Cemetery in 1792. Mr. Ferguson died November 28, 1828, and is buried in the Poplar Flat Cemetery. This cemetery also contains the graves of several other early pioneers. It also contains the graves of at least two Revolutionary War Patriots, Philip Daniel Crume and Capt. Thomas Lewis.
Donations for the upkeep of the cemetery are appreciated and should be sent to Poplar Flat Cemetery Fund, c/o 119 Mockingbird Lane, Bardstown, KY 40004.
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