Greenwood Cemetery

3 miles north of Greenwood, take the Jewel Lake turnoff and keep to the lower road at the split. Over 100 years old, the Greenwood cemetery is missing many of it's wooden markers but is home to a wide variety of Greenwood characters.

An interesting adventure wandering through the gravestones.

Note the very young ages of the people buried here, many who died in their 20's and thirties. Life was hard with frequent accidents at the mines and in the woods.

Many folks died early of illnesses that would nowadays be treatable - pernicious anemia, infections, pneumonia, work injuries.

Many children buried here - the closest doctor/medical care would have been in.......

John Marion Jarrett was also buried here. Plot #359

Born Jan. 8, 1833 in Nelson County Kentucky, he died April 20 1906 from Senile Tuberculosis. at Sacred Heart Hospital in Greenwood. Note the large wooden marker for him on the right as you are facing the main graveyard.

Mrs John Hudson Morrison - (Lena's sister Marie Antoinette Roth) was buried here in 1908. Died of Pernicious Anemia - no marker found as it would have been wooden and no longer exisits. Exact location cannot be pinpointed but would have been in the "Catholic" section of the cemetery on the far left.

• See Greenwood Museum Handout for citation entries
• Include Obit for JH Morrison from newspaper