
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The first Europeans in Fayette County were explorers, who had used an ancient American Indian trail that bisected the county on their journey across the Appalachian Mountains. In 1754, when control of the area was still in dispute between France and Great Britain, 22-year-old George Was...
Wikipedia Transylvania University is a private university in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. It was founded in 1780, making it the first university in Kentucky and among the oldest in the United States. It offers 36 major programs, as well as dual-degree engineering programs, and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Transylvania's name, meaning "across the wood...
Wikipedia Upper Iowa University (UIU) is a private institution of higher education with its residential campus located in northeast Iowa, United States near the Volga River in the rural community of Fayette, where around 900 students are enrolled. The university offers distance education programs that include 15 centers in the U.S., an online program, an independent study program, and centers...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Fayette County, Kentucky. Overview Fayette County—originally Fayette County, Virginia—was established by the Virginia General Assembly in June 1780, when it abolished and subdivided Kentucky County into three counties: Fayette, Jefferson and Lincoln. Together, these counties and those set off from them later in that decade separa...
Wikipedia The University of Kentucky (abbrev. UK) is a public co-educational university in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded in 1865 by Isaiah Giles as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky, the university is one of the state's two land-grant universities (the other being Kentucky State University), the largest college or university in the state, with 29,385 students as of Fall 2013,...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Fayette County, Alabama. Fayette County was established on December 20, 1824, during Marquis de Lafayette's historic tour of the 24 United States. Adjacent Counties Marion County Walker County Tuscaloosa County Pickens County Lamar County Cities, Towns & Communities Belk Berry Bankston Bazemore Bluff Boley...
Restlawn Memory Gardens Victor, Fayette County, West Virginia, USA
This project is for those buried in La Grange Cemetery, La Grange, Fayette County, Texas. The cemetery is also known as Lagrange City Cemetery and New City Cemetery . From the Fayette Heritage Museum and Archives: This burial ground dates back to the early days of La Grange and Fayette County. The oldest marked burial is for Joseph G. King who died July 30, 1840. On the 21st of May 1853, bef...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Fayette County, Tennessee. Official Website Fayette County was established by Tennessee General Assembly in 1824. The county was named after the Marquis de la Fayette, French hero of the American Revolution. Fayette County is culturally alike to the Mississippi Delta and was a major area of cotton plantations dependent on slave labo...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Fayette County, Texas. Official Website Fayette County was established in 1837 from land given by Bastrop and Colorado Counties. It is named for the Marquis de Lafayette, a French nobleman who became an American Revolutionary War hero. It is the location of the real Chicken Ranch, which was the basis of the musical play and feature...
In the 1850s, families of German and Czech origin in the Ross Prairie area were served by visiting priests. After 1855, they worshipped in a log church (2 miles N) named Saint Joseph, the first permanent Catholic church in Fayette County. The church moved to Live Oak Hill about 1861, and purchased this site near the settlement in 1864. The first resident priest arrived in 1872, and a larger chu...
From the intersection of TN-57 E & TN-76 in Moscow, Fayette County, Tennessee, travel east from Moscow, 2.7 mi. on Hwy. 57 to just past the inactive & vacant, New Friendship Church (church sign out front is "blank") on the north (left) side of the highway, to the "Friendship Cemetery" on the north (left) side. This still active, 'Pre-Civil War' cemetery is surrounded by a classic fence, with be...
Also known as Acklin Burial Park . Find a Grave
This cemetery is located on County Highway 50 East and Cemetery Road, Bingham, Fayette County, Illinois. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Fayette County, Illinois. Official Website Fayette County was formed in 1821 and was named in honor of the Marquis de LaFayette, French hero of the American Revolutionary War. Adjacent Counties Effingham County Shelby County Clay County Marion County Clinton County Bond County Montgomery County
This cemetery, located in Fayette County, Texas, is located in the High Hill. community, north of Schulenburg - (north of I-10). It's also known as Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Cemetery . Find a Grave
This project is for those who are buried in Schulenburg City Cemetery, Schulenburg, Fayette County, Texas. The Schulenburg City Cemetery began as the Lyons Family Cemetery in 1834, with the burial of Clarissa C. Lyons. Subsequently, many early settlers utilized this site for burials. In 1879, the Franz Russek Family sold three acres establishing the Schulenburg City Cemetery. This organization...
This project is for those buried in St. Rose of Lima Cemetery, Schulenburg, Fayette County, Texas. Find a Grave
Established in 1888, St. John the Baptist Catholic Cemetery is located in the community of St. John in Fayette County between Hallettsville and Schulenburg. It is a part of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, which is a part of the Diocese of Victoria. Fid a Grave Cemetery History
Taken from Sts. Cyril & Methodius Catholic Cemetery, Dubina, Texas, copyrighted 1998, with the permission of the author, Norman C. Krischke: Sts. Cyril and Methodius Catholic Cemetery was established 5 August 1866 upon burial of Jan Konvicka, 1813 - 1866, according to tombstone inscriptions and church history. Apparently Josef Peter, Sr., had envisioned this burial place, under a beautiful, gi...
This cemetery, established in 1877, is located on 571 National Pike E, Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Find a Grave Billion Graves PA Gen Web
St. John the Baptist Catholic Cemetery at Ammannsville, [Fayette County], Texas was established in 1889 upon burial of Anton Barta, 18 January 1873 - 23 April 1889, the first grave. The land was purchased from three people: Theophilus Heller sold five acres of land to the Right Reverend Bishop John C. Neraz for two dollars on 11 September 1888. Josef and Magdalena Vacek sold three and a quarter...
Fayette County—originally Fayette County, Virginia—was created by the Virginia General Assembly in February 1831, from parts of Greenbrier, Kanawha, Nicholas, and Logan counties. It was named in honor of the Marquis de la Fayette, who had played a key role assisting the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. The second Virginia county so named, it was among the 50 counties whi...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Fayette County, Georgia. Official Website Fayette County was organized in 1821 after the United States signed a treaty at Indian Springs, Georgia with the Creek people for cession of a large portion of their land. The county and its seat, Fayetteville, were both named in honor of the French aristocrat the Marquis de Lafayette, who a...
The first city cemetery was on the east bank of the river opposite 3rd Street. When the river started encroaching on the cemetery, the graves were removed and moved to the northeast corner of 7th Street and Western Avenue. This area proved to be too small and on October 8, 1851 ten acres was purchased bounded on the east by Grand Avenue and on the west by Western Avenue. The graves from 7th Str...