What to do when the house A/C can't keep up with 90+ temps outside?

Thursday, 18 July 2013.

Hop in the air-conditioned car and drive all over the eastern part of Boyle County!

I'm working to get published as many African-American records as I can -- marriage records, death records, city directories, cemetery records.  I'm almost done the marriage records, because as time goes on there is too much information for me to process easily and quickly (maybe I'll pick those up again some day), but the death records are important.  Most African-Americans in the years I'm working on (1911-1916 for now) are not recorded in cemeteries anywhere.

So, to rescue these lost records, I'm trying to locate every African-American cemetery in the county.  So far, I've added some records to Zion Hill (Persimmon Knob), Wilsonville, Atoka, (Little) Needmore, Clifton and Meauxtown, all settlements made by freed African-Americans after the Civil War.

On my quest, I've dragged Barry all over the eastern part of the county.  Today we looked for Little Needmore and Meauxtown (as well as Davistown, in the next county), and we found (and photographed the stones in) Clifton.

The Clifton Baptist Church -- not sure if it's still active.

What I THINK was the former Clifton Baptist Church.

It's important for me to document the African-American history of this county while I can, and before the records I'm recording are gone.  Consequently, on Find A Grave, even if I have no photo of the interment (often there WAS no stone), at least those interred in those cemeteries can be remembererd.  Many of them have been "lost" for 100 years.