SANDIDGE CEMETERY

Located on D.A.R. Cemetery Rd,
on the farm of Howard Curry,
in the Newt Community of Green County.

All information and photos on this page
provided by Bill Clark

Transcribed June 16, 2000

Sandidge Cemetery

From the Green County Record, Oct. 25, 1895 is this account written by "F. S..H.":

Exie--Sept. 24, 1895.  As it has been many years since the admission of Kentucky into the union of States, perhaps a description of a Bible that was brought years before the state was admitted, and has been in constant use since more than 100 years, would be of some interest to the readers of the Record.

Bob Jones of Exie, is the possessor of this old Bible. It is a very large book with heavy leather backs, It was gotten by John Sandridge while in Albemarle Co. Virginia and was brought to County in the year 1808.  This ancient Bible when brought across the Blue Ridge Mountains was prized above all treasures! And was read by the assembled family at the close of each day, by the glimmering torchlight, as they journeyed toward their Western home.  When a descendant of John Sandridge visits the old home from a distant county or state the old Bible is brought out, its pages reviewed with anxious eyes, especially the old Sandridge record which is taken from 1720.  The record begins with Mrs. Elizabeth Sandridge, Mother of the above John Sandridge, who was born in 1720 and died 1826, whose family consisted of six boys & girls, all of whom married and raised large families of boys & girls who have married in turn to the fourth generation:  consequently the family is very numerous and is scattered--Adair, Cumberland Counties, and in fact the population of many of the Western States have been improved by their citizenship.

The member of this family adorn all the trades and professions.  The men are lawyers, doctors, editors, politicians, merchants, farmers & etc - Not only in Kentucky but in many of the Western States - Not only in Saline County Mo. where as in Kentucky they are a decided force in all the honorable pursuits of men.  The women are unusually accomplished whereever they are found.  This family is particularly noted for its "Old Kentucky hospitality."

 In spite of the error stating that Bible was brought to Kentucky before the commonwealth joined the union (Kentucky was admitted to the Union in 1792), this account of the family's move from Virginia is fairly consistent with conclusion that Elizabeth (Graves) Sandidge moved to Kentucky when she was around the age of 80 or older.

This Information was provided by Molly Clark Daniel   

ROW 1

Mills, Geneva May  11 May 1915 - 12 Jan 1920 (dau of Sonnie V. & Louella Baker Mills)
Mills, Tommy 11 May 1902 - 1 Oct 1910 (son of Sonnie V. & Louella Baker Mills)
Whitlock, Tony 1887 - 1956 (son of Frances M & Louise E ‘Lou’ Bagby Whitlock. WWI 

ROW 2 

Jeffries, Loydl  16 Nov 1927- 16 Nov 1927(son of Mike B. & Lee B Beard Jeffries Bur Liletown Cem)
Whitlock, Ogden 7 Jun 1921 - 1 Oct 1923 (son of Tony Whitlock & Emma Patterson Whitlock Judd).
Whitlock, Ortellar   3 Nov 1922 - 1 Oct 1923(son of Tony Whitlock & Emma Patterson Whitlock Judd).
Pruitt, Austin S.  1908 - 1909( son of Ora ‘Odie’ & Lorena Whitlock Pruitt)
Higgason, Johnny 27 Mar 1820 - 11 Sep 1857 (son of Supre & Lucy Sandidge Higgason)

ROW 3

Beard, Chrissie (Alex Christopher) 1883-1925 (son of William W. “Buck”  & Nancy E. Anglie Beard)
Beard, Willie 1886 -1932 (James Willie Bass) (Wife of Crissie
Beard, Ella  1913 - 1915 (dau of Chrissie & Willie Beard)
Beard, Lemuel  1916 -1918 (son of Chrissie & Willie Beard)
Beard, Paul 1923 -1931 (son of Chrissie & Willie Beard
Stone, Broken, (unknown)
Whitlock, Francis M  28 Nov 1854 - 2 May 1900(son of Benjamin R & Amanda C. Sandidge Whitlock)
Whitlock, Lou E. 6 Dec 1863 - 8 Mar 1945 (dau of William J. & Susan A Curry Bagby)
Stone, Broken, (unknown)

ROW 4 

Whitlock, Evlyn  1907 - 1914
Whitlock, Irene  1909 -1909

ROW 5

Tree Stump
Field Stone (Unknown)
Field Stone (Unknown)
Field Stone (Unknown)
Higgason, Suprey   22 Nov 1789 - 19 Feb 1858 (son of Thomas & Nancy Ann White Higgason)
Higgason,  Lucy 1 Jan 1800 - 21 Dec 1855 ( wfe of  Suprey Higgason) (dau of John & Mary Wood Sandidge)
Sandidge, General  Pleasant 19 dec 1791 - 3 Jul 1849 57 yrs. 8 mo. 15 da. (Son of John & Mary Wood Sandidge)
Sandidge, Elizabeth Jones Edwards, 20 Feb 1797 - 7 Nov 1867 70 years 3 mo. ( wfe of Pleasant Sandidge) (dau of Thomas & Elizabeth Ferguson Edwards)
Sandidge, T.C.   24 Jul 1835 - 27 Jul 1861(son of Pleasant & Elizabeth J Edwards Sandidge)

ROW 6

Whitlock, B. N.  Jul 2, 1862 - Dec 10, 1914 (Beckewith)(son of Benjamin R & Amanda C. Sandidge Whitlock)
Whitlock, Amanda 16 Feb 1818 -29 Apr 1893 (wfe of B.R.)(dau of Pleasant & Elizabeth J. Edwards Sandidge)
Whitlock, B.R.   22 Jul 1811 - 10 Nov 1886 (Son of Thomas & Rebecca Radford Whitlock)
Sandidge, Elizabeth 14 Feb 1720 - 6 Jan 1826 (dau of John & Frances Graves)(Wfe of William Sandidge)
Sandidge, Mary 1762 - mar 1824 (wfe of John Sandidge)(dau David & Mary Watson Wood)
Sandidge, Capt John   25 Nov 1760 - 27 Jul 1832 (son of Willaim & Elizabeth Graves Sandidge) REV WAR 
Sandidge, Brice  15 Jun 1844 - 27 Jul 1847 (son of Pleasant & Elizabeth J Edwards Sandidge)
McKinney, Martha J.  4 Feb 1849 - 3 Nov 1918 (dau of Peter & Margaret McKinney)
McKinney, Leslie U.  16 Jun 1874 - 4 Feb 1950 (son of Martha J. McKinney)
McKinney, Maggie N.  6 Jun 1878 - 5 Apr 1952 (dau of Paschal Bluford & Susan Minerva Houk Pierce)(wfe Leslie U. McKinney)

ROW 7

Fieldstone (unknown)
Goalder, John A  1852 -1855
Goalder, James   1850 - 1856

ROW 8

Kelly, Mary C. 18 Mar 1843 - 28 Dec 1873  Wife of M. L. Kelley (Matthew)(dau of John & Elizabeth Goalder Blankenship)
Fieldstone (unknown)
Fieldstone (unknown)
Fieldstone (unknown)
Goalder, M.P.  16 Apr 1882 - 13 Sept 1882 (son of Macajah P & Luann Tucker Goalder)
Goalder, Luann 12 Dec 1838 - 13 Sept 1889 (wfe of Macajah P Golder)(dau of Pascal & Elizabeth A. George Tucker)

ROW 9

McKinney, Eliza  1876 - 1913 (2wfe of W.W. Mckinney)(dau of Gather & Lucy Hall Hickerson)
McKinney, Phineas  1909 - 1909 (son of William Washington & Eliza Hickerson Mckinney)
McKinney, Clistie 1903 - 1903 (son of William Washington & Eliza Hickerson Mckinney)
McKinney, Louella 1871 - 1894 (son of William Washington & Eliza Hickerson Mckinney)
McKinney, W.W. 1872 - 1963 (son of George W. & Rubeny Jeffries Mckinney)

Stones found in an earlier survey that are no longer identifiable

Bell, John W.  17 Dec 1848 - 30 Jul 1902 - (Father of WW McKinney 1wfe)
Whitlock Garland N.  1921 - 1928