Place:Eastern State Hospital Cemetery, Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States

Eastern State Hospital Cemetery is in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky.

Address: 627 West 4th Street, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky USA

Phone: 859-246-7000

Search Find A Grave: Eastern State Hospital Cemetery

From Naming the Forgotten - The Eastern State Hospital Project: "The Eastern State Hospital Cemetery, located on the hospital grounds, in use from the first quarter of the 19th century until the early 1950s, is no longer intact. Local industrial development resulted in a relocation of many cemetery graves to a small common area of land near the hospital grounds. It is unknown how many individuals are buried in the cemetery, but is believed to consist of 10,000 or more. These persons came from all over the state of Kentucky, as well as from other states."

Research Notes

• from Find A Grave: There are only three graves which have headstones: Brent Roberts, Sophie Turner, Sallie Frazier. The others are numbered plots but they are unable to determine who is buried in which plot. It is very difficult to obtain permission to visit the burial site.
• Eastern State Hospital is recognized as the second oldest US institution devoted to the treatment of mental disorders.
• See Naming the Forgotten - The Eastern State Hospital Project - which began in December 2006 as a special project within the KyGenWeb. Working with various records, the goal is to identify those who lived and died at the hospital before 1956.