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Start of the 2024 Volunteer Season
2024 marks the Friends of Eastern Cemetery's 11th year volunteering at Eastern Cemetery! We've faced many challenges over the years including having all of our equipment stolen in 2017. However, the joys of volunteering far outweighs those challenges. We have seen a great...
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Atlas Preservation’s 48 State Tour – Louisville, Kentucky
Join us at Eastern Cemetery in Louisville, KY.
Free & open to the public
9am-3pm (local time)
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Check out the Find a Grave and Eastern Cemetery website:
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/73814/eastern-cemetery
https://friendsofeasterncemetery.com/
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Particip...
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Figures of Eastern Cemetery
In this ongoing series, the Friends of Eastern Cemetery in conjunction with Western Library will feature individuals from Louisville's Eastern Cemetery to highlight their contributions to Louisville. A brief history of Eastern Cemetery as well as tips on finding relatives...
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Finding a Grave
If you are looking for a loved one or a specific grave site in Eastern Cemetery, please start with our previous blog post on this. Once you have a burial location, you should have a Section letter or number, a Range or Row letter or number, and then a Grave number. You ca...
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Eastern needs you now!
We’ve had several people comment about how bad Eastern Cemetery looked a week ago compared to how good it looks currently, so we want to take a minute and explain a few things. For many years Dismas Charities, which is a prisoner reentry program, has had a grounds keeping...
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Facing East: The Eastern Cemetery Documentary
It's finally here! After years of work, the documentary on the history of Eastern Cemetery has been released by Ronin Noir Films. It is currently only available for online streaming. The following platforms provide streaming of the film: Amazon Prime, iTunes, Vudu, Dish, ...
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Wake House Restoration Complete
We have completed a full restoration of the circa 1891 Clarke and Loomis-designed wake house! The work was done in two phases thanks to two Kentucky Colonels Good Works Program grants. The first phase included tuckpointing and repair to the interior and exterior of the st...
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Figures of Louisville’s Eastern Cemetery
In this ongoing series, the Friends of Eastern Cemetery in conjunction with Western Library will feature individuals from Louisville’s Eastern Cemetery to highlight their contributions to Louisville. A brief history of Eastern Cemetery as well as tips on finding relatives...
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Looking for someone buried at Eastern Cemetery?
The University of Louisville has all of the salvaged records from Eastern Cemetery. To find burial location information, please email ceminfo@louisville.edu with as much information you have on the individual (name, birth date, death date, etc.). Once you have burial info...
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Give for Good Louisville 2019
We are participating in Give for Good Louisville again this year, September 12th!
The online day of giving has been a great fundraiser for us, and we had great success last year giving each of our amazing donors a free gift for their donation. Without your help, we would...
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