Mountain people know, but for those who don’t, these are “family cemeteries.”

Hoskins Cemetery on Island Creek Hill off U.S. 421 in Manchester, Kentucky
The School Board (CCBOE) in Clay County is attempting to relocate this Historical Cemetery & the
"David & Goliath" style dispute between friends of the 128 year-old Burial Ground and the (CCBOE) has now landed in Federal Court (Photo) ClayCoNews

By Lyn Hacker

To those who travel down the Hal Rogers Parkway in southeast Kentucky, one of the most interesting sights you’ll come across are tiny precious cemeteries up on hillsides, speckled along the highway.

BETSY LAYNE, KY – Kentucky State Police Pikeville Post received a call on August 12, 2021, at 8:51 P.M. reporting a single vehicle collision had occurred on U.S. 23 in the Betsy Layne community of Floyd County. A trooper from Post 9 responded and began the investigation.

SNOW HILL, MD – Maryland State Police are investigating a fatal four-vehicle crash that occurred Thursday afternoon in Worcester County.

KIRBYTON, KY.  – Troopers with Kentucky State Police, Post 1 arrested an Illinois man for various drug charges after a weekend traffic stop in Carlisle County.

HYDEN, KY (August 13, 2021) - The Leslie County Sheriff’s Office is reporting that on Tuesday, August 10, 2021 Chief Deputy Jeremy Vega arrested Matthew Caldwell, 44 of Stinnett, KY on felony gun and drug charges.

SOMERSET, KY - Pulaski County Sheriff Greg Speck reports that on Sunday, August 8, 2021, two people were arrested following the investigation of a two-vehicle injury accident on West Highway 80 in Pulaski County near the Mill Springs Battlefield National Monument.