Louisville Cemetery, its original thirty-one acres incorporated on March 23, 1886, by prominent black citizens Bishop W. H. Miles, H. C. Weeden, J. Meriwether, A. J. Bibb, W. P. Churchill, William H. Gibson, Sr., and Felix Johnson, is the burial place of Dr. Robert B. Scott, cofounder of Louisville Red Cross Hospital; educator Atwood S. Wilson; blues guitarist Sylvester Weaver; and community activist Bessie Allen. William Walker, Sr. (1860-1933), born a slave in Woodford County, won the 1877 Kentucky Derby on Baden-Baden as jockey William “Uncle Bill” Walker, was Churchill Downs' leading rider between 1875 and 1878, retired from the saddle in 1896, and, as an expert on Thoroughbred pedigree in America, was instrumental in developing the modern racehorse.
