Post Cemetery

Saint Patrick's Parish Church and Cemetery occupied this site from 1831 until 1899, when the church was relocated to Stithton. When the Post Cemetery was established in 1920, stones from the foundation of the old Saint Patrick's Church were used to build the small caretaker house and cemetery walls. The first grave in the cemetery was that of Gerald Collins, a dependent child, in April 1920, and the first soldier buried was Norman Curry in June 1921. Armor Center Commander Major General Hugh J. Gaffey, killed in an airplane crash at Fort Knox, was buried here in June 1946. German and Italian prisoners of war who died at Fort Knox during World War II were buried in a special section of the cemetery, and construction projects made it necessary to relocate the Reuben Jones and Pearson Family Cemeteries to this area in 1957.

Fort Knox, Kentucky · United States