Gearhart-Carpenter Cemetery, Olive Hill, Carter County, KY

1998 by Chris Mowery cmowery@comsource.net

To reach the Carpenter-Gearhart Cemetery of Tar Kiln (Often called, incorrectly, Tark Hill) go 
west past the Red Light at the Olive Hill Pharmacy to the next block.  The road that dead ends 
there into U. S. 60 is numbered 986.  This is the Ben's Run Road (Oldtimers call it that) or 
Airport Road.  The next block is a fourway stop.  Continue straight ahead across what was a 
railroad crossing and then the  bridge Over Tygart and keep to your left.  You will travel 3.1 
miles up this road before you turn onto a gravel road.  Just after you pass Easterling's 
Furniture on your right there is a small, one-lane gravel road leading up the hill.  Turn up 
this road.  At the top of this hill .3 of a mile later you will come to the Ross Cemetery with 
a chain link fence around it.  There is no more gravel on the road from this point on.  One half
mile (.5) later, following this country dirt road of one lane you will arrive in a pasture field
where two large twin oaks mark the southern point of the Carpenter-Gearhart Cemetery.  When you 
enter the cemetery you will discover it to be 25 paces wide.  The first 30 paces are clear and 
there are no graves.  The next 35 paces have been cleared and there are graves that are in the 
following plot of the cemetery.  The last 50 paces are covered with trees and is in great need 
of clearing.  Beginning at the far or east end of the grave yard under the trees and underbrush 
the following graves can be found.  Reading from right to left, or North to South, these are the
graves.