Nelson White Family Cemetery (Mt. Vernon Cemetery) 
Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky
Rte 767, Cane Valley Area 
Columbia KY  
281-252-8658 
Lat: 37° 09' 40"N, Lon: 85° 22' 20"W
Contributed by Genie Evans, Sep 13, 2002 [epfresha@swbell.net] Total records = 8.
Take Highway 55 out of downtown Columbia going towards Cane Valley & 
Campbellsville. Turn left on Highway 767 to go towards Greensburg, KY. After you 
pass Mt. Vernon church (on the right) there is a curve in the road and woods to your 
right - this is the location of the Nelson White Family Cemetery. 
After we entered the woods it took us approximately 45 minutes to 
locate any headstones. The cemetery is in need of maintenance. We 
were only able to locate 2 headstones and 2 grave markers, due to the 
overgrowth and fear of snakes we did not venture deeper into the 
cemetery. 
There are only 3 headstones in this African American cemetery: Robert 
White, his wife Edna and brother John White. The rest are unmarked 
graves. This cemetery has not been used since 1988.
It is a known fact that this cemetery is located on the back of what 
used to be Nelson White's farm (Deed Book 81, page 285, 1931). 
However as of September 2002 we do not know who currently owns 
the farmland that encompasses our Nelson White family cemetery.