Green Cemetery
Barren Co., KY 

NEWTON GREEN GRAVE 
On south bluff of South Fork Creek, about ¼ mile east of 
Roseville Road. On top of hill, up from a branch, and 
under a beech tree. 
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NOTE: 
From: The News, Glasgow, Ky., Fri., Dec 24, 1886

OUGHT TO BE ATTENDED TO  
"Out on the hill near Capt. Carr's is a lonely grave, 
which deserves better treatment than it has so far 
received. It is the grave of Newton Green, a Confederate 
soldier who died there during the war. Green belonged 
to the thirty-seventh Tennessee regiment, Company F. 
One night the regiment went into camp there, and Green 
was well and hearty. The next morning he was dead. The 
surgeon was afraid to order his burial, so life-like was 
the corpse, and cut a piece out of his throat to be sure 
of the fact. It didn't bleed, and he ordered the man 
buried. A grave was dug in five feet of where the dead 
soldier lay and he was tumbled into it. Our townsman, 
Mr. Jake Coombs, who belonged to the same command, 
knew Green well, says he was a good soldier, and has 
himself put up a modest wooden head-board at the 
grave of his comrade. The grave of a good soldier 
deserves a better fate than this.