(TNS) On Election Day 1882 in Pike County, after a good bit of drinking, which typically accompanied voting at the time in mountainous Eastern Kentucky, brothers Tolbert, Pharmer and Randolph
Louisville, Kentucky’s Cave Hill Cemetery is a bona fide tourist attraction and a national landmark. Dedicated in 1848, it boasts more than 120,000 interments that include the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers, paupers and bourbon barons alike. There are more than 600 varieties of trees on the grounds, tended by an army of 40 gardeners, as well as a wedding chapel where couples say “till death do us part” quite literally surrounded by Victorian-era tombstones. Cave Hill also hosts the final resting places of Muhammad Ali, “Happy Birthday” songwriter Mildred J. Hill, and the person who is arguably more synonymous with Kentucky than anyone in history: Colonel Harland Sanders.