Colored_Cemetery_Covington

=**Covington "Colored Cemetery"**=

The historically African American section of the Covington City Cemtery, to the east of downtown, was long known as the "Colored Cemetery", or the "old cemetery" (in contrast with the "New Cemetery", later known as West Side Cemetery, on the west side of town). Deeded gravesites in the Colored Cemetery date back until at least the 1890s. Among those buried there are:

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 * Rev. Toney Baker, the founder of Bethlehem Bapstist Church
 * Stokes. An old headstone, with an inscription of three links of a chain. (This is evidently a Freemason symbol, associated with the Indepenent Order of Oddfellows (the Three Links Fraternity) signifying the three principles of //Friendship, Love, and Truth//. See; [] [] or [[http://cemeteries.wordpress.com/category/freemasons/|http://cemeteries.wordpress.com/category/freemasons/