Pearl Webb Cemetery, Canmer, KY

05/28/2026

Our ceremony for the end of the Memorial Day season. We will never forget those who gave all. 🇺🇸

05/28/2026

🇺🇸A HUGE thank you to the Hopewell and Church in Canmer Youth and leaders who helped close out Memorial Day with a special ceremony and removal of the veterans flags at the cemetery.
🇺🇸We are so proud of our Junior ROTC guys for the lowering and folding of the flag and to Teddy Dillard for his talk on the lives lost in Vietnam and other previous wars. Thanks to all who helped!!

05/25/2026

If you notice a family tombstone that needs repairs, Josh Harkness is local and can take care of that for you.

05/22/2026

05/22/2026

🇺🇸 The cemetery is ready for your Memorial Day visits. Take a moment to remember those who served their country. Especially those who gave all.

🇺🇸 Here are some of the veterans who are buried here along with the volunteers who placed flags today.

🇺🇸 The mowing and maintenance of this cemetery is funded by your donations. Please remember to donate. The information for donations is in the photos.

🇺🇸 Volunteers are always welcome. If you can hang out for a short time during Memorial Day weekend to collect donations, we would welcome your help. (It’s the best way to see your old friends and neighbors from Canmer) 😊

05/03/2026

Pearl Webb cemetery meeting
Tues., May 5, 6:00 pm. Church in Canmer. Everyone is welcome to attend.

04/08/2026

🌳Looking for the best time to visit Pearl Webb cemetery and see your family history? It’s now!
🌳This is the prettiest time of the year for Pearl Webb as the cemetery is decorated completely with white dogwoods, and they are beautiful.
🌳If you would like to help keep the cemetery mowed and landscaped, all donations are appreciated and can be mailed to Brenda Dudderar, 1945 North Jackson Highway, Hardyville, KY, 42746. Thanks!

02/16/2026

A Simple Tombstone but A Life Well Lived

🩺Dr. William Thomas Pace came to Monroe to practice medicine around 1890. Dr. Pace was a next door neighbor to Roy A. Cann, well known as the “Hart County Historian”. Mr. Cann wrote a beautiful tribute to Dr. Pace that can be found on file at the Hart County Historical Museum. These close friends and neighbors lived in homes behind the two story Monroe store later known as the Gobel Twyman store. Dr. Pace was known as a friend to everyone in the neighborhood, well loved and respected by all.

🩺Mr. Cann himself recalled watching the doctor coming and going on horseback in all kinds of weather. One particular time stood out in his memory. It was an extremely cold period of weather and Dr. Pace was called out for a day and night. He was returning home in the morning. Mr. Cann wrote the good Doctor had rain and snow frozen on his hair, beard and clothing. The horse was also exhausted after pulling through the mud, snow and ice that was about knee deep.

🩺Dr. Pace charged very little for his services. A house call was $2.00 and the delivery of a baby was $5.00. Even with these small prices, many people could not pay except with items they brought to his home such as firewood, corn or hay for his horses. The doctor never seemed to mind. His concerns were to try to relieve human suffering, whenever possible.

🩺In 2007, Mrs. Lattie Conyers Stinson, 95, could still remember a soldier returning from WWI bringing the flu into Monroe. Practically everyone in Monroe fell ill. She told of her memory, as a young girl, watching Dr. Pace go from house to house caring for the sick.

🩺Dr. Pace was not immune to misfortune in his life. He lost his wife, Eudora, son, Lewis and daughter Daise, all within the year of 1908. His daughter, Maime, died in 1912 and Dr. Pace signed his own daughter’s death certificate. None of his children lived past the age of 30 and the entire family can be found in their final resting place in the Pearl Webb Cemetery.

🩺His tombstone seems simple for someone who lived a life of service to his community. Sometimes….tombstones don’t reveal the entire story….

Once again, thanks to the late June Burks who gathered this information originally in 2007. ❤️

01/31/2026

Undertakers and Ghost Stories...

🪦John W Weller was Canmer's First Undertaker and Embalmer.
Born July 11, 1868 - died May 7, 1940 and buried in the Pearl Webb Cemetery.
🪦Soon after John was born, it was decided that the small community of Canmer needed a local embalmer and undertaker. John was chosen to be sent away to school to be educated and trained for this purpose as soon as he was old enough. His grandfather, George S. Weller of Bardstown was already well known as a fine carpenter and was making fine coffins of walnut and cherry for the moneyed citizens of Bardstown.
🪦John served his community well for 50 years. Mr. & Mrs. W. O. Buckner shared memories long ago of him bringing a tiny coffin to their home when their first baby was still born in 1936 and helping them through that difficult time. When William Henry Burks, Sr. died in 1935, John Weller made a special trip to Louisville to buy a steel vault as Mr. Burks was the first person in this area to be buried in a vault. Mr. & Mrs. Buckner and Mr. Burks and his wife's tombstones can all be visited at the cemetery.
🪦Mr. Weller's home, shown in the photo, was purchased and restored by D.L. Carver for his family to live in around 1966. The house was then over 100 years old and it came with some problems! The Carver children reported strange sightings, noises and happenings in the house. One of the sons finally refused to stay in the house because of his frightening experiences. They found out that Mr. Weller had brought many of the corpses into a back room of the house for embalming, dressing and preparing the body to be placed in the coffin for burial. The body would then be taken back to the home to lay in state until time for the funeral. This home was recently sold again and has been demolished by the new owners
🪦John Weller was remembered for his kindness, sensitivity and professionalism in helping the community through times of sadness.
🪦Interested in more stories about the cemetery or providing a donation? Send an email to Brenda Dudderar at [email protected] to request an emailed copy of the next newsletter. Donations can be made to Pearl Webb Cemetery c/o Brenda Dudderar, 1945 N Jackson Highway, Hardyville, KY 42746. Our next project is completing the blacktopping of the roads in the cemetery.
🪦Many thanks to my Aunt June Burks who wrote the original story of Mr. Weller in the 2008 Pearl Webb Cemetery newsletter. She contacted many local folks for their memories of Mr. Weller. She was a treasure and her tombstone can also be found at Pearl Webb.

01/20/2026

Would you like to know some history about Pearl Webb Cemetery?

* Pearl Webb Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in Hart County that receives no financial support from any township, church, or organization. All the care and upkeep of the cemetery comes from volunteers and donations. The cemetery covers about 8 acres of land.

*Who was Pearl Webb?
Pearl was born in 1877 and died in 1878. She was the first known person buried in the cemetery and her tombstone with a little lamb atop can be found under a cedar tree near the top of the hill and flagpole. Her father, Ira N. Webb and his wife, Mary M. moved to the Rio community shortly after their marriage. Mr. Webb worked in the grist mill near Powder Mills. Pearl was one of the five children born to them. Mr. & Mrs. Webb later moved to Hardin County near the Colesburg community.

*Who planted the dogwood trees throughout the cemetery?
Our original dogwoods were planted many years ago by Jeff Callahan (high school agriculture teacher who also was responsible for planting the many pine trees along 31E North near the Green River Bridge with the help of the local FFA boys) and James Easton Chaney (early president of the Canmer Deposit Bank)

What are some of the recent improvements?
Blacktopping some of the roads through the cemetery. Hopefully, more can be done in the near future.

Who is buried in Pearl Webb?
Many of our earliest doctors and business leaders. Stay tuned for more history and information on some of the more well-known folks buried here.