Old Union Christian Church

I have lived in the north Lexington community of Loradale for, well, a long time. Old Union has been the church that my family has been a part of off and on for all that time. It is a wonderful, small and loving group of people always willing to lend a hand, provide food or help in any way. They are not fancy, and they seem real honest about their faith in Jesus, not pushy. The pastors have always been very attentive to me and my family. My granmother's funeral was wonderfully done. It is a wonderful, loving and simple place.

It was reported in the Lexington Herald Leader (March 17, 2009):

"Among the hundreds of graves in the Old Union Christian Church Cemetery on Russell Cave Road, genealogist David Shannon found those of several relatives, including his great-grandparents Julia and Lloyd Harp."

"So he created an independent research Web site, www.oldunioncemetery.com, where he's posted the information on the 475 documented burials collected and a photograph of each visible stone."

"In February, the church's governing board sent Shannon a letter telling him 'to cease publishing pictures of stones ... not part of your family because it is sharing family information without their consent.'"

"The church sells a $10 book with all the tombstone information in it, but no pictures, compiled for an Eagle Scout project several years ago with the help of church historian Leslie Nash Huber, Winkler said."

"'What is inscribed on a tombstone also is public, said Mary Davis, Stites & Harbison professor of law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. "If a fact is in the public domain, it's not private and it can be published,' she said."



This is Not Following the teaching of Jesus Christ!

As someone with ancestors in the area, I have a problem with this and the Law is on Our Side.