William F. Perry Monument

The William F. Perry Monument is an historical gravestone located at Fairview Cemetery in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It is an oversized limestone headstone.[2]

Perry, William F., Monument
LocationFairview Cemetery. N of jct. of KY 234 and Collette Ln., Bowling Green, Kentucky
Built1901
MPSCivil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS
NRHP reference No.97000664[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 17, 1997

It honors Confederate general William F. Perry of the Army of Northern Virginia, who would after the war serve on the faculty of Ogden College in Bowling Green, which is now Western Kentucky University. It was placed to honor him by his students at the college when he died on December 7, 1901, and made a correlation on how Perry's service for the Confederate States of America translated into becoming a revered professor by his students.[3][4]

On July 17, 1997, it was one of sixty-one different monuments to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. One other monument on the list, the Confederate Monument of Bowling Green, is nearby in Fairview Cemetery as well.[5]

  • Back of the monument

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. Brent, Joseph William F. Perry Monument NRHP Nomination Form (Kentucky Heritage Commission, 1997) p. 1.
  3. Bowling Green, Ky. Trailsrus.com
  4. Brent p. 1.
  5. Joseph E. Brent (January 8, 1997). "National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Submission: Civil War Monuments in Kentucky, 1865-1935" (pdf). National Park Service. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)


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