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Note: BURIAL - Brandenburg, Meade County, Kentucky: http://www.kentuckygenealogy.org/meade/brandenburg.htm
"Solomon BRANDENBURG later bought the Falling Springs tract "beginning at George Oldham, Junior, upper corner" and calling for Rice's line. Joseph At-will and George Eilot were the witnesses to this deed. George Oldham, Junior, built a cabin on the site of the present public square at Brandenburg. This was the first house built on the site of Brandenburg.
Solomon BRANDENBURG came to Meade County a few years before he bought land. "His heart was as big as a Dutchman's and a Dutchman's heart is as big as a barn door." The date and the place of his birth are unknown by the people who reside in Meade County.
Solomon BRANDENBURG cleared East Hill (Meade County, KY) and raised a crop of corn that was talked about for years by the first settlers. Before his marriage to Miss Elizabeth Kennedy, May 9, 1807, he hunted, fished and ran flatboats down the Ohio River. Every fall he hunted bear regularly on Big Blue River in Indiana Territory with a friend, (perhaps Sybert).
His mother, Hester Brandenburg, died September 19, 1821, in her seventy-seventh year and is buried in Solomon Brandenburg's private burying ground on West Hill overlooking the beautiful Ohio River. His wife, Elizabeth Kennedy Brandenburg, died September 22, 1838, and rests in the same plot. Mrs. POLLY STRATTON, wife of SERAJAH STRATTON, Mrs. Eliza Francis McKinzie, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth. Fairleigh, Horace G. Perceful, members of the Fontaine family, the George family and the Mills family are buried in this cemetery. This burial place has been neglected for many years but at this time it is being put in better condition in memory of the known and the unknown dead who sleep in this beautful plot."
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