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A Church, an Epidemic, and the Legacy of Thomas and Mary Helm
During Greenwood Cemetery's recent participation in the national 48 State Tour, organized locally by Old River Cemetery Restoration, visitors gathered among some of Jackson's oldest monuments to learn proper cemetery preservation techniques. One of the projects undertaken during the event involved a broken stone urn resting on the grave of Thomas Helm, the son of Thomas and Mary Helm. An Atlas Preservation representative carefully repaired the damaged urn, ensuring that another piece of the family's story would survive for future generations.
It was a fitting moment. For while the urn belonged to a son, the story ultimately leads back to two parents whose influence can still be seen throughout Jackson more than a century after their deaths.
At His Post Until the End: Rev. Amos Cleaver and the Yellow Fever of 1853
On August 12, 1830, a gentleman disembarked from the ship Symmetry at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He sailed from Liverpool and was thirty years of age. His name was listed as Amos (sic) Cleaver. He was a cabin passenger which would indicate that he possessed some means.
His odyssey in America began with Lexington, Kentucky. On Sunday the 28th of November, 1830, he was ordained as a deacon in the Virginia Diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Richard Channing Moore. Cleaver then moved to Lexington, Kentucky. The next year, 1831, the Rt. Rev. Bishop Benjamin Bosworth Smith assigned him to the town of Versailles which was about thirteen miles west of Lexington. Although the church was not begun in Versailles until 1847, Cleaver is recognized as the first Episcopal clergyman to have officiated in that town. No record has been found to indicate when and where he was ordained as a priest but it must have been soon after he became a deacon. In 1832 he was sent to Paris, Kentucky which is located about eighteen miles northeast of Lexington.