From NKAA, Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (main entry)
Colored Benevolent Society of Hopkinsville
(start date: 1869) The Colored Benevolent Society of Hopkinsville became a corporate body and was approved by the Kentucky General Assembly on March 11, 1869. The organization established the Union Benevolent Cemetery #5 after the U.S. Civil War.Source: Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, December 1867, Chapter 1897, p.136, printed at the Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1869; Jennifer P. Brown, "Local man's UBS cemetery research is enhancing Hopkinsvill's Black history archive," Hoptown Chronicle, 02/14/2020 (online); see Union Benevolent Cemetery on Vine Street Set for Rededication, a Hopkinsville, KY webpage.