Video Trip to Ump Mize Cemetery, Laurel County, Kentucky
This is a video about a trip to the abandoned rock quary near Billows, Kentucky located at the top of hill from the new Rockcastle River Bridge on Old Route 80 going from Somerset to London, Laurel County, Kentucky. It is directly across from the former Hawk Creek Road. The cemetery is fairly maintained but very hard to find in the myriad of gravel roads that crisscross each other in the quarry. The quarry has a nickname of the "fury hole." The cemetery is located in the shade of cedar trees and has only two named tombstones both of which are connected with the Humphrey "Ump" Mize family. There are numerous unmarked stone markers along with several unmarked graves within the cemetery. I do not recommend driving down into the old quarry with a two wheel drive car. It is "iffy" at times getting back up the hill to the main road if you don't have four wheel drive. The quarry was mined for rock for road improvements by a 1930s work project ran by the United States Government. The burned out house foundation of a Mize descendant can be seen on the immediate right before turning down the gravel road leading to the cemetery.