 When the approval for the Confederate home was gained in 1904, the cemetery was divided into three parts; one for Confederate veterans, one for whites, and one for blacks.In 1902 the Kentucky state assembly unanimously approved the building of a veterans home specifically for Confederate veterans of the American Civil War by the cemetery.It was done at the behest of former Confederate officer Bennett H. Young, who had long desired such a facility as he saw many former Confederate veterans were no longer able to take care of themselves.