The cemeteries and pictures on this page were contributed by Cindy Pegg
Located out in the boonies from Delwood. Turn on the road that takes you back to Bell Smith Springs:
JOSEPH SMOTHERS Died Sept 10, 1891. Aged 65 Years. |
A diamond-shaped stone, across the top says: |
Small brick shaped stones sticking out of the ground: M E J F |
We went and found another cemetery located about 3/4 mile from his property. It's on government land and has a
couple of headstones that someone has gone in there and replaced. I think it was called the Old Stark Cemetery:
LUCINDA MORSE
DAVID MORSE
Son & Dau
Charley Land
Amanda G.
John D. Choat |
I took pictures at both places. There appeared to be sandstone markers that don't have any writing on them. |
Additional information below provided by: Jerry Hill In addition to the headstones Cindy listed, there are a number of JENKINS headstones in good condition back in one corner of the cemetery. This was real exciting to me because the parents of this group were the sister and brother-in-law of my wife's great-great-grandmother, Phoebe Murphy NEWTON. The Choat and Lands names she listed are also related to the Newtons. I'm not sure how (or if) the Morses are related to the Newtons or Jenkinses. If anyone knows anything about the Jenkins, Choat, Newton, or Lands families here, I would love to talk with them. Here are the inscriptions I copied down from the far corner:
Matthew Jenkins
Sylpha ((her maiden name was Murphy)) Adjacent headstones listing a son or dau of S.L. & M. Jenkins
Marinda
James S.W.
Jemima
Henry
In another small group of headstones a short ways away from Matthew and Sylpha are another bunch of Jenkins.
William C. Jenkins
Sarah E. |
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