| Located north of I-20 in the Lone Elm Community
Condition: Deplorable. Cattle have trampled the area and
broken 90% of the tombstones. The property's owners have not tried
to keep their livestock off the gravesite & the condition of the site
deteriorates with each passing year. There is an effort underway
by the descendants of the interred to rectify the situation by putting
a fence up around the graves.
Enumeration:
*stone in pieces, leaning against tree
Mrs. T C Cobb
Died Sept 16, 1894 Aged 65 Years
"Rest, Mother, Rest! In Quiet Sleep,
While Friends in Sorrow
O'er Thee Weep"
*stone not located in 1999
James L L Dane Born July
22, 1893 (Death date not visible)
Son of H D & L E Dane
*double headstone and graves are completely covered in cement
Elizabreth Riggs Fowler Nov 8, 1848 - Aug 8,
1885
~Double Marker~
Josephus Fowler
June 5, 1841 - Feb 15, 1892
*stone broken in many pieces, piled next to Charles garner
Amanda T Garner (other info unreadable)
*stone standing, but damaged
Charles W Garner Mar
16, 1875 - Oct 14, 1876
s/o J C & Mary Garner
*stone damaged, laying flat
Infant Daughter of J C & Mary Garner Jan 4, 1878 -
Jan 21, 1878
Inscription: "She Opened her Wings & Soared to Heaven"
*double stone- still standing, chipped
Mary E Hammack
May 23, 1855 - April 10, 1892
William M Hammack Aug 11, 1878 - June 20, 1879
*stone broken, laying flat
Lillie Miller Born Oct 23, 1897 - Died July
24, 1898
Dau of O R & M L Miller
*stone broken
May Miller Dec 26, 1893 - Dec 24, 1895 Dau of M E
Miller
*obelisk laying flat on ground, broken off base
J A Mink Apr 27, 1838 - Jan 29, 1893
"Gone to rest"
Inscription: "O' for the Touch of Vanished
Hand
And the Sound of a Voice that is Still"
*stone standing-top half gone in 1999
Benjamin F Smith Feb 29, 1868 (this part is missing)
Aug 8, 1890 "Gone, But Not Forgotten"
(this part remains cemented into ground)
*all 4 children are on same stone-it lays flat & is cracked into
pieces
The Children of S L & C C Townsend
A H Townsend
Feb 12, 1897 - Nov 30, 1899
Infant Townsend
Feb 7, 1896 - Feb 8, 1896
H N Townsend
Nov 1, 1894 - Feb 15, 1896
Infant Townsend B &
D Feb 13, 1899
*stone still standing, broken
Minnie A Warren Aug 28, 1872 - Aug (unreadable)
1887
Inscription: "Precious one, from us is gone
A voice we love is stilled.
A place vacant in our home
Which never can be filled"
*three-sided stone inside antique iron fence
James M Yates Nov 18, 1845
- Jul 17, 1878
Laura F Yates
Dec 25, 1877 - Jul 2, 1878
Henry D Yates Mar
4, 1865 - Dec 2, 1887
*stone standing, broken
William R Yates Jul 9, 1878 - Dec 18, 1876
s/o P E & E J Yates
*stone flat, broken
Thomas W Yates Aug 3, 1878 - Feb 18, 1884 s/o
P E & E J Yates
Metal marker, rusted, unreadable, except raised letters "Our Babe" &
a
picture of a Lamb - it is leaning against the same tree with stone
of Mrs. Cobb
These markers were intact & located when enumerated in 1981, however,
they could not be located April 4, 1988 by Linda Harwell:
Ruthy A Guynes Dau of W P & M O Guynes
Jun 27, 1879 - Aug 31, 1882
___ May Cannada Dec 22, 1896 - Sept 21,
1897
Dau of A F & N L Cannada
"Budded on Earth to Bloom in Heaven"
These stones were enumerated & in tact (but broken) in 1988,
but were not found in 1999:
V J B________ Nov 7, 1866 - Mar 15, 1885
"Gone but not forgotten"
Wester miller s/o O R & M E Miller May 23, 1892 - May
24, 1892
"Gone to be an Angel"
Infant Son of O R & M E Miller B&D Feb__ 1896
"Only Sleeping"
According to Linda Harwell, the following are also known to be buried
here - info from Obituaries & genealogical research:
Mrs W D Hamon Died April 1892
Infant of Mr & Mrs H W Willman Died April 1892
Son of Mr & Mrs Frank Woods Died Aug 1892
Child of W E Yates Died june 1893
There are pieces of tombstones scattered throughout the burial site.
Enumerated 1988 by Linda Feagin Harwell and Peggy Newton &
Jan 30, 1999 by Donald & Kathey Hunt
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