Watkins Cemetery

Hart County, Kentucky

 

At Linwood turn east on Eve Road, proceed about 1 mile, turn right onto Knoxes Creek Road , proceed 2 miles, bear right onto Dewey Walsh Rd. Road ends at a gate in .4 mile. Cemetery is in a clump of trees on the left.

 

This cemetery has not been maintained. It is overgrown and some stones have been damaged by cattle. Plans to restore and fence this cemetery are underway. If you would like to help with this effort, physically or financially, contact: Dee Tapp - (270) 528-2840 dtapp36@gmail.com
Death Certificates provided by Edith Bastin

Name

Birth Date

Death Date

Parents\Notes

Jaggers, Bedie May
02/27/1895
02/24/1919
w/o J. J. (husband was Thomas Jackson Jaggers - info provided by Dee Tapp)
Walsh, William
02/24/1820
Oct 1893
h/o Ameriaca Watkins Walsh; f/o Mary Walsh. (info provided by Dee Tapp) - William and America were parents of Rufus who married Mary Francis McFelia - Rufus & Mary are buried at Knoxes Creek (info provided by Addie Chappell & Gladys Terry)
Watkins, Elizabeth Gardner
05/16/1808
05/20/1894
oss/ & w/o Hezekiah (info provided by Wayne Rushing)
Watkins, Elobee D.
01/27/1861
09/29/1862
 
Watkins, Hezekiah
06/22/1803
09/25/1847
 
Watkins, J. B.
08/14/1858
12/22/1919
Watkins, John C.
1846
08/14/1852
Brother to Robert E. Watkins above. Tthey died within two days of each other, but neither Judge Cann nor I found the stone.  It would make no sense not to bury them together (info provided by Dee Tapp)
Watkins, John Edmond
05/12/1902
02/16/1919
s/o J. B. & Lizzie
Watkins, John F.
07/05/1843
Mar 1861
s/o William Benjamin & Elizabeth Anne Watkins Wyatt (info provided by Dee Tapp)
Watkins, Lizzie
02/01/1868
No Date
Elizabeth E. (Lizzie) Rock Watkins, wife of J. B. Watkins, is not buried here. Her stone is here but she is buried in Knoxes Creek Baptist Church Cemetery. (info provided by Dee Tapp)
Watkins, Mary M.
10/12/1859
12/08/1915
w/o Silas
Watkins, Robert E.
09/10/1843
08/12/1852
s/o Hezekiah & Elizabeth Gardner Watkins (info provided by Dee Tapp)
Watkins, Silas
10/08/1838
09/??/1915
oss/ Mary W.
Wyatt, ?
.
.
s/o W. B. & E. (son of William Benjamin & Elizabeth Anne Wyatt - info provided by Dee Tapp)
Watkins, William Wiltshire
12/30/1827
11/09/1870
s/o Hezekiah & Elizabeth Gardner Watkins - also has stone in Pearl Webb Cemetery. It is unknown if he was moved to be beside his wife Nancy Harlan Gibson Watkins of if a memorial stone was errected there? (info provided by Dee Tapp)
Wyatt, William H.
05/29/1851
08/13/1852
s/o William Benjamin & Elizabeth Anne Wyatt (info provided by Dee Tapp)

View of cemetery from gate at end of road.

 
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