Old Wink Cemetery
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31.7603560 |
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-103.1786160 |
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Directions:
From the Town of Wink take Farm Road 1232 just past Monument
Draw. Turn right on Winkler County Road 201 for about 1/4 of a
mile. The cemetery was on the right side of the road in a
depression.
Histor: Burial site of 26 persons who died during the early days of the oil boom, 1926-1929. Shifting sands over the years have erased all vestige of the graves. "We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, but left him alone" Wolfe.
All traces have been swept away by flood waters from Oil field run off. The historical marker is in a local museum because it was previously stolen.
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From the Town of Wink take Farm Road 1232 just past Monument Draw. Turn right on Winkler County Road 201 for about 1/4 of a mile. The cemetery was on the right side of the road in a depression.
For many years this area was under water from the run off from the oil field. The ground is still white from salt residue. There is nothing left.
Oil field and pipe line workers and their families lived in tents and shacks during the oil boom days in the late 1920's.
Almost all the people who died here were shipped back to their homes for burial. They had no roots here. Any local people were buried in Kermit, the county seat.
The cemetery marker for Old Wink Cemetery is housed in the Wink Cemetery.
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Robert Alexander |
1897 |
10 Dec 1927 |
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| African American. Trucker for oil camp. He had lived there two months. Died of a brain concussion and alcoholism after about one week. | |||
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Bessie Fendricks Banks |
12 Aug 1895 |
1 May 1938 |
African American. Divorced from
Charles Banks. Daughter of Columbus Fendricks (1849-1942) of
Tennessee and Hattie Johnson of Chilton, Texas. Her parents
married in Falls County on December 23, 1893. Hattie was the
daughter of Charly and Caroline Johnson She had lived in the area for nine years and died of peronitis from a ruptured bladder. Sepsis and aneuryism of the aorta. Informant was Versa George of Goldsmith, Texas, In 1930 she and Charlie were living in Kermit where he drove a truck and she was a chamber maid for a rooming house. On the census her birthplace was listed as Oklahoma amd they had been married five years. |
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Bobbie Lee Dubbs |
8 Oct 1927 |
22 Jun 1928 |
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| Daughter of Herbert Livingston and Florence Dubbs of Antoine, Arkansas. She had been in the area two months and died of dysentery. | |||
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Sam Frame |
1864 |
19 Dec 1927 |
He was a widower and a miner. He was asthmatic and the
disease was contracted in Oklahoma. His nearest contact was
Claud Ramsey? of Wagoner, Oklahoma. He was thought to have
been in the area for 4 months. In 1920 he was a lead and zinc miner in Quapaw township, Ottawa County, Oklahoma. |
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Reba Lucille Golden |
20 Oct 1926 |
14 Jun 1928 |
Possible burial. Family Members
Parents
Siblings
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C B Herron |
1893 |
21 Jan 1928 |
He was an oil field worker who died of pneumonia. He said his parents were not living and he had no brothers or sisters. About 35 years old. white male. unmarried. |
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George Henry Hogan |
2 Apr 1927 |
5 Mar 1928 |
He died of pneumonia and was the son of Andrew D. Hogan of Holt, Missouri and Norma Barker of Texas. |
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Edward Howard |
1898 |
27 Apr 1929 |
African American, married and worked as a barber. He was
stabbed in the stomach. He had lived in the area for 4
months and was the son of Loyd Howard. Informant is a Conly
Gibson of Wink, Texas. He and his family are on the 1910 census for Ennis, Ellis County, Texas. The family is from Louisiana and his father is a railroad laborer. His mother Irene is a washerwoman with 6 of 11 children still living. |
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Mackey Jester Jr. |
11 Apr 1927 |
29 Jul 1928 |
Died northwest of Wink, Texas. Son of Mackey Jester and Lizzie Richetson of San Sabeth Texas. The baby died of whooping cough. |
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Jeraldine Leigh |
14 Apr 1926 |
25 Dec 1927 |
Daughter of Willie E. Leigh of Troy, Texas, and Annie Mae Holland. The baby died of croup. |
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Betty Jean Mason |
19 Aug 1928 |
19 Aug 1928 |
still born daughter of George F. Mason and
Lucille Ussery? of Blackwell, Oklahoma. Died at
Scarborough Hospital. Family Members
Parents
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Herbert Clarence McMillan |
15 Apr 1928 |
25 Jun 1928 |
Had been in the area two months before dying of unknown
causes. The son of Claude Terry McMillian of Pilot Point
Texas and Dorothy E. Grant of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. They left and in April of 1929 had a son named Donald in Harris County, Texas. On the 1920 census they are in Wichita Falls where Claude worked as a sheet metal worker with two living children. |
| 31 Aug 1904 |
2 Oct 1941 |
Jack Morris was born in Medina, Texas, as the son of John E.
Morris of Dayton, Ohio and Ada Rogers of Sugar Creek, Texas. He died at the Wilson Hospital. He was a cowhand and died of pneumonia following a septacosis infection on his back. He was unmarried. In 1910 he and his parents were living in El Paso County, Texas where his father operated a farm. |
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John J Proctor Jr. |
8 Jan 1893 |
3 Jul 1928 |
Chef and cafeman. Died of uremic Poisoning after a ruptured
bladder in Scarbrough Hospital. Single white male. He was born in Spring Valley, Illinois, son of John and Katie Proctor. In WWI he registered for the draft at Flagstaff, Arizona, in the carnival business. In 1920 he was in Arizona State Prison. His occupation was listed as "show" In 1910 he was still living at home in Marshall County, Illinois as a newsboy. His father worked in a coal mine. In 1900 he was at home in Toluca, Marshall County, Illinois, with his parents and his father was a coal Miner. |
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James Sheehy |
1 Apr 1882 | 18 Jun 1928 |
James Sheehy was a pipeline worker who died of alcohol
poisoning. He was the son of Martin Sheehy of Kansas City
and Mary Enright of Muncie Kansas. His parents had married
in Kansas City in 1880 and his mother died soon after. His
father was listed as a widower for the rest of his life. James nearest contact was Les Horan of Big Lake, Texas, H.P.L. He was single. In 1918 he registered for the Military draft in Beaumont, Texas. He was a labourer for the Beaumont Dry Dock and Ship Building Company, He was single and his next of kin was his father Martin Sheehy of 1101 Agnes Ave in Kansas City, Missouri. |
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Herbert Irving Smith |
15 Apr 1869 |
27 Jan 1928 |
Herbert was a watchman who died of a skull fracture. He had
been in Wink for 11 days. The fracture took place in Dublin,
New Mexico on the 17th. His nearest contact was someone in
Carlsbad, New Mexico but their name is unreadable. New
Mexico is only 20 miles away while Carlsbad is over 100.
Wink may have been the nearest medical facility. No explanation as given for the injury. Although there had been an operation there was no autopsy. In 1910 he may have been working in Fresno. California. as a teamster for an oil company. |
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G Soto |
1891 |
11 Jan 1929 |
Died at the emergency hospital of influenza and bronchial pneumonia. There was no one else to give any additional information. He had been working for the Texas and ?? Railroad. he was a white male. |
| 10 May 1928 |
3 Jul 1928 |
daughter of James Henry Taylor of Dixon, Webster County,
Kentucky and Ora Proctor of Mineral Wells, Texas. Died after 10 days of cholera sufutum? |
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William Wells |
1856 |
1 Jun 1928 |
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| he was an oil field worker staying at George's Cot House and died of unknown causes. | |||
