Aged 77 years
Went out to the site where the cemetery used to be and only found the two Ross headstones. - Fred Woods
From a newspaper article my Grandmother (Amanda Lou Johnson Maack) wrote is the following:
"A child died with the croup and was buried nearby. The second person buried there was a surveyor from Kentucky on horse back who tried to cross the creek at flood stage and was drown.
After several other persons were buried there it became known as the Gudgell cemetery as Gudgell creek was near by. About sixty persons were buried there including several Civil War soldiers.
The father and two sons of the Lane family who were shot for selling horses to the Southern army were buried in this cemetery.
My father Emanuel Johnson was sisxteen years old at the time and helped dig the graves and bury them.
Most of the stones were of sandrock with the names and dates chiseled on them. The Lane family stones were of white marble. As there became other cemeteries and churches, it was no longer used and grew up in brush and trees. The white picket fence fell down. Livestock overran it and in 1960 the remaining stones were destroyed and it was plowed up and is now being farmed."
Went out to the site where the cemetery used to be and only found the two Ross headstones. - Fred Woods
From a newspaper article my Grandmother (Amanda Lou Johnson Maack) wrote is the following:
"A child died with the croup and was buried nearby. The second person buried there was a surveyor from Kentucky on horse back who tried to cross the creek at flood stage and was drown.
After several other persons were buried there it became known as the Gudgell cemetery as Gudgell creek was near by. About sixty persons were buried there including several Civil War soldiers.
The father and two sons of the Lane family who were shot for selling horses to the Southern army were buried in this cemetery.
My father Emanuel Johnson was sisxteen years old at the time and helped dig the graves and bury them.
Most of the stones were of sandrock with the names and dates chiseled on them. The Lane family stones were of white marble. As there became other cemeteries and churches, it was no longer used and grew up in brush and trees. The white picket fence fell down. Livestock overran it and in 1960 the remaining stones were destroyed and it was plowed up and is now being farmed."
Aged 77 years
Went out to the site where the cemetery used to be and only found the two Ross headstones. - Fred Woods
From a newspaper article my Grandmother (Amanda Lou Johnson Maack) wrote is the following:
"A child died with the croup and was buried nearby. The second person buried there was a surveyor from Kentucky on horse back who tried to cross the creek at flood stage and was drown.
After several other persons were buried there it became known as the Gudgell cemetery as Gudgell creek was near by. About sixty persons were buried there including several Civil War soldiers.
The father and two sons of the Lane family who were shot for selling horses to the Southern army were buried in this cemetery.
My father Emanuel Johnson was sisxteen years old at the time and helped dig the graves and bury them.
Most of the stones were of sandrock with the names and dates chiseled on them. The Lane family stones were of white marble. As there became other cemeteries and churches, it was no longer used and grew up in brush and trees. The white picket fence fell down. Livestock overran it and in 1960 the remaining stones were destroyed and it was plowed up and is now being farmed."
Went out to the site where the cemetery used to be and only found the two Ross headstones. - Fred Woods
From a newspaper article my Grandmother (Amanda Lou Johnson Maack) wrote is the following:
"A child died with the croup and was buried nearby. The second person buried there was a surveyor from Kentucky on horse back who tried to cross the creek at flood stage and was drown.
After several other persons were buried there it became known as the Gudgell cemetery as Gudgell creek was near by. About sixty persons were buried there including several Civil War soldiers.
The father and two sons of the Lane family who were shot for selling horses to the Southern army were buried in this cemetery.
My father Emanuel Johnson was sisxteen years old at the time and helped dig the graves and bury them.
Most of the stones were of sandrock with the names and dates chiseled on them. The Lane family stones were of white marble. As there became other cemeteries and churches, it was no longer used and grew up in brush and trees. The white picket fence fell down. Livestock overran it and in 1960 the remaining stones were destroyed and it was plowed up and is now being farmed."
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