Gwinn Cemetery

GWINN CEMETERY
Cabell County, West Virginia

Gwinn Detail List

Latitude: N 38° 33.650
Longitude: W 082° 12.826
Elevation: 618 feet
Accuracy: 31 feet

From Huntington, WV (Cabell Co.) take State Route 2 North to Spurlock Cr. Road.   This is near the Cabell and Mason County Line.  Turn Right on this Road and go 2.6 miles.  The Cemetery is on the Left and is not fenced or keep up very well.

This cemetery is located in a small community that was called Gwinn.  The cemetery was first called Walnut Grove.  It was named after a small school that was in the community.  It's name was later change to its present name Gwinn.

The local people claim that part of the cemetery was once use to buried
slaves that worked on the farms in the community.

Read  2003
Submitted:  July 25, 2005  by Barry Huffstutler.
Updated:  November 15, 2007

Note:  JM name was "John Morris Blake"
Mother name was "Tabitha Spurlock Blake"

Footstone:  "E.A.B."

Footstone:  "E.E.B."

Footstone:  "F.B."

Footstone:  "H.A.B."

Footstone:  "H.P.B."

Footstone:  "A.C."

Also a Medal Marker with the dates of   (1886 -- 1970).
CHAPMAN  MORTUARY

Footstone:  "L.B.C." and "W.M.C."

CHAPMAN  MORTUARY

CHAPMAN  MORTUARY

Footstones:  "J.B.G." and "M.H.G."

Footstone:  "ARTHUR"

On the same stone with Arthur:

Footstone:  "ETTA"

HECK  FUNERAL  HOME

Footstones:  "W.H.L." and "M.E.L."

Note:  No dates with this marker.

Footstone:  "DAUGHTER"

Footstone:  "MOM"

Footstone:  "DAD"

Both:  CHAPMAN  MORTUARY

Note:  No dates with this marker.

Footstone:  "SON"

Note:  This person name could be "Irene".

Note:  This is a home made wooden marker for this grave.

Note:  This is a home made wooden marker for this grave.

Creota --  CHAPMAN MORTUARY

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Footstone:  "A.S."

Note:  No dates with this marker.

Footstone:  (Blank)

Footstone:  "E.H.S."

Footstone:  "I.S."

Note:  This stone has a open book on it that has this verse on it.
"Peace be with you"

Middle name was "Homer"
Buried: 05-01-1967   Age:  70
Born in Cabell Co., WV and Died in Columbus, OH
(University Hospital)
Parents:  W. B. Trippett & Blanche Stevens
BEARD MORTUARY

Note:  This stone has a open book on it that has this verse on it.
"Peace be with you"

Footstones:  "W.B.T." and "B.T."

Note:   The cemetery has so many unmarked graves in it that it made it impossible to count them.

Other Possible Burials:   Source:    Carrie Eldridge book's on Cabell Cemeteries.

1.  Chapman,  Tefford  --  1937  Inf.
2.  Fuller,  Inf.  --  02-23-1935
3.  Hannon,  Ena
4.  Hannon,  M. M.
5.  Jefferson,  Anna Lee  --  Aug. 1935  Inf.
6.  Merrman,  Henry A.  --  01-03-1829  Inf. son of EW & S
7.  Mount,  John  --  11-13-19--
8.  Pannell,  Georgia Belle  --  09-27-1940  --  20y & 2m & 20d.
9.  Pinkerman,  Lena  --  Aug. 1933  --  31y & 9m & 2d.
10.  Spurlock,  Joyce Yvonne  --  1938
11.  Spurlock,  Margaret  --  1920
12.  Spurlock,  Infant  --  10-19-1936
13.  Spurlock,  Anna  --  08-24-1935  --  37y & 4m & 15d.
14.  Spurlock,  Pheebe  --  12-17-1932  --  77y & 1m & 6d.
15.  Spurlock,  Albert.  --  04-11-1934  --  21y.
16.  Spurlock,  Thomas  --  02-17-1818 -- 01-08-1850
17.  Spurlock,  Charles  --  04-10-1930  --  52y & 8d.
18.  Spurlock,  Myrtle  --  09-01-1931
19.  Spurlock,  D. A.  --  Nov.  1935  --  81y & 3m & 12d.
20.  Scarberry,  George  --  11-01-1935  --  86y.  (Also found in the Heck Records)
21.  Stanley,  Infant  --  1984
22.  Stevens,  (Mother)  --  1823 -- 1906

Heck Records:

1.  Trippett,  Cale  --  04-29-1905 - 09-27-1941  --  Buried:  09-29-1941