Graves County KyArchives Cemeteries.....Swann Cemetery - Partial Survey More to Come ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Kevin Gupton papabear0425@yahoo.com January 23, 2007, 7:09 am Abstracted By: Kevin Gupton Swann Cemetery is located on the south side of Swann road about 1/2 mile west of Beech Grove Cemetery. The cemetery begins at a fence located on the edge of Swann road and runs approximately 100 ft. to the south from the road. Swann cemetery was the Gupton family cemetery from the 1880's until the 1940's with burials occuring there until at least 1939. It is very difficult to locate as the only remaining portions of the cemetery are a concrete retaining wall at the base of a holly tree and some sandstone markers. This cemetery is very overgrown. All markers, except for a concrete retaining wall with the inscritpions JG and MG on the headstone and a few sandstone markers are gone or cannot be located. When I first visited the cemetery in 1985 with my grandfather, the area was overgrown with brush, and the gravesites were very difficult to locate. My grandfather told me that the cemetery was abandoned sometime during the 1950's and not kept up after that point. We visited this cemetery several times that year and cleaned the area up as best as we could and mapped out the gravesites. I visited the area again in late 2006 and found it in much the same condition as we left it in 1985. Evidently the owner of the surrounding land is aware that a cemetery exists here and has not disturbed the cemetery. I noticed that this cemetery is not listed on this site and is not in the Graves County Cemetery book that I have. I do not know if anyone else has any records of this cemetery or not, so I am submitting what information I have so that it may be preserved. Last Name First Name Middle Name Birth Death Comment ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gupton Joseph 11/20/1814 bet. 1881 and 1899 Buried within the concrete retaining wall Gupton Martha Jones 12/28/1820 bet. 1881 and 1899 Buried within the concrete retaining wall Gupton James T 3/10/1849 3/10/1918 No marker Gupton Missouri A 5/1849 12/19/1938 No marker Gupton Minnie 9/1/1882 10/2/1883 Infant Daughter of James T. and Missouri Gupton Gupton Maimie 9/1/1882 11/29/1892 Daughter of James T. and Missouri Gupton Garrison Ruby Gupton 3/14/1887 3/26/1908 Wife of Ervin Garrison Gupton Eddie 1/20/1879 10/20/1897 No marker Garrison Infant 3/26/1908 3/26/1908 Child of Ervin and Ruby Garrison Additional Comments: There are more people buried in this cemetery. I have a list of some people who I suspect are buried here but have no obituaries, records, or eyewitness accounts of. I have only included those individuals who I am sure are buried within this cemetery. I will keep this listing updated as I find more information. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/graves/cemeteries/swanncem86gcm.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/