Cemetery: SWINEY CEMETERY, Pike County, KY , Kentucky

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FAE48@aol.com
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SWINEY CEMETERY

Location: 60 Wolfpen Br Rd, Elkhorn City, Pike County, KY (Off Hwy 80 S between
Elkhorn City, KY and Breaks Interstate Park near the VA state line

Transcriber:  Faye Ann Swiney Sepentzis, FAE48@aol.com, June 2000

The entrance to the cemetery is located behind the old home place of Lester Swiney.  To
get to the gate, walk through the yard to the back of the property.

There is also another, separate cemetery here established by Ona Belcher in a deed to
Roger Lee Swiney.  This cemetery has a separate fence and is accessible only through the
yard of the Swiney home at 60 Center Creek Rd, Elkhorn City.

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And you shall know that I am the Lord,
when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves,
O my people.
(Ezekiel 37:13)

Data in ( ) parenthesis provided by the transcriber.
Standing at the entrance facing northwest the graves run left to right as follows:

(First Row)
(marked with a rock)  Unmarked Grave
(marked with a rock)  Unmarked Grave
J D HAYNES   1948 1995 (Bailey Funeral Home marker)
(Second Row)
SWINEY   Precious Memories   JIM LESTER   Jan 8 1920   Apr 24 1976
                                                    LAKIE DAMRON  Jan 30 1919  Mar 1 1989
DOUG HAYNES   1936 1966 (Bailey Funeral Home marker)
(Third Row)
(inside a separate fenced area in the Ona Belcher cemetery):
She was the sunshine of our home   FLORENCE   BELCHER   Feb 2 1900   July 4
               1986       
ONA W BELCHER   Jan 6 1898   Dec 2 1985
(back inside the Swiney Cemetery):
ORPHA JANE SWINEY   1900 1985  (Bailey Funeral Home marker)
(Fourth Row)
HUSBAND   HENRY SWINEY   Jan 12 1906   Sept 18 1972   gone but not forgotten
SWINEY   JESSIE   Feb 10 1910   June 30 1854   He died as he lived   a Christian
               (FOOT) J.S.
GEORGE RATLIFF   SPS U S ARMY   World War II   1918  1974
(marked with a rock)  Unmarked Grave
(marked with a rock)  Unmarked Grave
RYAN    THOMAS   RATCLIFF   1995 1995
(Fifth Row)
(marked with a rock) Unmarked Grave
(marked with a rock) Unmarked Grave
(marked with a rock) Unmarked Grave
VICY   dau of   ANA (probably A & A for Albert & Arminda)  SWINEY   Mar 10 1900
               Dec 28 1901
CALVIN   SWINEY   Born Oct 19 1871   Died May 10 1901
(marked with a rock) Unmarked Grave
(Sixth Row)
JOY LENORA   SWINEY   Aug 24 1944  Jan 25 1948
(marked with a rock) Unmarked Grave
(marked with a rock) Unmarked Grave
MERTIE   SWEENEY   Born Oct 29 1904   Died Aug 27 1905
(marked with a rock) Unmarked Grave
(Seventh Row)
(marked with a rock) Unmarked Grave
DORIS NEWBERRY   1930 1983

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Submitted to USGenWebTombstone Project 8/2000