Cemeteries: Hurley Cemetery, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by: Karen Collins Garrett, Winnfield, LA
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HURLEY CEMETERY    Read 11 July 1999 by Karen Garrett

Location of Hurley Cemetery, by James C. Martin of Calvin LA

Point of beginning:  Intersection of LA Hwy 156 and La Hwy 501 in
Calvin, La.  Travel North on La Hwy 501 seven and eight-tenths (7.8)
miles, to intersection of Yankee Springs Road and LaHwy 501.  Turn left
onto Yankee Springs Road.  Travel two and one-half (2.5) miles to Yankee
Springs Church.  Travel eight-tenths (0.8) miles.  Turn right on Hurley
Cemetery Road, identified by a sign "W024T".  Travel one-tenth (0.1) of
a mile to sign identified "W024S".  Travel two-tenths(0.2) miles to
Hurley Cemetery.  It is located on left side of the Forest Service
Road.  The Hurley Cemetery is located three-tenths (0.3) miles (North)
from Yankee Springs Road.  

The cemetery is fairly large, well kept and fenced, but only these few
headstones remain. 

Left side of cemetery ......

William Jasper NELSON
B. 30 July 1876
D. 29 Aug 1914

Angie A. Martin HAMMETT
B. 1878
D. 1910

Oscar, son of
A.L. & Cornelia MARTIN
B. 17 Dec 1886
D.  7 Nov 1906

   Cornelia    &    Emma
B. 12 Sep 1905   B. 12 Sep 1905
D. 21 Nov 1905   D. 16 Sep 1905 
[double headstone, no surname given]
    C. H.           E. H. [footstones]
NOTE: Briley's Cemetery Directory shows these with the surname
      "Hurley". Also shows "dau. Geo. & Emma". Stone was broken
      with apparently a section showing this info missing.

Right side of cemetery .......

Concrete marker - no data

Appear to be more graves (sunken areas) with no markers. 

NOTE: Jesse & Mattie Garrett are buried here according to family accounts but
no markers were found.