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The Old Wink Cemetery

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Wink, Texas

Winkler County TX , Wink Cemetery, skull on cemetery ground
Animal skull seen "where the old wink cemetery was located. ..... This area had been under water for over 10 years"
Photo Courtesy Charlene Beatty Beauchamp

"The Old Wink Cemetery has a marker for the graves of 26 people who died during Wink's first three years (1926-1929). The exact locations of the individual graves are not known.

According to the old timers in Wink, the cemetery is located in the Monument Draw. Although it is dry now, during the 1950s - 60s it was flooded with oil field runoff water and the area was under water for over 10 years. Several of the Wink residents remember fishing and hunting here.

There are no current signs of the cemetery today. It is part of a local ranch.

The cemetery marker is inside the Wink Museum. Someone years back stole the marker. When it was recovered it was placed in the museum and has not been relocated out where the old cemetery is." - Charlene Beatty Beauchamp, May 2001

Winkler County TX - Wink Cemetery Marker
"Old Wink Cemetery"
historical marker

Photo courtesy Charlene Beatty Beauchamp
Historical Marker:

Old Wink Cemetery

Ghost burial plot with 26 unmarked graves of unidentified, unfortunates, of men traveling under aliases during 1926-29 oil boom violence. All vestige of the graves lost in winds, shifting sands. Plot dedicated to memory of those with names known only to God.

"We raised not a stone, but left him alone"
Wolfe

(1964)

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