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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.
"Old Wink Cemetery is the burial site of 26 persons who died
during the early days of the oil boom, 1926-1929. Shifting sands
over the years have erased all vestige of the graves.
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
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