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Old Wink Cemetery

Wink, Winkler County

Marker Text

"Ghost" burial plot with 26 unmarked graves of unidentified, unfortunates, or men traveling under aliases during 1926-29 oil boom violence. All vestiges of 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)

Marker Details

Address FM 1232
Location Description Old Wink Cemetery, SE corner FM 1232 and CR 201
Marker # 3835
Dedicated 1964
Size, Type 18" x 28"
Code cemetery; communities; oil/petroleum topics; poets
Latitude, Longitude 31.759794, -103.182802

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