EDWARDS/SANDLIN & EDWARDS CEMETERIES(OWSLEY CO, KY)

Submitted by Wallace Edwards

 

 

The following is a listing of the above cemeteries.

 

Directions to the cemeteries:

Take Hwy 11 S from Booneville , turn right on Hwy 577 (Sexton's Creek), then right on Anglin Branch Rd. (first gravel road on the right). Go 1.4 miles and take the dirt road to the right up a steep, rough hill 2/10 miles to the Edwards/Sandlin Cem. The Edwards Cemetery is 1.7 miles farther up Anglin Branch than the first cemetery and the approach is a gravel road turning right up a hill. Currently this road forks off a coal mine access road

 

EDWARDS/SANDLIN CEMETERY

 

W. P Clem b 9/21/1887 d 1/31/1920 "He said the Good Lord will take care of me".

(??Teacher at Anglin Branch School) s/o Lewis & Mary J. King Clem

 

Nannie Edwards b 12/6/1873 d 12/30/1943 "Meet me in Heaven". d/o Jasper

& Rhoda Morris Burch

 

John Wesley Edwards 1872 1955 s/o James & Mary Austin Edwards

 

Betty Thompson b 8/16/1885 d 11/17/1970 GBNF d/o Charles & Sarah M. Edwards Scott

 

Henry G. Thompson b 7/12/1880 d 8/13/1933 s/o James R & Mary Browning Thompson

 

James Riley Thompson b 7/15/1850 d 3/7/1927 s/o William & Jane Thompson

(b. VA. per 1870 Harlan Co. Census)

 

Mary Thompson b 12/14/185?2 d 7/8/1926 d/o Jim & Lucy Low Browning

 

James H. Browning b 4/20/1877 d 5/5/1898 s/o Robert & Martha Edwards Browning

 

J. Alice Sandlin b 7/24/1863 d 4/30/1896

 

Alia (Ally) Sandlin b 12/2/1872 d 1/27/1955 "Our loved one at rest". d/o Granville & Jane Kelley Bishop

 

J. H.(James Henry) Sandlin b 11/21/1869 d 6/15/1957 "Our loved one at rest". s/o Lewis & Ellen Edwards Sandlin md 9/29/1887 Clay Co.

 

Nellie (Ellen) Sandlin b 1843 d 1/15/1936 "Age 94 yrs Thy life was beauty truth goodness &love" d/o George W. & Margaret Allen Edwards

 

Sgt. Lewis Sandlin Co D 47 Ky Inf. s/o Ezekiel & Sarah Clark Sandlin

 

?Dudlia Evans b 6/20/1884 d 11/15/1884

 

Nancy Evans b 3/11/186?5 d 11/3/1884 ???/o James R. & Margaret Allen Evans possible

w/o Jobe A. Evans

 

W. H. Edwards b 7/12/1868 d 6/29/1927 "He is not dead, but sleepeth, He died as he

live, a christian". s/o James & Mary Austin Edwards

 

Edgar Edwards 1892 1893 Baby s/o John W. & Nanette Burch Edwards

 

Mary J. Edwards 1888 1889 "Darling"

 

James Edwards b 10/22/1834 d 5/14/189?6 s/o George W. & Margaret Allen Edwards

 

Mary "Polly" Austin Edwards b 3/1/1828 d 2/10/1908 btb d/o Robert Austin

 

Sarah Margaret Scott b 6/2/1860 d 1902 "She died as she lived, a christian". d/o James &

Mary Austin Edwards; 1st w/o Charley Scott & m/o Betty Scott Thompson

 

Charley Scott b 1/22/1863 d 8/13/1935 "He died as he lived a christian, A mason for over

fifty years

 

Bobby McDaniel Jr b 10/14/1969 d 9/13/1989 s/o Bobby & Shirley Marshall McDaniel

Bobby McDaniel

 

Jim McDaniel b 1920 d 7/3/2001

 

Charley John McDaniel b 9/24/1961 d 6/20/1986 s/o Jim & Jean Scott McDaniel

N M Edwards "Daughter of Robert Edwards" (& Martha Sizemore Edwards)

 

Mattie Edwards b 1/13/1901 d 3/3/1901 GBNF d/o Andy & Rhoda Bowman Edwards

 

Ruth King 1890-1923 w/o Henry C. King d/o Charely & Sarah M Edwards Scott

 

Goldia Burch B & D 2/20/1913 d/o Charlie & Sylvania Edwards Burch

 

Herbert Burch b 12/10/1901 d 10/?/1902 btb s/o Charlie & Sylvania Edwards Burch

 

S. M. Scott (Sarah Margaret Meade) b 5/25/1885 d 4/3/1947 "She was the sunshine of our home" 2nd w/o Charley Scott & m/o Henry Scott

 

Frank Thompson b 12/18/1909 d 5/15/1915 s/o Henry & Betty Scott Thompson drowned

 

Lola Thompson b 8/2/? d 9/?/? d/o Henry & Betty Scott Thompson

 

George W. & Margaret Allen Edwards are reportedly burried in this cemetery. Sadly, they have on field stones for markers. Margaret was the d/o Adoniram II & Lucinda Riddle Koon Allen.

 

 

EDWARDS CEMETERY

 

 

Brigit Perry 1995 d/o Thomas III & Carla Perry

 

Thomas G. Edwards b 2/13/1930 d 4/25/1993 s/o Leonard & Gracie Durham Edwards

 

Irene Neeley Edwards b 5/25/1928 d 6/9/1996 d/o Earl & Maude Pendergrass Neeley

 

Clarence Edwards b 6/25/1992 d 4/19/1967 s/o Leonard & Gracie Durham Edwards

 

Leonard Edwards b 9/11/1890 d 9/19/1977 s/o Robert & Martha Sizemore Edwards

 

Gracie Edwards b 9/28/1901 d 7/6/1984 d/o Thomas & Lizzie Chesnut Durham

 

Forest D. Edwards b 2/3/1928 d 3/19/1979 s/o Leonard & Gracie Durham Edwards

 

Elizabeth Meade b 7/18/1870 d 1/1/1941 m/oBurt Ledford

 

Carlo Davidson b 3/17/1878 d 10/22/1949 btb s/o Robert & Militia Helton Davidson

 

Martha B. Davidson b 1/23/187?3 d 1/19/1943 d/o ? Allen & Elizabeth Sizemore Allen

 

Howel Davidson b 7/9/1900 d 11/17/1937 s/o Carlo & Martha B. Allen Davidson

 

Myrtle Davidson b 8/26/1898 d 5/23/1978 d/o Wm. H. & Winnie Bishop Edwards

 

Judy Ann Davidson b 8/1949 d 9/1949 d/o Roy & Dathia Davidson

 

Rondall G. Davidson b 11/15/1937 d 4/27/1977 s/o Howell & Myrtle Edwards Davidson

 

Roy H. Davidson b 12/8/1922 d 1/13/1981 WW II Vet Mar 12/11/1948 s/o Howel  &  Myltle Edwards Davidson

 

Lucian Peters b 1/2/1908 d 2/27/1990 s/o John & Sophia Hunter Peters

 

Lizzie Peters b 4/23/1908 d 5/12/1991 d/o Charley & Sarah Margaret Meade Scott

 

Robert Edwards b 4/25/1855 d 8/26/1929 "Join Miss Baptist Ch 11/2nd Sat/1888"

s/o George W. & Margaret Allen Edwards

 

Martha Edwards b 3/1856 d 5/24/1929 "Join Baptist Ch 5/2nd Sat/1889 Dau of Smith Sizemore" d/o Smith & Matilda Hudson Sizemore

 

Laura Saylor b 5/18/1892 d 6/28/1979 d/o Robert & Martha Sizemore Edwards

 

Henry Saylor b 10/4/1885 d 7/11/1976 s/o Jesse & Emily Peters Saylor

 

Zella Saylor w/o Robert d 2/9/2002

 

TWINS J D & Wanda Lee Saylor b 6/12/1943 d 8/1943 c/o Jesse & Oma Sizemore

    Saylor

 

Hugh Edwards b 8/21/3888 d 3/23/1962 s/o Robert & Martha Sizemore Edwards

 

Susie Edwards b 3/9/1889 d 12/20/1956 d/o Eli & Eva Byrd Singleton

 

Clellie Edwards Ky Pvt USMC b 7/28/1909 d10/11/1935 s/o Hugh & Sudie Singleton Edwards

 

Dallas Grubb b 4/30/1944 d 2/20/1945 s/o Hubert & Bessie Edwards Grubb

 

Wanda Lee Grubb b 11/25/1945 d 11/10/1947 d/o Hubert & Bessie Edwards Grubb

 

Larry Byrd d 6/18/2000 s/o Thomas & Georgia Byrd

 

Janice Byrd b 8/8/1952 d 6/29/1988 w/o Larry Byrd

 

Stephen Napier Byrd b 10/30/1979 d 6/30/1988 s/o Janice Napier adopted s/o Larry Byrd

 

Ray Barrett b 7/22/1923 d 12/28/1984 s/o Sherman & Lucinda Allen Barrett

 

 Green Edwards b 1/12/1918 d 1/29/1975 s/o Hugh & Sudie Singleton Edwards

 

Paul Edwards b 2/4/1927 d 6/4/1995 "MIL PFC USA Korea" s/o Hugh & Sudie

    Singleton Edwards

 

Leonard Edwards b 12/24/1911 d 4/6/1986 s/o Hugh & Sudie Singleton Edwards

 

Daisy Barrett Byrd b 12/19/1891 d 11/7/1975 d/o William & Nannie Gay Parker

 

Jimmy Wayne Byrd b 8/6/1953 d 8/18/1953 s/o Thomas & Georgia Peters Byrd

 

Delbert Harris b 8/26/1912 d 12/9/1994 s/o Albert & Rachel King Harris

 

Fern McDaniel b 8/23/1938 d 9/8/1988 Mar 11/17/1954 d/o Delbert &

    Myrtle Million Harris

 

Timothy Orvis Hensley b 1/24/1970 d 3/15/1989 s/o Rondal & Pauline Metcalf Hensley

 

James Richard Hensley b 6/21/1965 d 3/15/1975 s/o Rondal & Pauline Metcalf Hensley

 

James Hensley b 12/24/1924 d 7/7/1972 s/o Bill & Nannie Scott Hensley

 

Audrey Hensley b 1/15/1928 d 4/23/1976 d/o J. H. & Bettie Money Ledford

 

Names in ( ) in Edwards Cemetery are surviving spouses on double stones. Any corrections or additional information would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

 

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