Messer's Branch Cemetery
aka
Well's Cemetery
Town Mountain, Hazard, Ky
Recorded by Sandra Feltner
August 10, 2006
Name Birth Date Death Date Notes
Noah Couch 01-07-1869 to 01-02-1958
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Peggie (Wells) Couch 04-22-1876 to 11-19-1943 w/o Noah Couch
Richmond Couch 04-18-1911 to 10-19-1956 s/o Noah and Peggie Couch
Ira Couch 12-08-1908 to 05-11-1937 s/o Noah and Peggie Couch
Henry B. Couch 10-28-1907 to 03-25-1975 s/o Noah and Peggie Couch
Minerva Davidson 04-16-1894 to 10-1918 d/o Noah & Peggie Couch w/o Grover Davidson
Baby of Grover and Born & Died 10-14-1918
Nerva Ddavidson
Willie Couch 01-06-1920 to 10-15-1920 s/o Willie Couch and Francis Tyree
Farmer Couch 12-22-1900 to 03-06-1925 s/o Noah and Peggie
3 unmarked graves
Arthur, son of Gid and Born & Died 5-19-1914
Susan Tyree
James Kilburn, son Born & Died 9-9-1927
Lester and May
Gary C. Kilburn, son Born & Died 5-4-1933
Lester and May
P.H. (Pat) Drake 05-09-1848 to 11-27-1922 husband of Martha Drake
Martha Drake 08-18-1848 to 08-04-1935 wife of Pat Drake
Joseph Wells 05-25-1928 only date Pvt. 26 Inf. Kentucky
Julie May Perkins Born & Died 4-12-1934
Agnes, daughter of 12-03-1922 to 01-30-1923
Dewey & Linnie Perkins
Aaron, son of Dewey & 06-21-1923 to 12-29-1923
Linnie Perkins
E. O. Perkins 01-13-1927 to 01-26-1927
Leon Perkins 03-07-1928 to 01-11-1929
Rosa Allen Jones 08-23-1923 to 01-25-2005
Prudie Wells 11-02-1901 to 12-09-1986
Nancy Wells 09-04-1932 to 11-09-1992
Bill Olinger 01-02-1900 to 05-02-1941 s/o Charlie & Lettisha Wells
h/o Vicie Stamper
Charles Olinger 04-13-1930 to 05-05-1930 s/o Bill and Vicie Olinger
Baby Olinger Born & Died 6-29-1936 s/o Bill and Vicie Olinger
(Bill Olinger Jr. KBI)
Laura Boggs Statzer 01-24-1896 to 05-19-1984
Robert Haggans 11-27-1905 to 05-08-1921
Carl Olinger 03-28-1929 to 05-09-1929 s/o Bill and Vicie Olinger
Amanda Olinger 01-27-1926 to 02-02-1926 d/o Bill and Vicie Olinger
Alice Olinger Oliver 09-28-1931 to 11-06-1997 d/o Bill and Vicie Olinger
4 unmarked graves
Henry Boggs 1856 to 1938
Henry Lyttle 03-02-1921 to 08-28-1923
1 unmarked grave
Nicholas Allen 09-03-1927 to 10-05-1990
William R. Allen 07-14-1883 to 04-27-1968
1 unmarked grave
John Olinger 10-17-1897 to 03-03-1981 s/o Charles & Lettisha Olinger
Joe Olinger 12-02-1902 to 07-27-1953 s/o Charles & Lettisha Olinger
Lettisha Wells Olinger 07-20-1872 to 11-15-1956 wife of Charles Olinger
4 unmarked graves
Mary E. Davis 03-07-1889 to 08-04-1930
2 unmarked graves
D. C. Callahan 1920 to 1990
Pvt US Army WWII
Lucy Napier 01-28-1890 to 05-15-1931
Robert Napier
John E. Combs 10-19-1874 to 04-15-1956
Shelby Caldwell 1920 to 1961
Kimberly Dawn Wells 01-24-1971
10 unmarked graves
Nancy Ellen Vanover 10-26-1876 to 08-23-1963
John Vanover 1905 to 1982
Pvt US Arny WWII
5 unmarked graves
Baby Caldwell 1935
Unreadable wooden marker
Elisha Allen 03-17-1932 to 02-13-1983
William Wells no dates husband of Manerva
Manerva Wells 1848 to 1945 wife of Willie
James Berlin Flinchum 06-20-1916 to 01-10-1982 s/o of Charles & Alba Flinchum
Henryetta Flinchum 05-23-1929 to 01-28-1932 d/o of Charles & Alba Flinchum
Charles Flinchum 10-03-1888 to 11-16-1935 husband of Alba Flinchum
Reed Flinchum 03-28-1919 to 09-10-1907 s/o of Charles & Alba Flinchum
2 unmarked graves
Lois Jane Morris Born & Died 6-9-1940
James Lee Morris Born & Died 4-7-1938
Mary Ellen Morris 07-02-1932 to 07-09-1932
Gidy Tyree 1876 to 08-21-1929
Susan Tyree 1876 to 02-13-1946
Rebecca Coots 1858 to 1957
3 unmarked graves
Charles Wooton 08-20-1957 to
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Donna Wooton 04-20-1963 to 12-06-1998
Thelma Morris 06-22-1923 to 05-15-1990
James B. Cole 12-02-1927 to 08-09-1999
Ruby Osborne 01-22-1918 to 03-09-1989
James Cole 06-08-1896 to 06-29-1967
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Pearlie Cole 01-07-1897 to 02-19-1987
William Cole 03-02-1925 to 12-04-1964
Lorine, dau. of 04-10-1930 to 02-15-1931 d/o James and Pearlie Cole
James & Pearlie
4 unmarked graves
Launa Cole 11-16-1931 to 05-15-1986
Elmer Cole 08-25-1921 to 01-03-1984
There are over 34 unmarked graves in this cemetery.
A large portion of the cemetery was very overgrown
so there may be an additional 25 more unmarked graves.