Zion Church Cemetery
Big Mud Creek, Floyd Co., KY  (June 2002)

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Note:
  This cemetery used to be absolutely covered and crowded with old headstones.  In the last few years, someone have descecrated these grounds by clearing away most of the old stones.  What  remains is just a small percentage of what used to be there.
 

Cemetery View

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Cemetery View

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Cemetery View mhcem3.jpg (95952 bytes) Old Outhouse mhcouthouse.jpg (99441 bytes)
Vine covered tree stump mhctree1.jpg (103631 bytes) old unmarked headstones lay under growth & brush.  Bulldozed off of cemetery area and piled up against tree, like trash. mhctree2.jpg (91885 bytes)

Unisiah Smith Hall
1774-abt 1863
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mhcmuhall.jpg (125715 bytes) Mesias Hall
1775-abt 1855
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(The original Hall headstones are in the possession of Carmel Lee Akers. He put in these new ones)
   

Sarah Hall  
(Rutha Sarah F. Clark)
1863-1897
w/o Henry Hall
widow of James Clark, who was murdered (some say by Sarah)
  

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Riley Hall
s/o Reuben Hall & Nancy Branham Smith
OR
s/o Samuel Hall & Spicy Ray

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Squire Hall
(out of focus and didn't write down inscription)
possibly s/o Mesias & Unisiah Hall and h/o Ellen Sturgill Hall
  
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George Tackett

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Reads:
"Memory of E. Akers, died August the ? 1859"
I believe this to be Elizabeth Collier Akers, w/o David Akers
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? Akers 
(couldn't read inscription)

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