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\nVIGO PARK CEMETERY <\/span><\/h1>\n

Swisher County, Texas<\/h3>\n

Vigo Park Cemetery is located twenty-three miles north-east of Tulia, Texas on FM highway 146. The Cemetery is located one mile west and one mile north of Vigo Park.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Bessie C. Hall was the first person buried at this cemetery.<\/p>\n

Charles Gardner and J. C. Stitt rode around on their horses to locate a most likely place for it. There are a lot of tin markers that do not have names on them.<\/p>\n

Although it has been assumed that J. C. Stitt was buried in the Vigo Park Cemetery, he was actually buried in Marlow, Oklahoma in 1933.\u00a0 This information was furnished by Norma Stitt Finch, granddaughter of Joseph C. Stitt:<\/p>\n

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“I visited Vigo Park several years ago, met Robert Gardner – he took us to\u00a0the\u00a0Vigo Park cemetery;\u00a0found the plot that shows \u00a0J.C. Stitt\u00a0and\u00a0a <\/span>Stitt child buried in the Lot 6. It was apparently an assumption that he ‘probably’ was buried there. <\/span>He is actually buried in Marlow, OK died in 1933.\u00a0 As far as I know <\/span>there is a child either stillborn or that died shortly after birth in <\/span>the second grave. <\/span>The Stitt family moved from Vigo Park moving to Colorado in the early <\/span>20’s and then to Oklahoma sometime before early 1930’s.\u00a0\u00a0Joseph and <\/span>second wife Myrtle are both buried in Marlow.\u00a0\u00a0She died in the mid <\/span>’60’s.\u00a0 I found that he married his second wife in Wise Co TX in 1912. <\/span>The Stitt and Gardner families moved from Vigo and Park Counties Indiana.\u00a0 My grandmother died before 1910; she wasn’t on the 1910 Swisher Co census.\u00a0 I believe she is buried at the Catholic cemetery in Nazareth.\u00a0\u00a0(My dad was Frank Stitt the eldest of 5).”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The following information may have errors or may not be up to date. For current information, please use FindaGrave<\/a>.<\/h3>\n

LOT 1<\/p>\n

a. NUZUM, Minnie Inez
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nov 23, 1860 – Sept 7, 1917<\/p>\n

b. NUZUM, James Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n

July 3, 1843 – Jan 25, 1920<\/p>\n

LOT 4<\/p>\n

a. GARDNER, Charles Robert
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

May 18, 1870 – May 11, 1940<\/p>\n

b. GARDNER, Ethel Grace
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Feb 28, 1817 – Oct 22, 1950<\/p>\n

c. GARDNER, Xenia<\/strong><\/p>\n

May 15, 1921 – Oct 16, 1930<\/p>\n

d. GARDNER, Stanley Maxwell<\/strong> (Inf)<\/p>\n

? – July 2, 1951<\/p>\n

LOT 5<\/p>\n

b. NEWTON, Agnes M<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sept 27, 1912 – Feb 7, 1915<\/p>\n

Her father was Charles<\/p>\n

Her mother was Mary S<\/p>\n

LOT 6<\/p>\n

a. STITT, J C <\/strong><\/p>\n

b. STITT, Child<\/strong> (tin marker)<\/p>\n

? – 17 Nov 1912<\/p>\n

LOT 7<\/p>\n

b. MONTGOMERY, Ina D
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wife of James N.<\/p>\n

Nov 17, 1874 – Mar 17, 1913<\/p>\n

c. MONTGOMERY, Susan L
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

June 4, 1862 – Mar 10, 1934<\/p>\n

d. MONTGOMERY, Andrew J
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Apr 5, 1855 – Dec 25, 1927<\/p>\n

LOT 8<\/p>\n

b. wood marker<\/p>\n

LOT 9<\/p>\n

a. HENRY, Baby ?<\/strong><\/p>\n

b. SPEAR, Baby – tin stake ?<\/strong><\/p>\n

LOT 10<\/p>\n

a. HAY, Hershell W
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mar 27, 1896 – Nov 12, 1950<\/p>\n

b. HAY, Infant<\/strong> son of R.W, & K B. Hay<\/p>\n

Feb 7, 1900 – Feb 9, 1909<\/p>\n

c. HAY. Kathren L
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

dau of R.W. & K.B. Hay<\/p>\n

July 19, 1900 – Apr 15, 1912<\/p>\n

d. HAY, Rollin W.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Feb 23, 1870 – Jun 12, 1917<\/p>\n

LOT 11<\/p>\n

b. HALL, Bessie C
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jan 28, 1880 – Apr 4, 1908<\/p>\n

LOT 12<\/p>\n

KENNON, Lawrence
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

March 12, 1868 – August 27, 1913<\/p>\n

LOT 15<\/p>\n

a. HAY, Addie (Little)
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Feb 3, 1854 – July 17, 1935<\/p>\n

b. HAY, William H<\/strong><\/p>\n

1851 – 1887<\/p>\n

LOT 16<\/p>\n

a. HANCOCK, Darrett or Garrett
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

? – ?<\/p>\n

b. HANCOCK, Adeline<\/strong> (alleyway)<\/p>\n

Feb 21, 1873 – Sept 19, 1950<\/p>\n

d. HANCOCK, Albert
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Feb 22, 1869 – July 26, 1933<\/p>\n

HICKS, S M
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

tin marker<\/p>\n

LOT 17<\/p>\n

SADLIER, H ?<\/strong><\/p>\n

LOT 18<\/p>\n

a. WELKER, Oran E
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sept 21, 1893 – June 10, 1914<\/p>\n

d. WELKER, John
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mar 7, 1861 – Apr 28, 1920<\/p>\n

LOT 19<\/p>\n

ROUNDTREE, Baby ?<\/strong><\/p>\n

LOT 20<\/p>\n

a. GARDNER, Orvell West
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sept 23, 1898 – Mar 29, 1980<\/p>\n

LOT 21<\/p>\n

a. GARDNER, Betty LaJean
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sept 13, 1931 – Sept 7, 1945<\/p>\n

b. GARDNER, Leo Charles
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Apr 17, 1896 – Mar 4, 1978<\/p>\n

c. GARDNER, Sophia Anna
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

July 26, 1904 – Oct 22, 1988<\/p>\n

LOT 24<\/p>\n

d. SMITH, Joriam H<\/strong> (father)<\/p>\n

Apr 23, 1852 – Mar 28, 1931<\/p>\n

LOT 26<\/p>\n

a. May, J L<\/strong> (tin marker)<\/p>\n

1933 – 59 yrs old<\/p>\n

LOT 28<\/p>\n

a. WEAKS, George W
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oct 27, 1856 – July 3, 1921<\/p>\n

c. WEAKS, Brad
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aug 22, 1890 – Nov 12, 1929<\/p>\n

d. WILSON, Lou Ollie<\/strong> (mother)<\/p>\n

May 21, 1893 – Mar 11, 1928<\/p>\n

LOT 29<\/p>\n

a. GARDNER, Loyd Frank
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nov 15, 1900 – Sept 22, 1982<\/p>\n

LOT # 30<\/p>\n

b. ROUNDTREE, Missouriann
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jan 21, 1856 – Feb 20, 1922<\/p>\n

c. ROUNDTREE, Rev. Felix S
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Apr 16, 1852 – July 25, 1934<\/p>\n

LOT 31<\/p>\n

a. McBRIDE, Parker H.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Feb 14, 1921 – Feb 10, 1976<\/p>\n

marr Aug 21, 1945 to<\/p>\n

b. McBRIDE, Rosa Lee
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dec 5, 1927<\/p>\n

LOT 33<\/p>\n

a. LOWE, Roy
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

May 17, 1919 – June 1, 1919<\/p>\n

b. LOWE, Ray
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

May 17, 1919 – June 6, 1919<\/p>\n

c. LOWE, Rea<\/strong> (Baby)<\/p>\n

1921 – 1921<\/p>\n

LOT 34<\/p>\n

a. MAY, Baby son
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

b\/d Apr 26, 1919<\/p>\n

b. May, Roy Oswald
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sept 20, 1920 – Feb 9, 1933<\/p>\n

c. MAY, Aralea
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Feb 17, 1916 – July 8, 1935<\/p>\n

LOT 38<\/p>\n

2 tin markers ?<\/p>\n

LOT 40<\/p>\n

b. Tin marker ? Baby Turner<\/strong><\/p>\n

LOT 41<\/p>\n

b. Tin marker ?<\/p>\n

LOT 43<\/p>\n

a. PARKER, Howard Franklin
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

July 1, 1915 – May 15, 1983<\/p>\n

LOT 62<\/p>\n

WESLEY, Alva (Lily)
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jan 22, 1918 – July 17, 1918<\/p>\n

LOT 63<\/p>\n

FROST, Wilma Ruth
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

dau of W. L. Frost<\/p>\n

b\/d Aug 16, 1919<\/p>\n

LOT 64<\/p>\n

a. tin plate ?<\/p>\n

LOT 65<\/p>\n

a. COX, Lee
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Apr 11, 1915 – Feb 12, 1925<\/p>\n

b. COX, W. M.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

July 1, 1867 – Nov 23, 1925<\/p>\n

LOT 70<\/p>\n

a. ROBERTS, Baby dau of J. H.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

b\/d Oct 7, 1918<\/p>\n

c. WRIGHT, Carroll Waynne
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

May 16, 1940 – Jan 16, 1990<\/p>\n

marr Mar 30, 1961 to<\/p>\n

WRIGHT Marion Jo McMullen <\/strong><\/p>\n

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