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 The John W. Workman Family Cemetery is located at the mouth of Seth Simpkins Hollow on the Workman Fork of Big Harts Creek in Logan County. Drive about 2.2 miles up Workman Fork from the Workman Fork Church to the old Crocodile Workman home place and the cemetery will be visible on a hill just to the right of the road. According to the local Gene Wilson Dingess, there are about sixty graves in the cemetery. Forty-three graves where found, three unmarked (mostly children).

 

 
 

 
“Father”
named “Fletcher Workman”; census gives birth as Apr 1878; s/o John W. and Mary J. (Thompson)Workman
 

Ora Lee Vance
d\o Fletcher and Rachel
(Messer) Workman; m. Curt
Vance
born 29 Mar 1926
died 31 Jul 1947

Unmarked grave
Named “Richard Workman” s/o Fletcher and Rachel (Messer) Workman
Located beside Ora L. Vance
born 29 March 1926
died 31 July
 
Unmarked Grave
Named “Dolly Workman”; d/o John W. and Mary J.
(Thompson) Workman; m. George Hill
Located beside Richard Workman

Unmarked Grave Located beside Dolly Workman

Unmarked Grave
Named “Mary Workman”; census gives birth as about 1859; d/o John W. and Mary J. (Thompson) Workman

Located beside above grave
 
There are about eight unmarked baby graves in the vicinity—all children of Fletcher and Rachel (Messer) Workman

Unmarked grave
Named “Wetzel Dingess”;
s/o J. Turner and Bird (Workman) Dingess
Located beside baby graves

Joseph Irvin Workman
s/o Josephus and Mary (Burgess) Workman
born Apr 1850
died Aug 1933

Unmarked grave
Named “Mary Dingess”; d/o J. Turner and Bird (Workman) Dingess
Located beside of Irv Workman
 
Emily Workman
d/o Albert G. and Druzilla
(Abbott) Fry; m. Joseph Irvin Workman; died 1/20/1905
born Oct 1855
died  Jan 1904

Unmarked Grave Located beside of Emily Workman

Unmarked Grave Located beside of above grave

Unmarked Grave Located beside of above grave

Unmarked Grave Located beside of Bill Workman

Unmarked Grave
Named “William Workman”; s/o John W. and Mary J. (Thompson) Workman; killed in timber job
Located beside of  Mary J.Workman
 

Unmarked Grave
Named “Mary Jane Thompson”; d/o Patton and M. Thompson; m. John Wesley Workman Located beside of John W. Workman
 

JWW
Named “John Wesley Workman”; nicknamed “Crocodile”; census gives birth as Jan 1834; s/o Josephus and Mary (Burgess) Workman
 

unmarked baby grave
d/o Buddy Workman  Located beside of John W. Workman

unmarked baby grave
d/o Walter Workman  Located above c/o Buddy Workman

unmarked baby grave
d/o Walter Workman  Located above c/o Buddy Workman

unmarked  baby grave Located beside above grave

unmarked baby grave Located beside above grave

unmarked grave    Located beside of above grave
named " Joe Workman";
born 10/31/1872; s/o John W. and Mary J. (Thompson) Workman

unmarked grave  Located beside of Joe Workman

unmarked grave  Located beside above grave

unmarked  grave Located beside above grave

unmarked grave Located beside above grave

unmarked grave Located beside Willie Fleming

Willie Fleming
born  190_
died 1907

unmarked grave Located beside Willie Fleming

unmarked grave Located  beside above grave

Pauline Workman
born 7/20/1920
died 1/5/1934

Rachel Workman
born 1881
died 1981
" census gives birth as August 1885; d/o James and Surilda (Spaulding) Messer; married Fletcher Workman

Wallace Wallace
born 10/12/1919
died 9/20/1989
PFC US ARMY WWII; s/o Fletcher and Rachel (Messer) Workman

Woodrow Workman
born 10/8/1915
died 3/12/1990

PFC US ARMY WWII; s/o Fletcher and Rachel (Messer)Workman
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

                
                
                

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