Winston County Genealogical Society member Ronald Jackson stands beside the grave of an unknown female at the newly discovered Caney Creek Road Cemetery.
RABBITTOWN - Winston County has many well-known cemeteries, including large ones such as Winston Memorial, but the Winston County Genealogical Society considers one lone grave a cemetery, and a new one has been located, which contains at least two, possibly three graves. They are located just off County Road 60, better known as the Cranal Road near Rabbittown.
Ronald Jackson, on the board of directors for the WCGS, was told about a possible cemetery by Jim Richards, operator at the Rabbittown Trading Post. Members of the WCGS went to the place and found not only the two, possibly three graves, but also a rock wall, which could have been part of a foundation for an old home place, since the rocks were level with the ground. While it could have been part of a home, it could also have been part of an enclosure for the graves, located just west of them.
Those members in attendance gave it the name of Caney Creek Road Cemetery. The two graves have rocks for headstones and footstones, though no writing could be found on either. Dowsing rods were used to confirm they were graves and that both were female.
The area was homesteaded by two families: Charles M. Garrison, who applied for a land patent in 1907, and Pinkney M. Dobbs, who applied in 1910. Each family had 158 acres in the area. Dobbs owned the land where the cemetery is currently located.
Jackson marked the area using blue paint and a PVC pipe he hammered into the ground
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