Cemeteries beginning with “W”

WATKINS CEMETERY - Copper Head Road before Hell for Certain

1. **John Watkins, (1919 - 2001) PFC Army WW II

WOOTON FAMILY CEMETERY - down Cutshin

1. **Ottis Wooton, Army

ALBERT WELLS CEMETERY - Polls Creek

1. Robert B. Morgan lll, Army Korea

2. **Robert B. Morgan lV, USMC Desert Storm

3. A.B. Pennington, (1915 -1992) Army WW ll

4. Odell Wells, (1922 - 2009) Odell, MP in the Pacific arena was a guard of the Japanese warlord Toja, after Toja was captured. It is ironic that Odell died of Wegener’s Syndrome, a disorder first identified by a Nazi physician.

WHISPERING PINE CEMETERY - aka FLOYD WELLS CEMETERY - Smilax (Daley, Bear Branch)

1. **Bill Pollard, Tec 5, Army WW ll

2. **Mike Pollard, (1959 - 2010) MMC Navy

3. **Chelsea Wayne Pollard, SPC, E-7 Army Vietnam

4. **Burley Wells, (1921 - 2016) Tec 5, Army WW ll

5. ** Denver Wells, HA1 Navy WW ll KIA on the USS Curtis

6. **Elmer Floyd Wells, Army Vietnam

7. **George Denver Wells, Navy

8. **William O. Enos Pollard, (1945 - 2024) Navy

**Denver Wells, one of 40 plus men killed when a Japanese Kamikaze hit the seaplane USS Curtiss on June 21, 1945 while in the Kerma Retto anchorage near Okinawa, Japan. Wells had been aboard less than 2 months and was just 8 days shy of his 20th birthday.

Whispering Pines (aka Floyd Wells) Cemetery

JOE & MORNIN WOODS CEMETERY - Tim Couch Pass

1. Edd Asher, Army WW ll

2. **Carr Couch, Co L 14 KY CAV Civil War

3. Curt Jones, WW l

4. **Joe Earl Morgan, Army WW ll (1925 -2014)

5. Roy Morgan, Army WW ll

6. John Herman Napier, Navy

7. Shelby Napier, Army

8. **David Sizemore, SP/5

9. Don Edward Sizemore, Army WW ll

10. **Estill V. Sizemore, SP/ 4, Co C, Engineer Combat

11. Felix Woods, Army WW l

12. George Woods, Army WW ll

13. **Hamblin J. Woods, SGT Army WW ll

14. **Henry Daniel Woods, Army, Korea. Purple Heart and OLC

15. Pete (Jr) Scott, (1935 - 2019), Army

16. **Frank Napier, (1932 - 1971), Airforce

17. **Billy Joe Osborne, (1955 - 2022) Army

**Carr was the son of Eli Couch and Mahala Sizemore. He is buried at the Woods Cemetery, Thousand sticks, Leslie County, Kentucky.

Carr served during the Civil War. He enrolled at Irvin, Kentucky on the 8th. day of December 1862 as a private in Company L, 14th. Reg. Kentucky Calvary Volunteers in the services of the United States. He was discharged at Camp Nelson, Kentucky on the 24th day of March 1864.

He was 5'9", complexion fair, black eyes, and black hair. His occupation was listed as a farmer.

He enlisted the second time at Hazard, Kentucky on October 7, 1864, to serve six months in Company D, Three Forks Batt. Kentucky Volunteers and was discharged at Irvin, Kentucky on July 17, 1865. He fought at the Battle of Richmond on August 29-30, 1862. He had the measles while in the service.

Death certificate list cause of death as bronchial pneumonia. It listed the birthdate as 20 Mar 1843. I also had listed a birth date of November 7, 1844.

**HAMLIN WOODS (1918-1944), U. S. ARMY, KILLED IN ACTION, WORLD WAR II.

ALTERNATE SPELLING: Hamblin.

ENLISTMENT DATE: 12 June 1942 in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky. Stated that he was separated without dependents.

DISCHARGE DATE: 28 September 1944, Discharged by Death in France, carved on family headstone.

SEPTEMBER 1944, FRANCE, 79TH INFANTRY DIVISION, WORLD WAR II: “The 79th cut across the Moselle and Meurthe Rivers, 13 – 23 September [1944], cleared the Foret de Parroy in a severe engagement, 28th September – 9 October [1944]

**Henry (Junior) served in the United States Army during the Korea war. He was with the 1st Calvary Division, Company A, 8th Regiment. He received the Purple Heart.

WILSON CEMETERY aka Peter Wilson Sons, aka Wilson Howard and Sims Branch - Helton/Sims Branch

1. Cleston Belcher, Army Korea 2. **Willard Harley Burkhart, Warrant Officer KIA Vietnam

3. CPL. Zeno Helton, 187 Para-Glider Inf WW ll BSN 4. **John C. Howard, (1872 - 1957) Co M4 REGT, Kentucky Inf. Spanish American War

5. **Ray E. Howard, Navy WW ll

6. **SGT Homer H. Nantz, Army, WW ll

7. **Charles Napier, Kentucky, Co L , 34 Inf, 24 Inf Division, WW ll and Korea.

8. SSGT George Napier, Army WW ll KIA

9. Rutherford B. Hayes Napier, (1877 - 1916) 11 Co Coast Artillery

10. Elijah B. North, (1841 - 1916) PVT Co B 49 Ky Inf

11. Felix North, (1863 - 1926) Co 1, 4 Kentucky Inf, Spanish American War

12. George North, Co M, 4 Kentucky Inf, Spanish American War

13. Thomas Osborne, USFA Korea

14. **Stanley Wilson, Army WW ll

15. **George Wilson, (1842 - 1916) 49 Kentucky Infantry

16. **Kenneth Wilson, Army WW ll

17. **SGT Lawrence Wilson, (1896 - 1971) Co F, WW l

18. **1st SGT Mack Wilson, (1894 - 1986) Army WW l 19. CPL Peter Wilson, (1869 - 1951) Army Spanish American War

20. PVT Peter Wilson, (1827 - 1933) CO. E 49 KY INF

21. Wilson Young, Army WW l

22. James William Wilson, (1935 - 1986) Army Korea

23 **Lawence Nantz, (1899 - 1973) Army WW I

24. **Lowell Sylvster Nantz, (1925 - 1998) Navy WW II

25. Henry Clay Wilson, (1927 - 2011) Army

26. Leonard Neal Nantz, (1956 - 1980) Navy

27. **Henry Murph Wilson, (1936 - 2002)

28. **Hobert B. Wilson, (1907 - 1992)

29, **Richard Wilson, (1840 - 1923) Corp. Co E 49 KY Inf.

**Willard Harley Burkhart 1943 - 1969. 25 years old, Army, Vietnam

On 2/5/1969, Warrant Office Willard Harley Burkhart was serving with B Company, 9th Aviation Battalion, 9th Division in Kiev Toung Province South Vietnam.

On that day Warrant Office Burkhart was killed in a crash which was due to non- hostile action. His body was removed 2/7/1969.

Badges and Medals:

Army Aviation Badge, Air Medal, National Defense Service Medal ,Vietnam Campaign Medal.

Honors:

The name of Willard H. Burkhart is located on Panel W 38, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall.

Warrant Officer Burkhart has Honoree Record 3582 at MilitaryHallofHonor.com

** Was moved to the Kentucky Veterans Southeast Cemetery.

GEORGE WOOTEN CEMETERY - Wendover

1. **George Wooton, (1915 - 2010) Army WWII

Curt Wooton and sons; Clarence, George, Ed, Sherman and Don

WOOTON CEMETERY - Rockhouse

1. **Oakley Morgan, (1919 - 2010) Army WW ll

GORMAN WILSON CEMETERY - Helton

1. Earl Napier, (1925 - 2015) Army WW ll

WIND CHIMES HAVEN CEMETERY - Wooton

1. Favien Lashon Jr., (1943 - 2010) Army

WOLFPEN CEMETERY - Sizerock

1. Elbert Begley, (1926 - 1986) Army WW ll

2. Ben Bowling, (1891 - 1946) 52 Infantry 6 Div. WW l

3. Bobby Burton, (1931 - 2008) Army

4. Edwin Ingram, (1920 - 1990) Army WW ll

5. Elmer Sizemore, (1927 - 1998) SSGT, USAF Vietnam

6. Johnny Sizemore, (1896 -1954) CPL Co 11, Pioneer Infantry, WW 1

7. John Collins, (1918 - 1991) Army WW ll

PLEASIE WOODS CEMETERY - Dry Hill

1. Carl Eugene Asher, (1926 - 1987) Navy Korea

2. **Bruce E. Begley, (1917 - 1962) Kentucky TEC 5 SGT Service BN WW ll

3. Sammy W. Begley, (1916 - 1993)PFC Army WW ll

4. Cleon Couch, (1916 - 2004) SGT Army WW ll, Korea

5. CPL John Eversole, (1895 - 1972) Army WW l

6. Lonnie Fields, (1945 - 1994) Navy Vietnam

7. Delbert Lewis, (1920 - 1981) TEC 3 Army WW ll

8. Walter R. Woods, (1908 - 1985) Army WW ll

9. William Russell Wooton, (1896 - 1973) Army WW l

10. **Raleigh Woods

WILLIAMS CEMETERY - Smilax

1. Fred Williams Moodie, (1935 - 1996) Army, Korea

JIM WELLS CEMETERY - Wooton

1. John O’Neil Long (1924 - 1996) TEC 4, ArmyWW ll

SHELBY WILSON CEMETERY - Longwood Ln. - Helton

1. **Cecil E. Wilson, (1926 - 1990) Navy

SIMEON B. WILSON CEMETERY - Helton

Sign says Wagon Trail Road, but we have been told it is actually Trace Branch

1. **PVT Rufus Saylor, (1895 - 1932) Army, WW l

WOODS CEMETERY - Kaliopi

1. **Dan B. Woods, (1913 - 1993) Army WW II

2. Libern Woods Jr. (1928 - 2009) Army Korea

DEWEY WELLS CEMETERY- Smilax

1. **Harrison Well, (1923 - 2002) PFC Army WW II Pearl Harbor, Purple Heart

2. Carl Day, (1935 - 2011) Army

WILDER FAMILY CEMETERY - Hyden

1. **William Wilder, (1929 - 1979) Army Korea

BLACK JOHN WOODS CEMETERY - Kaliopi

1. Patrick Woods, (1935 - 2014) Paratrooper Army

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Cemeteries beginning with “W”

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