GABBARD FAMILY CEMETERY
UPPER BUFFALO CREEK
Submitted by Betty Bowman Gabbard
Located at the mouth of Upper Buffalo on the South Fork of the Kentucky River.
“Family Legend says that the cemetery was started by Jackson and Martha Gabbard at the death of their young daughters, Laura and Susan, during a typhoid epidemic. There were three hickory trees at the site of the present cemetery. The family lived on the Clay County side of the river (South Fork of the Kentucky River). During the time Laura and Susan were ill, doves could be seen flying from the house where they lived to light on the hickory trees. When the girls died the family attached significance to this and buried them under the hickory trees.” This is on the Owsley side of the river.
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Laura Gabbard---no dates--d/o Jackson & Martha Gabbard
Susan Gabbard---no dates--d/o Jackson & Martha Gabbard
Combs--3 infants/children--no names/no dates--grave markers only
Jackson Gabbard---no dates -- Corpl. Co. M. 14 KY. Cav
h/o Martha Gabbard
Millard Gabbard---1883 -- 6/8/1903 -- age, 20 yrs.
s/o Jackson & Martha Gabbard. Killed in a gun fight at a “blind tiger” on the Clay-Owsley County line at the mouth of Upper Buffalo Creek.
Martha Gabbard --- no dates, but died about 1918
w/o Jackson Gabbard. d/o “Bill Oak” Baker
Rose Nell Gabbard--- B. 3/9/1893---D. 5/28/1924
w/o William P. Gabbard d/o John S. Burns
Florence Gabbard---B. 11/7/1914 ---D. 12/25/1914
d/o Bill & Rose Nell Gabbard
_______Gabbard---ca 1932--Infant daughter of Henry Clay & Gertrude Gabbard
Henry Clay Gabbard ---B. 6/5/1904---D. 8/31/1943
s/o Wilson & Matilda W. Gabbard
Walter Gabbard --- B. 11/8/1899 --- D. 5/6/1945
Veteran of U. S. Navy s/o Wilson & Matilda W. Gabbard
Matilda Williams Gabbard --- B. 1878 --- D. 1960
w/o Wilson “Dock” Gabbard d/o Enoch & Eliza Bishop Williams
{Wilson O. Gabbard ---B. 6/12/1912--- living 2003 -- S/Sgt. U. S. Army WWII
s/o Wilson & Matilda W. Gabbard h/o Betty S. Bowman Gabbard
{Betty S. Bowman Gabbard---B. 9/29/1932 ---living 2003
w/o Wilson O. Gabbard d/o Robert S. & Hazel Creech Bowman