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GADDY/WYKOFF CEMETERY
Turn off Hwy 3 at the Paris sign, go to first street turn north the cemetery sits on the left just before the street turns.


    This graveyard sits on what was the original location of the  Paris Methodist Episcopal Church. Before 1837 while the church was still standing on these lots there would have been a lane connecting the church and town cemetery which was then called the Paris cemetery. Some people refer to the Cemeteries as the upper and lower sections of the Paris cemetery, and the lower section is now called Cave/Dixon cemetery. After the church burned in 1837 these lots were turned into a cemetery, at that time it was just a more accessable than the one. It is now known of as Gaddy/Wykoff cemetery. The Methodist Church was rebuilt across Highway 250 on second street.
Dear Ancestor
Your tombstone stands among the rest; neglected and alone.
The name and date are chisled out on polished, marbled stone.
It reaches out to all who care, it is to late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist, you died an I was born.
Yet each of us your cells are in, in flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled one hundred years ago,
Spreads out among the ones you left who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved, I wonder if you knew,
That someday I would find this spot, and come to visit you
Author Unknown
In March of 2007 Traca Gwaltney very kindly went and took pictures and transcribed stones in the Cemetery. The following pictures and transcriptions are hers. After Traca took these pictures many stones were cleaned and repaired with help and instruction by Brad Manzenberger of Stone Revival Historical Preservation.


#1 - Emma wife of Orville Gaddy,
Died Oct. 5, 1878 Aged 35 Yr's 20 D's


#2 - Ophelia Calhoon,
Nov, 1834
Jul, 1916


#3 - Dr. Gaddy
Orville
Nov. 14, 1847
Nov. 28, 1916
Agness, his wife
Jan. 13, 1856
Mar. 2, 1917


#4 - Benjamin S. Gaddy
Born Oct. 30, 1816
Died Mar. 17, 1893


#5 - Sally Gaddy
Wife of
B.S. Gaddy
Born Aug. 3, 1820
Died Dec. 4, 1877


#6 - Martha A. Gaddy
Born Sept. 22, 1811
Died Sept. 1, 1877


#7 - Stewart
Simeon
July 29, 1849
Feb.24, 1925
Geneva "Ayers"
Sept. 25, 1852
July 26, 1940


#8 - Ayers
Leonidas S.
Feb. 8, 1860
June 18, 1940
Martha J.
Jan. 23, 1860
Nov. 23, 1932


#9 - At Rest
Mabel A.
wife of
W.E. Youngman
Mar. 18, 1882
Mar. 21, 1919



#10 - Joseph
Ayers
Dec. 19, 1828
Harriet his wife
Feb. 7, 1830
Sept. 2, 1900



#11 - Benjamin A.
youngest son of
D.& P. Zener
Died
July 29, 1869
Aged
29 yr's 9 dy's



#12 - David Zener
born
at Harper's Ferry, Va.
May 15, 1797
Died
Jan. 5, 1877
also D.Z. footstone for David Zener



#14 - William H.
Son of
M. & H.H. Tobias
Born May 1, 1820
Died
July 11, 1879



#15 - W.O. Wykoff
Born July 1, 18??
Died Oct. 18, 1899




#16 - Wykoff
James C. Wykoff
Sept. 30, 1885
Nov. 3, 1942



#17 - George H. Griffin
Died
Aug. 25, 1871
Aged
4 Mo




#18 - Our Pet
George H.
Son of
J.W. & M. Pell
Born
May 6, 1880
Died
Feb. 19, 1882



#19 - Our Darling
Pearl
Daughter of
J.W. & M. Pell
Born
Nov. 12, 1882
Died
Nov. 16, 1885



#20 - Bertha W.
Harlan
Died
Nov. 27, 1878
Aged
5 y 2 m 24 d
Blessed Angel



#21 - Gone Home
George D. Harlan
Died
Aug. 25, 18??



Martha L.
Daut. of
G.W. & M. Harlan
Born Mar. 7, 1850
Died June 22, 1853



#23 - Gone to Rest
George W. Harlan
Died Aug. 29, 1882
aged 70y 3m 29d
Harlan



#24 - Eliza M.
Wife of Wm. H. Dixon
Born Jan. 19, 1832
Died Aug. 9, 1860
Aged 28yr's 6 mos & 21 ds



#25 - Corp'l
Alonzo Harlan
CO'F
145th IND.INF



#26 - David C.
Son of S. & M. Russell
Born March 4, 1861
Died July 8, 1864



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