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The flowers are especially lovely this year, ladies!

This small family cemetery is located on Highway 30, on Quicksand Creek between Jackson and Salyersville, near Noctor and Stevenson. Heading toward Salyersville it is on the left, just a bit past the larger, roadside Hagins Cemetery. The cemetery is high on a hill, overlooking the previous home of Florence Landrum.

Burials in this cemetery:

Maletha Jane Hagins Landrum,
April 28, 1846 - February 8, 1939
Daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Stamper Hagins
Wife of Reuben Samuel Landrum, CSA Veteran
(he is buried in the Hagins Cemetery nearby)

Albert Sidney Landrum,
January 9, 1880 - May 23, 1952
Sixth child of Reuben Samuel and Maletha Jane Hagins Landrum
Husband of Laura Back Landrum
(she is buried in the Lazarus Back Cemetery nearby)

Mary Elizabeth Landrum Ryles,
March 7, 1885 - 1940
Eighth child of Reuben Samuel and Maletha Jane Hagins Landrum
Wife of Cecil Ryles

Margaret "Florence" Landrum
October 7, 1887 - March 11, 1973
Ninth child of Reuben Samuel and Maletha Jane Hagins Landrum
never married

Mattie Lou Landrum
January 7, 1890 - December 3, 1950
Tenth child of Reuben Samuel and Maletha Jane Hagins Landrum
never married

Roland Shelby Landrum
October 24, 1924 - July 29, 1944
Seventh child of Albert Sidney and Laura Back Landrum
U.S. Army - World War II
Killed in action near St. Lo, France; re-interred here in February 1947

Cover them over with beautiful flowers,
Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours,
Lying so silent by night and by day
Sleeping the years of their manhood away.
~Will Carleton

And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave,
for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave. 
~Joseph Drake

Dennis Floyd Freeman
January 9, 1954 - March 7, 1954
First child of Floyd and Anna Mae Landrum Freeman
Infant grandson of Albert Sidney Landrum

The descendants of Albert Sidney Landrum established a tradition of placing markers here for family members buried elsewhere. (This type of marker is called a cenotaph - a monument erected in honor of a dead person whose remains lie elsewhere; an empty tomb). As of May 30, 2005, they are:

Joseph "Ottis" Landrum
March 28, 1910 - April 2, 1976
First child of Albert Sidney and Laura Back Landrum
Husband of Waughleta "Lee" Ford
Buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio

Ollie James ("O.J.") Landrum
July 8, 1912 - November 9, 1979
Second child of Albert Sidney and Laura Back Landrum
Husband of Blanche Haddix Landrum
U.S. Army Veteran - World War II
Buried in W.W. Haddix Cemetery, Lost Creek, Breathitt County, Kentucky

Eula "Hazel" Landrum Gross Watkins
August 10, 1914 - February 8, 1998
Third child of Albert Sidney and Laura Back Landrum
Wife of Lester "Pot" Gross and Douglas Watkins
Buried in Byron Cemetery, Fairborn, Ohio

Lester Kelly "Pot" Gross
August 15, 1915 - December 22, 1977
Son of Sam and Sally Belle Miller Gross
First husband of Hazel Landrum Gross Watkins
Buried in Byron Cemetery, Fairborn, Ohio

Douglas Watkins
April 14, 1914 - December 19, 2001
Son of Allen and Margaret Watkins
Second husband of Hazel Landrum Gross Watkins
Buried in Attica, Ohio

Robert Melvin "Bob" Landrum Sr.
February 4, 1918 - March 2, 1994
Fourth child of Albert Sidney and Laura Back Landrum
Husband of Ruth Hill Landrum
U.S. Army Veteran - World War II
Buried at Butler County Memorial Park, Trenton, Ohio

Mattie Maletha "Matt" Landrum Horton
February 28, 1920 - January 14, 2003
Fifth child of Albert Sidney and Laura Back Landrum
Wife of James Back and Thomas Calvin Horton
Buried in Springfield National Cemetery, Springfield, Missouri

Thomas Calvin Horton
October 4, 1919 - January 4, 1993
Son of Claude and Edna Mae Wright Horton
Husband of Matt Landrum Horton
U.S. Army Veteran - World War II
Buried in Springfield National Cemetery, Springfield, Missouri

Albert Augustus "Ab" Landrum
July 18, 1922 - January 21, 1999
Sixth child of Albert Sidney and Laura Back Landrum
Husband of Cora Belle Gabbard Landrum
U.S. Army Veteran - World War II
Buried in Butler County Memorial Park, Trenton, Ohio

Floyd Omas Freeman
August 13, 1923 - November 8, 2004
Son of Cleve and Nonnie Freeman
Husband of Anna Mae Landrum Freeman
(She was the seventh child of Albert Sidney and Laura Back Landrum)
U.S. Navy Veteran - World War II
Buried in Byron Cemetery, Fairborn, Ohio

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