STOLEN HEADSTONES

Plainview Community Cemetery is located six miles from the Lovington New Mexico, Resthaven Cemetery on the Tatum Highway (State Rd. 206), turn east and travel one mile and then one-half mile north.The list was compiled by Belle Elizabeth Jackson Reed and husband Jimmy Ray Reed, and Ruth Dennis Brown and husband Weldon Brown - Charter members of the Lea County Genealogical Society of Lovington, NM.

Here is the list of missing headstones:
A. H. Blit No dates

Alvis E. Cox Oct. 13, 1889 May 27, 1908
(Son of E. D. and Anna V. Cox)

Elizabeth Rebekah Stewart Bramlett July 6, 1840 May 25/June 7, 1918

Harriett Elizabeth Bates Aug 1830 Aug 30, 1918
(Mother of Jim Bigham, blacksmith.
Her first husband was William Nix Bigham)

Cordelia (Cordie) Green Cooper No Dates
(Wife of Ola Cooper, son of Jacob Aaron Cooper)

Helen Smith Newman No Dates

Cyntha Adam Hyder Wiggins Feb. 18, 1833 Jan. 4, 1924
(Mother of Alfred Taylor Wiggins and Almeda Lauraine Wiggins Clayton)

Almeda Lauraine Wiggins Clayton April 9, 1869 Aug. 23, 1927
(Daughter of Cyntha Hyder Wiggins, sister of Alfred Taylor Wiggins and wife of Jesse Philander Clayton.)

Jim Stefmire No Dates
(Young man, son of Enoch J. and Amelia Stefmire.)

There are many unmarked graves, possibly 20 to 40.
The end of Plainview Community Cemetery.

Here is the list of missing stones.
Henry Davis Norris, died 30th of December 1827 age 60 years 3 months
Norris, William D., died 14th March 1864 ae 71 years 28 days
Isabella, died 26 July 1877 ae 78 years
Norris, Annie Belle, daughter of A.M. & M.J.,died 21th October 1865 ae 22 months 3 days "Suffer little children and come unto me."
Ewing, James, died 11th February 1845 ae 62 years 6 months 11 days
------- -------- 24 May,1813
Two infant graves,one marked W.T.

The end of Norris Family Cemetery.