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Old Wink Cemetery

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Old Wink Cemetery contains a "Ghost" burial plot with 26 unmarked graves of unidentified unfortunates or men traveling under aliases during 1926–29 oil boom violence. All vestiges of the graves were lost in winds and shifting sands. The plot is dedicated to the memory of those whose names are known only to God, with the words, "We raised not a stone, but left him alone…." Wolfe
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