Clay Sink Cemetery - Lacoochee, Florida, USA - Worldwide Cemeteries on Waymarking.com

From Find A Grave:

"This small cemetery is on a hill, in the most northeastern part of Pasco County, only minutes from both Sumter and Hernando Counties. This area got the name Clay Sink from the fact that there is a clay sinkhole in the area. The land that is now Clay Sink Cemetery was part of 120 acres purchased on May 20 1862 by Harrison Slaughter and his wife Martha Ann. Their infant daughter was the beginning of the cemetery when she died in 1873. It is now the final resting place for many of the pioneer families and their descendants of this area. In October of 2006 this cemetery was declared a historical site."

Historical Marker inscription:

"Harrison and Martha Ann McKinney Slaughter acquired 120 acres in this area from Jessie Sumner, May 20, 1862. The settlement that developed here was first called Slaughter after this pioneer family. Over time it became known as Clay Sink for the clay sinkhole that is in the area.
This cemetery was established on this hill of moss draped oaks in 1873 when the Slaughters buried their infant daughter here. Many of the early settlers and their descendants are buried here. It is now maintained in perpetuity by the Clay Sink Cemetery Association, Inc. On February 19, 1897 the Clay Sink Missionary Baptist Church was organized with twenty-one members with Elder G.A. Bryant, Moderator. In 1904, a wood frame building was erected on this site and served the congregation until the present pine building was constructed in 1956.
The one room Slaughter/Clay Sink school building was built in 1912 on Cobb Slough and moved in 1915 to this site that was donated by William Henry and Joanna Slaughter Boyett. It became the fellowship hall for the church in 1943 when the school closed due to consolidation. The teacher's raised platform remains a part of the structure.
The early settlers who were charter members of the church: Slaughters, Sumners, Boyetts, Sapps, Robbins, McKinneys, Hardins, Mobleys, Gays and Weeks. Descendants of these families still live in the area."

City, Town, or Parish / State / Country: Lacoochee, Florida, USA Approximate number of graves: 415 Cemetery Status: Active Cemetery Website: [Web Link]

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