The Cemetery Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to maintaining Winn Hill Cemetery and providing information about the history about the community. Interested parties are encouraged to add histories and biographical notes. Please contact Maxine Winn Cox to include or request more information.
As far back as 1920, the Association was thriving and had an annual decoration day and worked to clean the graves. In those days, Decoration Day was one of the special occasions of the year. Relatives from far away always visited at that time. People would dress up, and there was a program; whereby, poems, Bible readings, special songs were recited and sung. This day was typically May 30th. A few days before that date was the working day when relatives and descendants of those buried there would clean and beautify the graveyard. The group always spread lunch together under the tabernacle with bountiful food.
As the years went by, more and more relatives of the ones buried at Winn Hill lived a farther distance away and could not come for two days. In 1973, the group began to meet only one day, the Saturday before the U.S. holiday, Memorial Day in May. The morning is devoted to work, and lunch is spread at noon under the tabernacle. There is a short program and business meeting right afterwards.
There are records of the organization since 1936. Money has been collected, and an Endowment Fund was established for the upkeep of the cemetery.