Michael Clapp

Michael Gossum Clapp (aged 36 at his death) was a resident of the Mayfield–Wingo area of Graves County, Kentucky. Public records place his home on State Route 45 North and his burial at Maplewood Cemetery in Mayfield, evidence that his life and family roots were centered in the small communities of western Kentucky.

While publicly available records about Michael’s everyday life and private relationships are limited, these official records confirm he was a local man whose life was tied to the people and places of Graves County. The Maplewood Cemetery listing records his interment in January 2007, a quiet marker of a life lived among neighbors and local friends. Court records connected to the events surrounding his death show the community and local justice system were involved in resolving difficult questions that followed; those documents provide factual context but do not capture the person behind the name.

For a figure like Michael, whose personal details in public sources are scarce, it is important to remember the human reality behind official entries: a 36‑year life, relationships, and a place in a community that buried him at Maplewood Cemetery. Where obituary notices or family-authorized remembrances are not available in public archives, the record nonetheless shows he was known to local institutions and remembered in local burial records. His passing left a place in the lives of people who knew him in Mayfield and Wingo.

If family members or local friends wish to add memories, photographs, or verified personal details (birth date, occupations, hobbies, family relationships), those contributions would help complete a fuller, more personal remembrance. Until then, this page honors Michael Gossum Clapp as a real person whose life mattered to his community and whose memory is preserved in local records and the cemetery where he rests.