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| Name: | Bob Bird |
| E-mail address (optional): | musketball@suddenlink.net |
| Comments: | Just happened to find this site today and have already saved it in My Favorites. I'm glad that someone is doing something serious to preserve these old graveyards and our history. I don't have much time to devote to restoration, but I still like to locate and document old graves when I can since I enjoy working on my genealogy. This past Fall I was able through some detective work to locate my GG Grandfather's grave in southern Putnam County. He was a Confederate veteran and I'm hoping to get a stone for his grave. For now, I'm planning on a temporary marker for Memorial Day. A couple of years ago I also located over 40 unmarked grave in the Mt. Moriah Cemetery and I hope during the Summer to look for more graveyards. I'm very impressed with the detailed cemetery pages you have completed and all I can say is Keep Up the Good Work! --------- Thank you, Bob - we will! ~Donna & Joel |
| Name: | Jean Jasinski |
| E-mail address (optional): | momjasinski@roadrunner.com |
| Comments: | My best friend refered me to see how much work and fun have gone into this. |
| Name: | EDITH RIGGS |
| E-mail address (optional): | mammawn@cableone.net |
| Comments: | need help in locating some research intothr families of ;;;wilson;;;morris bowman;and culp;; some of them are buried in the maple grove cemetery at fairmont west virginia;;any help appreciated from any one;;thanks |
| Name: | Don Pomeroy |
| E-mail address (optional): | donpom@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Looking to contact the family of Sansford Smith. He and his family are buried at Lady Dunn Cemetery. Sansford's sister, Myrtle Smith Hudnall,was my grandmother. Would love to find more information on Thomas Russell Smith Sr. and his family. Thanks Don Pomeroy |
| Name: | patty priddy |
| E-mail address (optional): | southerngrammy08@aol.com |
| Comments: | thanks for the help on the priddy side , burke priddys father was pleasant carr priddy from edmonson county and hart county kentucky born june 08 1893 ------- You're welcome, Patty! ~Donna & Joel |
| Name: | Teresa M Sheets |
| E-mail address (optional): | teresasheets@neo.rr.com |
| Comments: | It is so good to someone other than myself taking an interest in preserving these cemeteries and cemeteries like these in this part of the country where our nation's pioneers are buried. So many of the oldest cemeteries have been plowed over by farmers, torn up for road construction, etc. Thank you for your efforts in preserving them. |
| Name: | patty priddy |
| E-mail address (optional): | southerngrammy08@aol.com |
| Comments: | Hi I am trying to find information on a Burkie or Burke priddy born in Edmonson County,Kentucky June 8,1893 or 94 to P.C. and Elizabeth Harp Priddy. Need to know what cemetery he is buried at. I am his gg uncle. appreciate any help. thanks _____________ Thanks for signing our guestbook! Unfortunately, we personally don't have any records of where Burke Priddy is buried. The Priddy name is quite common to the northern end of Putnam Co. - up in the Union Dist. area. I've checked through what documentation we have for the area, and come up with several Priddy's, but none named Burke or Elizabeth. I would recommend checking with the Putnam Co. County Clerk's office for death records for them. If you're lucky, the place of burial field was filled out on the form (not always the case). Best of luck to you in your search, and we'll keep our eyes open in case we see or hear anything of the couple. ~Donna |
| Name: | Richard Rader II |
| E-mail address (optional): | richard.rader@us.army.mil |
| Comments: | I was born in wood county, Parkersburg. I have been trying to research my family backround. Have found the church in Gay,W.v. as well as the Mt. Olive cemetary in the Ripley area. I have some information on my family and may be related to the Bell family from Bellville also. If any one can help me out I am not out to profit from this just want to pass correct information to my children. My name is once again Richard Rader II, father with same name and grandfather was Daniel Webster Rader. Looking forward to make contact with family and make friends. Thanks |
| Name: | Donald Cundiff |
| E-mail address (optional): | donc4013@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Hi, Looking for updates on Odd Fellows Cemetary in New Haven ------------------ Hi Don! Sorry, no updates as yet. We have copies of the Mason Co., W.Va. Cemetery Inscriptions books to look up in if you have specific families you're looking for. Unfortunately, the reading in that book is at least 30 years old. Email us if you'd like us to check on something specific before it gets online on this site. Kind Regards, Donna |
| Name: | Joey Boggess |
| E-mail address (optional): | archicadguy@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I love your site and appreciate your mission. My wife and I are cemetery gurus, and are interested in our genealogy. I hope to contribute to your cause in the future with some information on Jackson County cemeteries. Keep up the great work! It is a tremendously useful resource. ------------ Thank you, Joey! We look forward to working with you and your wife! ~Donna & Joel |
| Name: | Philip Rice |
| E-mail address (optional): | phil.rice@att.net |
| Comments: | I am hunting for anyone who is kin to Jesse Rice, and his 2 wifes,Marietta Mariotta,and Sarah Kathrine Gardner. I am a DNA match to Jesse, I have loads if info on the Rices but other than names Ive come up blank on contacts, Honest I don't have some strange whatever, I just am looking for roots. ------ Thanks for signing our guest book - hopefully some of your Rice kin will see this and contact you! ~Donna |
| Name: | Stella R Thompson |
| E-mail address (optional): | thompsonaries@aol.com |
| Comments: | Looking for my ggggrandfather Joseph Laudermilk,I find him in the 1880 Mason,WV cencus with wife and 2 sons Andrew & Robert. Find nothing in the 1900 on him Thank you stella ------ Stella, We don't have any additional information to offer on Joseph - perhaps some of our viewers do? If so, please contact Stella! ~Donna |
| Name: | Karen White |
| E-mail address (optional): | WVblondie@aol.com |
| Comments: | I am interested in the location of the Cline Blankenship cemetary located in Mercer County. My mother has recently come across some information on relatives buried there, and would like to visit, however, I can locate no information. My mother says she thinks it was on Nubbins Ridge Road in Camp Creek...but she has not visited the cemetary since she was 10 years old. I would appreciate any information you could find ------ Karen, We're not familiar with the cemetery - we've had very, very limited work done in Mercer Co., and none that has any info on the cemetery you're looking for. I'd recommend contacting a local mortuary in the vicinity (the phone book will be your best source for that) and see if they have an idea of the location of the cemetery. ~Donna |
| Name: | Lorraine |
| E-mail address (optional): | sfcpchan@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | Thanks again for your wonderful information. Now trying to find a Parkersburgh, VA Wood CO. grave of Elizabeth Nuckles. I will post a query. |
| Name: | Greg Clendenin |
| E-mail address (optional): | greg@middletonpest.com |
| Comments: | My grandparents are buried at Moss Chapel. My five time great grandfather was the son of Charles Clendenin for whom the capital of the state of WV is named. My five time GG is named Alexander....He is buried at a little known but still existent cememtery in West Virginia named Swon Cemetery...but it is on private land and in great disrepair...Can you help me locate it? __________ Hi Greg, Coincidentally we just had another inquiry about the Swon Cemetery from a descendant of Capt. Philip Null. They too were looking for the location of the cemetery. Unfortunately, all we have to go on is a description for some 40 years ago, printed in Mason County, W.Va. Cemetery Inscriptions: "Rt. 62 N. to Homer Smith farm. Opposite Potter Creek road, a Sand & Gravel Co. sign, go out dirt road to home of a Mt. Chattin. Behind it remains of a cattle pen. At one time a large orchard was there, and there were many stones. When the late Mrs. Charlotte Steenbergen was writing her "McCulloch" in 1962 we went with Mrs. Everett (Mae Chattin) Sayre to see if we could find remains of stones, as she remembered seeing them stacked beside the fence. This land was owned by 'Pioneer' John McCulloch, then Swon family, then late Lycurgus Knight; ground was frequently flooded, and some moved." Hope this helps some! Donna |
| Name: | Lorraine Chandler |
| E-mail address (optional): | sfcpchan@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | Thank you for your work on the Pine Grove cemetery off Baden-Leon Road..we were able to find my husbands 2nd great-grand parents.. George Washington and Mary Pauline Eubank Nuckles. We took several pictures and report that there is a new stone there for Mary Pauline Eubank Nuckles.I would love for it to be posted..and who put it there?? tell me how to do it??? We were pleased to find them as we had been told they were in Oak Oak...Thanks again..Lorraine and Paul Chandler ________________ Dear Lorraine & Paul, any photos taken that are in digital format (like from a photo cd or a digital camera) may be emailed to us at wvcpa @ westvirginia.com. If they are prints, email us and we'll send you our mailing address here in Colorado. We don't know who got the new marker for Mary Pauline Nuckles, sorry! Donna & Joel |
| Name: | Jividen George William |
| E-mail address (optional): | jividenj@bright.net |
| Comments: | thanks for your great work. ______ Thank you, George! Donna & Joel |
| Name: | HARLENE WITT |
| E-mail address (optional): | harleneyb@aol.com |
| Name: | Margaret J Castor |
| E-mail address (optional): | Zaleskijo@dragonbbs.com |
| Comments: | I am interested in any information, I could get on W.M.Buck.He was married to Doris Grimm,she is buried in Lone Oak cometary In Point Pleasant, WV. She died in 1927. This is just what I was told I can not verify it. Would appreciate any input. Thank you, Margaret J. Castor Zaleskijo@dragonbbs.com ------ Margaret, We don't have any specific information on the people you mention - perhaps one of our other site visitors may be able to help? If so, please contact Margaret at the email address provided. Donna & Joel |
| Name: | Jean |
| E-mail address (optional): | birdsinging77@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I lived in Clifton at one time. I am trying to find info on Frank Benjamin VanMeter and his daughter, Jean. They lived in West Columbia WV Thanks |
| Name: | barbara lee staten |
| E-mail address (optional): | statenlarry@yhaoo.com |
| Comments: | Looking for my dad's family - his name was Meredith Lee Cobb of Boone County was married to Nancy Johnson in 1960, had a baby April 30, 1960 named Barbara Lee Cobb. _________ Thanks for writing Barbara - WVCPA website visitors reading this: does anyone have any information to share? ~Donna |
| Name: | Keith Jacobs |
| E-mail address (optional): | jake_keefer2002@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Hello. I was born in Leon, Mason Co. in 1941 and moved here in a. 1946. I spent all of my summers on my Uncle`s Collett Keefer farms in Mason and Jackson Co`s. until high school. MY Grandparents Keefer lived on Waterloo Rd. and my Grandparents Jacobs lived at Arbuckle. I have family at Smith Cem, Bethel Cem ,Walker Chapel and I am trying to researth the Jacobs Cem. on Tribble Rd. I still call Mason Co. home and have been in all 50 states, but West Virgina is my favorite. Thanks for you good work. Keith Jacobs |
| Name: | Frank F Hyre |
| E-mail address (optional): | hallhyre@aol.com |
| Comments: | Thank you-thank you for your efforts in listing the Rader Cem. in Jackson Co.--Very nice job to say the least-hopefully others who are close by will take an interest and form a clean up project to bring these graves back to life. |
| Name: | Virginia Taylor |
| E-mail address (optional): | ninnue1935@ohiohills.com |
| Comments: | My Grandmother was OMeda Dewees and my mother was Lettie Jane Dewees oldest daughter of Meda and Thomas Deweese |
| Name: | Carolyn Powellcjpowell |
| E-mail address (optional): | cjpowell@cableone.net |
| Comments: | Just found your website, its great. I'm looking for Mourning cemtery.in Robinson,W.Va. I live in Ok.now, but grew up in Kenova, W. Va..Can someone tell me where Robinson, W. Va.is, trying to find info. on James Preston Mourning who lived in the area from 1830-1882. thanks again for all your hard work. Carolyn Powell |
| Name: | Margaret J Castor |
| E-mail address (optional): | Zaleskijo@dragonbbs.com |
| Comments: | My mother's maiden name was Deweese. Next to youngest child of Thomas and Meda Buck Deweese. |
| Name: | Mary Rooney |
| E-mail address (optional): | marylrooney@earthlink.net |
| Comments: | I've just discovered your website. What a valuable service you provide! Thank you... I am trying to find obituaries and grave photographs of John King (1818-1858) and Mary Weaver King (about 1837-1853)who are both buried in Five Mile Cemetery outside of Parkersburg. Can you help? Again, my thanks! Mary ____________________ O.K. WVCPA readers & volunteers - here's a situation where you can help! Is there anyone out there in the Parkersburg area that could take tombstone photos for Mary and get them to her, and anyone that has done research in the Wood Co. area that may know of a source for potential obituaries from the timeframe she mentions that may be able to help? Please contact her directly. ~Donna |
| Name: | Meda DeWeese Schoonover |
| E-mail address (optional): | Mickie@psci.net |
| Comments: | My grandparents Thomas & Omeda DeWeese & other relatives are laid to rest in Wolf Valley Cemetary. Thank you for this site & your work. |
| Name: | Joyce Kimberling Kuhnle |
| E-mail address (optional): | jjkk39@iowatelecom.net |
| Comments: | Donna and Joel, You two are amazing at the amount of work that you are able to do. Keep up the good work. ~~Thank you! -Donna & Joel |
| Name: | Sharon Webb |
| E-mail address (optional): | sharonw@citynet.net |
| Comments: | This is wonderful. Bless You. |
| Name: | Margaret Sue Hammock Hackett |
| E-mail address (optional): | suzyhackett@earthlink.net |
| Comments: | Thanks for just being on the net. I am still searching for family members in my history. Very little success to this point but I do not give up. I now live in Florida and am not able to visit my birth state of West Virginia where I was born in 1942. ** You're welcome! - Donna & Joel** |
| Name: | Ellen Martin |
| E-mail address (optional): | teayslady@charter.net |
| Comments: | Thanks to you and your people for all the hard work in supply this much needed info. |
| Name: | Donald Cundiff |
| E-mail address (optional): | donc4013@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Hi, I'm glad to find your web site. I visited New Haven, WV in 2004 to locate the graves of my great grandparents in the Odd Fellows Cemetery. I was greatly disappointed in that no one at City Hall knew of the cemetery. A kind man sent us to an over grown cemetery but it was a private family site and not the Odd Fellows Cemetery. I just came across a posting that volunteers were going to work on clearing the cemetery in New Haven. I thank them for their efforts. Currently, does anyone have directions to the Odd Fellows Cemetery in New Haven? At one time, I thought I could suggest that City Hall clean up the area but gave up on the idea. I live far away and it doesn't seem practical. Thanks for your effort and I will visit your contribution site. Sincerely, Donald Cundiff -- Reply From Donna: Thank you Donald - your donation will be put to good use. We haven't been up to the Odd Fellows Cemetery for at least a year, and don't know it's present condition. Last we heard, the city of Hartford, despite it's willingness to help maintain it after the AmeriCorps group did the initial clean-up a couple years ago, had not followed through with their intentions. It is an ongoing struggle for so many communities to find folks willing, and able, to help with the hard work it takes. To get to the cemetery (also known as Brown Cemetery - it's possible the folks in town know it as that, should you need to ask again): on the east end of town there is a little old concrete bridge for the main road (in the same general area of town as the Post Office) - there is a small gravel road that looks more like an alleyway going between the little old houses on the Hartford side of the bridge, on the west side of the road. That gravel road takes you through what used to be the salt works (nothing remains to identify it as such, but it may help if asking directions locally). Drive up that road into the woods, up the hill to the left. Part way up it comes to a 'Y', take the left branch (the right curves back up the hill to a private residence). A short way down the road there's another 'Y', and this time you'll need to go up the hill to the right. Depending on the condition of the road, you may or may not be able to make it with a conventional car. In June 2004 there were a few indications that the road was washing out a bit, making it pretty narrow in spots, and there are literally no places to turn around until you get all the way up the rest of the hill to the cemetery. If you can walk a steep hill without difficulty for a good 30 min. or so, you could walk from the second 'Y'. The cemetery is frequently heavily overgrown with grass and briars - do be cautious of critters and unseen holes in the ground that can twist ankles. Once you get to the top, you can get an idea of what a pretty place it once was. When the trees were a bit smaller, I bet you could see for miles from the top! |
| Name: | Lois Hall Downour |
| E-mail address (optional): | fredlois@netpluscom.com |
| Comments: | Donna and Joel,I just checked out the site,I have been so busy trying to track down a couple cemeteries I hadnt got a chance to check in with you lately,But if all goes well we may have found a cemetery I know alot have ask you about.You have done a fabulous job,The site has grown so much,You are terrific,Lois in Ohio |
| Name: | Jeffrey S. Smith |
| E-mail address (optional): | jsmithwv@charter.net |
| Comments: | What a wonderful website. You all have a special place in my heart. I have a very passionate drive to preserve our ancestors final resting places. I have retored two cemeteries in Wood County, WV and one in Roane County, WV. The two in Wood Co. are Smith Cemetery and Chichester Cemetery. The one in Roane County is called Callow Cemetery. This restoration included marker repair and forming new base stones for some of the headstones. The one in Roane County I put a fence around. The supplies were donated from one nearby business and the land owner. My nephew constructed a new steel gate. I will post some of my pictures here as I have time to. Keep up the good work, Jeff Smith [From Donna & Joel: The feeling is mutual, Jeff! We love to hear of folks with the same passion! We look forward to seeing and posting your photos on the WVCPA website. Keep up the good work!] |
| Name: | Donna & Joel Duprey |
| E-mail address (optional): | wvcpa@westvirginia.com |
| Homepage URL (optional): | http://members.citynet.net/WVCPA/ |
| Comments: | [In reply to Becky Replogle's post in the WVCPA Dreambook in late June] Becky asked: "Is there a charter? Are there meetings or guidelines for contributing?" "Is there a charter?" - Well, not by the name of "charter", though we are officially recognized by the State of West Virginia and the Internal Revenue Service as a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization based in Leon, WV. We recommend viewing our "Mission", "Vision" and "Who Are We?" pages (links to these are available from the WVCPA home page) to view what we have online describing what it is that WVCPA has set out to do. Organizationally, we are, as yet, a small group of volunteers (no salaried employees - all our work is done by volunteers, and there are no fees, now or in future, to access information posted on our website). WVCPA has a Board of Directors that we keep in touch with regularly - they help us, as the primary volunteer staff, to keep focused on the mission and vision of the organization. Joel and I live most of the time in Colorado, where our 'day jobs' keep us gainfully employed to support ourselves and much of the WVCPA work, but also a portion of the year at our farm in Leon, WV (in Mason Co.). It is there that we hope to retire before too many more years pass, and then dedicate ourselves to WVCPA and community work full time. "Are there meetings or guidelines for contributing?" - At present, we have no formal meetings where we get together will all of our local volunteers in WV and around the country. We have volunteers that regularly visit WV or actively conduct research on cemeteries and family histories and send us photos and background information from states like Arizona, Michigan, California, Texas, New Hampshire, New York, Virginia, Deleware, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, to name a few, and recently even one researcher from The Netherlands. Gathering everyone from the all these locations would be quite an event, to be sure! We're hoping, as we at some point in the future settle full-time on our farm in WV, to invite our volunteers to gather for joint efforts in specific cemetery rescues, research efforts, and the like. We will see what develops over time. As an example of how we are starting to implement this even now, we will be "rescuing" a small cemetery in Mason Co. in early October. The cemetery is heavily overgrown with briars and weeds - when we checked its condition in late June, we could barely make out where the gate was, and it was only about 10 feet in front of us! When the time gets closer to our October project, we will contact volunteers that we have worked with in the immediate area that have expressed an interest in helping with the physical aspect of rescuing the cemetery. We have many hopes and dreams of what WVCPA may become as the years go by, and we are doing what we can to plan for the future to assure that the information (photos, readings, etc.) that we gather into our databases will continue to remain available for posterity. As for 'contributing' - if you mean the contribution of photos or cemetery readings/historical cemetery or church information, please visit our 'Cemetery Readings' page at http://members.citynet.net/WVCPA/CemReadings.html for details. If you wish to contribute a tax-deductable financial dontation to WVCPA (funds used to pass on donations to cemetery restoration projects around WV that we become aware of, as well as to help cover the costs of maintaining an ever-growing demand on web-server space to provide all of the photos and cemetery pages for our website visitors), this may be done either by personal check mailed to WVCPA at P.O. Box 131, Leon, WV 25123 or via the PayPal Visa/Mastercard 'Donate' button found on our 'Contribution' page at http://members.citynet.net/WVCPA/Contribute.html. Thanks for asking! Donna |
| Name: | Bill Gardner |
| E-mail address (optional): | wd8seo@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I found my grandfather's brother on this site, William Dillard. I would like very much to get in touch with any of his family. Trying to piece together a hisory of the Joe Dillard (Civil War Vet, CSA, had his arm shot off at Chicamauga) family. Most of the family lived in Kanawha Co. (Pond Fork), WV. Thanks and keep up the good work... |
| Name: | Rebecca "Becky" Prickett Replogle |
| E-mail address (optional): | beckyrep@comcast.net |
| Comments: | I was not aware of your organization. Is there a charter? Are there meetings or guidelines for contributing? [Dear Becky, Joel and I are "on assignment" in WV at the moment (and have access only to a verrry slow dial-up connection and rickety old laptop pc - I'll email you with answers to your questions when we get back home after the 4th of July. Thank you for signing our guestbook, and we look forward to visiting with you more in the near future! ~Donna] |
| Name: | Carolyn Jividen Miller |
| E-mail address (optional): | carolymiller7@adelphia.net |
| Comments: | Donna & Joel, thank you so much for all your hard work. This is an amazing site...I don't know you find the time to do it all. Thanks again. Carolyn |
| Name: | Sherry Hern-Davis |
| E-mail address (optional): | alwayslookinforkin@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Hello Duprey's! It has been a while since I have communicated with you, but I would like to let you know that the people I you were able to connect me with have helped me leaps & bounds with my research. I am however still trying to find out a who or what organization is in charge of the Standard/Four Mile Cemetery in Upper Kanawha County. (Off of Paint Creek Road). I have family members there, and I have been to the cemetery many times, but never able to locate the stones. The cemetery is VERY unkept and VERY old. If I could find a caretaker, etc. it would be wonderful. I did read in the Charleston Gazette that people are still being buried there, so doesn't that mean there is a "keeper" or something? www.findagrave.com does not have information regarding locations, etc. either. Thank you for your help! |
| Name: | Lee Harden Tillis Waters |
| E-mail address (optional): | leehwaters@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | I am very pleased with the Tillis site and see that the site has been cared for. My middle son Steven was in Charleston several years ago and took pictures for me and it was not well kept at that time. My father was Lee Roy Tillis and my Granfather was Jessie son of Clark 'Click" Tillis. My grandmother was Flora May Waites. I have very fond memories of them in Chillicothe OH. |
| Name: | Herbert L. Griffith, Jr. |
| E-mail address (optional): | hgriffith@cebridge.net |
| Comments: | Thank ya'all for making others aware of the need to help and preserve the resting places of our ancestors. Although I live in Texas, I try to return to West Virginia at least once a year and usually go to a different cemetery to locate ancestors and to take photos of all the stones. |
| Name: | Debra Arthur |
| E-mail address (optional): | dlarthur1960@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I have Ancester's buried in Jackson Co. and in Roane Co. I would love to find out about our family. My grandfathers name was Ernest Coon born 1889 died 1966 He was born in Roane County WV. If anyone could find any information on this family please contact me. Thank You |
| Name: | Barbara Bailes Mills |
| E-mail address (optional): | barbaramills2@comcast.net |
| Comments: | Thank you for all your hard work. I am the daughter of Lonnie Edward Bailes, son of George and Enith Tucker Bailes, ggranddaughter of Sherman and Rebecca Null Tucker. I sent my neices to the Craig Cemetery to check the names and on all the stones because I noticed that my grandparents and some other immediate family were not on your site. Thank you again, Barbara Bailes Mills |
| Name: | Georganne Clendenin |
| E-mail address (optional): | ghwlc@bellsouth.net |
| Comments: | Very informative and interesting -I hope more work will be done with time. My husband is from WV but we now live in Georgia. Thank you everyone that has contributed to this site. I have a little information on Droughty Cemetary in Boone County mostly Carson and Clendenin if anyone is interested. I wish I had more on our family. Is there anyone there who knows about Adam Clendenin thought to be son of Charles Clendinen whose sons founded Charleston? Adam is not his son DNA shows. Again this site is so inspiring. |
| Name: | Donna Duprey |
| E-mail address (optional): | wvcpa@westvirginia.com |
| Homepage URL (optional): | http://members.citynet.net/WVCPA/ |
| Comments: | It's our pleasure, Paul... Merry Christmas to you! Donna & Joel |
| Name: | Paul B. Buck |
| E-mail address (optional): | paul_buck@charter.net |
| Comments: | thank you for this page has meant so much to me |
| Name: | Barbara (Bailes) Mills |
| E-mail address (optional): | barbaramills2@comcast.net |
| Comments: | I see a lot of family names on your website. Thank you Barbara (Bailes)Mills, Geneva, ILL. |
| Name: | eddie flowers |
| E-mail address (optional): | eddie.flowers@halliburton.com |
| Comments: | Hello All; My great grandmother is buried in the Greencastle Cemetery. I have heard that the cemetery is not in to good of condition? Where is it. I live in Texas and have not been in WV for over 30 years. Her name was Martha Jane Flower. I also have one of her children or more buried thier. His name was Theodore Flower. Would be greatful for any information. Thanks; Eddie |
| Name: | mack black |
| E-mail address (optional): | clint872003@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | just looking over your web sites it s nice ill be back to it .mack |
| Name: | Donna Duprey |
| E-mail address (optional): | wvcpa@westvirginia.com |
| Homepage URL (optional): | http://members.citynet.net/WVCPA/ |
| Comments: | Thanks for signing our guestbook, Vicki! We're only familiar with the Beale Chapel Methodist Cemetery that's listed on our Mason Co. page - can you describe for us where the one is that you're thinking of, if it's not the one there by Apple Grove Memorial Gardens? We sure want to include all known cemeteries in the county! Donna |
| Name: | Vicki Porter |
| E-mail address (optional): | porter33825@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Great Site, but there is another cemetery called Bealle-Chapel Methodist |
| Name: | kay powers |
| E-mail address (optional): | melissak2@alltel.net |
| Comments: | good day donna and hubby, i thought i would drop a line or two!! new email address: melissak2@alltel.net still looking for hargraves cemetery in west virginia. thanks for all the work you two have done on your website. talk more later, kay |
| Name: | Janet Wilham |
| E-mail address (optional): | ESPOIR724@AOL.COM |
| Comments: | Main family search is for BURDETTE,S, MARK G. WAS MY GREATGRANDFATHER, AND CLARENCE MILTON WAS MY GRANDFATHER. ALSO "SAYRE,S"--ROSA(SAYRE) BURDETTE WAS MY GRANDMOTHER, AND HER MOM WAS MARY CATHERINE(BARR) SAYRE. EFFIE ENOLA BOWLES WAS MY GRANDFATHER CLARENCE,S MOM. LOVE THIS SITE!!!!!--TAKES LOTS OF WORK ON YOUR PART I KNOW, BUT IT IS A GOOD THING YOU ARE DOING!!!---GOD BLESS YOUR WORK AND FAMILY. AND GOD BLESS AMERICA!! |
| Name: | Rebecca Stone |
| E-mail address (optional): | RStonesche@aol.com |
| Comments: | Your website is awesome I really appreicate the time you have taken to preserve things that are important and special in a families life and history. |
| Name: | Eddie Flowers |
| E-mail address (optional): | eddie.flowers@halliburton.com |
| Comments: | My father is buried in the Rienehart Cemetery in scarbro. It has been over 25 years sence i have been in west virginia and I was looking to see if anyone had taken any pictures of the cemetery or head stones. Thanks; Eddie Flowers |
| Name: | Christopher Priddy |
| E-mail address (optional): | priddy3@nwonline.net |
| Comments: | Researching Priddys from Putnam, Mason & Kanawha Counties. The County Maps link was awesome! I'm from Ohio, and being able to access the maps is a tremendous help. Makes my research planning much easier. Thanks for your site. Keep up the good work! |
| Name: | betty hooten |
| E-mail address (optional): | bettyhooten@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | i have been trying to find my gandparents franklinhooton and his wife carrie sue gay..she remarried after he died in the 1918-1919 flu epidemic. and perhaps 3 of their siblings who died in the epidemic..i thought they were buried behind the methodist in beech hill.. |
| Name: | Keith Weekley |
| E-mail address (optional): | kweekley@Carolina.rr.com |
| Name: | Joe Jividen |
| E-mail address (optional): | chronicjj@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL (optional): | http://community.webshots.com/user/joejividen |
| Comments: | Thank you Joel and Donna for all your hard work! |
| Name: | Gregory A. Jones |
| E-mail address (optional): | CLTBUCKEYE@AOL.COM |
| Comments: | Decendant of Kittle, Carez, Burke, Full, Sheppard |
| Name: | Nancy Schleich |
| E-mail address (optional): | SCHLEICH.1@OSU.EDU |
| Comments: | Searching for: MULFORD (Mason Co WVA), JEFFERS |
| Name: | Marlene Harden |
| E-mail address (optional): | deh1958@wcnet.org |
| Comments: | This is a great site, ALL of my family is from and still in the Jackson Co. area so this makes research a lot easier. Kepp up the great work. |
| Name: | Joel & Donna Duprey |
| E-mail address (optional): | wvcap@westvirginia.com |
| Homepage URL (optional): | http://members.citynet.net/WVCPA/ |
| Comments: | Glad to help as we are able, Hank! ~Joel & Donna |
| Name: | Hank Summers |
| E-mail address (optional): | hsum1@juno.com |
| Comments: | I have relatives buried in the backwoods family cemeteries all over Southern Jackson Co. WVa.b (others in Roane and Kanawha Counties). Thank you for keeping the records active. |
| Name: | Trilby Minton |
| E-mail address (optional): | tminton4@juno.com |
| Comments: | Donna & Joel this is super great and I thank every one involved with it! Trilby"""" |
| Name: | Dawn Clark |
| E-mail address (optional): | dclark@cmsinter.net |
| Comments: | Wonderful job!!!!!! Thank you for all your hard work. Didn't find a connection but enjoyed and admired the site. |
| Name: | Joel & Donna Duprey |
| E-mail address (optional): | wvcpa@westvirginia.com |
| Homepage URL (optional): | http://members.citynet.net/WVCPA/ |
| Comments: | Gene, regarding the Barnett Cemetery... There are a few different Barnett or Barnette cemeteries in the same general area - in Jackson, Mason and in Putnam counties. The one I think you're thinking of for Mason county might either be the one that is located on the old Barnette farm on Cain Ridge near Mt. Olive Church, or it might be the one that's just down the hill from Mt. Olive Church - actually at Rockcastle (which was at one time in Mason Co., but is now in Jackson Co.). It would help if you could provide the name of a relative that is reported to be in the cemetery you're looking for, then I can maybe give you a better idea of where to go looking. Donna |
| Name: | gene barnett |
| E-mail address (optional): | ohio1945@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I have been looking for the Barnette Cemetery in mason county wv for years can you help thanks gene barnett |
| Name: | Joel & Donna Duprey |
| E-mail address (optional): | wvcpa@westvirginia.com |
| Homepage URL (optional): | http://members.citynet.net/WVCPA/ |
| Comments: | Kathern, Will send an email to you directly, rather than posting here. It may take a day or two with the holiday, but you'll be hearing from us very soon! Violette Machir & Juanita Burdette's work, "Mason County, W.Va. Cemetery Inscriptions" is available (at least most of the 5 volumes, if I recall correctly) at the Mason Co. Public Library, located across the street from the Court House in Pt. Pleasant. While we've found that many libraries across the country have copies of this set of book, we've also found that they are also not willing to loan them out via InterLibrary loan. If you have the chance, I'd recommend going to your local public library and having them see if they can locate the nearest set for you to look at or take copies from. The TNT area and area north of Pt. Pleasant is covered primarily in Volume I, with some info (corrections & additions, etc.) in Volume V. Volume IV covers the large cemeteries in Pt. Pleasant like Suncrest, Kirkland and Lone Oak. Probable that some of your kin are buried in those too. I'll write more in the email! Donna |
| Name: | Kathern Parker |
| E-mail address (optional): | rkparker@logantele.com |
| Comments: | Donna, you make this seem too easy (and I know it isn't). To have so much info and leads in a few hours! I would love tombstone info, as I'm not even to a point where I have b. and d. dates. My heart is screaming "Road Trip!" I'll check out a Pt. Pleasent Archives; would I find the Vilotte Machir research there? Would you, or another group, like to have an update to the Lewis Edgar Somerville/Sarah Alice Armstrong branch? I have the next 4 generations. I appreciate this so much. |
| Name: | Joel & Donna Duprey |
| E-mail address (optional): | wvcpa@westvirginia.com |
| Homepage URL (optional): | http://members.citynet.net/WVCPA/ |
| Comments: | Kathern, Indeed there were several cemeteries in the area that were moved at that time. According to the article you mention (I believe you're referring to the one in the "State Gazette" of April 23, 1942), there were many graves, a number of them unmarked, moved by Foglesong Funeral Home - reportedly to the Dr. Jesse Bennett Cemetery. Among them are listed a Hawkins cemetery. The Hawkins cemetery was very small, only 12 graves were identified at the time. It was located on the E.J. & G.G. Somerville farm in an area that is now part of the Mason County Airport. The Somerville Cemetery, on the other hand, had at least 50-100 graves in it. It's difficult to determine, based on the documentation that I have (the work of your Somerville cousin, Violette Machir, that we frequently reference), if this too was moved. As large as it was, it would seem that it would be a rather newsworthy event. I can't imagine that all of the graves, if they were moved, would all have been moved to the Dr. Jesse Bennett Cemetery - some could have been moved to other cemeteries in the area. Unfortunately, we (WVCPA) don't have records of where graves have been moved to. My suggestion would be to check with one of the local funeral homes in Point Pleasant (I don't know if Foglesong is still in operation - they're not listed in the online telephone directory) to see if they have any records from Foglesong of the 'event' or any idea of where such records of where graves were moved doing that massive relocation in the 40's may be found. As an end note, many of the names you indicated are in a roster gathered by Violette Machir in the late 60's for the Somerville Cemetery. At the time, she indicated that the cemetery was located on Rt. 62 N., "In a field not visible from the road... in back of home of Everett Sayre, quite a distance back and to left (closer to new brick Lieving home)". I can send you the specific names and dates for all of the known Somerville burials in that cemetery that she listed and others nearby, if you like. Just drop me a note here, or directly to our email address written above. Donna |
| Name: | Kathern Parker |
| E-mail address (optional): | rkparker@logantele.com |
| Comments: | I've just begun researching my Somerville and Armstong roots in Mason Cty, Pt. Pleasant, WV. Based on family oral history and article on moving cemeteries for the TNT plant, I believe I'm looking for the new location of the Hawkins Cemetery, farm taken by gov't. belonging to EJ and CG Somerville, or it could be the Somerville Cemetery. Grave stones I would expect: Robert Washington Somerville, wife Jane Catherine Boggess Somerville (my grandmother's grandmother, who tells of the coffin sliding off the hearse as it went uphill to the internment). Sarah Alice Armstrong Somerville, Williams Donaldson Somerville, Eugene, Robert Patton, or John Somerville. Any leads greatly appreciated. |
| Name: | Kitty Severn |
| E-mail address (optional): | panda4@citynet.net |
| Comments: | Great Site! Keep up the good work. Kudo's to Donna & Joel Duprey!! Kitty |
| Name: | Joel & Donna Duprey |
| E-mail address (optional): | wvcpa@westvirginia.com |
| Homepage URL (optional): | http://members.citynet.net/WVCPA/ |
| Comments: | Stephanie, I will write to you in email directly with the known information on the Cobb cemetery you ask about. But, for the benefit of our curious readers here, according to the "History of Mason County", Augusta Cobb is buried at the Augusta Cobb cemetery in Ashton, south of Apple Grove in Hannan District(Ashton is located south of Point Pleasant along the Ohio River on the way to Huntington). The Augusta Cobb cemetery is recorded in Volume II of "Mason County, W.Va. Cemetery Inscriptions", which includes the cemeteries of Arbuckle, Clendenin, & Hannan Districts. ~Donna |
| Name: | Joel & Donna Duprey |
| E-mail address (optional): | wvcpa@westvirginia.com |
| Homepage URL (optional): | http://members.citynet.net/WVCPA/ |
| Comments: | Responded directly to Kathy Nolin - directing her to the WV State web site where the WV Code is posted. Yes, there are laws in the State of WV guaranteeing the access rights of relatives and researchers of persons buried in cemeteries that are located on or surrounded by private land, AS WELL AS the rights and responsibilities of the landowner. The code is much to extensive to list here. We recommend that anyone interested in such take the time to read through the portion dedicated to "Cemeteries". See the WVCPA Resources page for links to the State of West Virginia web site. |
| Name: | Stephanie L (COBB) Fairfield |
| E-mail address (optional): | StephanieFairfield@Gentiva.com |
| Comments: | Am trying to locate our family cemetery in the area of Pt. Pleasant, WV. I am a decendant of Augusta Cobb and also related to the Kimberlings of Pt. Pleasant. I went with my dad William Edward Cobb to Pt Pleasant, WV many, many years ago...my father remember the Cobb family cemetary, but iet has a very stormy rainy day and we were unable to travel by car up the mountain. I just remember a few family members that I my Uncle Howard Cobb and an Aunt Ruth Cobb who were living in Pt Pleasant, Va. My other Uncles were Ross and Roy Cobb in St. Joe, MO and my fathers brother John Edward Cobb, Batavia, Ohio and my Aunt Adele Cobb Gress, Colorado Springs, Co. My great grandfather was a dress maker and had 18 children (2 marriages), and he and his family lived in Pt. Pleasant, WV, and owned a very large homestead/farm. If anyone is able to assist me in finding my family cemetery, I would greatly appreciate it. As my sister and I are planning a family crusade next year, traveling to our families homestead and visiting with cousins, beginning in Massachuettes. So, you have ANY information on how to locate thie family cemetary or have any knowledge of it, please let me know ASAP, am anxiously waiting. Thank You |
| Name: | Kathy Nolin |
| E-mail address (optional): | kmnolin@wilkes.net |
| Comments: | I am attempting with our Christy family reunion group to get access, a protective fence and gravemarkers repaired for the Christy cemetery in Mason County, WV. It is a very small cemetery and in great disrepair and neglect. We have our reunion the last week in Aug and need some suggestions on how to obtain access to the cemetery which is on private land on a little back road up on a hill in an old cow pasture. Are there any laws governing family member access and upkeep of the property if we cannot get good cooperation from the land owners? |
| Name: | Tracy Cain |
| E-mail address (optional): | tcain@columbus.rr.com |
| Comments: | Hey Donna, Hey Joel! Haven't e-mailed you in awhile, but I'm still around. Still enjoying your site! Hope to get back to WV in a few weeks and see what I can find next. If anyone knows the exact location of Jesse Hill Cemetery in Southside, Mason Co., WV, please drop me an e-mail. |
| Name: | Joel & Donna Duprey |
| Comments: | Welcome to our new Guestbook! We thought we'd try this out for a while to share all of the great, encouraging messages that we regularly get from all of you. So, come on in and sit a spell with us. Feel free to share your thoughts and read what others have to say about cemetery preservation in West Virginia and about WVCPA. Thank you! Joel & Donna |