Randolph County Cemeteries Inventoried by The Allegheny Regional Family History Society

 

 

Cemetery: ALPENA

Description:

ESTABLISHED BY SCOTT MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. JOHN W MCCALLISTER, A CONFEDERATE VETERAN IS BURIED HERE IN AN UNMARKED GRAVE. 25 OR MORE UNMARKED GRAVES.

Condition:

Directions:

LOCATED IN THE TOWN OF ALPENA

Inventoried by: VERA LEWIS & STUDENTS Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: AMOS-KNAPP PLACE

Description:

CEMETERY CONSISTS OF ONE MARKER WHICH IS UPRIGHT.

Condition:

Directions:

GO TO VALLEY BEND, TURN LEFT ON 1ST ROAD SOUTH OF THE POST OFFICE AND GO ACROSS THE RIVER TO BACK ROAD. TURN LEFT, GO 2 TENTHS OF A MILE. ON RIGHT SIDE OF ROAD, WALK ABOUT ONE MILE THROUGH FIELDS TO THE MARKER.

Inventoried by: GARY G. HANNAH Date: 1993

 

Cemetery: ARBOGAST

Description:

Condition:

Directions:

GO FROM HARMAN TO THE Old Mill. GO DOWN THE DIRT ROAD 1/2 MILE. GO ANOTHER ROAD, COME TO THE HOUSE. THEY WILL DIRECT YOU TO THE CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: VERA LEWIS & STUDENTS Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: ARMENTROUT

Description:

MOST HEADSTONES UPRIGHT, SOME LYING DOWN, 1 WITH UNREADABLE INSCRIPTION, APPROX. 6 UNMARKED GRAVES.

Condition:

EXCELLENT, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

1 MILE NORTH OF WHITMER ON CO. RT. 29.

Inventoried by: VERA LEWIS HARMAN STUDENTS Date: 01 JUN, 1992

 

Cemetery: ARMSTRONG FAMILY

Description:

DIPTHERIA HIT FAMILY IN 1867. ALL THE HEADSTONES LYING DOWN & SCATTERED, SOME UNREADABLE.

Condition:

POOR, ABANDONED, UNFENCED

Directions:

RT 250 SOUTH OUT OF ELKINS TO DAILEY. TURN LEFT ON EAST DAILEY ROAD. CROSS BLUE BRIDGE. BEAR LEFT AT INTERSECTION. PARK AT SMALL CINDER BLOCK BUILDING, ON RIGHT "ALLTEL SYSTEMS". CEMETERY IS ATOP RIDGE IN THE TREES TO THE LEFT OF THIS BUILDING. PROPERTY O

Inventoried by: CAROLYN ARBOGAST MUTT ARBOGAST Date: 20 JUN, 1993

 

Cemetery: ARNOLD HILL

Description:

THIS LITTLE CEMETERY IS LOCATED CLOSE BESIDE THE BACK RUNWAY OF THE ELKINS AIRPORT. SEVERAL OF THE GRAVES ARE SUNK IN THE GROUND, MANY HEADSTONES OVER-TURNED, SOME HEADSTONES ARE NO LONGER READABLE (DUE TO AGE AND WEATHER). ALSO SOME OF THESE GRAVES WERE

Condition:

THE CEMETERY IS IN POOR CONDITION AND SOME OF THE GRAVES ARE AMONG THE WEEDS AND TREES.

Directions:

FROM ELKINS, TAKE RT. 250 SOUTH. TURN RIGHT AT THE ELKINS AIRPORT EXIT. CONTINUE PAST THE AIRPORT ROAD AND TAKE THE NEXT ROAD TO THE RIGHT, "ARNOLD HILL ROAD", APPROX. 1 MILE FROM RT. 250. GO APROX. « MILE, TAKE THE 1ST ROAD TO THE RIGHT. GO PAST THE WHIT

Inventoried by: CAROLYN ARBOGAST Date: 1993

 

Cemetery: B0DKIN

Description:

MOST HEADSTONES UPRIGHT

Condition:

POOR

Directions:

OUTSIDE OF HARMAN. GO UP THE LOWER NORTH FORK ROAD. TURN LEFT AT THE INTERSECTION. GO THRU 4 OR 5 GATES. CEMETERY IS ON THE RIGHT ON A LITTLE HILL.

Inventoried by: SHANNA VANCE BONNIE VANCE Date: 07 MAY, 1992

 

Cemetery: BASIL

Description:

Condition:

Directions:

US 33 WEST OUT OF HARMAN TO CO ROUTE 29. GO SOUTH ON 29 ABOUT 3/4 MILE TO TROY YOKUM FARM. IN A WHIT BLOCK BLDG WITH A RUSTED METAL ROOF.

Inventoried by: JEREMY VANCE Date: 01 JUN, 1992

 

Cemetery: BAXTER WILMOTH

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT, 7 HEADSTONES

Condition:

GOOD, UNKEPT, FENCED, FENCE BROKEN DOWN

Directions:

COUNTY RT. 6 ON LOWER CHEAT. TAKE RT. 6 NORTH FROM STUARTS PARK. HEAD DOWN RIVER ABOUT 3 MILES. CEMETERY IS WEST SIDE ABOUT 100 FEET FROM ROAD NEAR JOHNS RUN.'

Inventoried by: DAVID ARMSTRONG Date: 6/13/92

 

Cemetery: BELL

Description:

ALL STONES WERE UPRIGHT.

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT AND UNFENCED.

Directions:

FROM ELKINS, TAKE RT 33 EAST TO TOP OF CHEAT MOUNTAIN ON THE 4 LANE. TURN RIGHT ON KELLY MT ROAD AND GO 1.9 MILES. CEMETERY IS ON LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: Apr-95

 

Cemetery: BELL-KELLEY

Description:

STONES WERE UPRIGHT. 2 GRAVES WERE MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK, ONE WAS MARKED WITH A FUNERAL HOME MARKER, NO INSCRIPTION ON IT AND 1 GRAVE WAS UNMARKED.

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT AND FENCED

Directions:

FROM HUTTONSVILLE, TAKE US RT 219 FOR 2.5 MILES. TURN LEFT ON BECKYS CREEK ROAD AND CROSS THE BRIDGE. TURN RIGHT AND GO 1 MILE. TURN RIGHT ON A DIRT ROAD AND GO TO A FARM HOUSE. CEMETERY IS ON THE HILL BEHIND HOUSE.'

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: Aug-94

 

Cemetery: BENNETT

Description:

Condition:

Directions:

1/8 OF A MILE EAST OF HARMAN ON U S 33. TURN RIGHT ON PRIVATE ROAD FOR 2 MILES.

Inventoried by: TIM TURNER Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: BENNETT

Description:

MOST HEADSTONES UPRIGHT

Condition:

EXCELLENT, KEPT, UNFENCED

Directions:

JOB ROAD OUT OF HARMAN. MILE BEFORE YOU GET TO JOB AT HARRY BENNETTS HOUSE.

Inventoried by: GARRICK TETER JAMES MULLENNEX DAVID HUFFMAN RICHARD MULLENEX Date: 28 MAY, 1992

 

Cemetery: BETHEL

Description:

189 HEADSTONES, MOSTLY UPRIGHT, 32 UNMARKED

Condition:

EXCELLENT, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

JOB, OUTSIDE OF HARMAN. GO APPROX. 4 MILES UP THE JOB ROAD TO MIKE SNYDERS HOUSE AND GO UP THE HILL.

Inventoried by: CHANDRA WAYBRIGHT R. J. WATTS STEPHANIE SEABOLT CINDY COOK Date: 04 JUN, 1992

 

Cemetery: BEVERLY

Description:

MOST STONES WERE UPRIGHT. 2 STONES WERE LYING DOWN AND 7 WERE DAMAGED. 36 GRAVES WERE MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK AND 73 GRAVES WERE UNMARKED.

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT AND FENCED.

Directions:

CEMETERY IS LOCATED IN THE TOWN OF BEVERLY. A MARKER IS ON THE MAIN STREET INDICATING THE ENTRANCE TO THE CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: Oct-95

 

Cemetery: BLIZZARD

Description:

ORIGINALLY ONLY THE YOUNG BOY WAS BURIED THERE AND THE FAMILY MADE ARRANGEMENTS TO HAVE THE OTHERS MOVED TO MAKE A FAMILY CEMETERY.

Condition:

Directions:

TAKE US 33 EAST OUT OF HARMAN. PAST THE HARMAN HIGH SCHOOL, PAST THE CLOSED SERVICE STATION, JUST PAST THE FOLLOWING TRAILER ON THE RIGHT SIDE THERE IS A GATE OPENING TO A DIRT ROAD. DRIVE THE ROAD, ON THE LEFT IS OLD KERMIT BLIZZARD HOME PLACE. BEHIND TH

Inventoried by: TIM TURNER Date: 1993

 

Cemetery: BLUE ROCK CEMETERY

Description:

STONES WERE UPRIGHT AND 1 STONE WAS BROKEN. 22 GRAVES WERE MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK AND APPROXIMATELY 6 GRAVES WERE UNMARKED.

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT AND FENCED.

Directions:

FROM MILL CREEK, TAKE HELVETIA ROAD FOR 11.1 MILES. CEMETERY IS ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: Oct-94

 

Cemetery: BONNER

Description:

STONES ARE UPRIGHT 2 GRAVES ARE MARKED WITH FIELD STONES.

Condition:

GOOD KEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM VALLEY HEAD, TAKE RT 15 WEST 3.8 MILE. TURN LEFT ON DRY BRANCH RD. GO 1.6 MILE. CEMETERY IS ON LEFT SIDE OF ROAD ABOUT 75 FEET BEHIND SOME CABINS.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 18-Apr-94

 

Cemetery: BONNER MOUNTAIN

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

TURN RIGHT AT DRYFORK CHURCH. FOLLOW ROAD TO JACK TETER FARM. TURN & FOLLOW DIRT ROAD THROUGH 3 GATES. ON THE FLAT.

Inventoried by: TIM TURNER Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: BRADLEY-MCELWEE

Description:

1 HEADSTONE LYING DOWN. ALL OTHERS UPRIGHT. 2 GRAVES MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK. APPROX. 9 UNMARKED GRAVES. LOCATED IN THE WOODS, TREE LIMBS ALL THRU THE CEMETERY.

Condition:

POOR ABANDONED WAS FENCED BUT FENCE HAS NOW DETERIORATED.

Directions:

FROM VALLEY BEND, DRIVE UP RUDD ROAD APPROX. 1/2 MILE. TURN LEFT AT FIRST HOUSE. WALK STRAIGHT UP THE RIDGE. CEMETERY IS ON PLATEAU AT BACKEND OF RIDGE ON LEFT SIDE OF CREEK.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH & GENEVA JACOBS Date: 3-Apr-94

 

Cemetery: BRICK CHURCH

Description:

Condition:

Directions:

FROM HUTTONSVILLE, TAKE US 250 TO HUTTONSVILLE CORRECTIONAL CENTER AND MAKE A RIGHT TURN. GO TO THE FIRST ROAD ON THE LEFT AND FOLLOW IT TO THE CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: Date:

 

Cemetery: BRIGHT

Description:

LAST BURIAL WAS IN 1992. ONE SOLDIER FROM THE WAR OF 1812 IS BURIED HERE.

Condition:

Directions:

TAKE RT 72 FROM HENDRICKS FOR 10 MILE OR FROM CANAAN GO TOWARD HENDRICKS FOR 5 MILES.

Inventoried by: VERA LEWIS HARMAN STUDENTS Date: 01 JUN, 1992

 

Cemetery: BUTCHER

Description:

1 GRAVE UNMARKED AND HEADSTONES WERE UPRIGHT.

Condition:

FAIR UNKEPT ABANDONED FENCED

Directions:

IN BEVERLY, TURN ONTO FILES CREEK ROAD. GO 4 TENTHS OF A MILE. CEMETERY IS ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD SITUATED ON A SMALL KNOLL.

Inventoried by: GARY G. HANNAH Date: 1993

 

Cemetery: CALAIN

Description:

TOMBSTONES UPRIGHT, APPROX. 12 UNMARKED GRAVES. SOME GRAVES MARKED WITH METAL FUNERAL HOME MARKERS.

Condition:

EXCELLENT, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

FROM ELKINS GO EAST ON RT. 33 TOWARD BOWDEN TO THE FAULKNER INTERSECTION. TURN RIGHT, GO ONE TENTH MILE. TURN RIGHT, GO ONE TENTH MILE TO CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 02 MAY, 1993

 

Cemetery: CAPLINGER

Description:

Condition:

GOOD KEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM BEVERLY, TURN ONTO GEORGETOWN ROAD. GO TO INTERSECTION WITH RICH MOUNTAIN ROAD. TURN RIGHT, GO 2.1 MILES. CEMETERY IS ON LEFT SIDE OF ROAD ON TOP OF HILL.

Inventoried by: GARY G. HANNAH Date: 1993

 

Cemetery: CAPLINGER

Description:

COULD ONLY FIND 3 MARKED GRAVES. 2 STONES LYING DOWN AND 1 BROKEN.

Condition:

POOR ABANDONED UNFENCED

Directions:

FROM BEVERLY, TURN ONTO GEORGETOWN ROAD. GO 1.3 MILE TO INTERSECTION WITH RICH MT. ROAD. TURN RIGHT GO 1.4 MILES. CEMETERY IS ON LEFT SIDE OF ROAD BESIDE A SMALL POND.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 17-Feb-94

 

Cemetery: CARPER

Description:

CONTAINS APPROXIMATELY 80 GRAVES. ALL UNMARKED EXCEPT FOR THE FEW WHICH WERE DOCUMENTED. DATES AND NAMES WERE RECORDED YEARS BEFORE SOME VANDALS DESTROYED THE REMAINING MARKERS IN 1992.

Condition:

POOR UNKEPT ABANDONED

Directions:

FROM BEVERLY TAKE U S ROUTE 219 S FOR 2 MILES. TURN LEFT ON COUNTY ROAD AT TYGART RIVER BRIDGE. GO 1.9 MILES. CEMETERY IS ON LEFT SIDE OF ROAD ON HILL BEHIND THE TRAILER BELONGING TO CHARLES HINKLE.

Inventoried by: GARY G HANNAH Date: 1993

 

Cemetery: CARPER

Description:

1 GRAVE UNMARKED

Condition:

POOR UNKEPT ABANDONED UNFENCED

Directions:

FROM BEVERLY, GO SOUTH ON U S ROUTE 219 FOR 2 MILES. TURN LEFT ON COUNTY ROAD AT TYGART RIVER BRIDGE. GO 2.4 MILE. CEMETERY IS ON RIGHT SIDE OF ROAD.

Inventoried by: GARY G HANNAH Date: 1993

 

Cemetery: CARR

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

TURN RIGHT AT DRYFORK CHURCH. FOLLOW ROAD. CROSS BRIDGE. ON THE LEFT THER IS A CATTLE PEN. ON RIGHT THERE IS A ROAD. TAKE IT. CEMETERY IS ON LEFT ON HILL.

Inventoried by: TIM TURNER Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: CHANNELL

Description:

ONLY ONE HEADSTONE IN THIS CEMETERY.

Condition:

POOR, ABANDONED AND UNFENCED.

Directions:

FROM THE INTERSECTION IN HUTTONSVILLE, GO ON RT 250 ACROSS THE BRIDGE. TURN LEFT ON INDIAN LICK ROAD. GO 1.5 MILES, TURN LEFT INTO KEITH AND LORRAINE YOKUMS HOME PLACE. CEMETERY IS LOCATED BEHIND HOUSE ON POINT OF LAND.'

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: Dec-94

 

Cemetery: CHENOWETH

Description:

MOST HEADSTONES UPRIGHT, 20 CREEK ROCK

Condition:

EXCELLENT, KEPT, FENCED, ON STRAND OF ELECTRIC FENCE TO KEEP OUT THE CATTLE.

Directions:

SOUTH ON US 219/250 OUT OF ELKINS. TURN LEFT ON CHENOWETH CREEK ROAD. GO 8/10 MILE. TURN LEFT ON MAPLE LANE 2/10S MILE. CEMETERY IS IN THE FIELD ON THE LEFT SIDE OF ROAD.'

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 23 MAY, 1993

 

Cemetery: CHENOWETH

Description:

MOST UPRIGHT

Condition:

EXCELLENT, KEPT, UNFENCED

Directions:

FROM ELKINS, GO SOUTH ON FOUR LANE, US 219/250, APPROX. 3 MILES. TURN LEFT ON ELLIOTS RIDGE ROAD. GO .4 MILES. TURN LEFT OKN GRAVEL ROAD UP THE HILL TO THE CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 23 MAY, 1993

 

Cemetery: COFFMAN CHAPEL

Description:

4 GRAVES MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK AND APPROXIMATELY 6 UNMARKED GRAVES.

Condition:

FAIR KEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM ELKINS, GO NORTH ON U S 219 FOR 4.5 MILES. TURN RIGHT ON STALNAKER RUN ROAD. GO 6 TENTHS OF A MILE TO COFFMAN CHAPEL U. M. CHURCH ON LEFT SIDE OF ROAD. CEMETERY IS BEHIND THE CHURCH/

Inventoried by: GARY G. HANNAH Date: 1993

 

Cemetery: COFFMANS'

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT, 2 DAMAGED, 155 IN ALL, 39 CREEK ROCK, 23 WITH UNREADABLE INSCRIPTIONS.

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT, UNFENCED

Directions:

GOING TOWARDS JUNIOR FROM ELKINS, TAKE LAST ROAD ON RIGHT BEFORE BARBOUR COUNTY/RANDOLPH COUNTY LINE. GO UP HILL AND TAKE 1ST ROAD ON LEFT, KEEP GOING TILL YOU GET TO CEMETERY. SITS IN THE WOODS.

Inventoried by: LORI ANN PINGLEY PHILLIPS LOVADA IRENE HARLAN PINGLEY Date: 28 JUN, 1992

 

Cemetery: COGAR

Description:

STONES WERE UPRIGHT AND 16 GRAVES WERE MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK AND APPROXIMATELY 10 GRAVES WERE UNMARKED.

Condition:

POOR, ABANDONDED AND UNFENCED.

Directions:

IN MILL CREEK, TAKE ROAD ACROSS FROM GEORGE WARD SCHOOL AND GO 3 TENTHS OF A MILE. TURN LEFT ON CHANNELL ROAD AND GO 1.9 MILES TO THE END OF THE HARD ROAD. CONTINUE 9 TENTHS OF A MILE ON DIRT ROAD. PARK AT THE IRON BAR GATE. GO APPROXIMATELY 1/2 MILE TURN

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: Dec-94

 

Cemetery: CONRAD

Description:

HEADSTONES ARE UPRIGHT. 11 GRAVES ARE MARKED WITH FUNERAL MARKERS.

Condition:

FAIR KEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM VALLEY HEAD, TAKE RT 15 WEST 3.8 MILE. TURN LEFT ON VALLEY FORK RD. GO 4.8 MILE. CEMETERYIS ON RIGHT SIDE OF ROAD AGAINST SIDE OF HILL.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 18-Apr-94

 

Cemetery: CONRAD

Description:

1 BROKEN STONE 25 CREEK ROCK 6 UNMARKED GRAVES

Condition:

POOR ABANDONED UNFENCED

Directions:

FROM HUTTONSVILLE, GO SOUTH ON RT 219, 11.6 MILE. CEMETERY IS LOCATED ON LEFT SIDE OF ROAD. TOP OF HILL AMONG SOME PINE TREES.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 23-May-94

 

Cemetery: COOPER

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

IN HARMAN, GO DOWN STREET WITH LAUNDROMAT, TURN RIGHT AT END OF STREET, CROSS WALKING BRIDGE, & WALK AROUND HILL TO THE RIGHT.

Inventoried by: TIM TURNER Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: COOPER

Description:

12 OR MORE UNMARKED GRAVES.

Condition:

Directions:

3 MILES EAST OF HARMAN ON U S 33, THEN 1 MILE SOUTH ON PRIVATE ROAD.

Inventoried by: VERA LEWIS HARMAN STUDENTS Date: 31 JUL, 1992

 

Cemetery: COOPER/WYATT

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT, SOME LYING DOWN, SOME DAMAGED

Condition:

FAIR, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

AT LAMBERT GAS STATION ON RT. 33 BETWEEN ELKINS & HARMAN, TAKE ROAD ACROSS FROM GAS STATION, TURN AT 1ST GATE ON THE LEFT. WALK UP ROAD. THE CEMETERY IS LOCATED AROUND THE HILL ON THE LEFT.

Inventoried by: TIM TURNER Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: COWGER

Description:

STONE ARE UPRIGHT 13 GRAVES MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK.

Condition:

GOOD KEPT UNFENCED

Directions:

FROM VALLEY HEAD, TAKE RT 15 WEST 3.8 MILE. TURN LEFT ON VALLEY FORK RD. GO 3.9 MILE. TURN RIGHT INTO CHURCH PARKING LOT. CEMETERY IS ON TOP OF HILL BEHIND CHURCH/

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 18-Apr-94

 

Cemetery: CRAWFORD

Description:

WIFE OF BUSHROD CRAWFORD IS BURIED HERE IN AN UNMARKED GRAVE. CEMETERY CONSISTS OF 2 GRAVES.

Condition:

Directions:

IN DAILEY, TAKE THE GEORGETOWN RD AND GO .3 MILE . CEMETERY IS AGAINST HILLSIDE ON LAND OWNED BY DONALD ARBOGAST.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 18-Apr-94

 

Cemetery: CRAWFORD

Description:

FAMILY PLOT ON ANDREW CRAWFORD FARM- BETTER KNOWN AS "RED" HARRIS FARM. NOW OWNED BY BUDDY CUPP. SOME CREEK ROCKS. ALSO KNOWN AS BEAKER "BAKER" CEMETERY ACCORDING TO WPA RECORDS.

Condition:

ABANDONED, FENCE FALLEN DOWN

Directions:

FROM VALLEY BEND, TAKE THE BACK ROAD TO THE TYGARTS VALLEY RIVER BRIDGE. TURN RIGHT, TAKE 1ST ROAD TO RIGHT AND GET DIRECTIONS TO CEMETERY FROM TENANTS IN FARM HOUSE AT THE END OF THE ROAD.

Inventoried by: VIOLET MCELWEE Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: CROUCH

Description:

MOST HEADSTONES UPRIGHT, 9 CREEK ROCK.

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT, UNFENCED.

Directions:

TAKE 219 SOUTH OUT OF HUTTONSVILLE 6.7 MILES. CEMETERY IS ON RIGHT SIDE OF ROAD ABOVE A CEMENT RETAINING WALL.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 18-Apr-93

 

Cemetery: CROUCH

Description:

Condition:

POOR ABANDONDED PARTIALLY FENCED

Directions:

FROM HUTTONSVILLE, TAKE U S ROUTE 219 S. GO 4.1 MILES, TURN RIGHT CEMETERY LOCATED IN THE WOODS ON TOP OF HILL BEHIND RALPH SNYDER HOUSE.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 1993

 

Cemetery: CROUCH

Description:

APPROXIMATELY 75 UNMARKED GRAVES.

Condition:

EXCELLENT KEPT FENCED

Directions:

TAKE 219 SOUTH FROM VALLEY BEND FOR APPROXIMATELY 2 MILES. CEMETERY IS ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD. CAN BE SEEM FROM Route 219.

Inventoried by: CAROLYN CHANNELL Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: CROUCH

Description:

UNMARKED GRAVES HARD TO DETERMINE BECAUSE OF BRUSH. SOME STONES UPRIGHT AND 5 GRAVES MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK.

Condition:

POOR UNKEPT ABANDONED FENCED

Directions:

GO TO VALLEY BEND, TURN LEFT AT 1ST ROAD SOUTH OF THE POST OFFICE AND GO ACROSS THE RIVER. TURN RIGHT TOWARD MILL CREEK. GO 2.1 MILES. GO LEFT 1000 FT. THRU A FIELD AND ACROSS THE CREEK. ANGLE RIGHT ON OLD ROAD UPHILL TO TOP. CEMETERY IS ON RIGHT SIDE.

Inventoried by: GARY G. HANNAH Date: 1993

 

Cemetery: CROUCH

Description:

LOCATED IN WOODS THAT HAS BEEN TIMBERED. LARGE CEMETERY, HARD TO DETERMINE ACTUAL SIZE. 27 CREEK ROCK AND APPROXIMATELY 15 UNMARKED GRAVES.

Condition:

POOR ABANDONED UNFENCED

Directions:

GO TO VALLEY BEND, TURN LEFT ON 1ST ROAD SOUTH OF THE POST OFFICE. FOLLOW ROAD ACROSS TYGART RIVER TO BACK ROAD. TURN RIGHT TOWARD MILL CREEK. GO 1.9 MILE. TAKE OLD DIRT ROAD ON LEFT TO TOP OF HILL TO THE CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: GARY G. HANNAH Date: 1993

 

Cemetery: CUNNINGHAM

Description:

Condition:

Directions:

GANDY ROAD OUT OF HARMAN. GO TO FIRST HOUSE ON THE GANDY ROAD TO A GATE. APPROX. 6 MILE FROM THERE.

Inventoried by: MISTY MULLENAX WILLIAM MULLENAX Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: CURRENCE

Description:

HEADSTONES ARE UPRIGHT. 2 GRAVES MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK. 5 UNREADABLE SANDSTONE MARKERS.

Condition:

FAIR KEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM ELKINS, GO SOUTH ON US 219 PAST DAILEY ONE HALF MILE TO HOMESTEAD SCHOOL. CEMETERY IS LOCATED ON NORTHEAST CORNER OF SCHOOL PROPERTY.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH & GENEVA JACOBS Date: 23-Feb-94

 

Cemetery: CURRENCE

Description:

2 HEADSTONES UPRIGHT. 3 GRANITE HEADSTONES-1 BROKEN. 2 GRAVES MARKED WITH CHISELED CREEK ROCK, 4 GRAVES MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK AND APPROXIMATELY 10 UNMARKED GRAVES.

Condition:

GOOD MOWED FENCED

Directions:

TAKE U S ROUTE 219 S FROM BEVERLY, GO 1/2 MILE AFTER CROSSING THE BURNT BRIDGE. THIS CEMETERY IS LOCATED ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE TYGART VALLEY RIVER BANK, BEHIND WHAT IS KNOWN AS THE HUMP SERVICE STATION.

Inventoried by: MADELINE CRICKARD PHYLLIS DANIELS Date: 1993

 

Cemetery: CURRENCE

Description:

STONES ARE UPRIGHT AND 5 GRAVES ARE MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK.

Condition:

GOOD KEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM ELKINS, GO SOUTH ON US 219, TO DAILEY. TURN RIGHT ON GEORGETOWN ROAD. GO 7 TENTHS OF A MILE. CEMETERY IS ON RIGHT SIDE OF ROAD BESIDE A TRAILER.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 15-Feb-94

 

Cemetery: CURRENCE

Description:

CEMETERY IS LOCATED IN THE WOODS. 4 DAMAGED STONES. 8 GRAVES MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK AND APPROXIMATELY 9 UNMARKED GRAVES. ALL REMAINING MARKERS ARE LYING ON THE GROUND. THIS CEMETERY IS IN THREE DISTINCT AREAS. ONE AREA WITH PARTIAL FENCING AROUND IT CONTA

Condition:

POOR ABANDONED & UNFENCED

Directions:

FROM ELKINS, GO SOUTH ON US 219 TO DAILEY. TURN RIGHT ON GEORGETOWN ROAD. GO 1.1 MILE. CEMETERY IS ON LEFT SIDE OF ROAD, ON TOP OF HILL BEHIND HULVERS HOUSE.'

Inventoried by: Gary Hannah Date: 15-Feb-94

 

Cemetery: CURRENCE-WAMSLEY

Description:

LOCATED IN TRACT OF TREES WHICH HAS BEEN MARKED TO BE CUT. 20 CREEK ROCKS. APPROXIMATELY 16 UNMARKED GRAVES.

Condition:

POOR ABANDONED UNFENCED

Directions:

FROM HUTTONSVILLE, TAKE U S ROUTE 219 S. FOR 4.1 MILES. TURN LEFT ON DIRT ROAD. GO ACROSS RIVER, WALK THRY FIELD PAST BARN TO GATE IN FENCE. TAKE OLD ROAD TO TOP OF RIDGE. TURN LEFT AND GO 200 FT. TO CEMETERY

Inventoried by: GARY G. HANNAH Date: 1993

 

Cemetery: DANIEL COOPER

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

AT HARMAN HIGH SCHOOL. CEMETERY IS ON THE HILL.

Inventoried by: TIM TURNER Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: DANIEL HARPER

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT

Condition:

EXCELLENT, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

TURN RIGHT AT DRY FORK CHURCH. FOLOW ROAD. SIGN TO CEMETERY IS ON METAL GATE. (CAN BE SEEN FROM ROAD.)

Inventoried by: TIM TURNER Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: DAY

Description:

MOST TOMBSTONES UPRIGHT. APPROX. 11 CREEK ROCK. 8 UNMARKED GRAVES. FUNERAL MARKERS AT SOME OF THE SUNKEN GRAVES.

Condition:

FAIR, UNKEPT, PARTIALLY FENCED.

Directions:

FROM ELKINS, EAST ON RT. 33. TURN LEFT AT END OF 4 LANE. GO 8 TENTHS MILE. TAKE DIRT ROAD ON RIGHT SIDE OF HOUSE UP HILL TO WHERE IT LEVELS OUT. CEMETERY IS ON LEFT OF ROAD.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 19 APR, 1993

 

Cemetery: ELK HORN

Description:

APPROXIMATELY FIVE NAMED PERSONS ARE BURIED HERE BUT NO MARKERS FOR THEM. INFORMATION TOLD TO ME BY CARL SPONAUGLE. SOME STONES ARE LYING DOWN. 2 ARE DAMAGED OR BROKEN. 14 GRAVES ARE MARKED BY CREEK ROCK.

Condition:

POOR ABANDONDED PARTIALLY FENCED

Directions:

IN BEVERLY, TURN ONTO FILES CREEK ROAD. GO 2.7 MILES. TURN LEFT AT BRIDGE. GO 2.4 MILE. CEMETERY IS BESIDE ROAD ON LEFT SIDE.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 3-Apr-94

 

Cemetery: ELKINS MEMORIAL GARDENS (IOOF)

Description:

Condition:

Directions:

FROM ELKINS, TAKE A LEFT TURN OFF THE 5 LANE ONTO THE AIRPORT ROAD. GO ABOUT 1 MILE AND CEMETERY IS ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD.

Inventoried by: Date:

 

Cemetery: ELZA

Description:

APPROXIMATELY 12 UNMARKED GRAVES.

Condition:

Directions:

2 MILES WEST OF WHITMER ON A PRIVATE ROAD. MAKE A RIGHT AND FOLLOW ROAD TILL IT ENDS AT THE 2ND RED GATE. FOLLOW DIRT ROAD TO CEMETERY/

Inventoried by: KATIE & JEFF TETER BARBARA & RONALD HEDRICK Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: ELZA

Description:

Condition:

POOR UNKEPT UNFENCED

Directions:

2 MILES WEST OF WHITMER ON A PRIVATE ROAD.

Inventoried by: BARBARA & RONALD HEDRICK Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: FINCHAM CHAPEL

Description:

STONES WERE UPRIGHT AND 13 GRAVES WERE MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK.

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT AND FENCED

Directions:

FROM MILL CREEK, TAKE HELVETIA ROAD FOR 5.9 MILES. CEMETERY IS ON LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: Sep-94

 

Cemetery: FINDLEY

Description:

3 CREEK ROCK

Condition:

Directions:

HARMAN AREA, CO RT. 18/1. CEMETERY IS ON PROPERTY OWNED BY RHOADES FAMILY ON FINDLEY RUN.

Inventoried by: KARON KING Date: 25 AUG, 1992

 

Cemetery: FINDLEY

Description:

HEADSTONES WERE UPRIGHT. 3 CREEK ROCK AND 1 UNMARKED GRAVE.

Condition:

GOOD KEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM ELKINS, TAKE ROUTE 33 WEST TO BUCKHANNON TURN OFF. GO 1.5 MILE TO THE TOP OF NORTON HILL. TURN RIGHT ONTO FINDLEY ROAD. GO 1.5 MILE. CEMETERY IS ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF ROAD IN A PASTURE FIELD.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 3-Apr-94

 

Cemetery: FOLKS

Description:

STONES ARE UPRIGHT 9 GRAVES ARE MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK

Condition:

GOOD KEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM VALLEY HEAD, TAKE RT 15 WEST 3.8 MILES. TURN LEFT ON VALLEY FORK RD. GO 3.8 MILE. TURN LEFT ON DRY BRANCH RD. GO 6 TENTHS MILE. WALK NEWLY BUILT ROAD ON LEFT SIDE OF ROAD ABOUT HALF A MILE TO THE CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 18-Apr-94

 

Cemetery: FOLKS

Description:

CEMETERY CONSISTS OF 1 GRAVE.

Condition:

Directions:

FROM VALLEY HEAD, TAKE RT 15 WEST 3.8 MILE. TURN LEFT ON VALLEY FORK RD. GO 5 TENTHS OF A MILE. TURN LEFT ON DIRT RD. GO 1.5 MILE TO TOP OF HILL. WALK LEFT THRU OPEN FIELDS THEN THRU WOODS ABOUT 150 FEET TO MARKER.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 18-Apr-94

 

Cemetery: GEORGE CAPLINGER #1

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT, 2 LYING DOWN, 7 CREEK ROCK, 4 UNMARKED GRAVES

Condition:

FAIR, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

IN BEVERLY TURN ONTO GEORGETOWN RD. & GO 8/10 MILE TO 1ST INTERSECTION AND KEEP RIGHT. GO 4/10 MILE TO 2ND INTERSECTION & KEEP RIGHT ON GEORGETOWN RD. GO 1 7/8 MILE TO HOKE CAPLINGER FARM. CEMETERY IS ON TOP OF HILL BEHIND HOPE CAPLINGER HOME.

Inventoried by: PHYLLIS E. DANIELS Date: 9/8/92

 

Cemetery: GEORGE HILL

Description:

1 HEADSTONE, 2 UNMARKED GRAVES. STONE WAS LOCATED IN OUTBUILDING ON PROPERTY.

Condition:

ABANDONED, UNFENCED, OBLITERATED

Directions:

ON "SCOTT HILL". FORMER MILDRED SCOTT PROPERTY, ON KNOLL ABOUT 500 FEET DUE NORTH OF AND ACROSS ROAD FROM JENNINGS RANDOLPH ELEMENTARY.

Inventoried by: DAVID ARMSTRONG Date: 6/6/92

 

Cemetery: GEORGE W. STALNAKER

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT, 1 UNMARKED GRAVE, CAN ASSUME THE UNMARKED GRAVE IS HIS WIFES.'

Condition:

POOR, ABANDONED

Directions:

3 MILE SOUTH OF ELKINS ON RT. 219/250 ON WEST SIDE OF ROAD ACROSS FROM BATES FURNITURE & CARPET. LAND OWNED AT ONE TIME BY SAM HARPER, NOW OWNED BY CARL UNDERWOOD.

Inventoried by: PHYLLIS E. DANIELS Date: 24 SEP, 1992

 

Cemetery: GILMAN

Description:

STONES WERE UPRIGHT WITH 4 BROKEN OR DAMAGED. 3 GRAVES WERE MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK AND APPROXIMATELY 20 WERE UNMARKED.

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT AND FENCED

Directions:

FROM ELKINS, TAKE US RT 219 NORTH FOR 3 MILES. CEMETERY IS ON LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: Aug-94

 

Cemetery: GLADY

Description:

STONES WERE UPRIGHT AND 12 GRAVES WERE MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK. THERE WERE APPROXIMATELY 34 UNMARKED GRAVES AND 1 WITH AN UNREADABLE INSCRIPTION.

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT AND FENCED.

Directions:

FROM ELKINS, FOLLOW RT 33 EAST TO ALPENA. TURN RIGHT AND FOLLOW ROAD INTO GLADY. AT THE INTER- SECTION GO STRAIGHT AHEAD FOR 7 TENTHS OF A MILE TO THE CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: Apr-95

 

Cemetery: GLADY ROAD

Description:

ONLY ONE GRAVE.

Condition:

Directions:

GO UP GLADY ROAD 1 MILE. AROUND A SHARP TURN ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD UP ON A BANK. IT HAS RED FLOWERS ON IT AND YOU CAN SEE IT FROM THE ROAD.

Inventoried by: MELISSA ELLEN WARNER Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: GREENWOOD-VALLEY BEND

Description:

Condition:

EXCELLENT KEPT FENCED

Directions:

GO TO EAST DAILEY. CEMETERY IS LOCATED ON THE HILL BACK OF THE VALLEY BEND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

Inventoried by: VIOLET MCELWEE Date: Oct-93

 

Cemetery: HAMILTON

Description:

A MEMORIAL MARKER INSCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: NOAH HADDENS INDIAN FORT WAS BUILT HERE IN 1752. THE CEMETERY IS ENCIRCLED BY ARTILLERY BREST WORKS. A PART OF CAMP ELKWATER, UNION ARMY 1861-62. THE BURIAL SITE OF BOSTON STALNAKER AND SIX GENERATIONS. ERECTED BY A

Condition:

GOOD KEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM HUTTONSVILLE TAKE U S ROUTE 219 S FOR 6.4 MILES. TURN RIGHT ON KUMBRABOW FOREST ROAD. GO 8 TENTHS OF A MILE AND TURN RIGHT ON A NARROW DIRT ROAD TO THE CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: GARY G. HANNAH Date: 1993

 

Cemetery: HAMRICK

Description:

DID NOT SEE ANY UNMARKED GRAVES. NONE MARKED WITH FIELDSTONE.

Condition:

CEMETERY IS FENCED AND KEPT.

Directions:

FROM VALLEY HEAD, TAKE RT 15 WEST 3.8 MILE. TURN LEFT ON VALLEY FORK RD. GO 6.9 MILE. CEMETERY IS ON LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD. CEMETERY IS LOCATED AT SAMP, WV JUST ACROSS THE WEBSTER COUNTY LINE.

Inventoried by: MARVIN HILL GARY HANNAH Date: 1-Apr-94

 

Cemetery: HAMRICK

Description:

HEADSTONES ARE UPRIGHT 2 CREEK ROCK

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM VALLEY HEAD, TAKE RT 15 WEST 3.8 MILE. TURN LEFT ON VALLEY FORK RD. GO 7.8 MILE. CEMETERY IS ON RIGHT SIDE BESIDE THE ROAD.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 18-Apr-94

 

Cemetery: HARMAN

Description:

Condition:

Directions:

1 MILE EAST OF HARMAN ON U S 33. 500 YARDS SOUTH OF HIGHWAY.

Inventoried by: VERA LEWIS & STUDENTS Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: HARMAN

Description:

ALSO KNOWN AS CLAY HARMAN CEMETERY

Condition:

POOR UNKEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM HARMAN GO 1/4 MILE ON RT. 33. TURN OFF ON BLIZARD GATE ROAD. DRIVE TO END OF ROAD, CROSS THE RIVER, TAKE OLD LOG ROAD. CEMETERY IS IN THE BRUSH ON HARVEY VANCES PROPERTY.'

Inventoried by: JEREMY VANCE Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: HARPER-HARMAN

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

TURN LEFT AT OLD DRYFORK SCHOOL. CROSS BLUE BRIDGE, FOLLOW ROAD TO 1ST METAL GATE ON RIGHT. WALK UP ROAD, CEMETERY IS ON RIGHT IN THE WOODS.

Inventoried by: TIM TURNER Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: HAZELWOOD

Description:

STONES WERE UPRIGHT AND APPROXIMATELY 37 GRAVES WERE UNMARKED. SOME INFORMATION WAS TAKEN FROM KATHERINE FRAMES BOOK "HARTS OF RANDOLPH CO,"'

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT AND FENCED

Directions:

FROM ELKINS, GO SOUTH ON RT 219 FOR 4.3 MILES. CEMETERY IS ON LEFT SIDE OF ROAD IN THE MEADOW NEXT TO THE WOODS.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: Sep-94

 

Cemetery: HELMICK

Description:

1 STONE WAS LYING DOWN AND 26 GRAVES WERE MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK.

Condition:

POOR, ABANDONED AND UNFENCED

Directions:

IN MILL CREEK, TURN ONTO THE HELVETIA ROAD AND GO 1.3 MILE. CEMETERY IS ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: Mar-95

 

Cemetery: HELVETIA

Description:

STONES WERE UPRIGHT AND 1 GRAVE WAS MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK. APPROXIMATELY 4 GRAVES WERE UNMARKED.

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT AND UNFENCED

Directions:

FROM MILL CREEK, TURN ONTO HELVETIA ROAD AND GO 20 MILES. IN HELVETIA, TURN LEFT ONTO PICKENS ROAD AND CROSS THE BRIDGE. TURN RIGHT ON A DIRT ROAD AND GO 4 TENTHS OF A MILE TO THE CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: Nov-94

 

Cemetery: HERTIG

Description:

Condition:

FAIR UNKEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM HARMAN TAKE U S 33 TO ALPINE LODGE. MAKE A RIGHT TURN AND GO 1 MILE TO A PINE THICKET. WALK THROUGH PINE PATCH ON RIGHT SIDE OF ROAD FOR APPPROXIMATELY 1/2 MILE.

Inventoried by: CLINT KETTERMAN Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: HEVENER

Description:

STONES ARE UPRIGHT 10 GRAVES ARE MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK

Condition:

GOOD KEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM VALLEY HEAD, TAKE RT 15 WEST 4.5 MILE. TURN RIGHT AND GO 4 TENTHS OF A MILE TO CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 18-Apr-94

 

Cemetery: HIGH MOUNTAIN

Description:

Condition:

Directions:

1 grave on High Mountain Road

Inventoried by: VERA LEWIS & STUDENTS Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: HIGHT

Description:

STONES ARE UPRIGHT

Condition:

FAIR KEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM VALLEY HEAD TAKE RT 15 WEST 3.8 MILE. TURN LEFT ON VALLEY FORK ROAD. GO 3 MILE. CEMETERY IS ON LEFT SIDE OF ROAD ON SIDE OF HILL BEHIND HOUSE.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 23-May-94

 

Cemetery: HILL

Description:

HEADSTONES ARE UPRIGHT. APPROXIMATELY 6 GRAVES MARKED WITH ROCKS. THERE ARE FOUR PERSONS ALSO BURIED HERE BUT THERE IS NO MARKERS FOR THEM. INFORMATION TOLD TO ME BY CARL SPONAUGLE.

Condition:

GOOD KEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM ELKINS, GO SOUTH ON US 219 ON THE 4 LANE 3.6 MILE. TURN LEFT ON KINGS RUN ROAD. GO 9 TENTHS OF A MILE. TURN LEFT ON A DIRT ROAD, GO 1.9 MILE TO INTERSECTION. GO STRAIGHT AHEAD 6 TENTHS MILE. CEMETERY IS ON LEFT SIDE OF ROAD IN FIELD.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 3-Apr-94

 

Cemetery: HILL TOP

Description:

STONES UPRIGHT, UNABLE TO DETERMINE NUMBER OF UNMARKED GRAVES.

Condition:

POOR ABANDONED UNFENCED

Directions:

FROM ELKINS, TAKE US 219 SOUTH 3.4 MILES TO KINGS RUN ROAD. TURN LEFT AND GO 1.3 MILES CEMETERY IS ON LEFT SIDE OF ROAD ON TOP OF A SMALL KNOLL.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 19-Feb-94

 

Cemetery: HOWELL

Description:

Condition:

Directions:

LOCATED 1 MILE FROM BEAVER CREEK ENTRANCE

Inventoried by: VERA LEWIS Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: HUFFMAN

Description:

Condition:

Directions:

FROM HARMAN, TAKE ROUTE U S 33 EAST. TURN ON COOPER RD. GO TO END OF ROAD TO A GATE, GO THROUGH GATE AND GO TO YOUR RIGHT TO CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: ANDREW FLOYD & BOBBY JUDY Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: ISNER

Description:

ONLY 1 GRAVE

Condition:

Directions:

RT 33 EAST OUT OF ELKINS. APPROX. 4 MILES TURN LEFT ON OLD RT. 33. FOLLOW THIS ROAD TO STUARTS PARK. GRAVE IS LOCATED IN THE PARK BESIDE THE GRAVEL PARK RANGER ROAD ON THE LEFT DOWN FROM THE BIG PAVILLION.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 29 JUL, 1993

 

Cemetery: ISNER

Description:

THIS CEMETERY CONSISTS OF ONE MARKER ERECTED BY J. RECTOR AND RANAH ISNER BRITTON. MICHAEL M ISNER IMMIGRANT SEPT 26, 1753. FIRST ISNER IN THIS AREA. REVOLUTIONARY WAR PATRIOT

Condition:

KEPT UNFENCED

Directions:

FROM ELKINS TAKE U S ROUTE 219 S FOR 1.1 MILE. MARKER IS ON THE LEFT SIDE OF ROAD.

Inventoried by: GARY G. HANNAH Date: 1993

 

Cemetery: ISRAEL CHURCH

Description:

STONES WERE UPRIGHT, 3 STONES WERE BROKEN AND 5 STONES WERE LYING DOWN. APPROXIMATELY 89 GRAVES WERE UNMARKED AND 46 WERE MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK.

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT AND FENCED.

Directions:

FROM ELKINS, TAKE US RT 219 NORTH FOR 7.7 MILES. TURN LEFT AND GO 5 TENTHS OF A MILE. CEMETERY IS ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH & GENEVA JACOBS Date: Oct-94

 

Cemetery: JACOB C. HARPER

Description:

Condition:

Directions:

2 1/2 MILES EAST ON U S ROUTE 33. MAKE A LEFT TURN AT RAINES PARK, GO 1 1/2 MILES. THERE IS A CEMETERY SIGN ON ROUTE 33.

Inventoried by: VERA LEWIS & STUDENTS Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: JACOB STALNAKER

Description:

STONE ERECTED IN MEMORY OF JACOB & ELIZABETH (TRUBY) STALNAKER. NO DATES.

Condition:

FAIR, KEPT, FENCED, MOST HEADSTONES UPRIGHT, ONE LYING DOWN, EIGHT MADE OF CREEK ROCK, ONE UNREADABLE, FIFTEEN GRAVES UNMARKED.

Directions:

TWO MILES SOUTH OF BEVERLY ON US RT. 250, TURN LEFT ON TO BACK ROAD ACROSS FROM BRUCE FLOORINGS SOUTH ENTRANCE. CEMETERYIS ON LEFT AT TOP OF HILL ABOUT 100 YARDS FROM RT. 250.'

Inventoried by: PHYLLIS ELAINE DANIELS Date: 22-Jul-92

 

Cemetery: JENKS

Description:

THIS CEMETERY HAS BECOME A PART OF THE FOREST. TREES HAVE GROWN UP THROUGH THE ROCKS THAT MARK THE GRAVES. THE INFORMATION IS FROM THE HEADSTONES, RELATIVES, AND PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE.

Condition:

POOR ABANDONED UNKEPT

Directions:

U S ROUTE 219 S TO MINGO. 1 MILE NORTH ON MINGO ROAD THEN 1 MILE WEST ON HOLLY BUSH ROAD. CEMETERY IS ON THE RIGHT IN A PATCH OF WOODS AT THE CORNER OF A FIELD.

Inventoried by: PHYLLIS E. DANIELS Date: 1993

 

Cemetery: JERUSALEM

Description:

Condition:

EXCELLENT KEPT UNFENCED

Directions:

FROM MILL CREEK, TAKE THE ADOLPH ROAD. GO TO THE JERUSALEM CHURCH ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD. CEMETERY IS LOCATED ON HILLSIDE .

Inventoried by: GENEVA JACOBS & VIOLET MCELWEE Date: Oct-93

 

Cemetery: JOHNSON

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT, ALL ARE MARKED

Condition:

KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

BELOW HARMAN, TURN ON ROAD TO MOUNTAIN FAIR. CROSS BRIDGE TURN TO RIGHT, FOLLOW ROAD. CEMETERY IS ON RIGHT. (PAVE ROAD TURNS TO DIRT)

Inventoried by: TIM TURNER Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: JUDY

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

RT. 32 OUT OF HARMAN, TURN RIGHT BELOW OLD MILL. SIGN ON THE RIGHT DIRECTS TO THE CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: TIM TURNER Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: KELLY

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT, 67 HEADSTONES, 42 CREEK ROCK, 3 METAL MARKERS

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

ABOUT 3 MILES EAST OF ELKINS AT TOP OF CHEAT MT, TURN RIGHT FROM RT 33 ONTO COUNTY 25, KELLY MT RD. GO ABOUT 1 MILE; CEMETERY IS EAST OF ROAD ABOUT 500 FEET UP INTO THE WOODS.

Inventoried by: DAVID ARMSTRONG SHERRY ARMSTRONG Date: 6/6/92

 

Cemetery: KERNS AT SULLY

Description:

STONES UPRIGHT APPROXIMATELY 3 UNMARKED GRAVES

Condition:

FAIR KEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM HARMAN TAKE U S 33 TO ALPENA, MAKE A RIGHT TURN AND GO APPROXIMATELY 9 MILES TO WHERE THE ROAD FORKS. TURN RIGHT AND GO UP A DIRT ROAD TO CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: STEVE THOMPSON Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: KISAMORE

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

RT. 32 OUT OF HARMAN, TURN RIGHT BELOW OLD MILL. SIGN ON METAL GATE DIRECTS TO CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: TIM TURNER Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: KISAMORE

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT 1 UNMARKED GRAVE

Condition:

EXCELLENT KEPT FENCED

Directions:

JUST OUTSIDE OF WHITMER. ACROSS THE ROAD FROM THE OLD SCHOOL ON THE HILL. HOBERT HEDRICK PROPERTY.

Inventoried by: JOHN ARMENTROUT RONDA & TRECIE COLEMAN Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: KYLE

Description:

ONLY 1 GRAVE DELLA G. KYLE

Condition:

Directions:

LOCATED HEAD OF LAUREL FORK

Inventoried by: VERA LEWIS & STUDENTS Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: LAMBERT

Description:

STONES ARE UPRIGHT AND 1 GRAVE MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK. CAN DETERMINE 1 GRAVE IS UNMARKED.

Condition:

EXCELLENT KEPT & FENCED

Directions:

FROM ELKINS, TAKE RT 33 FOR 22 MILES TO MIDDLE MOUNTAIN RD. TURN RIGHT, GO 3 OR 4 MILES. TAKE 2ND ROAD ON LEFT. TURN ON ERNEST LAMBERTS RD. GO TO LEFT. CEMETERY IS ON A HILL.'

Inventoried by: JAMIE MULLENNEX Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: LAUREL HILL

Description:

Condition:

Directions:

FROM JOB GO TO WHITMER, CROSS BRIDGE AND TAKE A LEFT ABOUT 4 MILES UP THE ROAD, GO TO THE FIRE DEPT. AND TAKE ANOTHER LEFT, GO ON THAT ROAD,TAKE ANOTHER LEFT, STAY ON THAT ROAD TO CEMETERY.'

Inventoried by: JACKIE & MIKE MULLENAX Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: LITTLE ARLINGTON

Description:

STONES WERE UPRIGHT AND APPROXIMATELY 27 GRAVES ARE UNMARKED.

Condition:

GOOD KEPT UNFENCED

Directions:

IN ELKINS, TURN AT IRON HORSE, GO PAST COLLEGE 2 MILES TO CRAVENSDALE. TURN LEFT AT END OF BRIDGE ONTO HARD ROAD WHICH LEADS TO CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: GARY G. HANNAH Date: 1993

 

Cemetery: LONG

Description:

18 HEADSTONES. 15 UPRIGHT, 2 LYING DOWN, 1 BROKEN. 3 CREEK ROCK, 1 UNREADABLE INSCRIPTION, APPROX. 35 UNMARKED GRAVES. ESTABLISHED 1842.

Condition:

POOR, ABANDONED, UNFENCED

Directions:

FROM BEVERLY, GO SOUTH ON US RT 219 FOR 2 MILES. TURN LEFT ON COUNTY RD AT TYGART RIVER BRIDGE. GO 2.8 MILES. TURN LEFT ON DIRT ROAD, GO 100 FEET, BEAR LEFT ON DIRT ROAD, UP TO TOP OF HILL. CEMETERY IS ON LEFT SIDE OF ROAD.

Inventoried by: CAROLYN CORLEY CHANNELL MADELINE CRICKARD Date: 16 NOV, 1992

 

Cemetery: LOUK

Description:

ONLY ONE MARKER IN CEMETERY.

Condition:

Directions:

IN MILL CREEK, TAKE ROAD ACROSS FROM GEORGE WARD SCHOOL AND GO 3 TENTHS OF A MILE. TURN LEFT ON CHANNELL ROAD AND GO ONE MILE. CEMETERY IS ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: Mar-95

 

Cemetery: LOWER ROWAN

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT, 61 IN NUMBER, 25 CREEK ROCK, 2 UNREADABLE INSCRIPTIONS.

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

ON ROAD TO CASSITY, OUT OF MABIE, GO PAST ROWAN CEMETERY, PAST BIG CURVE, AFTER THE CURVE GO DOWN FIRST DIRT ROAD ON RIGHT (NOT COUNTING DRIVEWAYS) BESIDE JERRY HELMICK RESIDENCE. GO ABOUT 1« MILES. CUT OFF ON 2ND DIRT ROAD TO RIGHT. THERE IS A SIGN ON TR

Inventoried by: LORI ANN PINGLEY PHILLIPS LOVADA IRENE HARLAN PINGLEY MINNIE JANE ROWAN BOSERMAN Date: 01 JUL, 1992

 

Cemetery: LURANCE

Description:

Condition:

Directions:

FROM HARMAN TAKE RT. 32 TOWARDS CANAAN VALLEY. GO PAST THE OLD MILL. TAKE 1ST RIGHT. GO TO END OF ROAD TO CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: JEREMY REXRODE Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: MARPLE

Description:

HEADSTONES MOSTLY UPRIGHT, SOME LYING DOWN, 35 CREEK ROCK, SOME UNMARKED GRAVES

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

VALLEY HEAD, WV, TURN EAST IN MIDDLE OF VALLEY HEAD UP WINDY RUN. GO ABOUT 4 MILES TO CHANNELL RIDGE.

Inventoried by: CAROLYN CORLEY CHANNELL Date: 27 SEP, 1992

 

Cemetery: MARTIN

Description:

STONES WERE UPRIGHT.

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT AND UNFENCED.

Directions:

IN MILL CREEK, TAKE BACK ROAD TOWARD VALLEY BEND. GO ABOUT 1 MILE AND TURN RIGHT ON DRY RUN ROAD. GO 1.6 MILES AND CEMETERY IS ON LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: Dec-94

 

Cemetery: MATILDA WARE ARBOGAST FAMILY

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT, SOME TILTED OVER

Condition:

NEEDS ATTENTION, FAIR, FENCED

Directions:

FROM VALLEY HEAD GO SOUTH ON US 219 2 MILES TO LOGAN RUN ROAD, TURN LEFT AND PROCEED TO THE WARES RIDGE CEMETERY. BEAR LEFT OF THE W.R.C. IT IS IN AN OPEN FIELD ENCLOSED WITH A WROUGHT IRON FENCE. THE PROPERTY BELONGS TO MAYNARD AND EDNA MAY WOOD.

Inventoried by: FRED L. WARE MARY D. WARE Date: 01 JUL, 1992

 

Cemetery: MICK

Description:

ONLY 10 GRAVES ARE MARKED. LAST BURIAL WAS IN 1993.

Condition:

GOOD AND KEPT

Directions:

FROM HARMAN, TAKE RT 32 TO PENNINGTON RD ON THE RIGHT. FOLLOW PENNINGTON RD APPROXIMATELY 3 MILES. CEMETERY IS ON LEFT SIDE OF ROAD ON A SMALL BANK.

Inventoried by: TIM TURNER Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: MILL CREEK

Description:

SEVERAL NAMES TAKEN FROM RUSSELL FUNERAL HOME AND WPA RECORDS. AT LEAST 70 INMARKED GRAVES. NUMEROUS AMOUNT OF CREEK ROCK.

Condition:

EXCELLENT KEPT FENCED

Directions:

LOCATED BEHIND GEORGE WARD SCHOOL IN MILL CREEK.

Inventoried by: GENEVA JACOBS & VIOLET MCELWEE Date: Oct-93

 

Cemetery: MINGO

Description:

UNABLE TO DETERMINE AMOUNT OF UNMARKED GRAVES. ALL HEADSTONES WERE UPRIGHT.

Condition:

EXCELLENT KEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM VALLEY HEAD TAKE U S ROUTE 219 S. TO MINGO. MAKE A RIGHT ON HOLLY BUSH ROAD. TAKE 1ST LEFT AND FOLLOW ROAD TO CEMETERY. 2 SIGNS MARK THE DIRECTIONS.

Inventoried by: MARK & LISA JONES Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: MONTONEY

Description:

Last Burial was in 1945.

Condition:

Directions:

2 1/2 Miles up Whites Run'

Inventoried by: VERA LEWIS & STUDENTS Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: MOUNT VERNON

Description:

PAUPERS FROM COUNTY FARM ARE BURIED HERE IN UNMARKED GRAVES.

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT, FENCED, HEADSTONES ARE UPRIGHT, SOME LYING DOWN, TWO HEADSTONES, FIVE MADE OF CREEK ROCK, ONE UNREADABLE, APPROX. FOURTY UNMARKED GRAVES.

Directions:

TAKE FILES CREEK IN BEVERLY. GO APPROX. 3 MILES. TURN RIGHT ON 4-H CAMP ROAD. GO 1/2 MILE. CEMETERY IS ON LEFT IN FIRST CURVE.

Inventoried by: PHYLLIS E. DANIELS Date: 19-Jul-92

 

Cemetery: MOUSE

Description:

1 GRAVE MARKED WITH CONFEDERATE FLAG. 1 STONE WITH DATES 1869-1939 WITH NO NAME. 2 GRAVES WITH STONE, MARKED GRANDMOTHER & BROTHER AND 1 GRAVE MARKED WITH FUNERAL MARKER.

Condition:

GOOD KEPT UNFENCEDd

Directions:

FROM IRON HORST IN ELKINS, GO PAST D&E COLLEGE 2 MILES TO CRAVENSDALE. TURN LEFT, FOLLOW HARDTOP ROAD TO CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 1993

 

Cemetery: MT STATE MEMORIAL GARDENS

Description:

ALL STONES ARE GROUND LEVEL AND APPROXIMATELY 31 GRAVES ARE UNMARKED.

Condition:

EXCELLENT, KEPT AND UNFENCED.

Directions:

FROM ELKINS, TAKE US RT 219 NORTH FOR 4.1 MILE. CEMETERY IS ON LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: May-95

 

Cemetery: MT. ZION

Description:

STONES ARE UPRIGHT 21 GRAVES ARE MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK. APPROX 4 GRAVES ARE UNMARKED.

Condition:

GOOD KEPT FENCED

Directions:

IN ELKINS AT IRON HORSE INTERSECTION. GO THRU CRAVENSDALE 4.4 MILE TO AN INTERSECTION. TAKE DIRT RD 1.1 MILE AND PARK AT MT ZION CHURCH. CROSS ROAD AND WALK QUARTER OF A MILE DOWN PASTURE LANE TO CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 9-Apr-94

 

Cemetery: NELSON

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

FOLLOW ROUTE 32 THROUGH DRY FORK. ON THE LEFT JUST BEFORE TUCKER COUNTY LINE NEAR A CAR GARAGE. CEMETERY IS BESIDE IT ON OTHER SIDE OF FENCE.

Inventoried by: TIM TURNER Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: NELSON

Description:

92 OR MORE UNMARKED GRAVES ACCORDING TO WPA RECORDS

Condition:

EXCELLENT KEPT FENCED

Directions:

3 MILES WEST OF WHITMER ON PRIVATE PROPERTY IN THE MOUNTAINS. HOBERT HEDRICKS PROPERTY.'

Inventoried by: RONALD & DAWN HEDRICK Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: PARK

Description:

HEADSTONES MOSTLY UPRIGHT, SOME LAYING DOWN, 14 CREEK ROCK, 1 UNREADABLE, 35 UNMARKED GRAVES.

Condition:

FAIR, KEPT, FENCED, PROBABLY CLEANED ONCE A YEAR

Directions:

IN BEVERLY TURN ONTO FILES CREEK RD. PROCEED ABOUKT 2« MILES TO KINGS RUN ROAD. TURN LEFT ON KINGS RUN RD. AND GO 7/10TH MILE TO ROGER FUSSELLS DRIVEWAY. CEMETERY IS BEHIND MR. FUSSELLS BARN. (CEM. IS ON RIGHT SIDE OF KINGS RUN ROAD.)

Inventoried by: PHYLLIS E. DANIELS Date: 10/7/92

 

Cemetery: PENNINGTON

Description:

Condition:

Directions:

2 1/2 MILES EAST OF HARMAN ON WV 32. THEN 1/3 MILE EAST OF HIGHWAY.

Inventoried by: TIM TURNER Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: PHILLIPS

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT, 263 HEADSTONES, 24 CREEK ROCK, SOME HAVE METAL FUNERAL MARKERS WITH NAMES & NO DATES ON THEM.

Condition:

EXCELLENT, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

WEST FROM ELKINS ON RT. 33 TO JIMTOWN. GO PAST DAIRYKING AND TAKE FIRST ROAD TO RIGHT. THER IS A SIGN AT THE END OF THE ROAD THAT SAYS PHILLIPS CHAPEL. THE CEMETERY IS RIGHT BY THE CHURCH.

Inventoried by: LORI PINGLEY PHILLIPS LOVADA HARLAN PINGLEY Date: 7/22/92

 

Cemetery: PRIMITIVE BAPTIST

Description:

ALL STONES WERE UPRIGHT COULD NOT DETERMINE THE NUMBER OF UNMARKED GRAVES SEVERAL MARKED WITH ROCKS AND SEVERAL ROCKS HAVE BEEN REMOVED.

Condition:

EXCELLENT KEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM ELKINS TAKE US 219 N TO MONTROSE. MAKE A LEFT AND FOLLOW THIS ROAD TO THE PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH. THE CEMETERY IS LOCATED BEHIND THE CHURCH.

Inventoried by: SYLVIA CHASE & DAISY MARTIN Date: Jul-94

 

Cemetery: PRITT

Description:

ONLY 1 GRAVE HAD A MARKER AND APPROXIMATELY 2 UNMARKED GRAVES.

Condition:

POOR, ABANDONDED AND UNFENCED.

Directions:

FROM MILL CREEK, TAKE BACK ROAD TOWARD VALLEY BEND FOR ABOUT 1 MILE. TURN RIGHT ON DRY RUN ROAD AND GO 1.2 MILES. CEMETERY IS ABOUT 25 FEET ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: Dec-94

 

Cemetery: PRITT-PHARES

Description:

11 NAMES WERE TAKEN FROM WPA RECORDS. SOME STONES ARE UPRIGHT, SOME LYING DOWN, AND SOME ARE DAMAGED AND BROKEN. UNABLE TO DETERMINE NUMBER OF UNMARKED GRAVES.

Condition:

FAIR KEPT UNFENCED

Directions:

FROM DAILEY GO TO VALLEY BEND AND TAKE OAK ROAD TO THE LEFT. GO TO END OF THAT ROAD AND CEMETERY IS IN THE MEADOW TO THE LEFT. CAN BE SEEN FROM THE ROAD.

Inventoried by: GENEVA JACOBS & VIOLET MCELWEE Date: Oct-93

 

Cemetery: RAINES

Description:

Condition:

Directions:

2 MILES FROM HARMAN ON ROUTE U S 33 E. TURN LEFT AT RAINES PARK. ON A HILL ABOVE DEAN COOPERS HOUSE.'

Inventoried by: MELISSA KERNS Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: RIGGLEMAN

Description:

THESE GRAVES WERE PART OF A MUCH BIGGER CEMETERY. THE FIELD STONES WERE TAKEN UP FROM THE REST OF THE CEMETERY AND PLANTED IN CORN. THESE GRAVES WERE SAVED BECAUSE A FENCE WAS PLACED AROUND THEM.

Condition:

POOR, ABANDONED, PARTIALLY FENCED. GRAVES MARKED WITH ROCKS

Directions:

FROM VALLEY HEAD TAKE RT 15 WEST 3.8 MILE. TURN LEFT ON VALLEY FORK RD. GO 6 TENTHS MILE. CEMETERY IS ON LEFT SIDE OF ROAD ON TOP OF THE HILL IN THE WOODS.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 18-Apr-94

 

Cemetery: RIGGLEMAN

Description:

Condition:

GOOD KEPT UNFENCED

Directions:

FROM VALLEY HEAD, TAKE RT 15 WEST 3.8 MILE. TURN LEFT ON VALLEY FORK RD. GO 1.2 MILE. CEMETERY IS ON LEFT SIDE OF ROAD ON TOP OF THE HILL.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 18-Apr-94

 

Cemetery: RIGGLEMAN

Description:

STONES ARE UPRIGHT 4 GRAVES MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK APPROXIMATELY 4 UNMARKED GRAVES.

Condition:

GOOD KEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM VALLEY HEAD, TAKE RT 15 WEST 5 MILES. TURN LEFT AND GO 7 TENTHS OF A MILE. PARK VEHICLE AT LOCKED GATE. WALK 3 TENTHS OF A MILE THROUGH PASTURE FIELD TO CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 18-Apr-94

 

Cemetery: RIGGLEMAN

Description:

STONES ARE UPRIGHT 1 GRAVE MARKED WITH ROCK.

Condition:

GOOD KEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM VALLEY HEAD, TAKE RT 15 WEST 3.8 MILE. TURN LEFT ON VALLEY FORK RD. GO 1.6 MILE. TAKE DIRT ROAD UP THE HILL TO SALISBURY RESIDENCE. FROM THERE, GO LEFT UP HILL ABOUT QUARTER OF MILE TO CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 23-May-94

 

Cemetery: ROACH

Description:

ONLY 1 GRAVE IN CEMETERY.

Condition:

Directions:

GO TO GLADY. AT THE INTERSECTION TURN LEFT AND GO 1 MILE. GRAVE IS ON LEFT SIDE OF ROAD IN A FIELD UNDER A TREE.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: May-95

 

Cemetery: ROSENCRANCE

Description:

STONES WERE UPRIGHT COULDNT FIND ANY ROCKS OR UNMARKED GRAVES BECAUSE OF BRUSH & WEEDS.'

Condition:

POOR UNKEPT AND UNFENCED

Directions:

FROM HUTTONSVILLE, GO SOUTH ON RT 219 FOR 2.5 MILE. TURN LEFT ON BECKYS CREEK ROAD. CROSS BRIDGE, TURN RIGHT AND GO 5 MILE. TURN LEFT ON DIRT ROAD. GO ONE TENTH MILE. TURN LEFT AND GO ABOUT 1000 FT TO TOP OF HILL CEMETERY IS ON LEFT SIDE OF ROAD.'

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 1-Aug-94

 

Cemetery: ROWAN

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT, 166 IN NUMBER, 2 CREEK ROCK

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

FROM MABIE, WV GO TOWARDS CASSIDY, PAST BRIDGE & ROWAN CHURCH, PAST TWO DRIVEWAYS, THEN GO UP FIRST DIRT ROAD ON LEFT AFTER DRIVEWAYS. THE CEMETERY SITS ON TOP OF THE HILL.

Inventoried by: LORI ANN PINGLEY PHILLIPS LOVADA IRENE HARLAN PINGLEY MINNIE JANE ROWAN BOSERMAN Date: 30 JUN, 1992

 

Cemetery: ROY

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT, SOME LYING DOWN, SOME CREEK ROCK, SOME WITH UNREADABLE INSCRIPTIONS, SOME UNMARKED GRAVES

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

TURN RIGHT AT DRYFORK CHURCH. TURN ON SECOND DIRT ROAD. CEMETERY IS ON THE RIGHT.

Inventoried by: TIM TURNER Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: ROY

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT, SOME LYING DOWN, SOME DAMAGED

Condition:

FAIR, UNKEPT, FENCED

Directions:

BELOW HARMAN TO MOUNTAIN ROAD. ON THE RIGHT THERE WILL BE A TRAILER, ABOVE THAT TAKE THE RIGHT HAND ROAD, AT FIRST WOODEN GATE, FOLLOW ROAD, CEM. IS ON THE RIGHT.

Inventoried by: TIM TURNER Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: ROY

Description:

SOME HEADSTONES, UPRIGHT, LYING DOWN, DAMAGED, CREEK ROCK, WITH UNREADABLE INSCRIPTIONS

Condition:

ABANDONED.

Directions:

BELOW HARMAN, CROSS BRIDGE TO HARMAN MOUNTAIN FARM. TAKE THE RIGHT FORK, BELOW 1ST ROAD ON THE LEFT IF A METAL GATE, PAK THERE AND WALK UP THE HOLLOW. THERE IS A CEDAR TREE VISABLE IN THE CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: TIM TURNER Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: SACHS-SACKS

Description:

STONES ARE UPRIGHT. 3 GRAVES MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK, AND 1 GRAVE IS UNMARKED.

Condition:

GOOD KEPT FENCED

Directions:

TAKE US 219 SOUTH FROM DAILEY 1 MILE. TURN RIGHT ON JONES RUN ROAD. GO 1 MILE. CEMETERY IS ON LEFT SIDE OF ROAD DOWN IN A FIELD.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH & GENEVA JACOBS Date: 16-Feb-94

 

Cemetery: SALLY MIKE YOKUM

Description:

CEMETERY WAS MOVED TO MAKE WAY FOR CONSTRUCTION OF SUPER 8 MOTEL. REMAINS BURIED IN A MASS GRAVE IN MAPLEWOOD. THE STONES WERE SCATTERED.

Condition:

Directions:

Inventoried by: DAVID ARMSTRONG BILL RICE Date: 6/6/92

 

Cemetery: SCHMIDLEN

Description:

Condition:

Directions:

Located 4 miles off Rt 33 then .3 mile. Must see Lawrence Schmidlen to get access. 636-8697

Inventoried by: CARRIE & BEVERLY OGDEN NATHAN KIMBLETON Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: SCHOONOVER

Description:

CEMETERY CONSISTS OF 2 GRAVES. BENJAMIN SCHOONOVERS WIFE IS BURIED HERE BUT THERE IS NO MARKER. VETERAN'S MEMORIAL MARKER HAS BEEN PLACED AT BENJAMIN'S GRAVE. ORIGINAL MARKER WAS CHISELED IN ROCK.'

Condition:

Directions:

IN ELKINS, AT THE IRON HORSE INTERSECTION. GO THRU CRAVENSDALE 4.4 MILE TO INTERSECTION. TAKE DIRT RD 1.1 MILE AND PARK AT MT ZION CHURCH. WALK UP BEHIND CHURCH TO GRAVESITE.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 9-Apr-94

 

Cemetery: SCOTT

Description:

77 HEADSTONES UPRIGHT, 3 LYING DOWN, 3 DAMAGED/BROKEN, ABOUT 230 UNMARKED GRAVES.

Condition:

FAIR, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

TURN OFF RT. 33 INTO NORTON, WV. TURN LEFT ONTO SCOTT ROAD. TURN ONTO THE SECOND DIRT ROAD ON RIGHT AFTER PASSING THE SKIDMORE ROAD. THIS DIRT ROAD TAKES YOU DIRECTLY TO THE SCOTT CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: CAROLYN F. BODKINS RANDY BODKINS Date: 07 JUN, 1992

 

Cemetery: SEE

Description:

STONES ALL UPRIGHT

Condition:

GOOD KEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM HUTTONSVILLE, TAKE U S 219 S FOR 8.7 MILES. TURN RIGHT AT DARRELL SEE HOUSE. WALK SOUTHWEST THROUGH A FIELD ACROSS A CREEK AND UP THE HILL TO THE CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: GARY G. HANNAH Date: 1993

 

Cemetery: SHIFLETT

Description:

STONES WERE UPRIGHT AND 37 GRAVES WERE MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK.

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT AND NEWLY FENCED.

Directions:

FROM MILL CREEK, TAKE HELVETIA ROAD FOR 7 TENTHS OF A MILE. TURN LEFT AND FOLLOW ROAD 3.2 MILES TO INTERSECTION. GO STRAIGHT AHEAD ANOTHER 8 TENTHS OF A MILE. CEMETERY IS ON RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: Nov-94

 

Cemetery: SIMMONS

Description:

HEADSTONES MOSTLY UPRIGHT, SOME LYING DOWN, 24 CREEK ROCK, SOME UNMARKED GRAVES.

Condition:

EXCELLENT, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

VALLEY HEAD. ABOUT 2 MILES FROM THE VALLEY HEAD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH.

Inventoried by: CAROLYN CORLEY CHANNELL Date: 27 SEP, 1992

 

Cemetery: SMITH

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

BELOW HARMAN, TURN LEFT TO MOUNTAIN FARM. FOLLOW ROAD PAST MOUNTIN FARM. AT RIGHT THERE IS A METAL GATE. CEM. IS ON RIGHT.

Inventoried by: TIM TURNER Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: SMITH

Description:

SOME STONES LYING DOWN. APPROXIMATELY 5 UNMARKED GRAVES

Condition:

FAIR KEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM HARMAN GO UP SNYDER ROAD TO MT FARM. (ARROWS WILL LEAD YOU THERE.) CEMETERY IS THROUGH THE GATE ON A HILL IN AN OPEN MEADOW. ASK JOE MININGER AT MT FARM.

Inventoried by: CANDICE JUDY Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: SMITH

Description:

6 HEADSTONES UPRIGHT.

Condition:

FAIR, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

TAKE RT. 32 OUT OF HARMAN TO STRINGTOWN. TURN LEFT ON RT. 72. KEEP LEFT TO JENNINGSTON BRIDGE. CROSS BRIDGE AND TAKE 1ST LEFT TO CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: STEVE THOMPSON D. J. THOMPSTON Date: 26 MAY, 1992

 

Cemetery: SMITH

Description:

CEMETERY CONSISTED OF ONE MARKER. MARKER HAS BEEN REMOVED IN LAST COUPLE OF YEARS.

Condition:

Directions:

GRAVE IS LOCATED BESIDE THE SEWAGE PLANT AT BEVERLY NEAR THE WIRE FENCE.

Inventoried by: GARY G. HANNAH Date: 1993

 

Cemetery: SNYDER

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

US RT. 33 WEST OF HARMAN, BELOW GAS STATION & CAMPGROUND, TURN LEFT ON 4TH ROAD, CROSS LOG BRIDGE & FOLLOW DIRT ROAD. ABOVE BIG WHITE HOUSE ON LEFT IS CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: TIM TURNER Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: SNYDER

Description:

STONES ARE UPRIGHT

Condition:

GOOD KEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM VALLEY HEAD, TAKE RT 15, WEST 3.4 MILE. TURN RIGHT AND GO 4.9 MILE. CEMETERY IS BY THE ROAD ON THE RIGHT SIDE.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 18-Apr-94

 

Cemetery: SNYDER

Description:

Condition:

POOR ABANDONED PARTIALLY FENCED

Directions:

FROM HUTTONSVILLE, GO SOUTH ON RT 219, 11.7 MILE. TURN LEFT ON CONLEY RUN RD. GO 1.3 MILE TO END OF HARD ROAD. GO STRAIGHT AHEAD ON DIRT ROAD ANOTHER 1.3 MILE TO AN IRON BAR GATE. WALK ABOUT 3/4 OF A MILE TO TOP OF HILL. AN OLD HOUSE IS ON THE LEFT. CEMET

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 23-May-94

 

Cemetery: SOLOMON WELTON DANIELS

Description:

CONTAINS ONLY 2 GRAVES.

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT, FENCED, HEADSTONES UPRIGHT.

Directions:

TAKE FILES CREEK ROAD IN BEVERLY. GO 2« MILES. LOCATED ON LEFT SIDE OF FILES CREEK ROAD ON A HILL BETWEEN KINGS RUN ROAD AND SUGAR CREEK ROAD.

Inventoried by: PHYLLIS E. DANIELS Date: 31-Aug-92

 

Cemetery: ST VINCENTS CATHOLIC'

Description:

HEADSTONES WERE UPRIGHT AND 12 GRAVES WERE MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK. THERE WERE APPROXIMATELY 37 UNMARKED GRAVES AND 2 UNREADABLE INSCRIPTIONS.

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT AND FENCED.

Directions:

FROM ELKINS, TAKE US RT 33 WEST ON THE FOUR LANE TO NORTON. TURN LEFT ON OLD RT 33 AND GO 5.4 MILES TO KINGSVILLE ROAD. MAKE A RIGHT TURN AND GO 3.7 MILES. CEMETERY IS BESIDE THE ROAD.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH & VIOLET MCELWEE Date: Jul-94

 

Cemetery: ST VINCENTS OF COALTON'

Description:

STONES WERE UPRIGHT AND THERE WERE SEVERAL UNMARKED GRAVES. THERE WERE 51 WHITE CROSS MARKERS, 1 STONE CROSS MARKER AND 1 FUNERAL HOME MARKER.

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT AND FENCED.

Directions:

IN COALTON, TURN LEFT AT THE SCHOOL HOUSE AND GO 1 TENTH OF A MILE. TURN RIGHT AND GO 3 TENTHS OF A MILE TO THE END OF THE HARD TOP ROAD. TURN LEFT ON DIRT ROAD WHICH GOES TO THE CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: Mar-95

 

Cemetery: ST. BRENDANS CATHOLIC'

Description:

SOME HEADSTONES LYING DOWN. APPROX 6 ARE DAMAGED OR BROKEN. UNREADABLE INSCRIPTIONS 6 AND APPROX 131 UNMARKED GRAVES. 4 FOOT MARKERS INITIALS N.T., D.A.C., N.A.C., C.L.C.

Condition:

POOR ABANDONED UNFENCED

Directions:

IN ELKINS, FROM THE IRON HORSE INTERSECTION. FOLLOW THE ROAD TOWARD HARPERTOWN 7 TENTHS MILE. CEMETERY IS ON RIGHT SIDE OF ROAD. FOLLOW AN OLD ABANDONED ROAD UP THE HILL TO THE CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 27-Mar-94

 

Cemetery: STALNAKER

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT, 8 HEADSTONES

Condition:

EXCELLENT, KEPT, UNFENCED

Directions:

ABOUT « MILE SOUTH OF ELKINS, EAST OF FIVE LANE HIGHWAY IN WOODS JUST NORTH OF ST. BRENDAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: DAVID ARMSTRONG Date: 6/6/92

 

Cemetery: STALNAKER

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT 6 CREEK ROCK UNMARKED GRAVES 1

Condition:

GOOD KEPT PARTIALLY FENCED

Directions:

FROM HUTTONSVILLE, TAKE U S ROUTE 219 S. GO 6 MILES TO OLD SCHOOL HOUSE (USED AS MARKLEY CHAPEL NOW). CEMETERY IS ON TOP OF BANK ON LEFT SIDE OF BUILDING.

Inventoried by: GARY G. HANNAH Date: 1993

 

Cemetery: STALNAKER

Description:

STONES ARE UPRIGHT. INFORMATION TOLD TO ME BY CARL SPONAUGLE.

Condition:

POOR ABANDONED FENCED

Directions:

FROM ELKINS, GO SOUTH ON US 219 ON 4 LANE 3.6 MILE. TURN LEFT ON KINGS RUN ROAD. GO 9 TENTHS MILE. TURN LEFT ON DIRT ROAD. GO 1.9 MILE TO INTERSECTION. GO STRAIGHT AHEAD 1.4 MILE. CEMETERY IS ON LEFT SIDE OF ROAD BEHIND A POND ON TOP OF A HILL.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 3-Apr-94

 

Cemetery: STALNAKER

Description:

STONES ARE UPRIGHT. 13 GRAVES ARE MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK.

Condition:

GOOD KEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM VALLEY HEAD, TAKE RT 15 WEST 5 MILES. TURN RIGHT AND GO 1.5 MILE. TURN RIGHT AGAIN AND GO 3 TENTHS OF A MILE TO THE CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 18-Apr-94

 

Cemetery: STALNAKER AT BEVERLY HILLS

Description:

HEADSTONES MOSTLY UPRIGHT, 2 LYING DOWN, 3 DAMAGED, 5 CREEK ROCK, ABOUT 20 UNMARKED.

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

FROM BEVERLY SOUTH ON RT. 219/250 GO ABOUT 1 MILE TO THE MOUNT VERNON ROAD TURN LEFT. GO TO 1ST ROAD ON RIGHT. GO UP HILL TO 1ST INTERSECTION, TURN RIGHT & GO TO END OF ROAD. CEM IS AT DEAD END.

Inventoried by: PHYLLIS E. DANIELS Date: 02 SEP, 1992

 

Cemetery: STUCKY

Description:

THIS CEMETERY CONSISTS OF ONE UPRIGHT MARKER. IT SHOWS C F STUCKY AND BELOW THE DEATH DATE IT READS, ALSO A SON HENRY.

Condition:

Directions:

FROM HELVETIA, GO 2 TENTHS OF A MILE TOWARD CZAR. MARKER IS ON RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: Sep-94

 

Cemetery: SUGAR GROVE

Description:

MOST HEADSTONES UPRIGHT, 13 CREEK ROCK

Condition:

FAIR, KEPT, FENCED, BRUSH IS CLEARED BUT NOT MOWED.

Directions:

FROM ELKINS GO SOUTH ON RT. 219/250. TURN LEFT ON CHENOWETH CREEK ROAD. GO « MILEPAST HARTS CHAPEL CHURCH. TURN RIGHT. GO 1 TENTH MILE. TURN IN AT BOB ELZA'S DRIVEWAY. CEMETERY IS LOCATED BESIDE HIS HOUSE ON A SMALL PLATEAU.'

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 23-May-93

 

Cemetery: SUMMERFIELD

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

ACROSS FROM HARMAN HIGH SCHOOL BY ROAD.

Inventoried by: TIM TURNER Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: SUMMERFIELD

Description:

MOST STONES UPRIGHT. 2 GRAVES LOCATED OUTSIDE OF FENCE.

Condition:

FAIR, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

FROM JOB, GO 1« MILES FROM GEORGE TETERS STORE TOWARD WHITMER. IT IS LOCATED BESIDE EDWARD MULLENNEXS HOUSE.'

Inventoried by: VERA LEWIS & STUDENTS Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: SUNRISE

Description:

STONES ARE UPRIGHT 7 GRAVES ARE MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK.

Condition:

GOOD KEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM VALLEY HEAD, TAKE RT 15 WEST 3.4 MILE. TURN RIGHT AND GO 3.7 MILE. CEMETERY IS BY THE ROAD ON THE LEFT SIDE.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 18-Apr-94

 

Cemetery: SWADLEY

Description:

CEMETERY CONSISTS OF 1 GRAVE.

Condition:

Directions:

FROM VALLEY HEAD TAKE RT 15 WEST 3.8 MILE. TURN LEFT ON VALLEY FORK RD. GO 5 TENTHS MILE. MARKER IS ON RIGHT SIDE OF ROAD ON TOP OF THE HILL IN THE MIDDLE OF A PASTURE FIELD.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 18-Apr-94

 

Cemetery: SWECKER

Description:

STONES WERE UPRIGHT. 1 WAS MARKED WITH A ROCK. APPROX 5 WERE UNMARKED.

Condition:

GOOD KEPT UNFENCED

Directions:

FROM VALLEY HEAD TAKE RT 15 WEST 3.4 MILES. TURN RIGHT AND GO 1 TENTH OF A MILE. TURN RIGHT AND GO 7 TENTHS OF A MILE TO CEMETERY

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 23-May-94

 

Cemetery: SWECKER

Description:

STONES ARE UPRIGHT 4 GRAVES MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK

Condition:

GOOD KEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM HUTTONSVILLE, GO SOUTH ON US 219, 11.7 MILE. TURN LEFT ON CONLEY RUN RD. GO 1.3 MILE. TURN LEFT ON DIRT ROAD. GO 1.7 MILE UP TO THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN AND THE CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 23-May-94

 

Cemetery: TACY

Description:

STONES ARE UPRIGHT AND APPROX 9 GRAVES ARE MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK.

Condition:

GOOD KEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM HUTTONSVILLE, GO SOUTH ON RT 219 FOR 2.5 MILE. TURN LEFT ON BECKYS CREEK ROAD. CROSS BRIDGE, TURN RIGHT AND GO 2.5 MILE. TURN LEFT ON DIRT ROAD. GO APPROX 2 TO 2 1/2 MILES TO TOP OF MOUNTAIN. CEMETERY IS OFF TO LEFT SIDE.'

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 1-Aug-94

 

Cemetery: TAYLOR

Description:

MOST HEADSTONES UPRIGHT, SOME LYING DOWN, 4 DAMAGED OR BROKEN.

Condition:

FAIR, UNKEPT, UNFENCED, BRUSH CLEARED, NOT MOWED MAY BE ABANDONED.

Directions:

US 33 EAST OUT OF ELKINS TO END OF 4 LANE. TURN LEFT AND GO 8/10S OF A MILE. TAKE DIRT ROAD ON LEFT SIDE OF HOUSE 1500 FT ACROSS A CREEK AND ON TO NEXT DIRT ROAD TO THE LEFT. TAKE IT TO THE TOP OF HILL TO THE CEMETERY.'

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 25 APR, 1993

 

Cemetery: THOMPSON

Description:

SOME HEADSTONES DAMAGED

Condition:

POOR, ABANDONED, UNFENCED

Directions:

BELOW HARMAN AT OLD MILL ON THE RIGHT

Inventoried by: TIM TURNER Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: TINGLER

Description:

Condition:

Directions:

SINKS OF GANDY, OSCEOLA, WV

Inventoried by: HEATHER FOWLER Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: TINGLER

Description:

45 CREEK ROCK HEADSTONES, 45 UNREADABLE INSCRIPTIONS, 5 UNMARKED GRAVES.

Condition:

FAIR, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

1 MILE NORTH EAST OF WYMER ON OLD CO RT 5

Inventoried by: TRAVIS RAY Date: 01 JUN, 1992

 

Cemetery: TRINITY

Description:

APPROXIMATELY 28 UNMARKED GRAVES. 14 GRAVES MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK. STONES ARE UPRIGHT.

Condition:

GOOD KEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM BEVERLY, TURN ONTO GEORGETOWN ROAD. GO 8 TENTHS OF A MILE. TURN LEFT AND GO 1.4 MILE. CEMETERY IS ON RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 17-Feb-94

 

Cemetery: TURNER

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

TURN RIGHT AT DRYFORK CHURCH, FOLLOW ROAD TO SECOND METAL GATE ON THE RIGHT.

Inventoried by: TIM TURNER Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: VALLEY HEAD

Description:

HEADSTONES MOSTLY UPRIGHT, 43 CREEK ROCK, 40 UNMARKED GRAVES

Condition:

EXCELLENT, KEPT, UNFENCED

Directions:

219 SOUTH FROM HUTTONSVILLE. LEFT ON MARPLE ROAD ACROSS FROM VALLEY HEAD RESTAURANT. .2 MILE BEAR LEFT ON GRAVEL ROAD. GO .1 MILE.

Inventoried by: CAROLYN CHANNELL GARY HANNAH Date: 06 JUN, 1993

 

Cemetery: VANDEVENDER

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

RT. 32 OUT OF HARMAN, TURN LEFT AT OLD MILL, CROSS BRIDGE, TAKE FIRST ROAD TO THE LEFT, FOLLOW ROAD, CEM. IS ON THE LEFT.

Inventoried by: TIM TURNER Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: WAMSLEY

Description:

ALL STONES ARE UPRIGHT. FAMILY CEMETERY.

Condition:

EXCELLENT KEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM VALLEY BEND, TAKE BACK ROAD TO TYGART RIVER BRIDGE. TURN LEFT AND GO APPROXIMATELY 1/4 MILE. CEMETERY IS ON HILLSIDE ON THE RIGHT. GET PERMISSION FROM ANDY WAMSLEY.

Inventoried by: VIOLET MCELWEE & GENEVA JACOBS Date: Sep-93

 

Cemetery: WAMSLEY-Y0KUM

Description:

SOME HEADTONES UPRIGHT, SOME LYING DOWN, 4 DAMAGED, 51 CREEK ROCK, 1 UNREADABLE INSCRIPTION, 45 UNMARKED.

Condition:

POOR, UNKEPT, FENCED. SOME INDIVIDUAL GRAVES ARE KEPT OTHERS ARE ABANDONED.

Directions:

25O SOUTH THROUGH VALLEY BEND TO LAST ROAD AT THE SOUTH END. GO LEFT ON BACK ROAD, CROSS BRIDGE, TURN RIGHT AND GO .6 MILE TO SHAVERS RUN RD. TURN LEFT GO .5 MILE AND TURN RIGHT AT GATE. GO .5 MILE TO CREEK. CROSS CREEK AND TAKE LANE TO BARN. CEM. IS ON R

Inventoried by: PHYLLIS E. DANIELS Date: 14 SEP, 1992

 

Cemetery: WARD

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT, 12 HEADSTONES, 2 CREEK ROCK

Condition:

EXCELLENT, KEPT, UNFENCED

Directions:

ON WARD ROAD ABOUT 1 MILE WEST OF BEVERLY 5 LANE, NORTH OF ROAD.

Inventoried by: DAVID ARMSTRONG Date: 6/6/92

 

Cemetery: WARD-TAYLOR

Description:

WHEN I WENT TO THIS CEMETERY 10 YRS AGO, ALL MARKERS WERE STANDING IN PLACE. ON APRIL 12, 1993, IT HAD BEEN VANDALIZED AND ALL STONES WERE BROKEN & STREWN ABOUT.

Condition:

POOR, ABANDONED, UNFENCED

Directions:

IN ELKINS TAKE SOUTH DAVIS AVE TO SOUTH GATE ROAD MAKE A RIGHT TO SCOTT FORD ROAD. TURN RIGHT AND GO 2 TENTHS OF A MILE TO CEMETERY ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD.

Inventoried by: DAVID ARMSTRONG GARY G HANNAH Date: 6/6/92

 

Cemetery: WARES RIDGE'

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT, 1 DAMAGED OR BROKEN, 37 CREEK ROCK OR CEMENT BLOCKS. 2 UNREADABLE INSCRIPTIONS, 37 UNNAMED GRAVES.

Condition:

GOOD, FENCED, WELL MAINTAINED YEAR ROUND.

Directions:

FROM VALLEY HEAD, GO SOUTH ON US 219 2 MILES TO LOGAN RUN ROAD, TURN LEFT AND PROCEED ABOUT 1« MILES TO CEMETERY ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD IN A TURN.

Inventoried by: FRED L. WARE MARY D. WARE Date: 01 JUL, 1992

 

Cemetery: WATSON

Description:

MORE THAN 60 ROCKS MARK GRAVES UNABLE TO DETERMINE THE AMOUNT OF UNMARKED GRAVES. ALL OF THE STONES WERE UPRIGHT.

Condition:

GOOD KEPT UNFENCED

Directions:

FROM VALLEY BEND, GO SOUTH ON US 219 TO FIRST ROAD ON THE RIGHT. (BRADLEY ROAD). TURN RIGHT AND GO APPROX 1 1/2 MILES. MAKE A LEFT ON THE OLD QUARRY ROAD. FOLLOW THIS ROAD TO THE CEMETERY. A 4 WHEEL DRIVE VEHICLE IS REQUIRED AFTER YOU REACH THE QUARRY. CE

Inventoried by: Geneva Jacobs & Violet McElwee Date: 3-Apr-94

 

Cemetery: WEESE

Description:

STONES ARE UPRIGHT. 2 GRAVES MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK. APPROX 4 GRAVES ARE UNMARKED. INFORMATION GIVEN TO ME BY CARL SPONAUGLE.

Condition:

POOR ABANDONDED PARTIALLY FENCED

Directions:

FROM ELKINS, GO SOUTH ON US 219 ON THE 4 LANE 3.6 MILE. TURN LEFT ON KINGS RUN ROAD. GO 9 TENTHS MILE. TURN LEFT ON DIRT ROAD. GO 1.9 MILE TO INTERSECTION. GO STRAIGHT AHEAD 1.6 MILE. CEMETERY IS ON LEFT SIDE OF ROAD. CROSS CREEK, WALK OLD ROAD ON LEFT TH

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 3-Apr-94

 

Cemetery: WHITE

Description:

Condition:

EXCELLENT, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

JOB, OUTSIDE OF HARMAN. GO UP JOB ROAD ABOUT 3 MILES. UP ON A HILL. SIGN SAYS WHITE CEMETERY. ABOVE JOHN MULLENEX FARM.

Inventoried by: DAVID HUFFMAN GARRICK TETER JAMES MULLENEX Date: 13 MAR, 1992

 

Cemetery: WHITE

Description:

Condition:

Directions:

JOB ROAD OUT OF HARMAN. GO ABOUT 5 MILES. CEMETERY IS LOCATED ABOVE 1ST BRIDGE ON THE RIGHT BY EDWARD WHITES HOUSE.

Inventoried by: GARRICK TETER JAMES MULLENEX SCOTTIE HUFFMAN Date: 13 MAY, 1992

 

Cemetery: WHITE

Description:

MOST STONES UPRIGHT, SOME LYING DOWN, SOME CREEK ROCK, SOME UNREADABLE INSCRIPTIONS. APPROX. 6 UNMARKED GRAVES.

Condition:

EXCELLENT, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

1 MILE SOUTH OF WYMER, TURN OFF RT. 33 ON MIDDLE MT. ROAD. TAKE 1ST ROAD TO RIGHT TO CEMETERY.

Inventoried by: VERA LEWIS & STUDENTS Date: 01 JUN, 1992

 

Cemetery: WHITE

Description:

SOME HEADSTONES ARE UPRIGHT. 14 GRAVES MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK AND APPROXIMATELY 30 UNMARKED GRAVES. SAMPSON & BLANCHE CAULFIELD STALNAKER ARE BOTH BURIED HERE IN UNMARKED GRAVES.

Condition:

GOOD KEPT FENCED

Directions:

FROM ELKINS, TAKE RT US 219 NORTH 4.7 MILES. CEMETERY IS ON RIGHT SIDE OF ROAD. TOP OF HILL BESIDE AN OLD SCHOOLHOUSE.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 20-Dec-93

 

Cemetery: WHITE

Description:

ALL GRAVES ARE MARKED WITH ROCKS. INFO WAS FURNISHED TO GARY HANNAH BY BRYAN ROSENCRANCE. HE KNEW 2 OF THE PEOPLE. WILLIAM CURRENCE WAS ALSO BURIED HERE UNTIL HE WAS MOVED TO THE MILL CREEK CEMETERY.

Condition:

POOR UNKEPT & ABANDONED FENCED

Directions:

FROM HUTTONSVILLE, GO SOUTH ON RT 219 2.5 MILE. TURN LEFT ON BECKYS CREEK ROAD. CROSS BRIDGE, TURN RIGHT AND GO 1 MILE. CEMETERY IS IN CORNER OF FIELD. LEFT SIDE OF ROAD.'

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: 1-Aug-94

 

Cemetery: WILFONG

Description:

ALL FUNERAL MARKERS

Condition:

UNKEPT, ABANDONED, « FENCED

Directions:

FROM HARMAN TAKE RT. 32 TOWARDS DAVIS. ABOUT 3 MILES ON THE RIGHT BESIDE NORA LONGS HOUSE ACROSS THE MEADOW IN A PATCH OF WOODS.'

Inventoried by: JASON CARR PAULA CARR Date: 03 NOV, 1992

 

Cemetery: WILL TACY

Description:

STONES WERE UPRIGHT

Condition:

FAIR, UNKEPT, ABANDONDED AND FENCED

Directions:

FROM HUTTONSVILLE, GO SOUTH ON US 219 FOR 2.5 MILE. TURN LEFT ON BECKYS CREEK ROAD. CROSS BRIDGE AND TURN RIGHT. GO ONE TENTH OF A MILE. PARK AT THE GATE. WALK ANGLE RIGHT THRU A FIELD AND UP A HILL TO CEMETERY.'

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: Aug-94

 

Cemetery: WILMOTH

Description:

STONES ARE UPRIGHT

Condition:

FAIR, KEPT AND FENCED. CLEANED ONCE A YEAR.

Directions:

FROM ELKINS TAKE US 219 NORTH FOR 9.4 MILES. TURN RIGHT AND GO 1 TENTH OF A MILE. CEMETERY IS ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: Aug-94

 

Cemetery: WILMOTH-ISNER

Description:

HEADSTONES MOSTLY UPRIGHT, SOME LYING DOWN, 33 HEADSTONES, 66 CREEK ROCK, 3 UNREADABLE INSCRIPTIONS

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

ON COUNTY ROUTE 9, 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF ELKINS OUT HARPERTOWN ROAD ON LOWER CHEAT (SHAVERS FORK). WEST OF RT. 9 OPPOSITE MOUTH OF JOHNS RUN.'

Inventoried by: DAVID ARMSTRONG MADELINE CRICKARD PHYLLIS DANIELS Date: 6/7/92

 

Cemetery: WOLFORD

Description:

Condition:

Directions:

TAKE US 33 OUT OF HARMAN. GO UP THE ALLEGHENY MT. WATCH ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE FOR A SMALL SIGN WITH THE WORDS, "JACOB C. HARPER CEMETERY". TURN TO THE LEFT AT THE SIGN, STAY ON THE DIRT ROAD, DO NOT TAKE THE LEFT, YOU WILL SEE A HOUSE ON THE LEFT, GO TO T

Inventoried by: TIM TURNER Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: WOLFORD

Description:

Condition:

Directions:

TAKE US 32 NORTH OUT OF HARMAN. WATHC FOR A SIGN ON THE RIGHT THAT READS DRYFORK. BELOW THE SIGN, TURN TO THE RIGHT, FOLLOW THE ROAD, ON THE RIGHT ABOVE THE ROAD THERE WILL BE A WHITE WOODEN FENCE. TURN TO THE LEFT, AT THE FORK TAKE THE LEFT. YOU WILL PAS

Inventoried by: TIM TURNER Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: WOOD

Description:

GROUND COVERED WITH IVY. TOMBSTONES UPRIGHT. SOME INFORMATION ON THE CHILDREN OF AUGUSTUS WOOD ON BACK OF HIS TOMBSTONE. THEY ARE BURIED IN OTHER COUNTIES.

Condition:

FAIR, UNKEPT, FENCED

Directions:

TAKE 219 SOUTH FROM VALLEY HEAD. GO APPROX. 4« MILES TO MINGO FLATS ROAD. CO 51. TURN RIGHT GO 1« MILES. CEMETERY IS ON LEFT SIDE OF ROAD ACROSS A PASTURE FIELD, NEXT TO THE WOODED AREA.

Inventoried by: VIOLET MCELWEE Date: MAY, 1993

 

Cemetery: WOODFORD TACY

Description:

STONES WERE UPRIGHT

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT AND FENCED

Directions:

FROM HUTTONSVILLE, GO SOUTH ON US 219 FOR 2.5 MILES. TURN LEFT ON BECKYS CREEK ROAD AND CROSS THE BRIDGE. TURN RIGHT AND GO 1.1 MILE. CEMETERY IS ON LEFT SIDE OF ROAD ON THE HILL BEHIND THE FARM HOUSE.'

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: Aug-94

 

Cemetery: WYATT

Description:

HEADSTONES UPRIGHT

Condition:

GOOD, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

FROM HARMAN, FOLLOW ROUTE 32, BELOW OLD HIGH SCHOOL ON MAIN ROAD, TURN AT 2ND METAL GATE. CEMETERY IS ON THE HILL.

Inventoried by: TIM TURNER Date: 1992

 

Cemetery: WYATT

Description:

MOST STONES UPRIGHT, 10 LYING DOWN, 20 CREEK ROCK, 8 UNREADABLE INSCRIPTIONS, APPROX. 11 UNMARKED GRAVES.

Condition:

POOR, UNKEPT, FENCED

Directions:

GO TO TOWN OF DRY FORK. CEMETERY IS NORTH OF SCHOOL HOUSE UP ON A HILL.

Inventoried by: TERRY LAMBERT Date: 27 MAY, 1992

 

Cemetery: WYATT

Description:

1 STONE WAS UPRIGHT, 1 WAS LYING DOWN AND 3 GRAVES WERE MARKED WITH CREEK ROCK.

Condition:

POOR, ABANDONDED AND FENCED

Directions:

FROM ELKINS, TAKE RT 33 EAST TO ALPENA. TURN LEFT AND GO 4 TENTHS OF A MILE. CEMETERY IS ON LEFT SIDE OF ROAD IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIELD.

Inventoried by: GARY HANNAH Date: Dec-94

 

Cemetery: YOKUM

Description:

Condition:

FAIR, KEPT, FENCED

Directions:

1 MILE EAST OF HARMAN ON RT. 33. TURN OFF AT BRETHREN CHURCH. GO UP THE HILL. TAKE THE LEFT ROAD TO THE END. CEMETERY IS BESIDE THE HOUSE.

Inventoried by: JEREMY VANCE Date: 01 JUN, 1992

For further information please contact the Allegheny Regional Family History Society, Post Office Box 1804, Elkins, WV, 26241.


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