29 December 2005: |
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4 December 2005: |
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27 November 2005: |
- Added page for the Leonard
Wood grave in Union District of Mason County. Not much
is known about this Confederate soldier who died during the war from
sickness - can anyone help find out more about this young man and
his story?
- Added page for the Arbuckle
Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Union District of Mason
County
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22 November 2005: |
- New additions to the "Who
Are We?" page - a wonderful verse called "We Are
The Chosen" - that strikes a cord in our hearts each time we
read it, and we've posted it to share with all of you, knowing that
you understand those feelings too. From Joel & Donna, and
on behalf of all the WVCPA volunteers across West Virginia and the
rest of the United States, a Blessed Thanksgiving to you all!
- Added page for Parkins
Cemetery (a.k.a. Paradise Cemetery) in Putnam County
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20 November 2005: |
- Added page for Parthena
Baptist Cemetery (a.k.a. Jack Estes Cemetery) in Putnam
County, thanks to the research efforts and photography of WVCPA
volunteer Terry McCallister
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19 November 2005: |
- Added pages for Hill
Cemetery and Shinn
Cemetery in Jackson County (both in the Rockcastle area),
thanks to the investigative work and photography of WVCPA volunteer
Rick Hill - thanks Rick!
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31 October 2005: |
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25 October 2005: |
- Important updates - photographs
and news - for the Rock
Spring Cemetery in Jackson County are in progress.
Please visit this cemetery page now, and again in the weeks to come,
as over 75 photos will be added to this page over the coming
days. Many of the photos deal with the improper cleaning of
many of the stones this past summer that has left their surfaces
pitted and much more porous than they were in their 'uncleaned'
state. There are apparently also a number of stones that have
been removed from the cemetery without notification to the local
family members looking after this cemetery, nor have they been
replaced by new stones. The "Comments" &
"WVCPA Action" commentary at the bottom of the page
explains more.
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24 October 2005: |
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23 October 2005: |
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22 October 2005: |
- Added more photos for the Dodd-Mitchell
Cemetery in Putnam County - WVCPA volunteer Terry
McCallister,
along with others, is working to rescue this cemetery from the
ravages of time and neglect. If you would like to help Terry
in this effort, contact us at WVCPA and we'll put you in touch with
him. Thanks for the latest photos Terry!
- Joel & Donna have returned
to Colorado after their latest trip to WV to gather photos, continue
research and documentation on cemeteries long forgotten by most, and
to sign the paperwork on the purchase of their new farm in Mason
County! Several days of this trip were spent getting the home in
living condition, meeting the new neighbors and making arrangement
for the care of the farm while they're back in Colorado doing their
"day jobs". Joel is quoted as saying, after a late
morning walk around the front fields of the farm, "We
live in Paradise!" - do you think we should let the
word out that West Virginia is in reality more than "Almost
Heaven"?
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2 October 2005: |
- Finishing up page for Center
Point Church Cemetery in Putnam County - still a few more
photos to go, but those should be completed before the end of the
week
- Making final preparations for
our October research/photo trip to WV - this trip we'll be focusing
on Mason and Monroe county cemeteries and background study, and
setting up our WV "base of operations" in Leon. We plan on
meeting with a number of active WVCPA volunteers - from WV, and
others that will be coming in from out of state and meeting with us
in Leon. If you contact us by email over the next two weeks, our
reply may not be as quick as we normally try to be, as many days we
may not be in areas where we can get online. Be assured that
we will respond as soon as we are able.
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23 September 2005: |
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21 September 2005: |
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18 September 2005: |
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10 September 2005: |
- Added page for Morning
Sunrise Cemetery in Mason County.
- Posted a "page in
progress" for Smith
Church Cemetery in Mason County - there are many photos that
we're still working through on this one, as well as a number of more
recent burials to add to the roster. What we have so far,
however, is now available for you to view.
- Added a page for the Wallace-McCallister
Cemetery in Mason County. This cemetery is being
rescued by long-time WVCPA contributors, Terry and Fred McCallister.
We expect to have photos of the progress online soon, so check back
on this one if you're researching families buried here.
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4 September 2005: |
- Added page for Greenbrier
County Cemeteries
- Added page for the Old
Greenbrier Baptist Church Cemetery - Gwinn Addition,
thanks to the encouragement and assistance of Evelyn Drake who
contributed a reading of this portion of the Old Greenbrier Baptist
Church cemetery. Over 50 additional photos to come over the next few
days for this cemetery page, so check back soon!
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3 September 2005: |
- Completed pages for the Jesse
Hill Cemetery and Rankin
Hill Cemetery of Mason Co., thanks to
the always excellent work of volunteer Tracy Cain. The Rankin Hill
Cemetery page includes photos taken, and contributed, by Rod
Brand of the original Hill homestead from back in the late 1950s
/ early 1960s. Rod & Irene Brand's home now stands where the old
farmhouse once stood, on the farm near where the Jesse Hill Cemetery
is located. Thank you for your help and caring about these old
family cemeteries, Tracy, Rod & Irene!
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28 August 2005: |
- Completed the page for Fairmont
City Cemetery, Marion Co., with photos and information
graciously submitted by Gena Wagaman.
- Completed the page for the George
Amos Family Cemetery, Marion Co., with photos recently
submitted by Dede Burnell. The photos include some great sunny
springtime shots of this beautiful portion of our state, with the
redbud in full bloom.
- Completed the page for MacDonald
Cemetery in Mount Hope, Fayette Co. and an Unnamed
Cemetery from Gilmer County, with information provided by
WVCPA contributor Melanie Whittington.
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27 August 2005: |
- Added page for Patton
Cemetery in Fayette Co., thanks to the hard work - and
willingness to share the fruits of the labor - of Pamela Thomas
Gibson and her family. If anyone has photos from this cemetery, we'd be glad to add them to
the page.
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17 August 2005: |
- Exciting news is in the
'works' for our co-founders, Donna & Joel Duprey -
thanks to an opportunity the Lord has so graciously provided them, they
are currently in the process of buying a small farm in Leon, WV.
"This is one step closer to coming home to our roots", says Joel,
"This will provide us with a home base whenever we're in West
Virginia for
our ongoing cemetery research and preservation work, and will also
serve as a location where we can more comfortably meet with our
local volunteers and research associates." The details should
be finalized in the beginning of September, just in time for their
upcoming October trip from Colorado to WV for ten days of
'on-location' work.
- Posted the beginnings of a page
for Leon
Cemetery of Mason Co. - this is a relatively large cemetery,
and will likely take some time to get online in its entirety.
Watch for updates as the weeks and months go by.
- DID YOU KNOW? ...that,
to the extent possible, any 'actively used' cemeteries read by WVCPA
staff and volunteers are kept up to date with the latest interments
as posted in the regional newspapers, such as the Charleston
Gazette, Charleston Daily Mail, Point Pleasant Register and Huntington
Herald-Dispatch? If you are actively doing research on
the more recently-living members of your extended family, be sure to
check back on our cemetery pages as time passes. Also, if we
miss a recent burial that you know of, do let us know, as we don't
have ready access to all local newspapers or may miss an obituary
from time to time.
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14 August 2005: |
- Updated photos added to the Kimberling
Cemetery (Mason Co.) page, including a photo from the 1930s,
thanks to the contributions of Philip Pitzer and Jackie Smith.
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10 August 2005: |
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8 August 2005: |
- Email Spam Outbreak - Based on the large number of
automated emails we've received lately from internet service
providers, it appears that the WVCPA email address has been spoofed
on a number of 'questionable' systems, making it appear that WVCPA
has been sending out a large amount of email spam, or unsolicited email advertising.
We want to assure you WVCPA is NOT the source of these unwanted
emails. Our systems are maintained with the latest anti-virus
and anti-spam software to prohibit any infection of our systems that
would cause email to be sent from our systems directly. What
has occurred is that our email address has been snatched from
another system and is being used without our consent. While
this is unfortunate, there is little that we can do to prevent that
from happening. Our apologies to any of you that have been
recipients of spam that appears to have come from us.
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2 August 2005: |
- Added page for George
Amos Family Cemetery in the region of Paw Paw District of Marion
County (exact location yet to be determined),
thanks to the contribution of Dede Burnell and her husband.
There is more to come for this cemetery's page, but we wanted to get
this online to our readers as soon as possible to share the great
story of it's re-discovery and restoration by the Burnell's (posted
on the bottom of the cemetery page). The care and dedication that
the Burnell's have given to this precious little burial place of
George Amos and his wife Idney is inspirational.
- Currently working on photos for
Smith Church Cemetery in Mason Co., as well as various updates on
cemeteries we already have posted on the WVCPA site. Another
big cemetery page in the works is the Fairmont City Cemetery, thanks
to the wonderful data that we received in July from Gena Wagaman,
Project Director of the City Cemetery Restoration Project from WVU.
We will have these pages available as soon as we can.
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30 July 2005: |
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12 July 2005: |
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11 July 2005: |
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26 June 2005: |
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25 June 2005: |
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12 June 2005: |
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10 June 2005: |
- Added "Pico Search"
query boxes to both the WVCPA home page and our most-visited web
page, "WV
Cemeteries." To use this free service, enter the search
word in the box, such as the surname "Pickens", click the
"Search this site" button and the results will be
displayed. If you want to search using multiple words, such as
"Mt. Moriah", be sure to type in quotation marks at the
beginning and end of the phrase. Keep in mind that searching
for a person's name in quotes, such as "John Smith" may
not return as many hits as you would expect. Our cemetery
pages are built in tabular format, with the first and last names in
different table cells, so the first and last names of an individual
are not usually located next to one another in the text, unless of
course their full name is mentioned in the inscription or comment
area on a page.
The search results are limited
to pages that have been produced by WVCPA, and will not include
information presented on external web pages that have been linked to
on any of our pages. This will particularly impact searches in
counties where we have not yet built our own county index pages, and
in cases where others have produced cemetery pages that have offered
to share their sites with us.
If you don't see the Search
box on either the WVCPA
Home page or on the WV
Cemeteries page, you may need to click on the "Refresh"
or "Reload" button on your web browser, as you may
be looking at an earlier cached version of the page.
Try this out, let us know how
well it's working for you. If it proves useful, we might
consider purchasing the expanded service subscription which will allow
us to index and search more than the 250 web pages that the free
account allows (we currently have 206 web pages under the WVCPA site,
according to the Pico Search index that ran today - can you believe it
?!). We hope you enjoy this new feature! If you have any
questions about this service, send us an email.
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5 June 2005: |
- Added page for Dunn
Cemetery in Kanawha County, thanks to photos and research done
by family researcher Bert Hudson.
- URGENT MESSAGE to a Rock
Springs Cemetery of Jackson County researcher: WVCPA
volunteers were at this cemetery today doing follow-up
research, and found to their horror that someone had
"cleaned" all of the old tombstones with an acid wash,
making them pure white and looking cleaner, but unfortunately such
an acid wash will permanently damage these stones. The
volunteers found that even touching the stones with their hands
still caused burning on their skin. Even with the forecasted
rain that should be coming later this evening and tomorrow, that
will not be sufficient to remove the acid from the stones. If
you are the person that did this to the stones, PLEASE DO NOT DO
THIS TO ANY MORE STONES, in this cemetery or in any other. YOU
HAVE IRREPARABLY DAMAGED THESE STONES.
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4 June 2005: |
- Added page for Greer
Cemetery in Mason County, thanks to photos and research done
by family researcher Veva Scott. Veva has several more Mason
County cemeteries that she's working on that we'll post on this site
as soon as they're ready. Thanks Veva!
- Just
a note from Donna & Joel: Our email responses and postings of cemetery pages haven't
been quite as swift as usual recently, due to a number of family
matters that we've had to handle the past couple of months, the most
significant among them was the passing of Donna's sister Karen in
early May from a short, aggressive attack of a second round of
breast cancer (she had been a 10 year survivor up until her
diagnosis in December 2004). We've been out of town in
connection with her funeral, and have had family visiting us as well
that's kept us otherwise occupied, but life seems to be getting
somewhat back to normal for us now, sitting her together at our
computers busy researching, working on our databases and
keeping in touch with you. Messages of encouragement
from so many of you for the work we're doing for the documentation
and preservation of West Virginia's cemeteries and historic churches
has helped us greatly through this difficult time. Thank you
so much!
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28 May 2005: |
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25 May 2005: |
- Added page for Jacobs
Cemetery near Elmwood in Union District, Mason County -
PHOTOS NEEDED for this cemetery - anyone interested in getting
photos for us to share with Jacobs and Kimberling family researchers
that have been inquiring about this cemetery, as well as post it on
the cemetery page?
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20 May 2005 |
- Added page for Apple
Grove Memorial Gardens in Apple Grove, Mason County. A
VOLUNTEER IS NEEDED
to take a print-out of the cemetery page to compare and note any
inscriptions on the tombstones not presented there. Included
in that would be recording any burials in the cemetery that are not
on the page. If you're able to help, please contact WVCPA at
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8 May 2005: |
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20 April 2005: |
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3 April 2005: |
- Added pages for Welsh
Cemetery in Hartford, Mason County - including photos from
the cemetery clean-up in April 2004.
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14 March 2005: |
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13 March 2005: |
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12 March 2005: |
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6 March 2005: |
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27 February 2005: |
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15 February 2005: |
- WVCPA is in the news
again! Check out our "In
The News" page for the latest from the
Charleston Daily Mail!
- Working on updates/additions to
the Beale Chapel Cemetery page, and doing background obituary
research for Tucker and Craig-Douglas Cemeteries for
Mason County. Look for their pages to be added soon!
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5 February 2005: |
- Added a page for Kanawha
County Cemeteries, gleaning names and locations from both
the USGS topographic maps for the area and other listings of
cemetery names in the county. Additional work still to be done
to precisely locate map coordinates for known cemeteries. Any
information that our readers can provide is most appreciated!
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30 January 2005: |
- Added a page for Mt.
Harmony Cemetery in Marion County, thanks to the volunteer efforts of
Carla & Clinton Ely.
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22 January 2005: |
- Added a page for Craig
Cemetery at Grimms Landing in Mason County, thanks to the volunteer efforts of
Ron Craig.
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21 January 2005: |
- Added a page for Stover
Family Cemetery (a.k.a. Cossin-Stover) from Cologne Dist. in Mason
County, thanks to the volunteer efforts of Carla & Clinton Ely.
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19 January 2005: |
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18 January 2005: |
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14 January 2005: |
- Added a page for Pitchford-Carney Cemetery
in Putnam County. An updated reading and photographs are in
progress on this cemetery, thanks to the volunteer efforts of
Crystal Clark of the Upper Vandalia Historical Society. Thank you to
family researcher Kathy Pence for getting us started on this
cemetery with the photos she contributed, now posted on this
cemetery page.
- Many new photos and cemetery
readings have been sent in to WVCPA recently, and we are busy
processing these and doing background work for web pages for each
cemetery. Keep watching for additional pages being added as
the Winter season progresses! (and a big THANK YOU to all our
contributors that are keeping us more than busy - we love it!)
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4 January 2005: |
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29 December 2004: |
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12 December 2004: |
- Added a page for Perrin
Cemetery in Wirt County, thanks to the research efforts of
Merry Anne Pierson and photographs from Charles Yeager.
- Made major updates to the Randolph
Co. Cemeteries page
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11 December 2004: |
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6 December 2004: |
- We received, in the mail today,
a copy of the article written in The State Journal (published out of
Charleston) that was the result of an interview one of their staff
writers had with Donna earlier in November. The article was
published November 26, 2004, and is transcribed on our "In
The News" page. The author, Pam Kasey, a family
researcher herself and frequent visitor to our web site, did a great
job in passing on information about WVCPA and the work that we do.
Thanks, Pam!
- Completed and posted major
updates to the navigational information for the Putnam
County Cemeteries page.
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1 December 2004: |
- Annual "Letter to
our Supporters" posted - to view the letter, Click
Here
- Currently working on a large
number of cemetery photos/documents sent in by visitors to our
website - watch for several new additions to our site early in the
New Year, following the Christmas Holidays.
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21 November 2004: |
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20 November 2004: |
- Added a page for Freeland
Cemetery in Marion County - a page built in cooperation with
John Boggess and Bill & Connie Burkett of the Marion Co.
USGenWeb project.
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15 November 2004: |
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14 November 2004: |
- Added a page for Priddy
Family Cemetery in Union District of Putnam County.
- Added a page for Jennewine
Cemetery in Monongalia County, thanks to the information and
photos from contributors Bob & Elaine Burrell of Morgantown.
- Added a page for Monongalia
County Cemeteries, gleaning names and locations from both
the USGS topographic maps for the area and other listings of
cemetery names in the county. Additional work still to be done
to precisely locate map coordinates for known cemeteries.
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12 November 2004: |
- Added a page for Gilboa
Cemetery southwest of Grant Town in Marion County - our
first cemetery for that county. This page was added thanks to
the tremendous work of one of our newest contributors, John Boggess
from Indiana, who took all the photos and did most of the web page
development for us. John also sent us a number of supporting
documents for the Gilboa Cemetery page, including a map of the
cemetery on an Excel spreadsheet. Thank you John - because of
all the work you did for us, we were able to post this page in
record time!!
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9 November 2004: |
- Added preliminary page for
Independence Church Cemetery near Sandyville in Jackson Co., thanks
to the information provided by researcher Connie Lasley.
- Donna was interviewed this past
Sunday by Pam Kasey, writer for the State Journal newspaper of
Charleston, WV. The newspaper is running a series of articles on
genealogical research in the Mountain State, and will be including
one on cemetery preservation in which our work will be
featured. Publication date is slated for November 19,
2004. Watch for it on the newsstands then!
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23 October 2004: |
- We've returned from our recent
trip to WV, bringing with us hundreds of tombstone, cemetery and
church photos and page after page of research notes and interviews
on cassette tape. It was a wonderful trip, as always, to our
home away from home, despite the 5 days Donna battled a bad cold and
the rainy weather that kept us indoors a couple of the days.
Of particular note was the discovery of the exact location of the Hill
Cemetery at Elmwood,
WV (and the hilarious time had by all when Joel & cousin Elouise
fell into Mudlick Fork while Joel was giving her a piggyback ride to
keep her from getting her feet wet and muddy - I don't think her
feet ever did get wet, but the rest of her sure did!). We were
disappointed to not have found the exact location of the old Elmwood
Cemetery and the two
remaining tombstones (Joseph & Isabelle Harrison's and George
Edwards') that were sighted, tossed aside on a nearby hillside, some
20 years ago. We had a valiant team of 8 family and friends
from West Virginia, Ohio, and Indiana combing the hillsides of
Elmwood with us, including the eyewitness of one of the stones those
20 years ago. We haven't given up yet - someday we'll locate
those stones!
- Other cemeteries and churches
to watch for pages coming up on our site are, in Mason County; Salem
Cemetery, Stone Cemetery, Rockcastle Church, Arbuckle
Presbyterian Church & cemetery and Mt. Tabor cemetery
(new section).
- We also had a delightful trip
to Lewisburg in Greenbrier County and neighboring Monroe County,
visiting the Old Stone Church & cemetery, Old Rehoboth
Church & cemetery, Greenbrier Baptist Church &
cemetery and spending a day in the county courthouses and at the
Greenbrier Historical Society Archives doing preliminary research on
the two counties (and early historical records of Kanawha, Mason,
Putnam & Jackson counties, as these were once a part of early
Greenbrier county).
- Awaiting us in our email box on
our return from West Virginia were also cemetery readings and/or
photos from volunteers across the midwest for the following
cemeteries (counties indicated in parentheses); Jennewine
Cemetery (Monongalia Co.), Patton Cemetery (Fayette Co.)
and Walker Chapel Cemetery (Putnam Co. - add'l. photos). To
our contributors - thank you! We'll be in touch with you as soon as
we get ourselves settled back into our routine (and over our colds -
Joel has the cold now too!).
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28 September 2004: |
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6 September 2004: |
- For Rock
Spring Cemetery in Jackson Co., completed the comparison with
earlier reading and research published by the Jackson Co. Historical
Society in "Jackson County Cemetery Inscriptions", and
after a subsequent trip to the cemetery to compare the faded
inscriptions with the photographs - a
number of corrections and additions have been made to the page, including complete
birth & death dates, maiden names, etc. If you have used the
information on this cemetery from our site, do check the dates and
names again here, as there are many changes.
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5 September 2004: |
- Final plans being made for
another research trip to WV, scheduled to occur October
7-18, 2004. Highlights from our agenda:
- working with a group of
volunteers to locate reported stones still on site of a cemetery
destroyed in the early 70's in southern Mason Co.;
- background research in
libraries, court houses, funeral homes, etc. on cemeteries in
Jackson, Mason, Putnam, Kanawha & Monroe Counties;
- an overnight trip to
Lewisburg in Greenbrier Co., and a day at Union in Monroe Co.
and the Second Creek area;
- research trip to Marshall
Univ. in Huntington with one of our volunteers to try and locate
some historic church and community information for Mason &
Putnam Counties; and, as usual (!)
- photographing additional
cemeteries, taking retakes, working on plot map diagrams for
cemeteries already read, and much, much, more!!
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4 September 2004: |
- Added page for Clendenin Family Cemetery in Union District, Putnam Co.
(Above Right Fork of Clendenin Creek)
- For Given
Cemetery in Jackson Co., completed the comparison with
earlier reading and research published by the Jackson Co. Historical
Society in "Jackson County Cemetery Inscriptions" - a
number of corrections and additions have been made to the page, including complete
birth & death dates, maiden names, etc.
- Hyperlinked remaining church
and cemetery references on this page to the corresponding WVCPA
page. This will be a standard format in the future, to speed
your navigation to the new pages.
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30 August 2004: |
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25 August 2004: |
- Added page for Mount
Olive Church above Rockcastle, Jackson Co.
- Added page for Mt.
Moriah Church in Ripley District, Jackson Co. (Parchment
Valley)
- Entered additional biographical
information on Rev. Jabel Bowles to Pleasant Hill M.E. Church page
(Jackson Co.)
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17 August 2004: |
- Completed photos for Pleasant
Hill Church Cemetery
- Added page for Pleasant
Hill M.E. Church in Ripley District, Jackson Co. - the
second church added to our collection of historic church photo
pages.
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15 August 2004: |
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7 August 2004: |
- Added page with photos for Ezekiel
Sayre Cemetery of Union District, Mason Co.
- Added page with photos for Earl
Sayre Cemetery of Union District, Mason Co.
- Added photos from contributor
to Emma Chapel Cemetery - Bradley family
- Added page with photos for
Tillis Cemetery, Union District, Mason Co.
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31 July 2004: |
- Added page with photos for Pine
Grove M.E. Church Cemetery from Arbuckle District in Mason Co. (in
Cornstalk Wilderness Area).
- Added page with photos for Mt.
Zion Church Cemetery from Union District in Putnam Co.
- Added to and corrected reading,
and added more photos for the Mt. Moriah Church Cemetery, Parchment
Valley, Jackson Co.
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18 July 2004: |
- Added page with photos for
Staton Cemetery at Eleanor, Putnam Co.
- Placed additional photos on the
Tucker Cemetery (Putnam Co.) page, contributed by Terry McCallister.
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June 2004: |
- Well, the weekend trip to WV
June 18-20 was fruitful. Over 1300 photos were gathered of
cemeteries and old churches. Many more
"harder-to-find" cemeteries in Putnam, Jackson and Mason
counties were located for future photo documentation and reading
updates, and a number of initial photos of these were taken to begin
building web pages for each.
- Brown & Welsh cemeteries in
Hartford, Mason Co. were visited to see how they are faring after
their clean-up's over the past year. With all the rain and
warm, humid weather WV has been having, the "jungle" has
begun to grow in and over these cemeteries already. It is a
reminder that it is an ongoing process to keep a cemetery
maintained, much as you would do for your own yard. Leave it
alone for a season, and the weeds and forest will quickly take the
advantage. Hopefully, once the weather dries out a bit, local
volunteers will be able to once again visit these two old cemeteries
and get the undergrowth tamed again (oh, how Donna wished she had a
weed-eater packed in her luggage - wonder how airport security would
handle it if she did?!).
- We've fielded quite a bit of
correspondence of late for advice on how to clean up and maintain a
cemetery that has been all but forgotten. One notable one,
which had a write-up in the Charleston Daily Mail not long ago, is
the Sattes Cemetery and the adjoining paupers' graveyard at Kanawha
Two-mile in the West Charleston area. Apparently there is a
group of community volunteers trying to bring these cemeteries back
from dead, as it were. There is a hunt afoot for a complete
listing of those buried at Sattes. While we've been working on
reviewing old obituaries from the Charleston Daily Mail and
Charleston Gazette from the early half of the 20th century to find
names of people buried there, there are certainly older, as well as
more recent burials in these cemeteries. If anyone has such a
list, or knows where we could get hold of one, please contact us and
we will forward it to one of the project coordinators. Any old
photos of this cemetery would be greatly appreciated as well - we'll
post them on this site to share with others.
- There is good news on the
technical front for us as well - the replacement hard drive arrived
while Donna was in WV. She spent all last evening and most of
today rebuilding the system on our second computer, bringing it back
online on our network, making it possible for both Donna & Joel
to be working online at the same time. Now they'll be able to
catch up on email responses to those of you who've written recently,
and to get working on processing all the data and photos that have
been gathered on WV cemeteries during the past couple of
months. A reminder to our faithful supporters - this hard
drive replacement cost us nearly $400 in parts alone. Please
take the opportunity today to send a generous donation to WVCPA to
help defray such expenses so that this organization can continue to
do this valuable work. This would be a great opportunity to
try out our new secure online donation service -
you'll find "Donate" buttons on both the Contribute
page and the WV
Cemeteries page.
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June 2004: |
- Donna will be in WV June 17-20
for more photography and to check in with local volunteers.
Her time will be limited in WV this time, as this trip is in
conjunction with training in Columbus, OH the week of June 21 being
funded by her employer. We're thankful for the opportunity
this provides WVCPA to have additional time in the State this
year. Pray for good weather, that she and our volunteers can
be out in the field visiting many cemeteries and gathering much
data, as well as a safe drive for her to and from Columbus. As
Donna is our resident "techie", otherwise known as our
System Administrator, if the replacement drive for our computer does
not arrive in the next day or two, the system rebuild noted in the
previous post will not be completed until after her return on the
24th.
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June 2004: |
- Hard drive failure on our main
computer - still waiting for replacement parts (min. $360 - ugh!).
Only minor data lost, mostly archives of old email correspondence
(it pays to run regular backups!). When we get the new drive,
there will be a number of hours needed to rebuild the system to be
able to get us back up to full operations. This has virtually
stopped our processing of the data gathered in April.
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May 2004: |
- WVCPA Board of Directors
meeting in Madison, Indiana. A number of good suggestions
provided by our Board, and encouragement as well.
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May 2004: |
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May 2004: |
- Added Guestbook link to the
WVCPA homepage - looking forward to your greetings! Remember,
including your email address or web page address is optional.
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May 2004: |
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May 2004: |
- Added cemetery page for Baden
Baptist Cemetery, Cologne Dist., Mason County.
- Added news article about WVCPA
from the Point Pleasant Register to the "In
The News" page.
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May 2004: |
- Added links to cemetery
listings for all remaining counties - not necessarily WVCPA
maintained sites, however.
- Continuing work on reviewing
and preparing the data from our April trip to WV. We had an AWESOME
time! - over 2500 photos taken and had fun working with the
AmeriCorps team in Mason Co. on the cemetery rescue for Welsh
Cemetery (a.k.a. Hartford Cemetery - Brown Cemetery has been
maintained since the November '03 clean-up, so plans were changed at
the last minute to see to Welsh Cemetery. Watch this site for
updates and photos for this, one of Mason County's oldest
cemeteries!).
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April 2004: |
- Added main page for Brown
Cemetery, with photos of the cemetery "Pre-rescue".
The Rescue Project for
Brown Cemetery is scheduled to continue on April 24, 2004 at the
cemetery from 9 a.m. until 3 or 4:00 in
the afternoon - lunch will be provided by the organizing committee
through the donations from local businesses. Joel & I will
be there rain or shine, and hope to see as many of our WVCPA
supporters there as can make it for part, if not the whole, day!
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April 2004: |
- No fooling!! WVCPA has
obtained the official
status as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
from the IRS. The application was accepted on the first
submission (virtually unheard-of, according to our accountant!), and
within 90 days of our submitting all the application paperwork and
supporting documentation to the IRS. God is good!!
In compliance with public disclosure requirements of the IRS to
maintain this status as a publicly-supported organization, a web
page is under construction for the display of the documents from the
IRS. Watch for links to the page, coming soon to the "Contribute"
page already posted on this site.
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Mar 2004: |
- Updated County cemetery lists
for Jackson, Mason & Putnam Counties to include GPS coordinates
at greater level of detail, as well as adding a number of them that
were not listed before.
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Mar 2004: |
- Added cemetery reading and
photos for West Cemetery in Putnam County
- Completed the "Cemetery
Readings" page, where guidance is provided for the basics of
what we would like to receive from contributors of cemetery
readings/photo surveys
- NEWS! According to the
latest web site statistics, since we began monitoring traffic volume
on our site in early November 2003, we've had over 1,300 unique
visitors to our home page. The most popular page these past
four months has proven to be the WV Cemeteries page. Just so
you know we're watching to see what you're most interested in, and
doing what we can to provide more information in these areas.
If you have any suggestions for further improvements or additions to
our site, please let us know!
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Mar 2004 |
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Mar 2004 |
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Mar 2004 |
- Added links to non-WVCPA sites
for Mercer, Roane and Tyler Counties.
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Feb 2004 |
- Added basic cemetery list pages
for Brooke, Fayette, Gilmer, Grant, Hampshire, Hancock, Hardy,
Jefferson, Monroe, Ohio, Pendleton and
Upshur counties. Included live links and "In
Progress" labels to individual cemeteries on many of these
pages.
- Added more photos to existing
cemetery pages for Putnam County.
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Feb 2004 |
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Jan 2004 |
- Added cemetery readings and
photos for Dodd/Mitchell Cemetery in Putnam County, as well as for
Rock Castle Church (a.k.a. Sayre) Cemetery in Mason County.
- Work still in progress on
photos and readings for a number of Mason and Putnam County
cemeteries, with more photos arriving from contributing
photographers weekly. Photos also arriving/have arrived for
historic churches in Mason County, including Potts Chapel, Wolfe
Valley Chapel, Riffle Chapel and Rock Castle Church. A number
of photos and pages remain to be developed for Jackson County
cemeteries and churches.
- Work continues, particularly
for Mason and Putnam Counties, on locating individual cemeteries by
GPS coordinates (latitude & longitude degrees) on from
topographic maps, WV Dept. of Transportation maps, aerial
photographs and guidance by local residents. As these counties
approach completion, Jackson, Kanawha, and Cabell counties are
expected to be begun. Preliminary lists of the remainder of WV
counties will continue as time allows, with at least these initial
lists projected for being available before the close of 2004.
- "What Can I Do?" page
underway... due to post in early February.
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Jan 2004 |
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Jan 2004 |
- Expanded the Putnam County
Cemetery register to include all cemeteries listed in the Upper
Vandalia Historical Society publication "Putnam County
Cemeteries". Work still to be done in locating each by
latitude and longitude and district within the county.
- Updated 'Mission' page with a
reference to the historical preservation associations we maintain
memberships in and that we contribute to.
- Working on the final sorting
and coding of an updated page for Emma Chapel Cemetery in Putnam
County - over 600 new photos to be added to the existing site, close
to 300 remain to be taken or retaken for a complete, up-to-date reading.
- Work begun on photos for web
page on Riffle Chapel Cemetery in Mason Co.
- Planning in progress for rescue
and restoration work in cemeteries in Mason Co. in late April
2004, as well as lining up research tasks to be accomplished during
the 10 days we are in Mason County.
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19 Dec
2003: |
- Added web pages with
preliminary cemetery listings for Barbour and Berkeley Counties
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