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Cemetery Name:

Barnette


Barnette Cemetery, Rockcastle, Jackson Co., WV
  Barnette Cemetery, Rockcastle, Jackson Co., WV

Barnette Cemetery, Rockcastle, Jackson Co., WV      Click images to enlarge

County: Jackson
USGS Quad: Elmwood
Coordinates: 38.7150ºN  81.7860ºW
Maintained by: Marshall & Judy Casto
Land owner: Unknown
Date added to WVCPA register: April 2004
Condition of cemetery**: Excellent (April 2004)
Accessibility: This cemetery is located on a knoll overlooking Rockcastle and the bridge that crosses Thirteenmile Creek for the road that climbs up to Mt. Olive Church and cemetery on Cain Ridge.  At our last visit, the road up to Barnette Cemetery was pretty rough - not passable for anything less than a jeep or 4x4 with good clearance.  However, it is just a short stroll up the hillside to the cemetery from the roadside. It can be muddy in the lower portion of the road in rainy weather.
** Condition of cemetery as observed on the given date -
may not be representative of care at other times of the year
Scale: Excellent - Good - Fair - Poor - Abandoned

Last Name: First Name: Born: Died: Inscription: Photo: Source:
Abbott Berdell A. 9 April 1925 25 December 1960 "OHIO PFC HQ III CORPS WORLD WAR II" Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Abbott Delpha Marie 1918 1921   Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Balch Lilley M. 2 December 1873 27 October 1904 "Wife of W.M. Balch"
"We Rest With God"
"Dear friends and children dear, We are only sleeping here, . . . on the other shore, Where we will weep no more"
[Lillie M. - dau. of Preston and Clora Eva Casto Barnett]
Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Source: Information provided by family researcher
Balch Samuel P. 10 December 1902 22 January 1903 "Son of W.M. & L.M. Balch"
[Children of William Wallace and Lillie M. Barnett Balch - shared stone - birth and death dates from their death records]
"Dau. of W.M. & L.M. Balch"
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Source: Information provided by family researcher
Balch W.Mintia "Mittie" 8 September 1891 3 December 1893
Balch William M. 2 March 1870 9 November 1944 [William Wallace Balch, per marriage and death records - son of Samuel and Martha Hannah Vining Balch] Click for photo of tombstone
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Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Source: Information provided by family researcher
Barnett Agie Emily 1909 1963   Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Barnett Alma Wingett 1885 1909 "Gone But Not Forgotten" Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Barnett Asbery 1857 1931 [Husband and wife - shared stone]

"His Wife"

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Barnett Julia 1868 1946
Barnett Charles W. 29 March 1870       Source: Information provided by family researcher
Barnett Clint L. 1882 1962 [Husband and wife - shared stone] Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Barnett Lona A. 1883 1947
Barnett Clora 19 April 1847 23 August 1902 "Aged 55Y _M 22D"
[Dau. of Abraham G. and Rebecca Crites Casto, wife of Preston Barnett]
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Click for photo of tombstone
Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Source: Information provided by family researcher
Barnett Donna L. 6 October 1916 22 October 1916 [Dau. of Clint & Lona Barnett]   Source: "Jackson County Cemetery Inscriptions" - Jackson County Historical Society
Barnett Elizabeth   23 June 1883 "Wife of Robert Barnett"
"Aged 77 years"
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Barnett Enos 14 March 1834 25 November 1881   Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Barnett Filson 8 March 1871 2 May 1883 "Son of E. & L. Barnett"
"Aged 12Y 1M 25D"
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Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Barnett Franklin M. 14 February 1866 4 March 1886 "Aged 20Y 18D" Click for photo of tombstone
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Barnett Guy L. 27 August 1912 14 December 1996 "TEC 5 US ARMY WORLD WAR II" Click for photo of tombstone
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Barnett Infant   1919   Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Barnett Infant   1921   Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Barnett John L. 27 September 1885 28 November 1963 ? [Husband and wife - shared stone] Click for photo of tombstone
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Barnett Corda 12 October 1886 4 April 1967
Barnett Josia 9 November 1910 15 December 1910     Source: Information provided by family researcher
Barnett Lena 1917 1960   Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Barnett Lina 1897 1923   Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Barnett Lucretia 1835 1935 [Wife of Enos Barnett]
"Mother"
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Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Barnett William Luther 10 November 1888 _9 April 1970 "WEST VIRGINIA PFC BTRY D 315 FLD ARTY WORLD WAR I"  Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Barnett Luther Clayton 11 December 1936 6 November 1997 "FA US NAVY"
[Husband and wife - shared stone] 
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Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Barnett Delores J. __ August 1939  
Barnett Margaret 12 July 1850 25 August 1877 "Aged 27Y 1M 13D"
[Sisters - shared stone]
"Daughters of R. & E. Barnett"
"Aged 17Y 11M 23D"
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Barnett Mary M. 18 November 1860 11 November 1878
Barnett Martin 2 February 1873 5 March 1879     Source: Information provided by family researcher
Barnett Mary I.   11 October 18__ "Wife of J.E. Barnett"
"Aged 
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Barnett Norma B. 4 January 1895 27 February 1908 "Dau. of Perry & Ella L. Barnett"
"Aged 13Y 1M 23D"
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Barnett Okey C. 1892 1986 "PVT US ARMY WORLD WAR I"
"At Rest"
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Click for photo of tombstone
Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Barnett Ora 18 April 1837 22 August 1902 "Aged 65 yrs 4 mos 4 ds"   Source: 'Jackson County Cemetery Inscriptions' - Jackson County Historical Society
Barnett Oscar J. 1893 19__ [Husband and wife - shared stone] Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Barnett Clara M. 1898 19__
Barnett Oshel 24 September 1896 18 November 1899 "Son of A. & J.A. Barnett"
"At Rest"
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Barnett Preston 24 June 1842 18 August 1916 "PVT CO B 13 W VA"
[Son of Robert and Elizabeth Rayburn Barnett]
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Source: Information provided by family researcher
Barnett Robert 16 May 1801 13 January 1884 "Aged 82 yrs 7 mos 28 ds" Click for photo of tombstone
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Barnett Roy Hoyt "Tom" 13 December 1900 10 June 1983 [Husband and wife - shared stone] Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Barnett Nellie Gray Koontz 1907 15 July 1987
Barnett Rude A. 1880 1955   Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Barnett Sarah F. [illegible] 20 April 1891 "Wife of A. Barnett"
[Sarah "Fanny" Skidmore, first wife of Asbery Barnett]
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Click for photo of tombstone
Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Barnett Shelly Leon 24 April 1921 27 April 2008 [Son of John and Corda Brotherton Barnette, husband of Eva Eskew Barnette - from his obituary in the Charleston Daily Mail Apr. 29, 2008]
[Husband and wife - shared stone]
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Click for photo of tombstone
Click for photo of tombstone
Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Source: WVCPA research
Barnett Eva Delores 26 January 1931 6 October 198_?
Barnett Thomas F. 8 September 18__ 3 November 1898 [Son of Perry & E.L. Barnett]
[2nd photo close-up - large file, loads slow]
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Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Barnett William Delano 2 April 1891 24 March 1893 "Son of S.B. & Ruey B. Barnett"
"1Y 11M 22D"
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Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Barnette Clarence J. 25 September 1924 11 December 1986 "US NAVY WORLD WAR II"
[Shared stone]
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Barnette Barbara    
Barnette Eliza Julia 1897 1933 "Mother" Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Blankenship Clayton White 22 May 1917 4 February 1983 "Father" Click for photo of tombstone
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Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Blankenship Gaston     "CO F 60TH VA INF C.S.A."   Source: 'Jackson County Cemetery Inscriptions' - Jackson County Historical Society
Blankenship Genieve V. 1917 1995 [Shared stone]
[Travis:] "Tec 5 US ARMY WORLD WAR II"
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Blankenship Travis R. 1914 1983
Blankenship Dolly M. 1939 1939
Blankenship John A. 1881 1945   Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Blankenship S.R. "Coon" 1875 1944 [Husband and wife - shared stone] Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Blankenship Ella 1883 1962
Blankenship Sarah E. 1888 1962     Source: 'Jackson County Cemetery Inscriptions' - Jackson County Historical Society
Blankenship W.P. (Booge) 1889 1957 [Shared stone] Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Blankenship Virgie J. 1888 1970
Blankenship L. Belle 1927 1970
Canfield George, Jr. 1979 1979   Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Casto Allen Asbury 1869 1958   Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Casto Ellen 16 February 1845 30 November 1881 "Wife of R.P. Casto"
"At Rest"
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Click for photo of tombstone
Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Casto I.A. 1848 1938   Click for photo of tombstone
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Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Casto Mary L. May 1874 18 March 1880 "Dau. of I.A. & R.M. Casto"
"Aged 5 yr 10 mos"
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Casto Orval F. 22 June 1905 19 November 1905 "Son of A.A. & L.M. Casto"   Source: 'Jackson County Cemetery Inscriptions' - Jackson County Historical Society
Casto Rosanna M. 1851 1932 [Wife of I.A. Casto]
"Come Ye Blessed"
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Click for photo of tombstone
Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Donnelly Otmer 1871 1901 [Husband and wife - shared stone]
[Alice E. Barnett, dau. of Enos & Lucretia Barnett, widow of Eldridge Parsons when she married Otmer]
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Donnelly Alice Parsons 1877 1969
Higginbotham Iva Casto 1894 1931   Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Hill Clyde D. 5 March 1913 2 November 1917 "Son of L.L. & E.E. Hill" Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Hill Loomis L. 1 January 1870 5 May 1926 "Father"
[Husband and wife - shared stone - L.L. Hill house in Rockcastle per Autumn 2005]
"Gone But Not Forgotten"
"Mother"
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Hill Emily E. 11 April 1876 27 January 1962
Hoschar Roy 2 July 1920 19 December 1920   Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Hoschar Violet Louise 30 March 1930 2 April 1930   Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Kay Clarence Russell 21 April 1914 7 September 1976 "PVT US ARMY WORLD WAR II" Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Kay Earl 1887 1967 [Husband and wife - shared stone] Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Kay Bertha M. 1887 1961
Kay Raymond L. 26 April 1917 3 May 1975 "PVT US ARMY" Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Lathey Elizabeth Florence 21 September 1879 31 January 1896 "Dau. of I.A. & R.M. Casto"
"Aged 16 yrs 4 mos 10 ds"
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McCollum Maybell   20 August 1922 "At Rest" Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Melton Ruby Katherine "Toots" 22 November 1919 15 September 2002 "Precious Lord Take My Hand" Click for photo of tombstone
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Miller Austin Cole   20 October 1998   Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Morrison Rutherford B. 23 August 1876 28 June 1879 "Son of J.F. & J. Morrison"
"Aged 2 yrs 10 mos 5 ds"
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Morrison William W. 16 October 1874 21 June 1876 "Son of J.F. & J. Morrison"
"Aged 1 year 8 mos 5 ds"
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Parsons Brenda Anne 3 September 1955 11 September 1955 "She Was The Sunshine Of Our Home" Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Parsons Dale Lee 1936 1939 "Son of Aretta Parsons" Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Parsons Emily 7 October 1835 25 August 1862 "Wife of J.N. Parsons"
"Aged 26 yrs 10 mos 18 ds"
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Parsons Ernest F. 8 February 1892 October 1916 "Son of T.I.C. & E. Parsons"
"Aged 24Y _M _D"
[Brothers - shared stone]
"Gone So Soon"
"Son of T.I.C. & E. Parsons"
"Aged 1 yr 4 mo 3 ds"
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Parsons Henry C. 3 October 1890 6 February 1892
Parsons Infant 1955 1956     Source: 'Jackson County Cemetery Inscriptions' - Jackson County Historical Society
Parsons Jarrett L. 1915 1966 [Husband and wife - shared stone] Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Parsons Aulene P. 1922  
Parsons  Lula 27 October 1889 1 November 1904 [Daughter of Dr. T.I.C. Parsons]
"A precious one from us has gone,
 A voice we loved is stilled,
 A place is ____ from our home,
 That never can be filled"
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Parsons Nada Delores 16 October 1932 7 April 1936 "How soon fades a tender flower" Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Prather Mary Jane 17 August 1827 12 January 1889 "Wife of John L. Prather"
"Aged 61 yrs 4 mos 26 ds"
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Slade Walter O. 10 May 1892 9 June 1970 "WEST VIRGINIA PFC US ARMY WORLD WAR II"
[Husband and wife - shared stone]
"In Loving Memory"
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Click for photo of tombstone
Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Slade Belle E. 25 April 1897 15 December 1977
Stephens Holley E. 26 September 1902 4 February 1993 [Shared stone] Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Stephens Odell L. 31 May 1909 22 March 1992
Stewart Verna May 6 March 1889 17 November 1890 "Dau. of M.F. & Ollie Stewart"
"Aged 1 Yr. 8 Ms. 11 Ds."
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Woodard Bula D. (B?)   1824 "Dau. of O.A. & B. Woodard"   Source: 'Jackson County Cemetery Inscriptions' - Jackson County Historical Society
Woodard Hazel A. 24 February 1908 28 February 1908 "Dau. of O.A. & Rosa Woodard"
"How soon fades the tender flower"
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Woodard Lucretia 14 February 1877 21 June 1898 "Wife of O.A. Woodard"
"Aged 21Y 4M 7D"
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Click for photo of tombstone
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Unidentified / Illegible Tombstones (photos may load slower, as they are intentionally large):
Ref. #: Name: Born: Died: Identifying information: Photo: Source:
Image006       located near Travis Blankenship grave Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Image 007 Ephriam?     located near Travis Blankenship grave Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Image013       located near Allen Asbury Casto grave Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Image016   3 November 189__ 6 November 1892 located near John Blankenship grave Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Image024         Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Image026   __ June ____ 26 ____ ______ "Wife of ______"
"Aged ___Y ___M 15D"
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Image039         Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Image051         Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Image058         Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Image059         Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Image062         Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Image063 &
Image064
        Click for photo of tombstone
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Image068         Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Image069a Barnett ? Margaret ?     Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Image071 Barnett       Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Image072         Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Image080         Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Image084 &
Image 085
        Click for photo of tombstone
Click for photo of tombstone
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Image086         Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Image087   Rissi___     Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Image088         Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Image093 Barnette?       Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Image104         Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Image 105         Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Image107         Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Image 108         Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Image111 Blankenship?       Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Image 123         Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Image 136         Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery
Image138         Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA reading of the cemetery

 

Comments:

Barnette Cemetery, Rockcastle, Jackson Co., WV  Barnette Cemetery, Rockcastle, Jackson Co., WV

Dates in Red are not inscribed on the tombstone and have either been calculated based on death date or are as a result of research on the individual.

There are a number of graves with no markers in this cemetery.

WVCPA will be visiting this cemetery again in the future to work on plot diagrams and do foil rubbings on the more difficult to read stones in hopes of positively identifying them.

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