West Virginia Cemetery Preservation Association: Flatwoods Cemetery, Jackson Co., WV

Cemetery Reading

Cemetery Name:	Flatwoods United Methodist Church	Click images above to enlarge
County:	Jackson
USGS Quad:	Ravenswood
Coordinates:	38.8791ºN 81.7765ºW
Maintained by:	Flatwoods United Methodist Church
Land owner:	Flatwoods United Methodist Church
Date added to WVCPA register:	August 2008
Condition of cemetery**:	Excellent (October 2007)
Accessibility:	This cemetery is located adjacent to Flatwoods United Methodist Church (est. 1897), between Ripley and Ravenswood. Easily accessible, with parking available across the street in the church parking lot. To get there, from Ravenswood, take CR-68 south of town to CR-18 "Flatwoods Road" where you will turn left. Take CR-18 for 4 or 5 miles and turn left on "Crooked Run Road" (CR-12) and go about ½ mile and you will see the small white church on your left.
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:
Ball	Hannah	2 October 1827	10 January 1850	"Wife of John W. Ball" "Aged 22Ys 3Ms"
Ball	Samuel L.	28 March 1798	2 July 1879	"Aged 81 Ys. 4 Ms."
Balser	Jacob B.	1863	1948	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Balser	Mary E.	1871	1953	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Balser	Jesse Carl	22 February 1889	16 March 1984	"PVT US ARMY"
Blinn	Charles R.	11 October 1947	1 November 1989	[Husband and wife - shared stone] "Married Sept. 30, 1975"
Blinn	W. Joanne	12 March 1952		[Husband and wife - shared stone] "Married Sept. 30, 1975"
Bates	S. Haven	14 October 1886	8 July 1969	"OHIO PVT 7 CO 158DEPOT BRIG WORLD WAR I" [Husband and wife - shared stone]
Bates	Jennie M.	1885	1960
Carver	Fredrick W.	2 July 1882	7 November 1965
Coe	George W.			[Stone severely broken - mostly illegible]
Coe	Lysander M.	15 September 1834	27 January 1908	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Coe	Mary R. Mahan	4 August 1838	8 December 1910	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Cook	Gary Allen	24 March 1943	20 July 1995
Day	Etta Hughes	1902	1996	[Mother of Geneview, wife of Dewey Day]
Day	Genevive Aloise	1923	1938	[Dau. of Dewey and Etta Day]
Dougherty	Robert Ervin	17 December 1943	17 June 2003
Gregory	Tina Michelle		3 July 1970
Hamilton	Benjamin	31 July 1844	2 August 1864	"From wounds received at the Battle of Winchester, Va. July 18, 1864" "Aged 20Yrs. 2Dys"
Hamilton	Hugh	8 May 1819		"Born in Monroe Co., O." [Husband and wife - shared stone] "His wife, born in Lowden Co., Va."
Hamilton	Mary	11 March 1821	10 March 1893
Hamilton	John	1846	1915	[Husband and wife - shared stone] "At Rest" "His Wife"
Hamilton	Elizabeth	1849	1933	[Husband and wife - shared stone] "At Rest" "His Wife"
Harpold	E.M.	1888	1959	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Harpold	Hannah E.	1889	1915	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Harrison	Maude	1883	1968
Hartley	Edward	1824	6 June 1913	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Hartley	Elizabeth	1834	1902	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Hartley	Rufus Putnam	19 January 1876	15 August 1910	"Son of E. & E. Hartley"
Headley	Florence Opal	23 June 1918	11 April 1986
Hoy	Vergie E.	21 August 1901	25 November 1965
Huff	D.P.	2 December 1837	23 January 1901	"Aged 63Ys 1Mo & 21ds" [Husband and wife - shared stone] "Wife of D.P. Huff"
Huff	Minerva C.
Hughes	Arabella Ann	1943	1943	[Dau. of Wayne and Mary Hughes]
Hughes	Esther Pearl	21 November 1905	26 August 1990
Hughes	Helen Mary	7 April 1911	16 March 1922	[Dau. of Phillip and Margaret Hughes]
Hughes	Jona W.	29 August 1868	24 February 1870	"Son of J. & M. Hughes" "Aged 1Y. 5M. 26D."
Hughes	Joseph Hooker	1859	1930	[Brother of Jona and Phillip, Sr.]
Hughes	Philip, Sr.	1865	1923	"Father" [Husband of Margaret B. Hughes] "Mother" [Wife of Phillip Hughes, Sr.]
Hughes	Margaret Belle Wilson	1879	1932
Hughes	Wayne Wilson	1909	2005	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Hughes	Mary McCoy	1906	1983	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Kneff	James W.	16 September 1856	17 June 1923	[Husband and wife - shared stone] [Buried in Ohio]
Kneff	Laura Amanda Rowley	14 September 1865	14 March 1953	[Husband and wife - shared stone] [Buried in Ohio]
Kneff	Isabella McBrien		5 April 1854	"Dau. of M. & J. McBrien" "Aged _____"
Kneff	Mary	20 April 1786	30 June 1851	"Wife of Jamin Kneff" "In her 65th year"
Kostecka	Jesse Madison	18 February 1971	28 August 1988
Lane	M. Lewis	1881	1948	"Father" [Husband, wife and son - shared stone] "Mother"
Lane	Daisy L.	1880	1954
Lane	Dorsel L.	1912	1937
Lather	Maria	27 October 1843	30 April 1869	[Dau. of Elias and Sarah Lather - aged 6Ys 4Ms 19Ds]
Lowers	Elizabeth	1898	1991	"Lizzie"
Mahan		1784	1857	"Reese Mahan Family"
Mahan	Adrian T.	21 May 1870	10 October 1876	"Son of L.C. & L. Mahan" "Aged 6Ys. 4Ms. 19Ds." "Suffer little children to come unto me, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven"
Mahan	John E.	1917	1983	[Husband and wife - shared stone] "Married Sept. 24, 1941"
Mahan	Frances M.	1925	1993	[Husband and wife - shared stone] "Married Sept. 24, 1941"
Mahan	Virgil L.	1906	1959	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Mahan	Gladys I.	1906	1974	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Mahan	Raymond Allen	1959	1997
Mahan	Russell Daniel	1915	1970
Mahan	Timothy R.			[48 years of age - from his obituary in the Charleston Daily Mail Nov. 13, 2008]
Mahon	Clair Daville	26 November 1863	4 June 1948	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Mahon	Cara Frances	12 October 1864	22 March 1941	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Mahon	Clarence Adrian	1904	1931
Mahon	Elizabeth			"Wife of ___ Mahon" [Shared stone - Illegible]
Mahon				"Wife of ___ Mahon" [Shared stone - Illegible]
Mahon	Richard G.	25 January 1835	31 August 1924	"Father" "Co. K. 11th W.Va. Inft." [Husband and wife - shared stone] "Mother"
Mahon	Lucinda A.	7 May 1842	8 May 1912
McBrian	Henry	1776	8 September 1864	"Aged 86 years"
McCoy	Anna	1854	1938	"Mother"
McCoy	Hugh V.	1871	1950	"Father" [Husband of Myrtle] "Mother"
McCoy	Myrtle M.	1874	1943	"Father" [Husband of Myrtle] "Mother"
Ohse	Henry A.	15 April 1815	28 May 1880	"Aged 66ys 11ms 13ds"
Pence	Violet Mae	6 July 1949	5 December 2009	[Dau. of John Edgar and Frances Marie Workman Mahan, wife of Harry Clayton Pence - from her obituary in the Jackson Herald Dec. 8, 2009]
Pickens	Leona V. McCoy	21 August 1897	16 April 1919	"Wife of Paul Pickens"
Pitts	William Riley	30 January 1873	12 July 1965	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Pitts	Alverta McCoy	8 November 1873	24 March 1972	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Ramsey	Texal	1948	1969	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Ramsey	Mary F.	1944		[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Rawling	John	20 March 1802	29 November 1875	"Our Father" "Aged 73ys 8ms 9ds" "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord. Rev. 14:13"
Rawling	Martha	28 March 1821	2 March 1880	"Wife of John Rawling" "Aged 58Ys 11Ms 2Ds" "I have fought a good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith"
Rector	Marjorie	1941	1941	"Our Baby" "Dau. of Thomas & Estella Rector"
Robinson	Gwendolyn Lorene Hughes	6 November 1929	26 September 1994	[Dau. of Phillip, Jr. and Edith Hughes]
Rollins	Carrie	2 July 1883	6 November 1969	[Dau. of Daniel & Laura A. Rollins]
Rollins	Daniel A.	25 March 1857	25 August 1936
Rollins	Laura A.	5 August 1861	23 September 1899	[Wife of Daniel, mother of Clarrie Rollins]
Rollins	Sophronia	1876	1957	"Mother" [Mother and son - shared stone] "Son"
Rollins	Charles	1913	1937	"Mother" [Mother and son - shared stone] "Son"
Rowan				[Rowan family marker]
Rowan	Edward D.	1873	1940	[Husband of Mary King Rowan]
Rowan	Mary King	1876	1923	[Wife of Edward Rowan]
Sams	Homer T.	1 March 1941		"Father" [Husband and wife - shared stone] "Angel in Heaven" "Wed Oct. 6, 1982" "Mother"
Sams	Sherry D.	31 October 1945	10 October 1999
Sams	Ronald E.	31 October 1938	10 May 1969
Sheranko	Joseph	1903	1973	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Sheranko	Ruby Hughes	1904	1970	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Shinn	Carolyn G.	1938	1971	"Mother of Anna, Richard, Michael Steve, Candida"
Stanley	Effie B.	12 June 1878	13 February 1908	"Wife of J.H. Stanley" [Mother and daughter - shared stone] "Dau. of J.H. & E.B. Stanley" [Aged 1Y 9Ms 4Ds]
Stanley	Wanda A.	20 March 1906	28 December 1907
Weekley	Janet Lee	1935	1936	[Dau. of John W. & Edith Weekley]
Wheeler	Alfred A.	1899	1919
Wise	Henry A.	1815	May 1880	"Aged 65Yrs. 10Ms 13Ds" "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord"
Wise	John E.	18 September 1848	23 March 1867	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Lee	Mary Wise	27 February 1859	6 December 1920	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Wise	Johnathan	abt. 1805	5 March 1858	"Aged 53 years..." [Inscription mostly illegible]
Unidentified or unmarked graves:
Gran__	_olonzo		30 ___ 18__	"Son of E.W. & E. Gran__" "Aged __Ys. 12Ms. 1Dy."
Gran__	Elizabeth		1 __ 181_	"Wife of E.W. Gran_" "Aged 25Ys ___"
W___	Catharine		27 November ___	"Dau. of __ & A. W___" "Aged 7Ys. 2Mo. 4Ds."
McBrien			17 December 185_	"Dau. of ___ & A.E. McBrien" "Aged 11 Year ____"
Image008 Image007			3 September 18__	[Illegible] "Aged___"
			30 November 1889	"Dau. of Sarah" [very difficult to read - need to verify]
Image085	Raymond F.			[Metal funeral home marker - no other inscription remaining]
Image084				[Metal funeral home marker - illegible - located next to the "Raymond F." marker above and Ronald Sam's grave]
Image002				[Fieldstone marker - no inscription]
Image005 Image004				[Illegible]
Image014				[Illegible]
Image015				[Illegible]
Image032				[Illegible]
Image087				[Illegible]
Image088				[Illegible]
Image093				[Illegible]
Image098				[Illegible]
Image099				[Illegible]
Image100				[Illegible]

Comments:

Dates or text 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.

Our sincere thanks to WVCPA contributor Keith Weekley for his assistance in the reading and photographing of this cemetery.

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Updated: 07 September 2012