West Virginia Cemetery Preservation Association:Horn Cemetery Cemetery, Jackson Co.

Cemetery Reading

Cemetery Name:	Horn Cemetery	Click on image above to enlarge
County:	Jackson
USGS Quad:	Sissonville Map
Coordinates:	38.568501ºN -81.634504ºW
Maintained by:	unknown
Land owner	unknown
Date last visited	not provided
Condition of cemetery**:	unknown
Accessibility:	Difficult Access. From Ripley, take I-77 south and exit 116. Turn left on Haines Branch Rd and go under freeway. Take first left onto Old US 21 and proceed north 1.7 files. On the right side is a dirt road. At intersection of dirt road with 21, path goes up steep hill to cemeteries. The Carney-Fisher cemetery is separated from the Horn Cemetery by a common fence running North-South between them. An alternate route approaching the cemetery from the west is likely to be available. Stop and ask local residents. The hike up the hill is strenuous to say the least.
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:
DeLong	Everett	1922	1988
DeLong	Kathrin I	1929
Dunbar	Nellie E	1891	1933
Horn	Bertha	26 September 1978
Horn	Christena (Garnes)	1875	19 November 1937	"MOTHER" "Gone but not forgotten" [Daughter of Elben Garnes and Jane Rollins]
Horn	Cleburn Braxton	25 January 1876	15 May 1956	"FATHER" "Gone but not forgotten" [Married Dec 24, 1894]
Horn	Denver D	9 June 1915	13 September 1995	[shared stone]
Horn	Edith I	28 October 1918	23 February 1994	[shared stone]
Horn	Elizabeth	1870	1909	[wife of Spicer P Horn]
Horn	Elton S	1896	1961	[Spouse of Ona Westfall]
Horn	Ethel Mae	25 August 1937	22 December 1937	"Age 3 Mo" "Gone but not forgotten" [Daughter of Denver Horn and Edith Mounts]
Horn	James E	5 November 1845	14 July 1923	"Co F S Regt W Va" "U S Inft"
Horn	Elizabeth L	6 August 1836	8 February 1915	[shared stone - Parents of Spicer P and Cleburn B Horn]
Horn	Otmer B Sr	21 December 1913	14 March 1978	"BELOVED HUSBAND AND FATHER"
Horn	Perry M	1899	1918	"SON" "Gone but not forgotten"
Horn	Spicer P	1868	1928
Meadows	William Eugene	31 August 1932	30 September 1988	"US NAVY" "KOREA"
Meadows	William Ralph	1901	1973	[shared stone]
Meadows	Amy Horn	1906	1971	[shared stone]
Proctor	Delbert Ray	23 March 1929	21 April 1994
Proctor	Norma L	1929	1984
Tackett	Dorothy	1934
Tackett	Ernie B	1905	1991	[shared stone - relationship unknown]
Tackett	Howard R	1900	1974	[shared stone - relationship unknown]
Tackett	Lawrence E	1943		[shared stone]
Tackett	Berverly L	1945
Tackett	Lawrence Jr	1968	1975	"FROM OUR ARMS TO THE ARMS OF JESUS"
White	J J Rev	1841	1918

Comments:

Data in Red is not inscribed on the tombstone and has either been calculated based on death date or as a result of research on the individual.

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Difficult Access. From Ripley, take I-77 south and exit 116. Turn left on Haines Branch Rd and go under freeway. Take first left onto Old US 21 and proceed north 1.7 files. On the right side is a dirt road. At intersection of dirt road with 21, path goes up steep hill to cemeteries. The Carney-Fisher cemetery is separated from the Horn Cemetery by a common fence running North-South between them. An alternate route approaching the cemetery from the west is likely to be available. Stop and ask local residents. The hike up the hill is strenuous to say the least.

The following descendant list is associated with the tombstones and citations for this cemetery. This list is not meant to be definitive, but to simply assist those interested in relationships with others of the same family name. Included families are:

Horn Family

Note: All Birth, Death and Marriage documents are from the WV Vital Research Records website unless otherwise noted. Census excerpts are from the www.Ancestry.com website unless otherwise noted. Obituary sources are noted in the obit. Most documents and tombstones have been cropped, resized and enhanced for readability and to conserve space.

Updated: 19 April 2013