West Virginia Cemetery Preservation Association: Josiah Harrison Cemetery, Jackson Co., WV

Cemetery Name:	Josiah Harrison a.k.a. Harrison-Boggess	Click images above to enlarge
County:	Jackson
USGS Quad:	Sissonville
Coordinates:	38.6093ºN 81.6662ºW
Maintained by:	Bob Boggess
Land owner:	Bob Boggess
Date added to WVCPA register:	April 2005
Condition of cemetery**:	Good (April 2005)
Accessibility:	This cemetery is located on a wooded knoll overlooking the Dog Fork of the Pocatalico just west of Goldtown. Access is on foot or by 4-wheeler. The path is shorter (and steeper!) from the Boggess farm side from the Dog Fork side of the knoll, and somewhat longer (a good 5-10 minute ride by 4-wheeler in good weather) from the Harrison Ridge side up Spicewood Run. When going to the cemetery, out of courtesy, check in with the Parsons' in the house by where the logging road turns off the main road on Harrison Ridge, or with Bob Boggess at either the red house right alongside the road or at the white farmhouse on the other side of the creek just beyond if he's not home at the first. The path there begins down by the old white farmhouse, which was built by Alexander Harrison, Josiah's father.
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:	Map Key:	Photo:	Source:
Boggess	Robert W.	26 August 1926		[Husband and wife - shared stone]	13
Boggess	Renelda L.	13 June 1929	29 December 1985	[Husband and wife - shared stone]	13
Fisher	Bessie Anne Harrison		1942	[Dau. of Hagar & Fanny Miller Harrison, wife of Warren Fisher - from her obituary in the Jackson Herald in 1942]
Harrison	Clovie O.	16 September 1911	6 April 1912	[Infant child of ??]	8
Harrison	Doward D.	10 July 1917	12 September 1917	[Infant son of Hagar and Fanny Miller Harrison]	7
Harrison	Hager	1879	1952	[Husband and wife - shared stone]	10
Harrison	Fanny	1877	1925	[Husband and wife - shared stone]	10
Harrison	Herbert J.	16 September 1913	19 September 1919	"Baby" [Infant son of Joseph & Sadie Harrison]	9
Harrison	Joseph Loon	20 September 1882	13 March 1945	"Father" [Son of Josiah and Malissa Harrison]	2
Harrison	Josiah	8 November 1850	20 September 1917	"Father" [Husband and wife - shared stone] "Mother" [Dau. of Benj. and Mary Spencer Boggess]	3
Harrison	Malissa Ann	22 January 1854	15 September 1919		3
Harrison	Robert Naaman	7 November 1887	1 January 1942	[Husband and wife - shared stone] [Dau. of James E. and Mary Ellen Harrison Mundy]	1
Harrison	Vertie E.	11 June 1889	15 December 1946		1
Hill	Ella Blanche	24 January 1887	1 July 1958	[Dau. of Josiah and Malissa Harrison]	6

Comments:	Dates in Red are not inscribed on the tombstone and either dates that have been calculated based on death date or are additional name information as a result of research on the individual by family researchers.
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Updated: 14 July 2007