West Virginia Cemetery Preservation Association: Long Hollow Church Cemetery, Jackson Co., WV

Cemetery Reading - research in progress

Cemetery Name:	Long Hollow Church	No photos available at this time
County:	Jackson
USGS Quad:	Elmwood
Coordinates:	near 38.7445ºN 81.7995ºW
Maintained by:	not maintained
Land owner:	unknown
Date added to WVCPA register:	January 2008
Condition of cemetery**:	Abandoned (May 2007)
Accessibility:	Not easily accessible - on the hillside above the old Long Hollow Church in a remote section of western Jackson County near the Mason County line. Accessible only on foot or 4-wheeler to the church, then only on foot up the hill to the cemetery.
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:
Fox	Arnold Lee			[Son of Lee & Bertha Thornton Fox]
Fox	Leroy
Hysell	Alice
Kay	Edna L. Woodall	abt 1898	1988	[Dau. of William & Willie Woodall, and wife of John R. Kay, who is buried at nearby Foster Chapel]
Lathey	Mary			[Daughter of Myrtle Smith Lathey]
Lathey	Emily Ward	November 1852		[Wife of Joseph M. Lathey]
Lathey	Myrtle Smith
Norris	Malinda Martin			[Wife of Cornelius Norris]
Whaley	Infant child			[Child of John Whaley]
Whaley	Infant child			[Child of John Whaley]
Woodall	Bertha			[Daughter of William & Willie Woodall]
Woodall	Infant son			[Son of James Boyd & Viva Norris Woodall]
Woodall	James
Woodall	Mary Jeffries	18 January 1835	30 January 1917	[Wife of Obediah Woodall]
Woodall	Obediah	9 November 1837	17 September 1924	[He and his wife Mary gave the land for Long Hollow Church]
Woodall	Willa E. French			[Wife of William R. Woodall - William, the son of Obediah & Mary Woodall, is buried at Leon Cemetery]

Comments:

Dates or information in Red type from research on the individual, dates based on age at death as indicated on the tombstone.

Last read in late 1989 by Georgia Grady and published in 1990 in "Jackson County West Virginia Past and Present" on page 46. Photos are needed of this cemetery, as well as a more detailed reading of the tombstone inscriptions. If you are able to help out, please contact WVCPA by email.

To see photos, old and new, of the Long Hollow Baptist Church, visit the WVCPA page for the church by clicking here.

If you know of the names and birth/death dates of family members that are buried in this cemetery but not listed above, we will gladly add them to this list. Simply email WVCPA with the information.

Updated: 07 September 2012