West Virginia Cemetery Preservation Association: Baker Family Cemetery, Mason Co., WV

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Cemetery Name:	Baker Family	Click images to enlarge
County:	Mason
USGS Quad:	Robertsburg Map
Coordinates:	38.7400ºN -81.8969ºW
Maintained by:	Baker Family descendants
Land owner:	Unknown
Date added to WVCPA register:	April 2009
Condition of cemetery**:	Fair (April 2009)
Accessibility:	The cemetery is located off the Waterloo-Smith Church Road on a knoll overlooking the Baker bridge crossing of Poplar Fork at what was earlier known as Sea Flats. Just before arriving at the creek bottom where the bridge is, you'll see a gated, well-kept gravel drive up the side of the hill on the north (left) side of the road. That is the drive to the cemetery (and private access for the current land owner - please do not block the drive). The cemetery is located a short distance up the drive on the right side as you crest the hill. An easy walk up the hill if you park at the road (little to no parking available - choose carefully), and the cemetery itself is on a gentle slope.
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:
Baker	Rev. C. Jasper	19 October 1856	27 August 1933	[Husband and wife - shared stone] "At rest with the Lord"
Baker	Maggie B.	4 May 1860	3 January 1918	[Husband and wife - shared stone] "At rest with the Lord"
Baker	Charles	19 October 1806	1 December 1902
Baker	Clara B.	28 August 1882	13 February 1885 ??	"Dau. of C.J. & M.B. Baker" "Gone but not forgotten"
Baker	Eliza Jane "Hun"		28 April 1902
Baker	Ellis Gordon	6 June 1895	4 January 1921	[Aged 25Y 6M 28D - son of George Washington and Emma Virginia Baker, WWI veteran, never married]
Baker	G. W.	1851	24 October 1929	[Son of Charles (b. in Germany, per death record) and S.E. Stewart Baker - from G.W.'s death record]
Baker	Emma Virginia	1861	1932	"Mother"
Baker	J. M.	2 February 1854	26 February 1904	"Aged 50 Yrs. 24 Ds." [Husband and wife - shared stone] "J.M. Baker and his wife M.J. Baker" [Rest of inscription illegible in photo] "Wife of J.M. Baker" "Aged 29Y. 3M. 22D."
Baker	Martha J.	30 December 1851	21 April 1881
Baker	Jennie V.	14 January 1862	10 August 1932	[Wife of George W. Baker]
Baker	Sarah Lizzie	7 April 1888	23 August 1889	"Dau. of C.J. and M. Baker" "Aged 1Yr 4Mo 16Ds" "..., thy rest is won"
Casto	Mariah		1 June 1902	[Aged 53Y - wife of Moses Casto - recorded as being buried here per Mason Co., W.Va. Cemetery Inscriptions and her death record (as well as a second death record with a slightly different death date and age), though no marker found for her in 2010 - there is a shared marker at Wolfe Valley Cemetery for Mariah Casto and Moses M. Casto]
Click	Mary Jane "Mamie"	19 December 1885	21 September 1927	"Faithful to her trust"
Harris	Charles C.	11 November 1874	4 March 1887	[Aged 9Y 3M 21D - son of C. and M.E. Harris]
Harris	Daniel	17 June 1860	22 August 1934	"Age 74 Yrs, 2 Mos. 5 Days" [Son of Zach and Mary Frances Baker Harris]
Harris	Elizabeth	2 April 1868	3 June 1868	[Stone badly worn and barely legible - inscription from reading many years ago, and her death record: "Aged 9M 1D", "Dau. of Z.L. and Amy Harris"]
Harris	Ellis	15 September 1862	25 December 1940	"Asleep" [Husband of Sarah McCoy Harris]
Harris	Emily (Amy)		25 April 1893	[Aged 45Y - 2nd wife of Zach Harris, married 1st Gideon Jeffers who died in 1867 and is buried in the Jeffers Cemetery nearby]
Harris	Infant Dau.		16 December 1858	[Dau. of Z.L. and Mary F. Harris]
Harris	John		after 1890	[Son of Z.L. and Amy Harris - died as adult]
Harris	Lealy F.	24 November 1856	21 November 1940	"Mother" [Lela Frances Harris, wife of Daniel Harris, dau. of Preston Newell, aged 83 yrs, 11 mos. 28 days at death]
Harris	Mary F.		5 March 1866	"Aged 28Y 11D" [30Y 8D per her death record] [Wife of Z.L. Harris, dau. of Charles and Sarah Baker]
Harris	Mary M.	2 October 1876	5 October 1876	"Dau. of C. and M.E. Harris" "Aged 3 Ds"
Harris	Samuel		after 1890	[Son of Z.L. and Amy Harris - died as adult]
Harris	Sarah __		__ __ 1867	"Dau. of Z.L. & M.F. Harris" "Aged ___M. 7 Ds." [Rest of inscription illegible]
Harris	Wm. E.	2 September 1874	8 June 1876	"Son of C. and M.E. Harris" "Aged 1Yr 9Mo 6Ds"
Harris	Z. L.	20 March 1837	4 June 1894	"Thy Will Be Done" "Faithful and just even unto death"
Hill	George Andrew		16 October 1913	"PVT 5 ENGR. WORLD WAR I"
*Unmarked and unidentified graves:*
				[3 graves marked with field stones near Ellis Harris' grave, per Mason Co., W.Va. Cemetery Inscriptions book]
				[Unmarked grave near Clara Baker's grave, per Mason Co., W.Va. Cemetery Inscriptions book]
				[5 unmarked graves near George Hill's grave, per Mason Co., W.Va. Cemetery Inscriptions book]
				[2 unmarked graves, and 1 infant grave near Z.L. Harris' grave, per Mason Co., W.Va. Cemetery Inscriptions book]
Image26				[Illegible marker - too worn to even guess]
Image27				[Illegible marker - too worn to even guess]
Image28				[Illegible marker - too worn to even guess]

Comments:

Dates or names 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.

<< Some of the many unmarked graves (and marked with fieldstones) - these not far from Ellis Harris' grave

Below: The gate along Waterloo-Smith Church Road - generally closed, but not usually locked. It was very early in the day (6:30 a.m.) when we took photos at this cemetery, so we opted to park at the roadside outside the gate and walk up the hill. The photo looking back at the car is about half way up the hill - not that far to walk to the cemetery. (Click on photos to enlarge)

Updated: 07 September 2012