West Virginia Cemetery Preservation Association: Brighton Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery Cemetery, Mason Co.

Cemetery Reading

Cemetery Name:	Brighton Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery	Click on image above to enlarge
County:	Mason
USGS Quad:	Beech Hill Map
Coordinates:	38.8004ºN -82.0404ºW
Maintained by:	Bright Family
Land owner	unknown
Date last visited	May 2012
Condition of cemetery**:	Excellent
Accessibility:	Easy Access. From Pt Pleasant, head south on Viand St toward 6th St/Co Rt 62/29. Take 1st left onto WV 62 S/6th St. Continue on 62S for 3.0 miles and take slight right onto WV 62 S/Charleston Rd for another 4.5 miles. Church is on left (NE) side of road about 400 ft from road up a hill. Cemetery is beside the church.
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	Janet Maxine (R.N.)	16 November 1936	17 April 1991
Baker	Orum Stanley Sr	1902	1976	[shared stone]
Baker	Maxine Bright	1910	1974	[shared stone]
Bright	Georgia B	1885	1970
Bright	Harold E	3 August 1880	24 December 1962	"WEST VIRGINIA" "CPL CO B 2 REGT W VA INF" "SPANISH AMERICAN WAR"
Bright	Leah M	1892	13 August 1892	"DAU OF E S & C A BRIGHT" "AGED 7MS 28 DS"
Caldwell	William M	27 January 1870	7 July 1947	"WEST VIRGINIA" "PVT" "42 US VOL INFT"
Childs	Harry M	25 February 1898	24 November 1952
Dunlap	Harry E	1899	1958	[shared stone]
Dunlap	Bertha Z	1901	1958	[shared stone]
Greenlee	George A	16 June 1845		[shared stone - inscriptions on two sides]
Greenlee	Rachel	21 March 1843	5 April 1905	"HIS WIFE" "Each of us hope to join him in heaven"
Hall	Samuel	26 May 1844		[shared stone - married Dec 25, 1872]
Hall	Annie E (Eckart)	9 January 1843	4 May 1922	"HIS WIFE"
Hoffman	Earl M	27 May 1895	30 November 19__	"WEST VIRGINIA" "PFC CO G 37 INFANTRY" "WORLD WAR I"
Holcomb	Millard H	1917	1960	[shared stone]
Holcomb	Faye L	1921		[shared stone]
Huffman	Mattie Lee Taylor	17 March 1902	23 August 1979	"MOTHER" [Mother of Garnet Lee (Huffman) Keister, husband of Earl Huffman"
Keister	Earl Wayne	27 February 1946	11 February 2010	"SGT US ARMY" "VIETNAM" "DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS" "PURPLE HEART & OLC" [Son of Peter Keister and Garnet Lee (Huffman) Keister]
Keister	Garnet Lee (Huffman)	1925	1947	[husband of Peter Keister, daughter of Earl Huffman]
McDaniel	Emma A	1903	1983
McDaniel	George	7 May 1845	14 January 1922	"Co C 13 W VA INF" [Note: This regiment was organized at Pt Pleasant WV for the Civil War]
McDaniel	Harry Walter	1939	1943
McDaniel	Henry D	1920	1991	"PVT US ARMY" "WORLD WAR II"
McDaniel	James H	20 July 1870	1 March 1944	"CPL 2 W VA INF" "SPH AM WAR" [Son of George McDaniel and Rebecca Fridley]
McDaniel	Lewis C	1888	1972	[married 28 Sept 1907]
McDaniel	Lillie V German	21 August 1887	23 January 1962	[Dau of William German and Sarah Burns]
Stearns	Harry	1888	20 June 1889	"Aged 11 Mos 22 Ds" "Only Sleeping"
Unidentified or unmarked graves:
				[unreadable stones]

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.

If you have photos that we may add to this page, of tombstones or portraits of those buried here, or if you have any additions or corrections to the roster of burials listed above, please contact WVCPA at .

Easy Access. From Pt Pleasant, head south on Viand St toward 6th St/Co Rt 62/29. Take 1st left onto WV 62 S/6th St. Continue on 62S for 3.0 miles and take slight right onto WV 62 S/Charleston Rd for another 4.5 miles. Church and cemetery are to NE from road about 400 ft up a hill. There is an old roadbed that approaches the church from the rear, but how to get there is unknown.

Updated: 19 November 2016