West Virginia Cemetery Preservation Association: Bruce Chapel Cemetery, Mason Co., WV

Cemetery Reading

Cemetery Name:	Bruce Chapel	Click image to enlarge
County:	Mason
USGS Quad:	Apple Grove
Coordinates:	38.7454ºN -82.1772ºW
Maintained by:	Unknown
Land owner:	Unknown
Date added to WVCPA register:	June 2007
Condition of cemetery**:	Poor (June 2007)
Accessibility:	To get to the cemetery and church, go south on Route 2 from Point Pleasant, past Mud Run Road until you see Crab Creek Road to your left - when the leaves are off the trees you can actually see the cemetery from Route 2. Go about a quarter mile down Crab Creek Road, then turn to your right into what looks like a driveway. You should be able to see the red brick church from the road even before you turn. The cemetery and church are both just over an old wood bridge up on a knoll to the left (this information provided by WVCPA contributor Lois Downour from a visit to the cemetery in 2007).
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:
Archer	Earnest A.	1891	1910
Archer	John W.	1858	1934	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Archer	Inez D.	1863	1931	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Bechtle	M.S.			[Infant son of J.W. & R.J. Bechtle]
Bechtle	Nancy Susan	1834	1893	[Wife of John W. Bechtle]
Bechtle	Rebecca J.	15 October 1853	20 January 1930	[Wife of John W. Bechtle]
Bechtle	George	1880	1909
Bechtle	J.W.	1874	1936
Bechtle	W.	15 October 1804	1 February 1897
Blaine	Charles A.	1865	1949	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Blaine	Minnie M.	1876		[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Blaine	Ira Utley	1887	1959	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Blaine	Rebecca B.	1888	1962	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Calloway	Sarah		20 July 1863 ?	[Aged 73Y. 6M. 25D. - wife of William Calloway]
Coplin	Lilly	1882	1953
Denny	William	28 November 1828	24 July 1891	"Aged 62Y. 7M. 28D." "Our father has gone to a mansion of rest, To the glorious land by the daily blest" [Rest of inscription illegible in photo - second photo file large & will load slow]
Doss	John	12 September 1828	24 June 1903
Doss	Nancy Susan	10 August 1834	30 September 1893	[Wife of John Doss]
Handley	Sarah J.	17 April 1815	15 July 1860	[Wife of John M. Handley]
Henry	Andrew F.	1880	1965
Henry	E. Grace	1890	1964
Henry	Lafe	1886	1963
Hogsett	Narcissa R.	25 September 1815	5 October 1861	[Wife of Samuel G. Hogsett]
Huddleston	Irene Mayes	1866	1929
Hughes	[infant]		29 December 1914	[Infant son of Dekalb & Louella Hughes]
Jordan	Charles Henry	1863	1891	"The Angels called him on a sunny day"
Jordan	J.I.	20 December 1830	11 February 1896
Jordan	Margaret	1832	1882	"Here I lay my burden down, change the cross into a crown'
Jordan	Mary		5 October 1865	[Aged 22Y. 11M. 5D. - wife of H.M. Jordan]
Jordan	Rebecca Mayes	16 May 1808	11 February 1855	[Aged 46Y. 8M. 26D.]
Kinnaird	Joseph	1821	1899	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Kinnaird	Charlotte	1836	1909	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Kline	Eliza Romanus	28 February 1833	20 March 1909
Kline	Jacob Alexander	1799	1868	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Kline	Eliza South	6 February 1804	8 August 1882	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Kline	Thomas Benton	30 September 1838	26 July 1886
Matthew	Elizabeth J.			[Aged 59Y. 9M. 19D. - wife of Philip Matthew - stone broken]
Mayes	Charles	24 September 1884	7 April 1954	[MUS. CO. M. REGT. INF]
Mayes	David		15 November 1892	[Aged 36Y. 9M. 14D.]
Miller	Atlantic O.		24 July 1869	[69 years of age - wife of R. Miller]
Menager	Robert C.		4 February 1843 ??	[Aged 3Y 17D]
Miller	Jesse F.	1 October 1832	3 July 1842	[Son of R. & A.O. Miller]
Miller	Reuben	6 July 1852	27 April 1897
Moore	Betty		9 November 1869	[Aged 37 years - wife of Calvin Moore]
Moore	Charles Page Thomas	8 February 1831	7 July 1904	[Supreme Court Judge]
Moore	Elizabeth V.	4 September 1874	13 April 1948	[Dau. of C.P.T. Moore]
Moore	Frances Harness	11 December 1803	11 March 1878	[Wife of George Moore]
Moore	George	April 1800
Moore	George F.		4 August 1865	[Aged 1Y. 11M. 1D. - son of C.M. & E.M. Moore]
Moore	Harry R.		14 November 1874	[Aged 6M. 24D.] [Brother and sister - shared stone - children of C.M. & A.C.? Moore]
Moore	Annie		25 February 1880
Moore	Henry Clay	12 May 1837	17 March 1841	[Aged 3Y. 10M. 5D. - son of Morgan & Mary Moore]
Moore	Ida Ogden	4 December 1867	8 July 1948	[Dau. of C.P.T. Moore]
Moore	Mai L.	19 January 1873	12 March 1965	[Dau. of C.P.T. Moore]
Moore	Mary A.	5 May 1805	6 August 1861	[Aged 56Y. 3M. 1D. - wife of Morgan Moore]
Moore	Morgan		20 August 1869	[Aged 78Y. ? 9M.10D.]
Moore	Urilla Kate Kline	2 January 1835	20 April 1897	[Wife of Charles P.T. Moore]
Moore	William M.	4 February 1829	19 September 1830	[Aged 1Y. 7M. 15D. - son of Morgan & Mary Moore]
Moore	William Sigler	September 1899	6 July 1860	[Aged 11M. - son of Calvin M. & M.E. Moore]
Mulford	Abraham		3 March 1872	[Aged 83 years]
Mulford	Nancy R. Slack	1809	22 August 1849	[Da. of Jeremiah Slack, wife of Abraham Mulford]
Mulford	Sarah	1823		[Wife of Abraham Daywalt]
Musgrave	Eva Ann	6 January 1948	29 July 2010	[Dau. of John Sines and Eleanor Gill - from her obituary from Wilcoxen Funeral Home July 29, 2010]
Neale	Albert C.	26 November 1843	31 March 1863
Neale	Alice M.	8 June 1851	8 February 1857	[Aged 5Y. 8M. - dau. of W.P.L. and C.B. Neale]
Neale	Catherine B.	1 August 1814	9 August 1890
Neale	Ellen S.	9 March 1811	17 November 1841
Neale	Wm. P.L.	30 November 1807	25 April 1876	[Aged 68Y. 4M. 25D.]
Persinger	Ansel	7 August 1826	18 March 1883	"Aged 56Y. 7M. 11D."
Reed	Ollie Blaine		24 November 1893	[Shared stone] [Aged 64Y. 10M.]
Reed	Eva Ely		16 August 1890	[Shared stone] [Aged 64Y. 10M.]
Samington	Elizabeth		31 April 1859	[14 years of age - dau. of Alex and Mary Ann Samington]
Simenton ?		18 October 18__	30 April 1852	[Dau. of A. & M.A. Simenton ??]
Slack	Jeremiah		1852	[Aged 71Y 7M]
Slack	Rebecca	6 March 1785	11 November 1854	[Wife of Jeremiah Slack - aged 69Y 8M 5D]
Slack	Rebecca	6 April 1833	21 September 1845	[Aged 12Y 5M 15D - Dau. of J. & R. Slack]
Stevens	Atlantic
Stevens	Charles B.	October 1860	September 1862	[Son of John and Rachel Stevens]
Stevens	Forman W.		1935
Stevens	G.H.		1947
Stevens	John B., Sr.	20 September 1776	12 September 1859 ?
Stevens	John W.	1868	1945
Stevens	Margaret
Stevens	Mary C.	1834	1917
Stevens	Nannie	3 April 1875	8 September 1912
Stevens	Okla F.	1921	1926
Stevens	Rachel	4 February 1828	3 July 1861	[Wife of John Stevens]
Stevens	Robert L.	1935	1935
Stevens	John		28 September 1856
Stevens	Sarah Ann		12 May 1860	[Aged 80 years - wife of John B. Stevens, Sr.] [Mother and infant son - shared stone]
Stevens	John Bruce
Stevens	Synthia A.		23 May 1861	[Aged 5 years] [Brother and sister - shared stone - children of John and Rachel Stevens] [Aged 3Y. 10M. 18D.?]
Stout	C.P.	1872	1944
Stout	Laurane B.	1890	1967	[Wife of C.P. Stout]
Waith	John A.	1847	1923	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Waith	Mazetta	1857	1923	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Walton	Jesse Atlantis	20 April 1858	14 January 1862
Woods	Ellen Mays		5 November 1878	[Aged 17Y. 4D.? - wife of J.C. Woods]
*Probable Burials:*
	Mahala		1 March 1856	[Aged 55 years - slave of John Stevens]
Alstock	John		10 August 1860	[86 years of age - freed slave - friend of Apollo Stevens]
Archer	Blanche		6 June 1894	[Aged 4M. 2D. - dau. of J.E. and Mollie Archer - poss. at Beale Chapel Cemetery]
Cooper	Ann		February 1859	[Slave of Morgan Moore - dau. of Lettie Cooper - other Morgan Moore slaves said to be buried under new addition on church building, but only Ann Cooper's name found in records by M.Crump and D.Machir research in 1971]
Daywalt	Mary A.		4 September 1859	[Aged 1Y. 3M. - dau. of Thomas and Catherine Daywalt]
Daywalt	Polly		21 October 1865	[Aged 60Y. 4M. 18D. - wife of Henry Daywalt]
Daywalt	Wm.		25 April 1869	[Aged 20 days - son of M.B. and M.J. Daywalt]
Doss	Nora		15 August 1900	[Aged 7 months - dau. of Fred and Alice Doss]
Haize	Abram		3 June 1856	[Slave - family or owner unknown]
Hogsett	Edward		4 October 1890
Kanard	Bessie May	30 December 1897	11 October 1899	[Dau. of R. and S. Kanard]
Kinnard	Wm.		17 December 1881	[Aged 21Y. 7M. 17D.]
Kyle	George		12 June 1854	[Aged 31Y. 3M. 4D.]
Mayes	Infant		25 January 1893	[Stillborn infant of R. and Mary Mayes]
Mayes	Mary M.		19 February 1891	[Aged 1 year]
Mayes	Myrtie May			[Dau. of L.M. and J. Mayes - aged 1Y. 4M. 22D.]
Menager	William Henry		26 February 1855	[Aged 3M. 5D. - son of Rome and Marie Menager]
Mulford	S.E.		6 November 1881	[Aged 27Y. 8M. 18D. - may be at Mulford Cemetery at Horselick]
Neale	Wm. P.L.		3 June 1893	[Aged 16 years - son of E.L. and H.B. Neale]
Persinger	Nancy		3 August 1883	[Aged 72 years - wife of J.A. Persinger]
Persinger	Nancy Ann		21 January 1855	[Dau. of Ansel and Mary - aged 4Y. 11M.]
Stevens	John B.		28 September 1874	[Aged 51 years]
*Unmarked and unidentified graves:*
[Unknown]		21 November __34	26 February 1855	[Stone badly broken - missing pieces]
[Unknown]			15 December 1861	[Located near Elizabeth Samington's grave]
Neale				[At least 2 graves marked with fieldstones - other grave possible per 1971 reading by M.Crump & D.Machir]
[Unknown]				[Three unmarked graves between those of C.P. Stout and Andrew F. Henry]
[Unknown]				[Two unmarked graves behind Lilly Coplin's grave]

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.

There are reportedly a number of discrepancies in the dates previously published for this cemetery. WVCPA is looking for volunteers to visit this cemetery and make a complete reading, verifying or correcting what we have posted here from multiple sources. Photos are, of course, desired as well. If you can help, please contact us!

Our thanks to faithful, and long time WVCPA contributor Lois Downour who brought this cemetery to our attention and provided photos from her family graves there.

Updated: 07 September 2012