West Virginia Cemetery Preservation Association:Longdale Cemetery Cemetery, Mason Co.

Cemetery Reading

Cemetery Name:	Longdale Cemetery	Click on image above to enlarge
County:	Mason
USGS Quad:	New Haven Map
Coordinates:	38.9279ºN -81.9160ºW
Maintained by:	unknown
Land owner	unknown
Date last visited	May 2012
Condition of cemetery**:	Excellent
Accessibility:	Easy Access. From Letart, head north on WV 62S for 3.1 miles. Turn left (east) onto Longdale Lernon Rd and go 0.2 mile. On right hand side of road is a dirt/gravel road the goes about 500 feet to 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:
Anderson	Kenneth E	7 February 1957	17 February 2010	"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal. Love leaves a memory no one can steal."
Anderson	Oshel C	19 December 1926	14 May 1942
Anderson	Otho C	27 March 1935	9 June 1935
Anderson	Otmer C	27 March 1935	27 March 1935
Anderson	Roy	6 January 1942	28 January 1942	[Two stones laying next to each other]
Anderson	Ray	6 January 1942	29 January 1942
Anderson	Samuel C	31 March 1895	18 February 1967	[shared stone]
Anderson	Edna	5 October 1905	16 June 1978	[shared stone]
Barnett	David Wayne		1967	[metal marker]
Biggs	Harry		24 July 1890	"Son of C Mand L Biggs"
Biggs	Lula		28 August 1891	"Wife of C M Biggs"
Brown	Alice M	1 October 1881	23 January 1889
Brown	A T	1866	1897
Brown	Benjamin		1921
Brown	Catherine Marie	7 November 1921	11 November 1921
Brown	C D "JACK"	1903	1971	[shared stone]
Brown	Mae P	1904	1996	[shared stone]
Brown	Daniel W	5 October 1940	7 February 1999	"MARRIED JULY 10, 1971"
Brown	Mary L	25 August 1947		"MARRIED JULY 10, 1971"
Brown	Elizabeth		1945
Brown	Harold D	1929	1998	"WE DID IT OUR WAY"
Brown	Mary J	1949		"WE DID IT OUR WAY"
Brown	Homer C	1893	1980	[shared stone]
Brown	Caroline E	1897	1980	[shared stone]
Brown	Jennie	1902	1957
Brown	Joe	1870	1957	[shared stone]
Brown	Ina	1878	1948	[shared stone]
Brown	John W	1898		[shared stone]
Brown	Alice M	1888		[shared stone]
Brown	Lewis W	1860	1909
Brown	Ralph Dewitt		17 August 1927	"BABY"
Brown	Samuel T	1875	1952	"UNCLE SAM"
Brown	Wm	1836	1905	[shared stone]
Brown	Margaret A	1838	1904	"HIS WIFE"
Brown	Woodrow Wilson	29 December 1911	11 March 1999	[married] "Dec 25, 1937" "A FARMER BECOMES PART OF THE SOIL WHEN HE DIES AS SOIL WAS A PART OF HIM WHEN HE WAS ALIVE"
Brown	Ida Ester	28 July 1913	6 March 2001	"PARENTS OF TOM, DAN, RUTH, ELIZABETH & ROBERT"
Carter	George W Dr	15 December 1850	11 August 1911	[shared stone]
Carter	Sarah A	15 December 1844	9 November 1913	"HIS WIFE"
Congrove	Elizabeth	1798	1887
Fry	Catherine	1798	1884
Graham	Annie		25 June 1871
Hickel	Harold C	1895	1931	[shared stone]
Hickel	Daisy C	1897	1986	[shared stone]
Martin	Roderick		26 August 1924
McMillan	Ethel E	1910	1922
McMillan	Jennie M	1874	1952
McMillan	John P	1867	1947
McMillen	Wm C	1864	1917
McMillen	Nellie D Polsley	1865	1917	"HIS WIFE"
McMillen	Wm D	1892	1925	"314 SAN SQ 83 DIV"
McMillin	Campbell	31 October 1830	21 March 1917
McMillin	Amanda E	20 August 1833	15 April 1915	[multiple stones] "HIS WIFE"
McMillin	Ella (Young)	1896	1919	"MOTHER"
McMillin	Alford	1918	1918	"SON"
McMillin	Leona	1919	1928	"DAUGHTER"
McMillin	Elmer	1872	1929	"At rest"
McMillin	Vesta	1874	1929	"HIS WIFE"
McMillin	Franklin G	1874	1958	[shared stone]
McMillin	Georgetta	1873	1941	[shared stone]
McMillin	Sadie A	1899	1917
McMillin	Urban Loyd	1892	1894	"SON OF L E & M McMILLEN"
Moore	W Alva	1870	1930	[shared stone]
Moore	Myrtle	1875	1964	[shared stone]
Parkins	J Alec	1838	1922	[shared stone]
Parkins	Mary Jane	1833	1927	[shared stone]
Pickens	Ezra	1865	1917
Pickens	Sarah L	1867	1912	"HIS WIFE"
Pickens	George R	1911	1913
Pickens	Harry D	1902	1918
Pickens	Otis	1886	1886	"CHILDREN OF E & S L PICKENS" "OUR SON"
Pickens	Vivie	1890	1890	"OUR DAU" [stone inscribed on mulitiple sides]
Pickens	Rankin R	1896	1918	"A E F" "CO D, 118 INF" "THEY GAVE THEIR TODAY FOR OUR TOMORROW"
Pickens	W E	1869	1943	[shared stone]
Pickens	Della F	1871	1962	[shared stone]
Polsley	Ellen	1842	1895	"WIFE OF LIEUT COL JOHN J POLSLEY"
Rickard	Adam	1836	6 December 1881	"Farewell dear children, one & all, from you your parents Christ doth call, weep not for us, tis in vain to call us to your sight again." "AGED 45 Y 6 M 18D"
Rickard	Louisa J		10 September 1910	"AGED 69 Y 9 M 25 D"
Rickard	Anthony	1841	1920	"OUR PARENTS"
Rickard	Georgiana	1857	1897	"HIS WIFE"
Rickard	Bessie	1889	1904
Rickard	Clarence W	23 March 1909	29 August 1924	"SON OF C B & L RICKARD" "A PRECIOUS ONE FROM US IS GONE. HIS VOICE WE LOVED IS STILL. A PLACE IS VACANT IN OUR HOME, WHICH NEVER CAN BE FILLED."
Rickard	Cora Elizabeth	1880	1951	"AT REST"
Rickard	Floyd F	1896	1896
Rickard	Frances L	19 May 1911	27 August 1911	"Children of L M & C B RICKARD"
Rickard	Virginia E	6 December 1914	7 May 1915	"Children of L M & C B RICKARD"
Rickard	Frank J	1843	1937	[shared stone]
Rickard	Sevilla A	1855	1929	[shared stone]
Rickard	Henry C	1849	1882	[shared stone]
Rickard	Drusilla	1857	1928	[shared stone]
Rickard	John B		25 June 1882	"SON OF F & S A RICKARD" "AGED 1 Y 2 M 28 D"
Rickard	Lee	1887	1910
Rickard	Lesta	1885	1964
Rickard	Marie	1912	1913
Rickard	Mary R		1920
Rickard	Okey	1883	1897	[shared stone]
Rickard	Ora	1883	1960	[shared stone]
Rickard	Otmer	1879	1956	[shared stone]
Rickard	Mabel M	1889	1924	[shared stone]
Rood	Gerald B "GARY"	8 May 1942	22 March 2002	"LOVING FATHER, FRIEND and NEIGHBOR"
Rood	Gerald B	1922	1991	[shared stone]
Rood	Kathryn A (Swisher)	1922	1983	[shared stone]
Rood	Hiram P	1869	1942	[shared stone]
Rood	Allie E	1870	1935	[shared stone]
Roush	Emery A	1868	1895
Roush				"Roush Family Headstone - Shared"
Roush	Robert	1868	1944
Roush	Lucretia	1878	1957
Roush	Velma Elizabeth	1910	1986
Roush	Robert Douglas	1912	2002
Roush	Chloris Chapman	26 September 1914	26 October 2006
Roush	Infant		1919	"INFANT OF ROBERT & LUCRETIA"
Roush	F Marion	1855	1941	[shared stone]
Roush	Kizziar	1859	1945	[shared stone]
Roush	Infant Son		21 April 1882	"INFANT SON OF J W & R ROUSH"
Roush	John Wesley	1844	1928	[shared stone]
Roush	Rebecca	1846	1893	[shared stone]
Roush	Samuel	2 July 1818	9 June 1906	"FATHER" "We think of you with sadness Whenever this place we greet But in the world of happiness Some day dear parents we’ll meet" "FATHER AND MOTHER"
Roush	Elizabeth C	25 September 1825	5 February 1899	"MOTHER" "WIFE OF SAMUEL ROUSH" [There are three stones here - One tall column and two footstones (Father - Mother)]
Roush	Samuel Clayton	abt 1869	16 July 1914	"OUR PARENTS" "Lest we forget" "AGED 45 YS"
Roush	Olga Lewis	abt 1875	1922	"AGED 47 YRS" [Column stone inscribed on multiple sides]
Roush	Smith Stanley			"SON OF ROBT & O L ROUSH"
Sayre	Anna Louise	1917	28 November 1922	"DAU OF R D and C N SAYRE" "AGED 5 Y 4 M 3 D" [granddau of Daniel S Saye and M S McMillen]
Sayre	Daniel S	1846	1939	[shared stone] [Son of Thomas Sayre and Agnes Harper]
Sayre	Susan (McMillen)	1853	1941
Sayre	Bessie	1879	1908
Sayre	James H	1848	1928	[shared stone] [James was son of Thomas Sayre and Agnes Harper]
Sayre	Ella M (Clarke)	1852	1919
Sayre	Margaret E	1865	1928	[Daughter of Thomas Sayre and Agnes Harper]
Sayre	Thomas	1824	1902	[son of Daniel S Sayre and Sarah Stanford]
Sayre	Agnes Harper	1819	1901	"HIS WIFE"
Taylor	Adam	1832	1907
Taylor	Elizabeth	1831	1921	"HIS WIFE"
Thomas	Clarence B	1902	1990	[shared stone]
Thomas	Beulah B	1903	1996	[shared stone]
Thomas	Robert F	2 September 1930	27 September 1990	"LOVE LIVES ALWAYS"
Thomas	Joan Y	16 April 1938		"WED AUG 26, 1952"

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 Letart, head north on WV 62S for 3.1 miles. Turn left (east) onto Longdale Lernon Rd and go 0.2 mile. On right hand side of road is a dirt/gravel road the goes about 500 feet to cemetery.

Longdale Cemetery, Mason Co, WV - Aerial View

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Updated: 08 July 2013