West Virginia Cemetery Preservation Association: McCulloch Cemetery, Mason Co., WV

Cemetery Reading

Cemetery Name:	McCulloch (a.k.a. Waggener, Neale)	Click on photo above to enlarge
County:	Mason
USGS Quad:	Beech Hill
Coordinates:	38.8383ºN -82.1195ºW
Maintained by:	unknown
Land owner:	Mary Richardson
Date added to WVCPA register:	June 2007
Condition of cemetery**:	Poor (June 2007)
Accessibility:	The cemetery is located on private property just behind Krodel Park, behind the "Fort" end of the park. WVCPA staff are currently researching this cemetery, and the (new) landowner is desperately looking for assistance in clearing the cemetery from many years of neglect and overgrowth. If you are willing and able to help, or know of someone who can, please contact WVCPA and we will put you in touch with Ms. Richardson.
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:
Bennett	Andrew Jackson	17 April 1835	10 May 1924	[Family tradition says he served in the army - 2 stones nearby marking graves - full name from death record]
Bennett	Charles Jackson	23 December 1882	20 January 1942	[From death record]
Bennett	Clarence A.			"Son of S.L. & Ida Bennett" "Aged 2 Ms."
Bennett	Frank R.	1876	1948	[His death record gives a birth date of June 9, 1879 - aged 68 yrs, 11 mos, 14 ds. at death on May 23, 1948]
Bennett	George D.		18 July 1874	"Son of A.J. & M. Bennett" "Aged 5 Ys 1 Mo 11 D"
Bennett	Infant		17 July 1915	[Infant son of Frank and Mary Bennett - within a wooden fenced area with three unmarked graves]
Bennett	Isabala M. Fridley	4 January 1841	29 August 1913	[Wife of A.J. Bennett]
Bennett	John J.		1 November 1918	"OHIO PVT 1ST C 148 INF 37 DIV WORLD WAR I"
Bennett	Mary Luemma	28 June 1881	31 December 1943	[Dau. of James and Mary Gardner, wife of Frank R. Bennett - birth and death days from her death record]
Bennett	Willie		22 July 1904	[Siblings - shared stone - children of C.H. Bennett]
Bennett	George		9 January 1904	[Siblings - shared stone - children of C.H. Bennett]
				[2 footstones, no headstones, near George & Willie Bennett's graves]
Boyles	Martha Ann	1870	1930	"Mother"
Boyles	Samuel	1875	1945	[Husband of Martha - unmarked graves on either side of his]
Chapman	Iva E.	1892	1908	"An Angel..." [Rest of inscription outside of frame in photo]
Chapman	Mary B.	1874	1915	[Wife of Charles]
Crump	Margaret Ollie	27 February 1881	18 August 1956	[Daughter of Thomas and Geaneva Jones]
Crump	Shirley Ann	13 March 1945	29 August 1945	[Daughter of Van and Garnet Crump]
Fridley	Charles L.	1849	1916
Fridley	G.W.	16 January 1869	22 January 1889	"Aged 20 Y's & 6 D's"
Fridley	G.W.	7 August 1849	15 July 1906	[2 stones nearby marking graves]
Fridley	Martha A.	1853	1930	"Our Aunt"
Gardner	Carl Frederick	6 November 1929	6 November 1929	[Stillborn infant son of Fred and Lucinda Gardner] [From death record - no identified grave]
Gibeaut	Ethel Mae	27 January 1904	7 February 1933	[Aged 29 ys 11 ds] [From death record - no identified grave]
Hardwick	Mrs. Vera		5 June 1893	[35 years of age] [From death record - no identified grave]
Jones	Henrietta	1860	1944
Jones	Thos B.	1825	1918	"PRIVATE 45th VA. INF. CSA"
Kirk	Geneva	1889	1963	"Beyond the Sunset" [Near her grave, two graves marked with boards and one with an iron marker, per the 1968 reading]
MacDermitt	Jennie A. Bennett	19 December 1865	1 May 1903	"Wife of John H. MacDermitt" "Aged 38 Years, 5 Mos., 12 Days"
McCulloch	Samuel	abt 1770	9 November 1852	[In 83rd year of his age] [Husband and wife - shared stone - possible remains of two separate earlier stones still onsite, as present marker is a replacement - this one originally surrounded by an iron picket fence] [Aged 80 ys 1 mos 20 ds]
McCulloch	Martha Ann	23 October 1810	13 December 1890
McDaniel	Harry	1895	1919	[Son of William and Martha McDaniel]
McDaniel	Sarah			"Mother" [Four footstones beside her stone, nine other unmarked graves nearby per Oct. 1968 reading]
McDermitt	Hattie		24 May 1934	[Aged 53 years] [From death record - no identified grave]
McDermitt	John L.	1890	1911	"Weep not father and mother for me; for I am waiting in Glory for thee"
McDermitt	John Henry	1854	1940	[Son of Darrell McDermitt] [From death record - no identified grave]
McDermitt	Stella	1876	1930	[From death record - no identified grave]
McDurmett	James W.	13 August 1911	14 August 1912	[Son of Pete and Hattie McDurmett]
Mourning	E.T.	1860	1910	"Our Brother" "O.U.A.M." [Two unmarked graves behind]
Neville	Helen Marie		September 1935	[9 day old daughter of Philip and Dorothy Neville] [From death record - no identified grave]
Pearson	Lelia Delores	1932	1932	[Dau. of Wesley and Frances Whitt Pearson] [From death record - no identified grave]
Pierson	Fiba Anna		1 February 1933	[84 years of age] [From death record - no identified grave]
Shiflet	May	1908	1908	[Six unmarked graves near hers]
Sullivan	Carrie O'Dessa		25 April 1962	[Aged 70 ys 2 mos 10 ds] [Per 1968 reading, as many as nine unmarked graves in a line with hers, which is in a corner of the cemetery]
Unidentified Graves/Tombstones:
				[Broken stone - unidentifiable from photo]

Comments:

Dates 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.

A reading of this cemetery and death record research of it was last conducted by Violette Machir in October of 1968, and was published under the name of "Waggener-McCulloch-Neale Cemetery" in the Lewis District portion of "Mason County, W.Va. Cemetery Inscriptions", Vol. 1. At that time it was noted that there were at least 20 unmarked graves here. Additionally, there is a note that a previous landowner here, Andrew Waggener, "is said to have owned several slaves before the Civil War, and the story is that they are buried on a hill in back of what is known as the old Pete Neal house in back of this cemetery".

Our sincere thanks to Mary Richardson for bringing this cemetery to our attention, and for her admirable concern and care expressed for this cemetery and those lying at rest in it. Her stewardship of this cemetery is to be commended, and we hope that we are able to help her in finding assistance to care for the cemetery that has been forgotten all too long.

Updated: 07 September 2012