West Virginia Cemetery Preservation Association: Siloam Baptist Church Cemetery, Mason Co., WV

Cemetery Reading

Cemetery Name:	Siloam Baptist Church	Click images to enlarge
County:	Mason
USGS Quad:	Arlee Map
Coordinates:	38.6720ºN -82.0222ºW
Maintained by:	unknown
Land owner:	unknown
Date added to WVCPA register:	February 2009
Condition of cemetery**:	Good (August 2008)
Accessibility:	The cemetery is very easily accessed, located alongside the road across from the historic Siloam Baptist Church (founded in 1880). This is a small one lane country road with little traffic. You can park at the church and walk across to the cemetery. Directions: From Rt 35 south of Point Pleasant, turn onto Black Oak Road. The cemetery is 4.4 miles out this road.
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:
Adams	Rex Davis	1907	1973	"Father" [Husband and wife - shared stone] "Mother"
Adams	Mary Maxine	1918		"Father" [Husband and wife - shared stone] "Mother"
Adams	Richard Fargo	7 June 1910	30 May 1985	"TEC 5 US ARMY WORLD WAR II"
Adams	Robert E.	1943	1972	[Father of Cindy Jo, Teresa & Robert Adams] [Mohr & Stevens Funeral Home marker]
Alford	Bessie May	6 July 1896	12 September 1919	"At Rest" "Dau. of Richard M. & Mary Alford" "Our Loved One" [Oldest marker in the cemetery - not known if this is the first burial or not]
Alford	Nancy Catherine Waugh			[First wife of Charles C. Wallace, mother of Richard Alford and Mary Catherine Alford Wallace - Charles and Mary Catherine are buried in Wallace Cemetery on the hill above Siloam Church - Nancy Catherine is buried "in the corner" of Siloam Cemetery]
Alford	Richard M.	7 July 1863	12 December 1943	[Husband and wife - shared stone] [Mary was the dau. of Nathan and Martha Ross Hill. Richard was the brother of Mary Catherine Alford and Mary Hill was the sister of Ellen Kelly Hill McKibben, mother of Wild Rose McKibben Wallace]
Alford	Mary	27 September 1864	14 January 1952
Alford	William E., Sr.	1885	1947
Bright	Charles S.	1916	1972	"Beyond the Sunset"
Bright	Philip	28 February 1919	26 February 1945	[Likely grave of Philip, who died at the home of his parents, Mr. & Mrs. Saul Bright, aged 25 yrs 11 mos 26 dys - this information from a family member with a copy of his obituary]
Bright	Ruth	1891	1967	[Metal funeral home marker]
Burnside	Opal Wallace	16 February 1910	30 December 1991
Hanes	Charles	1861	1949	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Hanes	Sarrah E.	1861	1941	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Hanes	Oscar S.	1891	1975	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Hanes	Vausie G.	1893	1969	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
La Nier	James L.	17 October 1851	28 October 1935	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
La Nier	Annie O.	1874	1941	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Le Master	James B.	1885	1958
McCarty	[Infant]	27 March 1947	27 March 1947
McCarty	Violet		May 1945	[Aged 7 months]
McKibben	Joseph Benson	1851	12 April 1941	[Husband and wife - shared stone] [Ellen was the dau. of Nathaniel and Martha Hill]
McKibben	Ellen K.	12 January 1853	10 September 1936
McKibben	N.E.	25 October 1877	26 September 1928	[Second oldest marker in the cemetery - crumbling badly from age, as can be seen in the photo]
Price	Icalona Price	1876	1915
Putney			[1970's]	[Granddaughter of Rex & Maxine Adams - from a Mason Co. family researcher]
Wallace	C. Cline	1906	1993	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Wallace	Ethel G.	1906	1986	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Wallace	Carl Owen	1941	1965
Wallace	Carol C.	25 December 1927	22 July 1984	"US ARMY WORLD WAR II"
Wallace	Charles Owen	1935	1937
Wallace	Clara C.	9 August 1911	10 September 1997
Wallace	Delores Maxine	18 January 1912	29 November 1933	[Dau. of Walter and Rose McKibben Wallace - killed in a hit and run auto accident]
Wallace	Ethel G. Adams	September 1906	September 1986	[Dau. of Lum and Nancy Spears, wife of Cline C. Wallace]
Wallace	Gladys	1905	1913
Wallace	Harold G.	24 September 1939	31 August 2008	[Son of Charles C. and Ethel Adams Wallace, husband of Pamela Wallace - from his obituary in the Pt. Pleasant Register Sept. 3, 2008]
Wallace	J.J.	1905	1913
Wallace	Madeline Z.	12 November 1939	23 April 1995	"Mother" "Gone Home"
Wallace	Robert Owens	7 July 1881	19 February 1963	[Shared stone]
Wallace	Mora Meeks	13 August 1877	3 May 1975	[Shared stone]
Wallace	Park J.	7 October 1907	26 April 2000
Wallace	Ray Owen	8 October 1973	December 1979	"Our Darling"
Wallace	Wild Rose	19 July 1881	29 May 1963
Wallace	Walter E.	28 January 1880	19 November 1966
Wears	Emanuel F.	28 July 1922	13 September 2005	[Husband and wife - shared stone] "June 17, 1944"
Wears	Betty J.	4 May 1925	14 February 2005	[Husband and wife - shared stone] "June 17, 1944"
Wears	Janie Lou	9 October 1951	18 October 1951	"Our Darling" "Dau. of Emanuel F. & Betty J. Wears" [Her death record gives death day as the 17th of October 1951]
Wears	Marvin W.	1895	1989	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Wears	Lena G.	1903	1956	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Wears	Roselee		28 January 1944
Wears	Walter	1938	1938	"Baby"
Welker	Elmer O.	1884	1956	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Welker	Maggie M.	1890	1944	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Welker	John A.	June 1860	13 January 1942	[Husband and wife - shared stone] [Laura was the dau. of Evan and Margaret Midkiff]
Welker	Laura Jane	3 June 1862	2 November 1942
Probable Burials and Unmarked Graves:
Bright	Clara Isabel		19 January 1934	[Dau. of Paul and Fannie Bright, aged 2yrs 1 mo]
				[unmarked grave beside Richard and Mary Alford's graves]
				[unmarked grave beside Richard and Mary Alford's graves]
				[unmarked grave beside Ruth Bright's grave]
				[unmarked grave beside Ruth Bright's grave]

Comments:

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Dates or information in Red type from research on the individual, dates based on age at death as indicated on the tombstone.

The granddaughter of Wild Rose McKibben Wallace, Joann Burnside Townsend, shared this story of the cemetery with us. The Wallace Cemetery referred to in the account is on top of the hill just behind Siloam Church and has been documented separately:

"My aunt, Gladys Wallace, was the first person buried in the Siloam Cemetery. It was in the winter (1913) when she died. My grandmother, Wild Rose McKibben Wallace, was expecting a baby in January 1914 and could not get up on the hill for her burial, probably snow and ice on the ground as well. My grandfather, Walter Wallace, spoke to the man (I believe his name was Wilson Priddy) who owned the land where the Siloam Cemetery is now, explaining the situation about his wife and the death of their daughter, asking him if they could bury Gladys there. It has been used as a cemetery every since."

WVCPA thanks faithful volunteer, Angela Harkins, for providing the updated reading and photos for this cemetery in September 2008. When she visited the cemetery in August 2008, the church grounds were in bad need of mowing, but the cemetery was well-kept and in good condition. WVCPA staff visited the cemetery in October 2009 and were glad to see that the conditions were the same as in 2008.

Siloam Baptist Church Cemetery, Mason Co., WV

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Updated: 07 September 2012