West Virginia Cemetery Preservation Association: Old Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Monroe Co., WV

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Cemetery Name:	Old Mount Lebanon	Click on images above to enlarge More photos and additional information being gathered - check back again later!
County:	Monroe
USGS Quad:	Ronceverte Map
Coordinates:	37.6701ºN -80.4934ºW
Maintained by:	D. Boyd & others
Land owner:	Unknown
Date added to WVCPA register:	June 2009
Condition of cemetery**:	Fair (June 2009)
Accessibility:	Directions to the cemetery (provided by WVCPA contributor, David Boyd): From Union follow U.S. 219 North 5 miles to New Lebanon Church. Turn left on Neff Orchard Road approximately 1 ¼ miles to the Frank Bailey farm, just past the William Patton place. (The Bailey Farm is the old Patton farm). Then you turn off of Neff Orchard Road onto Moore Road you go about 1 mile and there is a gate on the left with a sign on it. It's a cow pasture. You have to close the gate when you go in or out. There is a dirt road that goes out through there and you go about .51 miles out and it's over the hill to the left. Get directions and permission from one of the families. See satellite map with cemetery and old cattle gate by clicking here.
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:
Adair	Ellen		8 December 1848	[Wife of Rev. William Adair, age 90 yrs]
Adair	Rev. William		11 December 1848	[Age 90 yrs]
Adair	James		22 (23?) August 1839	[Age 78 yrs]
Adair	Jane		20 May 1867	[Age 67 yrs]
Adair	Mary		16 June 1842	[Age 74 yrs]
Alexander	Mariah	10 August 1806	24 March 1831
Beamer	George		25 July 1877	[Age 72 yrs]
Beamer	John		2 February 1868	[Age 19 yrs]
Beamer	Phillip		12 December 1838	[Age 75 yrs]
Beamer	Thomas C.		December 1852	[Age 28 yrs]
Boon	Delila		20 March 1848	[Age 19 yrs]
Boon	Robert L.		6 September 1854	[Age 17 yrs]
Boon	Thomas A.		1851	[Age 18 yrs]
Boyd	A. B.	6 December 1820	7 April 1888	"Father"
Boyd	C. W.	2 December 1824	16 July 1895	"Mother"
Boyd	Jane		16 March 1836 (1839?)	[Age 18 yrs]
Boyd	Margaret		14 August 1863 (1869?)	[Age 73 yrs]
Boyd	Thomas		23 September 1878	[Age 88 yrs]
Bridget	Mary Jane		6 November 1845	[Dau. of G.W. & Phoebe Bridget, age 15 yrs]
Brown	Alexander		1822	"Sacred to the memory of Alexander Brown who departed this life... 1822 in t...59th year" [69th?]
Brown	Margaret		20 February 1819	[Wife of Alexander, age 34 yrs]
Brown	Mary		2 December 1843	[Consort of Tho., age 22 yrs]
Campbell	Andrew	29 January 1806	12 August 1890	"Father"
Campbell	Ann McDowell	21 August 1816	11 April 1886	"Mother"
Campbell	Archibald McDowell	8 March 1839	21 July 1861	"Brother" [Killed at Manassas, Co. D, 27th Va. Inf. “Stonewall Brigade” - Note by Bill Patton: he was loading gun in trench]
Campbell	Isabella	20 February 1830	21 August 186?
Cook	Harvey	14 March 1870	3 May 1873	[Son of J.T. & M.A. Cook]
Cottle	John	1 May 1775	20 May 1850
Cottle	Margaret		10 August 1854	[Age 78 yrs]
Crawford	Hiram		1 February 1853	[Age 33 yrs]
Crawford	Ira Nickell	10 August 1809	9 July 1831
Crawford	James	30 August 1812	16 March 1866
Crawford	James		3 March 1836	[Age 69 or 90 yrs]
Crawford	Jane		22 September 1833	[Age 58 yrs - or 86?]
Crawford	Mary Estella James	12 December 1865	11 December 1876	[Age 11 yrs]
Crawford	William	7 (3?) January 1815	16 February 1845
Curry	Elizabeth		15 February 1828	[Age 19 yrs]
Curry	Sarah		23 March 1845	[Age 78 yrs - consort of Robert]
Dickson	Edwin F.		4 October 1862	[Son of N. & B.A. Dickson, age 6 ½ mos]
Dickson	Elizabeth	11 December 1806	28 February 1878	[Wife of Richard]
Dickson	Hamilton		27 October 1849	[Age 29 yrs]
Dickson	Hendron		14 June 1853	[Age 23 yrs]
Dickson	Joseph		7 February 1877	[Age 61 yrs]
Dickson	Mary H.		31 January 1857	[Age 19 yrs]
Dickson	Richard		24 October 1866	[Age 73 yrs]
Farnsworth	Polly An		22 October 1838	[Age 21 yrs]
Farnsworth	Samuel V.		27 December 1883 (1888?)	[Age 22 yrs]
Gray	Mary Jane	26 December 1833	14 August 1859	[Wife of Andrew W. Gray]
Hamilton	Robert W.		21 July1861	[Age 22 yrs - died at the battle of Manassas]
Hamilton	Samuel		30 October 1862	[Age 59 yrs]
Hamilton	Sarah		13 February 1850	[Age 41 yrs]
Hamilton	William		21 October 1862	[Age 21 yrs]
Hangar	Alcesta Ann	24 November 1854	15 July 1855	[Infant dau. of D. & E.J. Hangar]
Hawkins	A. M.		5 February 1870	[Age 66 yrs]
Hawkins	Anna W.	6 August 1816	14 August 1855	"In memory of Anna W. Wife of A.M. Hawkins" "The dutiful Daughter, The devoted wife, The affectionate Mother, the exemplary Christian." [the other small inscription to the lower left of the stone face is the mark for the stone carver - not fully legible, but it looks like "Gaddes, Maker App__bury, Va."
Hawkins	Calvin		November 1847	[Age 2 yrs]
Hawkins	Jane	26 April 1789	25 August 1859	[Wife of John Hawkins]
Hawkins	John	20 April 1788	25 August 1859
Humphreys	Hon. A. R.	1806	15 September 1880
Humphreys	Margaret F.	1 September 1856	12 May 1866	[Infant dau. of J.S. Humphreys]
Kerry	Nancy		15 August 1816
Level	Mary		4 September 1855	[Age 53 yrs - may be 73 or 78 yrs?]
McClung	Edward Gilmer		6 March 1889	[Son of J.C. & L.S. McClung, age 3yrs 9ms 2ds]
McLaughlin	Grier Augustus		29 July 1855	[Son of M.B. & I.G. McLaughlin, age 5 months]
McLaughlin	Margaretta B.		29 March 1855	[Wife of I.G. McLaughlin, age 31 yrs note: Isaac Grier McLaughlin was minister of Old Lebanon Church (ARP) 1845-1856]
Miller	Ann		26 June 1874	[In her 80th year]
Miller	Henrietta A.	8 December 1860	8 April 1889	[Wife of A. L. Miller - this is on the marker with Margaret, A.K. and James G. Young]
Miller	James		10 September 1870	[Age 85 yrs]
Miller	James E.		29 June 1876	[Age 50 yrs]
Nickell	Andrew	March 1780	27 October 1845
Nickell	Andrew		20 July 1839	[In his 53rd year - this is "Stiller"]
Nickell	Barbara		15 August 1862	[Age 73, wife of James Nickell]
Nickell	David G.	26 October 1848	28 October 1854
Nickell	Ellen Demarious		28 January 1846	[Dau. of A. & M. Nickell]
Nickell	George		20 October 1836	[Age 36 yrs]
Nickell	Isaac	25 September 1807	14 August 1848
Nickell	James A.		30 July 1835
Nickell	John		5 November 1825	"Sacred to the memory of John Nickell who died Nov. the 5th 1825 and in the 37th year of his life"
Nickell	Margaret		12 February 1841	[In her 63rd year - with George]
Nickell	Margaret		27 July 1848	[Age 39 yrs]
Nickell	Mary		19 January 1824	[Consort of Andrew, in her 41st yr]
Parker	Elizabeth	1 November 1803	2 June 1866	[Wife of Joseph Parker]
Parker	Joseph	1 May 1801	9 December 1883
Parker	William E.	22 September 1872	21 December 1879	[Son of W.H.H. & M.H. Parker]
Patton	Eliza E.		26 November 1878	[nee: Hogshead, wife of Tristram Patton, age 78yrs 3ms 15ds]
Patton	Emily		November 1856	[Wife of Robert T. Patton, age 19 yrs]
Patton	George	1 August 1855	26 October 1865
Patton	Isabella	1862	1864
Patton	John Boyd		3 September 1867	[Infant son of Mollie J. & Wm. T. Patton]
Patton	Margaret A.H.	4 June 1836	3 Jun 1857	[Dau. of Tristram & Eliza E. Patton]
Patton	Mollie J.		4 September 1867	[Wife of Wm. T. Patton, age 22 yrs]
Patton	Owen N.	1 December 1850	3 September 1863
Patton	Robert Miller	17 July 1814	22 October 1894
Patton	Robert	26 July 1860	27 August 1860	[Son of Tristram Patton]
Patton	Tristram		24 August 1885	[Age 92yrs 9ds]
Robinson	Ruthy		24 September 1831	[Consort of Capt. James Robinson, age 34 yrs]
Robinson	Walker		24 August 1824	[Son of James and Ruthy Robinson, age 4 yrs]
Sullivan	Nathaniel		17 March 1896	[Age 23 yrs]
Sullivan	Susan		31 March 1833	[Age 16 yrs]
Wallace	Ann M.	2 January 1804	3 October 1829
White	Margaret	4 July 1823	20 April 1850
Young	James	25 August 1793	31 October 1854	[Age 61yrs 2ms 6ds]
Young	James G.	27 October 1833	29 September 1914	[29th Va. Regt. C.S.A.]
Young	Jane		7 February 1839	[Age 74 (75?) yrs]
Young	Jane	3 August 1805	December 1866?	[Stone broken]
Young	Margaret	30 October 1796	25 April 1862	[Wife of James Young, Sr.]
Young	Margaret A.K.	27 March 1835	13 June 1894	[Wife of James G. Young]
Young	Robert	28 November 1798	28 January 1852
Young	Susan C.	20 September 1800	30 January 1831
Young	William	25 December 1802	2 December 1839
Young	William G.	2 March 1800	28 October 1862
Young	William Senior		20 May 1803	[In his 38th year]

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.

(The following information provided by contributor David Boyd):

The old road originally passed the cemetery and the old church. The Nickell’s place was north of the cemetery. This was later owned by Towsends and then Mohlers. All of the Dicksons are buried in the southwest corner of the cemetery. There are two markers for Arch. Campbell, both with the same inscription. William Patton’s grandmother was Virginia Nickell.

The listing in the Monroe Watchman, Union WV. 18 Jan. 1979 was originally compiled by Dr. Margaret Ballard and Mr. William Dickson, with help from the Mitchell sisters. Jay and Marty Banks, with help from Bill Patton, rechecked each marker in 1981.

Note: Bill Patton relates that Vernon, also known as V.C. Young, buried his wife here. He dreamed that she was in water and he had the grave opened and it was filled with water. She was Roberta HODGE, his first wife. He married two more times.

Note: The Reverend William Adair was the first settled minister for Old Lebanon A.R.P. church, 1806-1812. He resigned from the pulpit in 1812 but remained on as a member of the congregation.

This list was transcribed May 29, 2009, from the pages of “The Cemeteries of Monroe County, WV.” compiled & Edited by Haskell & Katheryn Shumate & James and Martha Banks. This copy is held at the West Virginia Cultural Center, Charleston, West Virginia.

Updated: 07 September 2012