West Virginia Cemetery Preservation Association: Atkeson Cemetery, Putnam Co., WV

Cemetery Reading

Cemetery Name:	Atkeson	Click images to enlarge
County:	Putnam
USGS Quad:	Robertsburg Map
Coordinates:	38.6409ºN -81.9537ºW
Maintained by:	Not maintained
Land owner:	Unknown
Date added to WVCPA register:	February 2009
Condition of cemetery**:	Poor (August 2008)
Accessibility:	Somewhat accessible, though some walking may be needed to get up to the cemetery, particularly if there has been some rain (due to excessive mud) - located approximately two miles north of Buffalo on Rt. 62 - the access road is very close to where the train track crosses Rt. 62.
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:
Arbuckle	James H.	26 April 1852	12 March 1929
Arbuckle	Mary E.	29 March 1889	29 November 1959
Atkeson	Miss America B.	2 September 1837	20 December 1872	"Dau. of Thos. & Virginia H. Atkeson" "Aged 35Ys. 3Ms. 18Ds." [Rest of inscription illegible]
Atkeson	Floyd Winston	8 June 1840	19 February 1859	"Farewell" "Son of Thos. & V.H. Atkeson" "Aged 18Ys. 8Ms. 11Ds." [Rest of inscription illegible]
Atkeson	Jasper Newton		21 December 1851	[Son of Thomas and Virginia Atkeson, Aged 5ys 9ms 21ds]
Atkeson	Karl Clark	25 June 1882	6 December 1964	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Atkeson	Mary Elizabeth Thomas	10 June 1884	25 September 1964	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Atkeson	Thomas	16 September 1804	11 September 1888	[Rest of the inscription illegible]
Atkeson	Thomas Clark	1852	1935	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Atkeson	Cordelia Meek	1856	1940	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Atkeson	Virginia H.		7 December 1870	[Wife of Thomas Atkeson, Aged 52y 9m 21ds]
Aylor	Matie A.	1 July 1839	19 July 1888
Barber	Lewis Allen	13 November 1871	18 August 1939	[No marker found - from family records]
Barrows	Frank L.	1859	1936
Barrows	Maggie L.	23 August 1865	1 June 1906	"Wife of Frank L. Barrows"
Bowling	Frances Ann		26 January 1871	[Aged 57ys 5ms 10ds]
Bowling	[Infant]		16 April 1860	[Son of J.S. and Martha Bowling]
Bowling	James S.		3 January 1871	[Aged 43ys 5ms 11ds]
Bowling	Lewis L.	October 1793	1 December 1869	[Aged 75ys 10ms 14ds]
Bowling	Louis Francis, M.D.	1861	1937
Bronaugh	E.A.	1843	1925	[C.S.A. veteran]
Bronaugh	L.L.	1810	1883
Bronaugh	Lewis L.	5 August 1855	28 September 1888
Bronaugh	Mary E.	8 July 1848	6 March 1849	[Dau. of L.L. and S.A. Bronaugh]
Bronaugh	Robert W.	1850	1864
Bronaugh	Sarah A.	1818	1912	[Wife of L.L. Bronaugh]
Bronaugh	William D.	18 November 1845	5 September 1859	[Son of L.L. and S.A. Bronaugh]
Brown	Nancy L.	24 April 1890	5 February 1911	[Dau. of M.H. and M.M. Brown]
Burdette	A.E.	1850	1893	[Wife of J.A. Burdette]
Burdette	J.A.	1844	1917
Burdette	[3 children]			[Children of J.A. and A.E. Burdette]
Cobb	Francis Oliver	1852	1941
Cobb	Luvenia Alice	1858	1952
Collins	Hon. James H.	13 August 1840	31 October 1907	[CO. H 12 O.V.I., I.O.O.F.]
Erwin	Anna M.	1866	1915	[Wife of J.E. Erwin]
Fife	Amanda Y.	1875	1944
Fife	Anna K.	1881	1929
Fife	Charles T.	20 May 1836	19 July 1893
Fife	Houston B.	1872	1949
Fife	Mary Elizabeth		27 May 1886	[Age 20 years]
Fife	Nannie R.	1873	1907
Fife	Robert G.	1877	1954
Fife	Sarah B.	1836	1915
Fife	Thomas L.	7 September 1869	4 February 1893
Foster	Bessie Sterrett	19 May 1876	22 December 1971
Gates	Alonzo Cushing	April 1856	18 November 1927	[Son of D.H. and R.A. Gates]
Gates	Benjamin Phillip	19 November 1930	29 March 1977	[Son of B.P. and P.E. Gates]
Gates	Benjamin Prentiss	20 April 1895	10 July 1932	[Son of M.Virgil and Kate Wilson Gates]
Gates	Daniel Haskell	15 October 1826	29 March 1909	[Son of Moses and Harriet Baltzell Gates]
Gates	"Kate" Ellen Wilson	25 December 1857	16 August 1953	[Dau. of John and Mary Trent Wilson]
Gates	Mary Elizabeth	15 March 1899	23 October 1919	[Dau. of Moses V. and Catherine E. "Kate" Gates]
Gates	Moses Virgil	6 January 1854	12 January 1924	[Son of D.H. and R.A. Gates]
Gates	Pearl Elizabeth Olson	14 February 1895	29 June 1950	[Wife of B.P. Gates]
Gates	Rebecca Arabel Goodno	18 January 1834	3 April 1908	[Wife of Daniel H. Gates]
Gates	Virgil Lewis	21 June 1925	22 January 1974	[Son of B.P. and P.E. Gates]
George	Beverly R.			[VIRGINIA PVT CO. A 36th REGT VA INF C.S.A.]
Gillispie	Betty Louise	17 May 1938	19 May 1938	[Infant dau. of David and Elizabeth (Barber) Gillispie - unmarked grave]
Good	Jesse L.	20 May 1853	20 December 1908	[CSA Veteran 1861-1865]
Goodall	Bettie T.	1843	1885	[Wife of Wm. L. Goodall]
Goodall	William L.	1845	1931
Goodall	[2 children]			[Presumed to be children of Wm. and Bettie Goodall]
Green	Stella Holstein	25 November 1881	24 April 1909	[Wife of T.R. Green]
Green	Stella Marie	20 April 1909	21 April 1909	[Dau. of T.R. and Stella Green]
Grimes	George W.	6 April 1835	2 July 1917
Grimes	Giles	8 May 1868	6 July 1897	[Son of G.W. and M. Grimes]
Grimes	James C.	31 October 1904	9 November 1905	[Son of Wilson and Sophie Grimes]
Grimes	John L.V.	2 April 1873	1 September 1900	[Son of G.W. and M. Grimes]
Grimes	Mahala	2 June 1834	5 August 1908	[Wife of George W. Grimes]
Grimes	Wilson H.	8 August 1901	9 November 1936	[Also a marker for him at Buffalo Memorial Park along with his parents and now late wife Rhoda May - he preceded her in death by almost 60 years. Quite possible that his body was moved to Buffalo Memorial Park in more recent years?]
Harris	Joe
Henson	M.W.	1841	1908	[Wife of J.A. Henson]
Higginbotham	Grace E.	1872	1969	[Dau. of H.C. and L.A. Wilson]
Higginbotham	Ira Edgar	1866	1942
Higginbotham	Leander	1842	1925
Higginbotham	Marcella F.	3 June 1844	10 April 1901
Hoge	Mary M.	7 December 1811	4 October 1894	[Wife of Peter Hoge]
Holstein	[Daughter]	20 December 1869	21 January 1873	[Dau. of P.F. and R.E. Holstein]
Holstein	John P.	1874	1929
Holstein	Loise	27 December 1889	9 October 1907	[Dau. of P.F. and R.E. Holstein]
Holstein	Lona M. Cooper	1878	1963
Holstein	Perry F.	10 February 1847	18 March 1918
Holstein	R. Ellen	14 November 1851	10 April 1919	[Wife of Perry F. Holstein]
Hopkins	John R.		3 May 1875	[Aged 83ys 9ms 11ds]
Johnson	David			"Son"
Johnson	Edward	26 September 1822	29 January 1902
Johnson	Mary Jane	25 January 1829	27 March 1906
Jones	Lida	1852	1938
Jones	Lucy Neale	1854	1924
Jones	Richard	1861	1938
Jones	Sallie A.	1829	1896	[Wife of Wm. H. Jones]
Jones	William H.	1823	1911
Jones	William Jackson	1859	1934
Knapp	Nancy J. Good	1860	1952
Lester	Ann M.		9 September 1874	[Wife of H.B. Lester, Aged 40ys 6ms 5ds]
Lester	Susan K.		3 December 1872	[Wife of H.B. Lester, Aged 28ys 9ms 6ds]
Love	Edith B.		17 May 1896	[Dau. of G.A. and F.E. Love, Aged 8ms 7ds]
Love	Edith B.	1861	1931
Love	Grace	11 October 1898	22 January 1899	[Dau. of G.A. and F.E. Love]
Love	R. Edwin		8 November 1894	[Son of G.A. and F.E. Love, Aged 10ms 21ds]
Lyons	Alta Ann Bennett	23 October 1877	23 March 1955	[Wife of Samuel D. Lyons]
Lyons	Samuel Dennis	10 May 1875	5 January 1962
Martin	Efphemy	1852	1933	"Mother"
Martin	Frances	19 December 1902	9 March 1909
Martin	Taylor	1851	1918	"Father"
Mason	James H.	1841	1905
Mason	James M.		1883	[Aged 26ys 2ms 9ds]
Mason	Mary V.	1853	1884	[Wife of James H. Mason]
McClung	Karla Ann	6 September 1942	16 March 1948	"Daughter of Dee __ Virginia ___n McClung"
McCoy	G.			[C.S.A. 1861-1865]
McCoy	Georgia	1856	1891	[Dau. of A.P. and Mary R. McDermitt]
McDermitt	A.P.	1832	1899
McDermitt	Mary R.	1836	1912	[Wife of A.P. McDermitt]
Moore	Mary Meek Atkeson, Ph.D. Litt. D.	1884	1971	[Marker only - she is buried in Midland, OH beside her husband Blaine Free Moore, Ph.D.]
Plunkett	Jesse T.	1852	1935
Plunkett	Napoleon B.		26 January 1888	[Aged 66ys 1m 27ds]
Plunkett	Saran E.	1861	1933	[Wife of Jesse T. Plunkett]
Plunkett	Susan R.		16 February 1888	[Wife of Napoleon B. Plunkett, aged 65ys 2ms 8ds]
Plunkett	W.W.	14 December 1869	8 February 1892
Ripley				[Family plot marker]
Ripley	Andrew	3 January 1880	5 February 1938
Ripley	Mary Verla	24 August 1879	18 April 1971
Roberts	Cecilia	27 September 1838	15 May 1910	[Born at Barthgate, Linlithgowshire, Scotland]
Roberts	David A.	5 March 1895	25 March 1903	[Son of D.A. and M.R. Roberts]
Roberts	David Arthur	1866	1915
Roberts	Emma Diehl	1878	1935	[Wife of David Arthur Roberts]
Roberts	Mertie Roselma Grimes	14 December 1870	2 January 1900
Roberts	Samuel	18 February 1836	26 January 1923	[Born at Walswell, England]
Roberts	Samuel F.	8 July 1896	8 April 1903	[Son of D.A. and M.R. Roberts]
Safreed	Ephraim B.	1879	1905	[U.S. NAVY SP.AMERICAN WAR]
Salmonds	Leah F.	5 May 1888	11 November 1908	[Dau. of E.B. and Emma Benson]
Sprinkle	Mary E.	30 June 1839	19 June 1917	[Dau. of Madison James and Sarah Vandiver Priest, born in Shelby Co., Missouri, wife of Robert M. Sprinkle of Boone Co., Missouri]
Stephens	Elizabeth Kimbrel	November 1869	9 April 1909	[Daughter of James & Annie Kimbrel, first wife of Millard Stephens - buried just inside the main gate to the right near a tree]
Sterrett	Ann H.	1848	1930	[Wife of Samuel A. Sterrett]
Sterrett	Benjamin H.	14 January 1814	15 March 1892	[C.S.A. veteran]
Sterrett	Catherine M.	7 October 1818	31 August 1892
Sterrett	Elizabeth E.	1839	1921
Sterrett	Evelyn	12 October 1869	27 January 1956
Sterrett	Frances	1844	1897
Sterrett	Kathryn	21 August 1885	18 May 1966
Sterrett	Mary L.	28 May 1872	12 July 1955
Sterrett	Roslyn	26 March 1888	4 July 1973
Sterrett	Samuel A.	1841	1937
Stone				[Mother & Father]
Summerfield	Ruth G.
Swindler	John W.		12 April 1906	[Wagoner 7 W.Va. Cav.]
Swindler	Mary E.	1862	1927	"Mother"
Timms	Grace P.	22 February 1878	4 October 1911	[Wife of Lewis J. Timms]
Timms	Lewis J.	19 January 1842	15 January 1918	[C.S.A. veteran 1861-1865]
Tyree	John M.		14 October 1880	[Aged 38ys 6ms 15ds]
Tyree	Margaret McClung		28 January 1880	[Wife of Francis Tyree, age 65 years]
Waggener	Bettie Easthamb	27 October 1856	2 October 1906
Waggener	Frances A.	1884	1918	[Wife of John A. Waggener]
Waggener	John A.	24 December 1880	9 July 1955
Waggener	John Arbuckle	21 October 1913	3 June 1936
Waggener	Kate E. Arbuckle	1885	1937	[Wife of John A. Waggener]
Waggener	Rhoda Gertrude	12 February 1887	30 June 1906
Walter	Andrew	9 April 1871
Walter	Mary	28 May 1872		[Wife of Andrew Walter]
Walter	Pearl B.	14 September 1893	8 July 1909	[Dau. of A. and M. Walter]
Whittington	Nellie D.	11 January 1884	10 June 1911	[Wife of Floyd Whittington]
Wilcoxon	Abigail L.	1842	1915
Wilcoxon	Alpha D.	13 October 1875	15 April 1950	[PVT 2nd W.Va. Inf Sp. American War]
Wilcoxon	John S.	1841	1916	"CO. C 9 W.VA. INF."
Wilson	Boyd Clay	18 January 1870	25 July 1904
Wilson	Dennis Kerney	1881	1969
Wilson	Edward N.	1858	1938
Wilson	Evaline G.	1833	1892
Wilson	Harry R.	27 March 1885	16 January 1963
Wilson	Henry C.	9 October 1850	8 July 1906
Wilson	James A.	1830	1902
Wilson	John S.			[Co C 9th W.Va. Inf.]
Wilson	Kate Martin	1882	1956	"In Loving Memory"
Wilson	Laura A.	1 June 1851	30 June 1921	[Wife of Henry C. Wilson]
Wolfe	Frances J.	1849	1926
Wolfe	Thomas R.	29 February 1844	7 January 1918
Womeldorf	Charles R.		29 September 1890	[Aged 3ys 11ms 29ds]
Womeldorf	D.L.	7 June 1830	19 April 1910
Womeldorf	Erna H.	1863	1909	[Son of J.T. and E.H. Womeldorf]
Womeldorf	Lissa R.	31 January 1845	2 December 1895	[Wife of D.L. Womeldorf]
Wright	Alice Martin	26 January 1872	9 March 1909	"Dau. of A.T. Martin" "Wife of Thomas Wright" "Gone But Not Forgotten"
Wylie	Alice G.		3 June 1873	[Dau. of Wm.G. and J. Wylie, aged 12ys 10ms 21ds]
Unidentified or Unmarked Graves:
				[Unmarked grave of a C.S.A. veteran 1861-1865]
				[Four unmarked graves, footstones only, in the Roberts family plot]

Comments:	Dates or information in Red type from research on the individual, dates based on age at death as indicated on the tombstone. WVCPA thanks our dedicated volunteer, Angela Harkins, for submitting the photos for this page and assisting on the research of this cemetery. She notes that when she visited the cemetery in August 2008, it was in very poor condition, and others in her party observed fresh bear scat in the cemetery. As in all 'backwoods' cemeteries, do use caution with regard to wildlife, big and small. Click on photos to enlarge
	<< Tombstones too overgrown with underbrush to identify Atkeson family graves >>
	View from the middle of the cemetery >> << WVCPA volunteer looking over the cemetery
	<< Family plot - name unknown Overview of the cemetery - note the deer in the background >> Additional photos - many of stones hidden in the underbrush and tall grass ↓↓ ↓↓

Updated: 17 February 2013