West Virginia Cemetery Preservation Association: Sycamore Cemetery, Putnam Co.

Cemetery Reading

Cemetery Name:	Sycamore	Click on images above to enlarge
County:	Putnam
USGS Quad:	Hamlin Map
Coordinates:	38.3578ºN 82.0232ºW
Maintained by:	Unknown
Land owner:	Unknown
Date added to WVCPA register:	March 2009
Condition of cemetery**:	Excellent (March 2009)
Accessibility:	The cemetery is located on Sycamore Road, almost 2 miles north of Rt. 34 above the Sycamore Missionary Baptist Church. Easily accessible with ample off-road parking.
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:
Adkins	Elsie Craddock	21 October 1904	19 January 1934
Beckett	Tressa L.	1915	1951	"Mother"
Blankenship	Charles Russell	6 March 1909	5 March 1962	[WV PFC 4128 QM SERV CO WORLD WAR II]
Blankenship	Esther	1918	1960
Call	Ruby Kinder	25 March 1916	24 May 1985
Campbell	[Infants]	1968	1968
Campbell	Clara H.	19 July 1899
Campbell	Clate L.	1897	1963
Campbell	Clifton W.	1919	1985	[PVT US ARMY WORLD WAR II]
Campbell	Emma J.	1900	1943
Campbell	Ethel	15 April 1922	3 May 1976
Campbell	Frances M.	8 November 1866	19 July 1938
Campbell	H. Richard	20 October 1891	30 November 1960
Campbell	Harold M.	20 August 1923	13 February 1980	[SN US NAVY WORLD WAR II]
Campbell	Henry W.	22 March 1913	11 November 1971	[KENTUCKY S2 USNR WORLD WAR II]
Campbell	Infant	1909	1909	[Infant son of W.F. & Maud Campbell]
Campbell	Infant	1911	1911	[Infant son of W.F. & Maude Campbell]
Campbell	James Elias	1887	1969
Campbell	Maud C.	1882	1958	[Wife of W.F. Campbell]
Campbell	Oscar C.	13 September 1889	13 August 1962	[WEST VIRGINIA PVT US ARMY WORLD WAR I]
Campbell	Oscar C.	3 August 1919
Campbell	Robert L.	11 April 1963	23 June 1941
Campbell	Saba	1908	1979
Campbell	W.F.	1882	1948
Carrington	Viney	1815	1900	"First grave - Elvina "Aunt Viney" Carrington Born in slavery 1815, died in freedom 1900, given freedom in 1865, elected to remain with former owner Dr. William Matthews Family"
Cooper	America	1904	1970
Cooper	Clinton M.	1900	1963
Craddock	Anna	1876	1946	[Wife of Green Craddock]
Craddock	Bessie	1916	1918
Craddock	David	1869	1916
Craddock	Doctor L.	1876	1960	"Father"
Craddock	Durward	1925	1930
Craddock	Green	1874	1914
Craddock	Julia A.	1849
Craddock	Lula V.	1877	1967	"Mother" [Wife of Doctor L. Craddock]
Craddock	William C.	19 October 1903	25 November 1903	[Son of J.G. & Sarah A. Craddock]
Craddock	Waid	1900	1918
Damron	Brent E.	31 October 1955	5 February 1956
Davis	James A.	1905	1970
Ellis	Anna Hazel	1920	1961
Ellis	Infant			[Infant son of R.L. & Hazel Ellis]
Ellis	Raymond	1915
Fizer	Ada	1884	1906
Fizer	Alex P.	1878	1970
Fizer	Carl G.	1903	1944
Fizer	Charles Eugene	6 May 1961	6 May 1961
Fizer	Cornelia	1856	1932
Fizer	Dana Alpha	24 May 1908	13 March 1970	[Shared stone]
Fizer	Martha Lou	23 December 1914		[Shared stone]
Fizer	Edgar M.	1876	1948
Fizer	Elizabeth Deann	3 September 1956	23 October 1961
Fizer	Glennie	3 July 1901	28 August 1978	[Shared stone]
Fizer	Ella May	28 May 1921	22 December 1963	[Shared stone]
Fizer	Granville M.	7 February 1913	24 November 1995	[Husband and wife - shared stone] "In Loving Memory"
Fizer	Helen V.	4 June 1915	24 July 1992	[Husband and wife - shared stone] "In Loving Memory"
Fizer	Helen A.	1916	1916
Fizer	Homer C.	1896	1905
Fizer	Ida A.	1879	1964	[Wife of Edgar M. Fizer]
Fizer	James Columbus	1878	1959	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Fizer	Jennie Laura	1883	1962	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Fizer	James Homer	16 August 1935	3 January 1996	"Beloved son at rest"
Fizer	Lula	1889	1906
Fizer	Lula M.	1896	1921
Fizer	Marion C.	1886	1973	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Fizer	Edna E.	1889	1966	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Fizer	Moses L.	25 February 1849	24 October 1937	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Fizer	Christa A.	27 May 1847	16 June 1918	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Fizer	Ora C.	1892	1909
Fizer	Peter A.	25 December 1886	12 December 1918	"At Rest"
Fizer	Peter V.	1855	1901
Fizer	Peter W.	7 November 1822	3 March 1907	"CO. G 8 VA. CAV. C.S.A." [Husband and wife - shared stone]
Fizer	Margaret R.	8 May 1927	7 April 1911	"CO. G 8 VA. CAV. C.S.A." [Husband and wife - shared stone]
Fizer	Shirley W.	1912	1984
Fizer	Thurman W.	22 October 1913	3 November 1919	[Shared stone]
Fizer	Raymond C.	25 April 1919	20 August 1921	[Shared stone]
Fizer	William A.	1874	1922	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Fizer	Valerie	1876	1918	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Garrett	Harry			[Allen Funeral Home marker]
Garrett	Katherine			[Allen Funeral Homer marker]
Garrett	Loma M.	20 August 1905	23 July 1998
Garrett	Oscar Lee	22 November 1898	13 October 1976
Garrett	Robert L.			"CO. C 26 VA. INF. C.S.A."
Garrett	Robert Sim	1885	1923
Garrett	S. E.	1866	1898
Garrett	Teddy Edward	22 August 1933	2 July 1998	"SP3 US ARMY"
Garrett	Virginia Matthews	15 February 1885	27 January 1969	[Wife of Sim Garrett]
Garrett	William A.	1865	1946	"Father" [Husband and wife - shared stone] "Mother" "Sweet be thy sleep" "Kind and loving were your ways, Faithful, fond, and true, Tears and heartaches still remain, Parents, dear, for you."
Garrett	Anner L.	1868	1936
Henson				[family plot marker?]
Henson	Andrew J.	8 September 1893	12 November 1971	[WEST VIRGINIA PFC US ARMY WORLD WAR I]
Henson	Charles F.	1 February 1925	3 February 1979	[HA 1 US NAVY WORLD WAR II]
Henson	Mae	1894	1974
Hicks	A. A.	1852	1913
Hicks	Benjamin F.	22 November 1879	28 March 1905	[Aged 25Ys 4Ms 6Ds]
Hicks	James E.	7 November 1888	31 December 1905	[Aged 17Ys 1M 24Ds]
Hicks	Lula	1886	1952
Hicks	Mary A.	30 January 1850	22 April 1090	[Wife of A.A. Hicks, aged 58Ys 9Ms 22Ds]
Hicks	Oscar	1885	1974
Huff	Danny Lee	27 January 1933	23 March 1970	[SSGT US ARMY KOREA & VIETNAM]
Huff	Hazel M.	1934		[Wife of Danny Lee Huff]
Hysell	Allen	1854	1925	[Husband and wife - shared stone] "His Wife"
Hysell	Laura	1853	1929	[Husband and wife - shared stone] "His Wife"
Johnson	Beulah Myrtle	24 May 1905	29 January 1984
Johnson	Ella M.	30 December 1886	12 November 1971
Johnson	Laurence G.	23 May 1883	23 October 1937
Johnson	T. H.			[Son - Grandson]
Johnson	Thomas H.		1916
Jordan	Effie	21 June 1900	19 January 1985
Jordan	Emma	1871	1928
Jordan	Jewell	9 March 1920	9 February 1973	[Dau. of Effie Jordan]
Jordan	Johnie Lee	7 November 1894	19 January 1985	[41st CO 11th TRAINING BATT.]
Jordan	Lena M.	1907	1935
Jordan	William	15 September 1869	10 October 1905
Kinder	Birdie Jewell	16 December 1906
Kinder	Calvin	1925	1926
Kinder	Eldridge Eugene	28 August 1918	11 July 1925
Kinder	Elizabeth	1867	1941
Kinder	Floyd S.	1888	1967
Kinder	Harrison	1890	1905
Kinder	Henry J.			[CO. B 7th W.VA. CAV]
Kinder	Hulda A.	16 August 1898	8 August 1978
Kinder	Infant	1909	1909
Kinder	J. Howard	3 April 1893	12 November 1975
Kinder	Mary Letha	17 January 1902	3 February 1970
Kinder	Olison Cassedy	21 December 1898	10 October 1980
Kinder	Patricia Ann	1958	1958
Kinder	William H.	1866	1944
Kinder	William Roy	18 May 1897	17 August 1985
Lake	Don E.	2 September 1918	17 September 1993	[Husband and wife - shared stone] "In Loving Memory"
Lake	Nancy Ann	28 June 1922	18 June 1979	[Husband and wife - shared stone] "In Loving Memory"
Lake	Randal Edward	8 March 1959	8 March 1959
Laughery	Brenda Gail	1962	1962
Matthews	Effie B.	1892	1980
Matthews	John F.	1888	1962
Matthews	John W.	1828	1910
Matthews	Margaret E. Paul	1854	1937
Matthews	Mary Elizabeth	1890	1956
Matthews	William	1881	1947
Mays	Randy Keith	1954	1981	[LT JG US NAVY]
McMillin	Lillie Kinder Stone	1894	1979
Meadows	Oliver	1911	1978	[Twin of Sanford]
Meadows	Sanford	1911	1979	[Twin of Oliver - WORLD WAR II veteran]
Miller	Bill	1907	1981
Miller	Charlie C.	1901	1980
Miller	Cleo W. "Joe"	6 October 1903	2 April 1986
Miller	Dovie Anna	17 April 1904	4 November 1986	[Wife of "Joe" Miller]
Miller	Ellen	1905	1966
Miller	Floyd K.	1882	1950
Miller	H. J.	1876	1943
Miller	Iva J.	1879	1957	[Wife of H.J. Miller]
Miller	John A.			"CO. C 8 VA. CAV. C.S.A."
Miller	L. D.
Miller	Leafie M.	1886	1961
Miller	Leva Jean		5 June 2010	[75 years of age - wife of Harley Miller - from her obituary in the Charleston Daily Mail June 8, 2010]
Miller	Minnie S.	1906	1978
Miller	Roscoe L.	1899	1967
Miller	Virgie	1903
Mitchell	Edgar Lewis	17 September 1920	27 August 1984	[US NAVY WORLD WAR II]
Mitchell	Infant			[Infant child of Mr. & Mrs. Virgil Mitchell]
Mitchell	Joseph
Mitchell	Joseph M.
Mitchell	Neeta	26 October 1909	11 September 1929
Mitchell	Rosa M.	1923
Myers	Burneard	28 March 1903	16 August 1976	[grave located outside of cemetery bounds]
Oxley	Regena Diann	28 September 1938	20 January 1952
Painter	Ralph H.	1896	1974	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Painter	Veda V.	1899	1957	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Rice				[Child of Ida May Rice]
Rice	Alice R.	1 March 1907	10 January 1982
Rice	Annie May	8 May 1910	8 May 1910	[Dau. of W.M. & I.F. Rice]
Rice	Chas. Dove		10 July 1920
Rice	Charles F.	29 January 1902	27 December 1943
Rice	David	1860	1918
Rice	Elba	1886	1968
Rice	Flora Zella	1883	1960	[Wife of Elba Rice]
Rice	G. L.	1909	1924
Rice	Gary R.	25 September 1940	15 July 1985	[PVT US ARMY]
Rice	Ida May	2 July 1871	3 June 1948
Rice	James E.	1920	1957
Rice	James R.	30 April 1960	27 July 1985
Rice	Lewis H.	1898	1926
Rice	Louisa	1862	1933
Rice	Margaret Elizabeth	6 August 1871	17 April 1943	"At Rest"
Rice	Patricia C.	11 March 1948	11 March 1948
Rice	Teca Doll		15 November 1918
Rice	Virginia Ruth	15 February 1928	26 May 1946
Rice	William			[CO. H 6 OHIO CAV]
Rice	Lennie A.	13 October 1920
Rice	Luther L.	4 November 1911	18 February 1967
Rice	Noah	6 May 1865	8 April 1950
Riddle	Buford J.	7 August 1895	31 August 1942
Riddle	Fitzhue	1898	1969
Riddle	Infant	18 June 1942	18 June 1942	[Dau. of Kyle & Mary Riddle]
Riddle	Reva I.	1907
Riddle	Sadie A.	7 October 1899	23 June 1975
Riddle	Sallie G.	1865	1909
Riddle	W. T.	1847	1930	[CO. C 36th VA CAV BAT]
Sergent	Rosa Lee	2 October 1928		[Wife of Wm. Gerald Sergent]
Sergent	Sarah Selena	25 February 1981	25 February 1981	[Dau. of Allen & Vanessa Sergent]
Sergent	Wm. Gerald	18 December 1925	21 February 1981
Sesher	Dorabelle Kinder	1923	1951	[Dau. of J.H. & H.A. Kinder]
Smith	Bessie M.	1906		[Wife of Joel T. Smith]
Smith	Jeanna Ann	7 October 1980	7 October 1980
Smith	Joel T.	1900	1960
Smith	Louis H. ?		17 November 1986	[Age 56 yrs]
Spurlock	Amy Beth	1969	1969
Stanley	Lottie	1884	1977	[Wife of Richard Stanley]
Stanley	Richard	1877	1962
Stone	J. F.	6 May 1876	23 July 1926
Stone	William S.	1882	1963
Sumner	Ronald E.	1901	1976
Tackett	Agnes Welch	1893	1923
Tackett	W. A.	24 October 1887	31 May 1902
Thompson	J. F.	20 January 1869	5 November 1919
Villers	Eldridge	2 February 1888	10 October 1968
Villers	Myrtie	17 October 1894	10 February 1975
Welch	Polina	30 May 1855	10 February 1924	[Wife of D. Welch]
Wheeler	M. Garnet Rice	31 July 1917	14 June 1985
Wheeler	Tinley R.	25 August 1910

Comments:

[history board at the cemetery]

Sycamore Cemetery, Putnam Co., WV - Elvina "Aunt Viney" Carrington's memorial marker

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.

According to Aunt Viney Carrington's monument, this cemetery was established in 1898.

WVCPA thanks our contributor Melissa Fizer Conley for the photos on this page. Thank you, Melissa!

A prior reading of this cemetery was conducted by Paul and Ruth Ellis of the Upper Vandalia Historical Society in September of 1986

Updated: 07 September 2012