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suggestions, remarks, etc. ~ County Coordinator
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Pocahontas County Cemeteries
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SURVEY SOURCE
Note: Allegheny Regional
Family History Society (ARHFS) survey listings
are viewable online only if you are a member of the society. Otherwise,
you can view cemetery location, directions, and notes.
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DEER CREEK? |
"out of Cass down below Water
Treatment Plan..." |
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Help needed - location, directions, info, survey |
DEER CREEK? |
"family plot on South Fork
of Deer Creek..." |
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Help needed - location, directions, info, survey |
Denmar
Correctional Center / State Colored Tuberculosis Sanitarium |
Denmar |
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WV
Division of History and Culture |
DILLEY |
from Rt 28 |
Complete 1999 |
ARFHS
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DILLEY-CHRIS |
Dunmore |
Complete 1990 |
ARFHS
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DILLEY-GORDON |
Marlinton |
Complete 1989 |
ARFHS
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DRAFT |
near Minnehaha Springs United Methodist
Church? |
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Help needed - location, directions, info, survey |
DROOP CHURCH / CEMETERY
AKA "Old Droop Church" |
"near Trump run, close to Denmar..."
$$$ Donations $$$ |
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Help needed - survey |
DUFFIELD
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Jerico Rd |
Complete 1989 |
Submitted by M.
Donahue -and-
ARFHS |
DUNMORE |
Dunmore |
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DURBIN |
Durbin Pocahontas Times articles. |
Complete 1993 |
ARFHS
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Cemetery: Deer Creek ? - "family
plot on South fork of Deer Creek"
- Gramp, Barbara, Re: Deer Creek. Record found
for Oscar Brison WOODDELL on Ancestry World Tree www.ancestry.com.,
had "note" regardin "family plot on South fork of Deer Creek."
Cemetery: Deer Creek - Info
on a cemetery
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Sharp, Mary - Re:Info on Deer Creek Cemetery.
22Oct2001. Personal email --> "... Also there is a Cemetery
in Deer Creek WV. It is right out of Cass WV down below the Water
Treatment Plant. It is on left side of road. You will see sign on
right. The Cemetery is in bad shape. A few tomb stones, but mostly
they are rocks to mark graves and metal poles. It is unfenced I
have a couple relatives there. This seems like a different Cemetery
than one on your site that is called baby cemetery."
Cemetery: Draft Cemetery
- Gramp, Barbara - Re: Draft Cemetery. 11Nov2001.
The Pocahontas Times, of March 29,1973, Obituary for Mrs. Lonnie Waugh
(Matilda B. Rucker). Services held in the Minnehaha Springs United
Methodist Church. with burial in the Draft Cemetery.
Cemetery: Droop Church - "location
of "
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McCaslin, Colette Perkins Re: Location of
Droop Church. 08May2001. Personal email -->"...it is located
on Spice Run. I believe it is left off 219 by the General Store
in Hillsboro. Old cow path road and out past the bridge at Locust
Creek up the hill and sets in on the left. The building from 1865
stills stands all boarded up. Double check directions a little more...."
- McClure, John Re: Location of Droop Church/Cemetery.
14Dec2001. Personal email --> "...Route 219 south from Hillsboro
to County Road 20 to the covered bridge where I got on County Road
31 and headed toward Greenbrier County. You could take Road 31 from
Hillsboro as the directions on the Cemetery Identification web page
indicate. ...I have attached a picture
of the church. It is now referred to as the Old Droop Church. There
are several dozen graves including many Callisons, at least two McClures,
and David James and daughters. I also saw Callihan, Hannah and McKeever
surnames. "
Cemetery:
Old Droop Cemetery - DONATIONS
- The Pocahontas Times, Vol. 122-No.44, 14Apr2005,
Page 1. DONATIONS: Old Droop Cemetery. Send your donation to Sandy
Simmons, Hillsboro, WV 24946, or to Steve McCoy, HC 64, Box 228,
Hillsboro, WV 24946
- The Pocahontas Times, VOL. 123 - NO. 3,
June 23, 2005, Page 1. Cemetery Notices. Anyone with family or friends
buried in the Old Droop Cemetery is urged to send donations for
the upkeep. We cannot continue to have it mowed if the funds aren't
available. Please send your donation to Sandy Simmons, Hillsboro,
WV 24946, or to Steve McCoy, HC 64, Box 228, Hillsboro, WV 24946
- The Pocahontas Times, Vol 123, NO. 15, September
15, 2005, Page 2. Cemetery Notices. Old Droop Church and Cemetery.
Any person with family or friends buried at the Old droop Church
is urged to send monetary donations for upkeep of the cemetery and
church to any one of the four trustees as listed below. Receipts
will be issued and yearly statements will be given to anyone requesting
one. Discussions are on-going concerning repairs to the church as
well as a perpetual fund for cemetery care. Please send your comments
or concerns to one of the trustees.
- Sandy Simmons, Hillsboro, WV 24946 /
Steve McCoy, HC 64, Box 228, Hillsboro, WV 24946 / James L.
McCoy, Jr., HC 64, Box 230, Hillsboro, WV 24946 / Gary W. Cochran,
4702 Catawba Road, Troutville, Virginia, 24175.
Cemetery:
Durbin Cemetery
Gramp, Barbara Re: Durbin Cemetery. 06June2002.
The Pocahontas Times, published June 6, 2002, article "Locked cemetery
gate puzzles Durbin Town Council" by Jason Bauserman. "Why the
gate locked at the Durbin Cemetery? That's the question Emma Grace Nottingham
wanted answered at the Durbin Town Council meeting Monday night. Council
members Donald Peck and Bill Rexrode agreed the gate was installed soon
after the Pocahontas County Board of Educaiton sold the Durbin School
property in the mid-1970s to a private individual. Nottingham presented
a key that had opened the gate for years; however, a new owner evidently
atached a new combination lock on the gate. The woman said she has paid
for the upkeep of the cemetery for the past 40 years and it is very hard
to get a lawn mower around the gate. She also claimed the gate is very
heavy for an older person to swing open. She said the owner offered to
disclose the combination to her, but she did not accept it. She said there
was a right-of-way across the private property to the cemetery and she
felt there should be open access. Mayor John Bosely said he gave the owner
permission to lock the gate with a combination lock. Recorder Renee Downing
said she wrote a letter to the owner stating the above. No council members
could recall this coming before them for a vote. According to West Virginia
law, the property owner must provide access to family members of the deceased.
Neither a mayor nor a town council has any authority over cemetery access.
Bosely said he had the combination number and he would unlock the gate
so mowing could take place. He acknowledged the town is responsible for
the upkeep of the cemetery. "The town appreciates all you've done," Bosely
told Nottingham. Downing was instructed to research the deed to find out
if a right-of-way was written in by the Board of Education. In other business,
the mayor said tonnage to the Pocahontas County Landfill had increased
dramatically. Council will try to observe where the extra trash is coming
from. " This article was copied with the
permission of The Pocahontas Times editor Pam Pritt.
Gramp, Barbara Re: Durbin Cemetery. 14July2006. The Pocahontas Times.
The news for the week of July 13, 2006 (Online). Durbin cemetery topic
at town meeting.
Jason Bauserman
Contributing Writer
Monday was discussion night at Durbin Town Council.
The posted agenda included only the reading of minutes and the financial
statement; however, the minutes were not read since the acting recorder,
Frank Proud, was late and did not have the minutes available.
Emma Grace Nottingham, keeper of the town cemetery, registered a complaint
with council about the cemetery's upkeep.
Nottingham said she hired Julian Waddell to mow and trim at the cemetery
for $100.
Waddell had no equipment, and asked Mayor Mike Vance, to use the town
mower and weedeater, she continued.
Vance, who had checked with council members Nancy Benetato and Donald
Peck, approved Waddell's use of the equipment, she said.
But Nottingham read a statement signed by Waddell claiming council wanted
$80 to use the equipment.
Peck said he had asked Waddell to mow and trim for the Durbin Centennial
Celebration. In return, Peck said, he gave Waddell his own equipment.
"We'll just take the cemetery back over because we have three town
workers," Vance told Nottingham.
"I'll have to talk to my lawyer," Nottingham responded.
Nottingham also told council that the town gets nothing from tourists
who ride the Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad. She suggested that
each train rider be taxed at 50¢...
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