Isaac Family Cemetery information, Wayne County West Virginia
The Isaac Family Cemetery,
Flatbranch Mill Creek Road, Fort Gay, Wayne County, West Virginia

Information submitted by Carolyn Adkins, great-granddaughter of Ben Martin Isaac

    Family members state that Benjamin Martin Isaac owned the land that this Cemetery was started on and that his son Joseph was the first to be interred there in 1886. Although records don't show the burial of Ben, he is interred here. My mother once showed me that to the left of Joseph is a grave, that of her Grandfather ( Benjamin Martin Isaac). I'm not sure of the burial site for Rutha, but I do know there was a Cemetery on the left fork of Mill Creek Road, and Mom believes she is buried there.

    The Isaac Family Cemetery is about one-eighth of a mile from the old homestead that was being lived in in 1975. The floors are of dirt, and it may no longer be standing (as of 2006). Ben bought the property in 1886 when he and Rutha were first wed. After Rutha's death in 1875 he remarried a younger woman named Minta Francis Cook. Ben died in 1897.

  • Pansy Diamond (1943-1981) d/o Benjamin Martin and Mary O'Brien Isaac (cancer)
  • Infant Isaac (3/3/1949) d/o Benjamin Martin and Mary O'Brien Isaac (pneumonia)
  • Joseph Isaac (3/22/1886-3/29/1917) s/o Benjamin Martin Isaac and Minta Francis Cook (pneumonia)
  • William Alexander Isaac (3/30/1891-2/20/1965) h/o Hattie Music s/o Benjamin Martin and Minta Francis Cook Isaac (brain trauma)
  • Hattie Isaac (3/4/1893-5/10/1957) w/o William, d/o Alanzo David Music and Mary Elizabeth Blankenship (heart failure)
  • Tommy Francis Isaac (3/1931-7/10/1951) s/o William and Hattie Music Isaac (gunshot wounds)
  • William Alexander Isaac Jr. (3/10/1918-11/19/1949) s/o William and Hattie Music Isaac (pneumonia)
  • Alonzo Isaac (May 27 1921-12/1/1960) s/o William and Hattie Music Isaac (suicide)
  • Alberta "Birdie" Isaac (1939-1941) d/o William and Hattie Music Isaac (pneumonia)
  • Frank Isaac (6/21/1926-5/4/1927) s/o Wm. & Hattie (Music) Isaac
  • Ellen Isaac (7/4/1948-4/21/1961) d/o Benjamin Martin and Mary O'Brien Isaac (injuries received in a fire)
  • Mary Isaac (7/12/1918-3/16/1966) w/o Benjamin Martin Isaac, d/o ? O'Brien (Cancer)
  • Benjamin Martin Isaac (5/19/1914-2/9/1972) h/o Mary O'Brien, s/o William & Hattie Music Isaac (pneumonia)
  • Edward Isaac (1/16/1925-1/16/1925) s/o Samuel H. and Eva Pratt Isaac
  • Mintie F. Isaac (6-1862-1949) Minta Francis Cook /Isaac/Salmon w/o Benjamin Martin Isaac, d/o John Henry and Winnie Johnson Harrison Cook (natural)
  • Phyllis Ann Smith (10/31/1951-8/28/1952) d/o Walter and Elizabeth Isaac Smith (heart complication at birth)
  • Peggy Jane Isaac (1/14/1948-1/14/1948) d/o Carl and Gladys Isaac Hunt
  • Cemetery book showed 1 unmarked grave. It is the grave of Benjamin Martin Isaac Sr. 1846-1897 s/o Samuel Hacker and Malinda Slone Isaac, h/o Rutha Vance and Minta Francis Cook.

         Carolyn Adkins, the great-granddaughter of Ben Martin Isaac, has added information to that which was found in a cemetery book in Wayne county Public Library.

    Abbreviations used in this transcription:
    d/o = daughter of
    h/o = husband of
    s/o = son of
    w/o = widow of/wife of