This is the way the story of this Webster County burial ground unfolded.

    Little Deliah, daughter of James and Diana (Cogar) Phares was visiting at the thomeo f Mr. G. C. (Chris) Cogar, her uncle, and his wife, Nancy Irene (Skidmore) Cogar, with her widowed mother and sister Elizabeth, and two brothers, John and William (Bill) Phares. They had been there a week when Deliah and two other girls (from Lick Run) were coming up what was then a laurel patch (or thicket.) They said she stopped quickly and said, "If I die before you do, bury me here."

    The widow nad her family stayed another week. Deliah becam very ill and died a week later. The girls told what Deliah had said to them.

    Some men and women from the neighborhood of Narrows Run where the cemetery is located - atGuardian, Webster County, better known as Removval - came in to see what they could do for the bereaved family. The women were going to wash and dress the child for burial and the men were going to make a home-made coffin. Mrs. Phares (Diana) said to ther brother, "Chris, where are we going to bury her?" and he said, "You know what the girls told us. Go out there and pick her out a place," And that is what she did.

    Mr. Cogar owned the ground (real estate) where she was buried and that is what gave the name COGAR Cemetery (or graveyard).

    Since that time Mr. Cogar, his wife (Aunt Nan), four sons and three of their wives have been buried there. They are Minter Cogar and wife Roxie A. (Hall) Cogar, George W. Cogar and wife, Sarah (Salisbury) Cogar, Isaac A. Cogar and wife, Iva (Hosey) Cogar and Wililam C. Cogar. there is a reserved place for his wife, Maggie G. (Tanner) Cogar. There was an infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cogar buried there in 1900.

    They had a wake, as it was called in that tiem, for Deliah the 9th day of August 1874 and she was buried August 10th, 1874, one hundred years ago this past Saturday, August 10, 1974.

    Diana, Deliah's mother, a midwife better known to everyone as Aunt Diana, maried for her second husband Mr. Valentine Moats and to this union were born two daughters, Emma (Susan) Moats Riffle and Mary (Moats) McCauley. All of them buried there except Mary McCauley.

    Deliah's sister, Elizabeth Phares, married Edward Moats. They are both buried there and two of their daughters, Anna L. (Moats) Belknap and an unmarried daughter, Martha Moats.

    A list of those buried there (last name only) totaling 54 follows: Anderson, Belknap, Bickel, Bragg, Brown, Bruffy, Carpenter, Carter, Clevenger, Clifton, Claypool, Cool, Cogar, Conrad, Cochran, Cowger, Fisher, Green, Gibson, Gillespie, Garvin, Hall, Haymond, Hamrick, Hamilton, Isenhart, King, Knight, Lough, Lewis, Lynch (I could not read this - could be Lynch - bj), Long, Moats, Markley, McElwain, Mccourt, Perrine, Phillips, Payne, Phares, Price, Perky, Riffle, Rockhold, Saffle, Skidmore, Salisbury, Smith, Sharp, Schrader, Tanner, Weaver, Williams and Ware.
 
    (Writer's note-- If anyone who reads this knows of anyone else buried there let me know by mail and I will send you the frist names of any of these people I know. Mrs. W. H. Williams)