Also buried in this small cemetery is John Park III and his wife. John III is the great-grandson of Dr. Roger Parke of Hunterdon Co., NJ. There was an article in the local West Virginia newspaper last summer where a Boy Scout Troop adopted this cemeterey and cleaned out all the weeds. Good show! Henry Sutliff Tammie Chada wrote: > Hello, All. > > Mr. McGahuey is not a subscriber to the list - but he has > offered to help. See below. > > Tammie > > "R. Wayne McGahuey" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Greetings one and all, > > > > I normally don't do much work or should I say any work on the Park / Parke > > family names, mainly because I don't have the name in my family. > > > > I live in Capon Bridge WV and right along Highway 50 just West of the > > small town, is a farm with a family cemetery one it. I drive by this > > cemetery almost everyday and never stopped in. I visited it the other day, > > but didn't have a pen or pencil with me to write any names down, but the > > major name that was there was Park/Parke. > > > > There were several old markers there from the 1800's (Sorry I didn't write > > anything down), maybe tomorrow I will get out there with a notebook and > > write some stuff down. > > > > There one military man mentioned. Gen George Park. > > One other maker was a Park, father of the general, died in Phoenix and > > buried here in Parke Valley. > > > > If anyone is interested, please email me and I will get you more information. > > > > Wayne of Capon Bridge. > > ------------------------------------- > > Personal HomePage: http://www.raven-villages.net/rwayne/index.htm > > Genealogy: http://www.myfamily.com/ > > eBay Auctions: http://pages.ebay.com/search/items/search.html > > -- > Happy Holidays from our house to yours! > > Tammie Chada > [email protected] > Logan County, Oklahoma > ICQ #: 26397518 > > Check out my homepage: http://www.flash.net/~tchada/ > It has the surnames my husband and I are researching, plus a > whole lot more. > > ROOTSWEB SPONSOR PLUS > "Dedicated to user supported access to genealogical records > on the > internet." > > ==== PARKS Mailing List ==== > No spamming of the list! That includes Jokes, Poems, Recipes, Chain > Letters, Garden Tips, Ghost Tales, etc. Spamers will be unsubbed. > This is a genealogy mail list only!!