This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kgDBAEB/587.7 Message Board Post: I visited Mt. Vernon Cemetery in Hurricane, Putnam County, WV, this past Tuesday. I'd found a website that said James, his wife Jane (Meddings) Rooper, their sons Brady Carl Rooper and my great grandfather Charles Ernest Rooper and his wife, Luella (Crowder) Roopera, plus lot of other Roopers that were kin and were buried there. I found Jane, Brady and Charles graves easy enough and many others, but found nothing for James Alexander "Polk" Rooper. Jane and Brady's graves don't have permenant stones, only little metal signs with paper inserts. Then I noticed there was what looked like a grave between Jane and Aladine Rooper. After further inspection, I found a similiar red brick and a piece of metal pole below the grass, the pole was what the little signs on Jane and Brady's graves were placed in. I'd found "Polks" grave. Now, maybe it's me, but it just doesn't seem right to leave them there with no stone. He was the proginator of the Rooper clan in Putnam County. I've contacted the pastor of Mt. Vernon Baptist Church and he will call me today. The cemetery is on their property and I'm sure they have a cemetery committee. What I want to do is get permenant markers for all three of these Roopers, through all there decendants. I will get the ball rolling and ask that the pastor be the one to hold the money as it comes in. After I speak with him later today, I'll post on here any ideas he has. There are a number of Rooper decendants in the area still. They are probably unaware that they wouldn't even exist had "Polk" not journeyed up the Kanawha River from Galipolis, OH and decided he liked the area and settled there. I remember as a kid that my grandmother, Flora Ellen (Rooper) Cooper would take us up to the cemetery with "Ma" and "Pa" (Ernest and Luella) and the rest of the Rooper caln on Memorial Day, to put flowers on all the Rooper graves and to just stay there all day. Some would bring food and others would go to their homes nearby for lunch, but would return. It'd be great if I can get this done within a year and do it next Memorial Day. I know a lot of the Roopers still do this, because a lot of the graves had new flowers.