Re: tombstone repair. There are some sites that might be worth looking at using "repairing tombstone" in a google search. Also, this site: www.rootsweb.com/~inperp/repairtoolbox.html Hope this helps.

The copyright was for 17 years and was renewable. I would be surprised if it was every renewed and that is why these genealogy publishers can reprint these books without even resetting the type. Bill Pyles In a message dated 10/4/02 11:56:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Recently I was reading Maxwell and Swisher and discovered that they have a > section on old Town of Romney graveyards, including names of people who > were buried in the various graveyards that are now gone. Sorry, I don't > have a copy of the book so I can't help with a direct quote. Wayne, I'm > fairly certain that the library in Capon Bridge has a copy of Maxwell and > Swisher. > I have a copy of the book but am uncertain due to copyright laws how much I can write. Maybe I can just go in and find the names and list them? But here is a little bit that may explain something. REMEMBER when reading this, we are in the present day of the year 1897. History of Hampshire County, by Maxwell and Swisher Chapter XXXVII Cemeteries of Romney: Pg. 419: "So far as can be ascertained from extant traditions, the first burying place for the dead of Romney was situated on the public square on which the court house was afterwards built, but the graves were between the present court house and the Kellar hotel, on the site and in the rear of the present bank of Romney. It is probable that the first dead of the town were laid to their last rest in that old cemetery. But there were many; for there is evidence that it was still used as a burying ground after the beginning of the present century. Old people a few years ago could remember when the graves could be distinguished, one from another. But the land was occupied by houses and gardens; and the plow finally obliterated each." "It is related, that after the ground ceased to be used as a burying place, and was appropriated as a garden, a person in walking through the high grass and rank weeds would sometimes stumble into the deeply sunken graves. No stone now marks the sight of a single tomb, and the name of a single person who was buried there cannot now be ascertained. In their day they no doubt believed they were filling a place in the world of the living which would be entitle them to, and secure for them, at least a gravestone to mark their narrow house in the realm of the dead. But such has not been the case. No doubt, in that old cemetery lie the men who saved from the tomahawk of the savage many a frontier home in Hampshire; and who, in their lives, were looked upon as the protectors, defenders, and saviors of the people and their homes, when the cruel Indian and his no less cruel white ally made wide desolation among the frontiers." In regard to the Presbyterian church cemetery it states on page 423: "The land occupied by the cemetery was given by Andrew Wodrow and was deed to James Beach, William Inskeep, Adam Hare [Heare] and John Lawson, as trustees. The church was several years in building. The aisle took up half the interior space. The first elder in the church, William Naylor, was among the first to be buried there. He was a lawyer, and a pillar in the Presbyterian church." Connie, you would probably know how much can I quote, list, etc. from the book. I don't mind transcribing this if it's acceptable. I hope I haven't gone too far in quoting the above. Not everyone can go out and spend the $80 but IF anyone is interested and wants a copy of History of Hampshire County by Maxwell and Swisher (reprints of the 1897 edition) It is a hardbound book, 774 pages. You can contact Dan Oates, 51 W. Birch Lane, Romney, WV 26757; (304) 822-4410; email: [email protected] or you can go to the Hampshire Review office.

Cheryl, I loved going in that ice house as a kid. It was fascinating. I don't remember when it disappeared or if the building was used for something else after it ceased being an ice plant. My Dad said that in the old days it housed ice that had been gathered from the river in the winter. Do you know any of the history of the ice house or who owned it? Jane At 08:23 AM 10/5/02, you wrote: >Well at last Jane's Mom and agree on the number of fire-houses (g), which >is a step in the right direction. I mentioned it because I've twice >experienced a situation where three people think of "here" as being in >three different places. (g) > >And Jane, please thank her for telling me what happened to the ice-plant! >(g) I spent a rather confused 30 minutes looking for it when I was >introducing Dan to the town back in the 1980s. And for confirming it was a >Chevvy dealer > >However -- The current firehouse is on the SW corner of that intersection, >Pancakes was the NW corner, which would put the old firehall on the NE >corner, not the SE. > >And now I'll bow out -- I'm getting company in a few hours and probably >won't be back on-line until they leave and I recuperate. (g) > >Cheryl > >At 11:53 PM 10/04/2002 -0400, Jane Ailes wrote: > >Cheryl and Wayne, > > > >>OK, this is beginning to sound as if there are *3* places in town known as > >>the "old" Fire Dept. Beginning in the 1950s, the Fire house was in the > >>middle of a block, behind Ebert's (that'd be South High), across from Town > >>Hall (currently I think, a Restaurant?). Beside Town Hall was a car > >>dealership (Chevvy maybe?). > >>Sometime between 1969 and 1980, a new Fire hall was built on the SWEST > >>corner of that intersection. > >>Jane AILES -- ask your mamma, please? -- > > > >I talked to my mother tonight. There were only two fire houses in Romney > >in her lifetime. The old fire house is across the street from Pancake > >Chevrolet (burned down 10 years ago or so) and the old Town Hall office > >(now a restaurant) on High Street in the first block south of the traffic > >light. The old fire house building still stands. Then sometime in the > >1980's a new fire house was built up the hill where it is today (next block > >south) near where the ice house and the old Kinney Shoe factory used to > >be. Now my mother says she was always told that the graveyard was on the > >corner next to the old fire house (NE corner of intersection of High St. > >and Gravel Lane). This is the same intersection that the monument in the > >cemetery refers to. Pancake Chevrolet used this corner lot next to the > >fire house as a used car lot from at least sometime in the 1950's until > >Pancakes burned down at least 10 years ago. During the Civil War this lot > >was used for encampment. When Pancake's graded and leveled the lot in the > >late 1950's or early 1960's my father got one truck load of the top > >soil. My sister and I found at least one old bullet in that load of dirt. > > > >Recently I was reading Maxwell and Swisher and discovered that they have a > >section on old Town of Romney graveyards, including names of people who > >were buried in the various graveyards that are now gone. Sorry, I don't > >have a copy of the book so I can't help with a direct quote. Wayne, I'm > >fairly certain that the library in Capon Bridge has a copy of Maxwell and > >Swisher. > > > >Hope this helps, > >Jane > > > > > > > >At 09:18 AM 10/4/02, you wrote: > >>At 09:38 PM 10/03/2002 -0400, you wrote: > >> > >> > > >> >I went to the Old Presbyterian Church in Romney. I walked around the > >> >church to find the cemetery, but it wasn't there. In front of the > church > >> >was the historical sign: "PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WAS FIRST ORGANIZED IN > >> >ROMNEY IN 1878, AFTER SUPPLICATIONS DATING AS EARLY AS 1740. THE PRESENT > >> >CHURCH WAS ERECTED IN 1860. IT WAS USED AS A STABLE AND HOSPITAL DURING > >> >THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES". > >> > >>When I went to Vacation Bible School there, there were a few markers in the > >>lawn. Face the main entrance to the church, make about 10 steps to the > >>left and you're looking at the usual entrance to the Education building. > >>There was a largish square of lawn in there and at the back near the > >>building were not-more-than 5 stones. This was in the 1950s. > >> > >> > >> >Since there was no cemetery there, I was told in earlier emails that the > >> >cemetery sat next to the Volunteer Fire Department. So Linda and I >headed > >> >to the VFD. Today there is the old one that is being remodelled inside, > >> >but the outside is original. And across the street is the new VFD that > >> >has been around for at least 15 years or so (what I was told, maybe >someone > >> > >>OK, this is beginning to sound as if there are *3* places in town known as > >>the "old" Fire Dept. Beginning in the 1950s, the Fire house was in the > >>middle of a block, behind Ebert's (that'd be South High), across from Town > >>Hall (currently I think, a Restaurant?). Beside Town Hall was a car > >>dealership (Chevvy maybe?). > >>Sometime between 1969 and 1980, a new Fire hall was built on the SWEST > >>corner of that intersection. > >> > >> >knows different). In the previous emails it mentioned that the cemetery > >> >was covered over to be used as a parking lot. To find out if it was the > >> >old or the new VFW parking lot, I will either rely on someone out > there in > >> >the email world to tell me, or go to the Shafer Funeral Home in Romney to > >> >find out which parking lot it is. > >> > >> > >> > >> > > >> >No matter which parking lot was home to the cemetery, it was 1 block over > >> >and 4 blocks down from the Old Presbyterian Church. Does anyone > know why > >> >the cemetery was so far away. > >> > >>Jane AILES -- ask your mamma, please? -- I think my Romney segment of WV > >>History mentioned the name of the persons who were the prime movers to get > >>a Presbyterian "parish" in Romney, and if memory serves, it was the > >>Armstrongs, and the Armstrongs owned land in that corner of Romney. > >>Wouldn't be at all surprised if they were using a corner of their land for > >>a cemetery and extended the privilege to co-religionists. > >> > >> > > >> >Also in the previous email it was mentioned that the markers were > moved to > >> >the Indian Mound Cemetery. So we drive to the Indian Mound Cemetery and > >> >talked with the grounds keeper. He pointed into the direction of the far > >> >side of the cemetery and we drove on over. There was 16 stones neatly > >> >lined up to two rolls in the back of the cemetery. In the middle of >these > >> >stones was a large stone tilted on it's side with the following > >> >inscription: "Sacred to the memory of all those whose remains lie in >the > >> >Old Presbyterian Cemetery situated on High St. and Gravel Lane. The > >> >markers of whose grave were removed to this plot, July 1941." This > makes > >> >it sound as if everything was moved, graves and markers. So with the > >> > >>Ummmm, a body that's been in the ground without benefit of grave vaults for > >>a century, probably wasn't there to be moved. You might talk to Roy Giffin > >>about that for surety. > >> > >> > >> >address of High St. and Gravel Lane, we went to that address, and guess > >> >what parking lot it was??? Both of them are on the same corner. > >> > > >> >So if anyone knows which parking lot it is, let me know, or I will go to > >> >Shafers and find out. > >> > > >> > >>You might ask Don Cookman, too. > >> > >> > >>Cheryl > >>*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* > >>Cheryl Singhal ([email protected]) > >> > >>http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cpafug/ > >>http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvhampsh/ > >>http://www.fortunecity.com/millennium/blyton/772/ (Bottony Cross DAR) > >>http://www.rootsweb.com/~cresap/ > >>http://members.fortunecity.com/csinghal1/ (Joanna Waddill UDC) > > > >

Wayne, I think your map is accurate. The old cemetery was in the spot you mark as "parking lot" on the corner next to the old fire house. Jane At 12:01 AM 10/5/02, you wrote: >Jane, > >I know of the old firehouse, and the new one. See if the map below >helps. I will try and make one with straight text and let me know if you >understand it. > > I I New Fire House > I I [parking lot] >-----------------------------I I------------------------------- > GRAVEL LANE >-----------------------------I I------------------------------- > [parking lot] I H I Romney > Old Fire House I I I Visitor Center > I G I > I H I >-----------------------------I I--------------------- > S >-----------------------------I T I--------------------- > I I > > >Wayne > > > > > >At 11:53 PM 10/4/2002 -0400, you wrote: >>Cheryl and Wayne, >> >>>OK, this is beginning to sound as if there are *3* places in town known as >>>the "old" Fire Dept. Beginning in the 1950s, the Fire house was in the >>>middle of a block, behind Ebert's (that'd be South High), across from Town >>>Hall (currently I think, a Restaurant?). Beside Town Hall was a car >>>dealership (Chevvy maybe?). >>>Sometime between 1969 and 1980, a new Fire hall was built on the SWEST >>>corner of that intersection. >>>Jane AILES -- ask your mamma, please? -- >> >>I talked to my mother tonight. There were only two fire houses in Romney >>in her lifetime. The old fire house is across the street from Pancake >>Chevrolet (burned down 10 years ago or so) and the old Town Hall office >>(now a restaurant) on High Street in the first block south of the traffic >>light. The old fire house building still stands. Then sometime in the >>1980's a new fire house was built up the hill where it is today (next >>block south) near where the ice house and the old Kinney Shoe factory >>used to be. Now my mother says she was always told that the graveyard >>was on the corner next to the old fire house (NE corner of intersection >>of High St. and Gravel Lane). This is the same intersection that the >>monument in the cemetery refers to. Pancake Chevrolet used this corner >>lot next to the fire house as a used car lot from at least sometime in >>the 1950's until Pancakes burned down at least 10 years ago. During the >>Civil War this lot was used for encampment. When Pancake's graded and >>leveled the lot in the late 1950's or early 1960's my father got one >>truck load of the top soil. My sister and I found at least one old >>bullet in that load of dirt. >> >>Recently I was reading Maxwell and Swisher and discovered that they have >>a section on old Town of Romney graveyards, including names of people who >>were buried in the various graveyards that are now gone. Sorry, I don't >>have a copy of the book so I can't help with a direct quote. Wayne, I'm >>fairly certain that the library in Capon Bridge has a copy of Maxwell and >>Swisher. >> >>Hope this helps, >>Jane >> >> >> >>At 09:18 AM 10/4/02, you wrote: >>>At 09:38 PM 10/03/2002 -0400, you wrote: >>> >>> > >>> >I went to the Old Presbyterian Church in Romney. I walked around the >>> >church to find the cemetery, but it wasn't there. In front of the church >>> >was the historical sign: "PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WAS FIRST ORGANIZED IN >>> >ROMNEY IN 1878, AFTER SUPPLICATIONS DATING AS EARLY AS 1740. THE PRESENT >>> >CHURCH WAS ERECTED IN 1860. IT WAS USED AS A STABLE AND HOSPITAL DURING >>> >THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES". >>> >>>When I went to Vacation Bible School there, there were a few markers in the >>>lawn. Face the main entrance to the church, make about 10 steps to the >>>left and you're looking at the usual entrance to the Education building. >>>There was a largish square of lawn in there and at the back near the >>>building were not-more-than 5 stones. This was in the 1950s. >>> >>> >>> >Since there was no cemetery there, I was told in earlier emails that the >>> >cemetery sat next to the Volunteer Fire Department. So Linda and I >>> headed >>> >to the VFD. Today there is the old one that is being remodelled inside, >>> >but the outside is original. And across the street is the new VFD that >>> >has been around for at least 15 years or so (what I was told, maybe >>> someone >>> >>>OK, this is beginning to sound as if there are *3* places in town known as >>>the "old" Fire Dept. Beginning in the 1950s, the Fire house was in the >>>middle of a block, behind Ebert's (that'd be South High), across from Town >>>Hall (currently I think, a Restaurant?). Beside Town Hall was a car >>>dealership (Chevvy maybe?). >>>Sometime between 1969 and 1980, a new Fire hall was built on the SWEST >>>corner of that intersection. >>> >>> >knows different). In the previous emails it mentioned that the cemetery >>> >was covered over to be used as a parking lot. To find out if it was the >>> >old or the new VFW parking lot, I will either rely on someone out there in >>> >the email world to tell me, or go to the Shafer Funeral Home in Romney to >>> >find out which parking lot it is. >>> >>> >>> >>> > >>> >No matter which parking lot was home to the cemetery, it was 1 block over >>> >and 4 blocks down from the Old Presbyterian Church. Does anyone know why >>> >the cemetery was so far away. >>> >>>Jane AILES -- ask your mamma, please? -- I think my Romney segment of WV >>>History mentioned the name of the persons who were the prime movers to get >>>a Presbyterian "parish" in Romney, and if memory serves, it was the >>>Armstrongs, and the Armstrongs owned land in that corner of Romney. >>>Wouldn't be at all surprised if they were using a corner of their land for >>>a cemetery and extended the privilege to co-religionists. >>> >>> > >>> >Also in the previous email it was mentioned that the markers were moved to >>> >the Indian Mound Cemetery. So we drive to the Indian Mound Cemetery and >>> >talked with the grounds keeper. He pointed into the direction of the far >>> >side of the cemetery and we drove on over. There was 16 stones neatly >>> >lined up to two rolls in the back of the cemetery. In the middle of >>> these >>> >stones was a large stone tilted on it's side with the following >>> >inscription: "Sacred to the memory of all those whose remains lie >>> in the >>> >Old Presbyterian Cemetery situated on High St. and Gravel Lane. The >>> >markers of whose grave were removed to this plot, July 1941." This makes >>> >it sound as if everything was moved, graves and markers. So with the >>> >>>Ummmm, a body that's been in the ground without benefit of grave vaults for >>>a century, probably wasn't there to be moved. You might talk to Roy Giffin >>>about that for surety. >>> >>> >>> >address of High St. and Gravel Lane, we went to that address, and guess >>> >what parking lot it was??? Both of them are on the same corner. >>> > >>> >So if anyone knows which parking lot it is, let me know, or I will go to >>> >Shafers and find out. >>> > >>> >>>You might ask Don Cookman, too. >>> >>> >>>Cheryl >>>*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* >>>Cheryl Singhal ([email protected]) >>> >>>http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cpafug/ >>>http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvhampsh/ >>>http://www.fortunecity.com/millennium/blyton/772/ (Bottony Cross DAR) >>>http://www.rootsweb.com/~cresap/ >>>http://members.fortunecity.com/csinghal1/ (Joanna Waddill UDC) > >Hampshire Co. website: http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/hampco/index.htm >My Homepage website: http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/index.htm

In a message dated 10/4/02 11:56:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Recently I was reading Maxwell and Swisher and discovered that they have a > section on old Town of Romney graveyards, including names of people who > were buried in the various graveyards that are now gone. Sorry, I don't > have a copy of the book so I can't help with a direct quote. Wayne, I'm > fairly certain that the library in Capon Bridge has a copy of Maxwell and > Swisher. > I have a copy of the book but am uncertain due to copyright laws how much I can write. Maybe I can just go in and find the names and list them? But here is a little bit that may explain something. REMEMBER when reading this, we are in the present day of the year 1897. History of Hampshire County, by Maxwell and Swisher Chapter XXXVII Cemeteries of Romney: Pg. 419: "So far as can be ascertained from extant traditions, the first burying place for the dead of Romney was situated on the public square on which the court house was afterwards built, but the graves were between the present court house and the Kellar hotel, on the site and in the rear of the present bank of Romney. It is probable that the first dead of the town were laid to their last rest in that old cemetery. But there were many; for there is evidence that it was still used as a burying ground after the beginning of the present century. Old people a few years ago could remember when the graves could be distinguished, one from another. But the land was occupied by houses and gardens; and the plow finally obliterated each." "It is related, that after the ground ceased to be used as a burying place, and was appropriated as a garden, a person in walking through the high grass and rank weeds would sometimes stumble into the deeply sunken graves. No stone now marks the sight of a single tomb, and the name of a single person who was buried there cannot now be ascertained. In their day they no doubt believed they were filling a place in the world of the living which would be entitle them to, and secure for them, at least a gravestone to mark their narrow house in the realm of the dead. But such has not been the case. No doubt, in that old cemetery lie the men who saved from the tomahawk of the savage many a frontier home in Hampshire; and who, in their lives, were looked upon as the protectors, defenders, and saviors of the people and their homes, when the cruel Indian and his no less cruel white ally made wide desolation among the frontiers." In regard to the Presbyterian church cemetery it states on page 423: "The land occupied by the cemetery was given by Andrew Wodrow and was deed to James Beach, William Inskeep, Adam Hare [Heare] and John Lawson, as trustees. The church was several years in building. The aisle took up half the interior space. The first elder in the church, William Naylor, was among the first to be buried there. He was a lawyer, and a pillar in the Presbyterian church." Connie, you would probably know how much can I quote, list, etc. from the book. I don't mind transcribing this if it's acceptable. I hope I haven't gone too far in quoting the above. Not everyone can go out and spend the $80 but IF anyone is interested and wants a copy of History of Hampshire County by Maxwell and Swisher (reprints of the 1897 edition) It is a hardbound book, 774 pages. You can contact Dan Oates, 51 W. Birch Lane, Romney, WV 26757; (304) 822-4410; email: [email protected] or you can go to the Hampshire Review office.

Historic Hampshire, the county's Bicentennial history, says it was Andrew Woodrow who donated the land for the Presbyterian church back about 1816. It stood on lots 59 and 60; moved to lot 34, purchased from Robert N. Harper, in 1860. Sorry, I can't put my hands on my lot map. Cheryl

Well at last Jane's Mom and agree on the number of fire-houses (g), which is a step in the right direction. I mentioned it because I've twice experienced a situation where three people think of "here" as being in three different places. (g) And Jane, please thank her for telling me what happened to the ice-plant! (g) I spent a rather confused 30 minutes looking for it when I was introducing Dan to the town back in the 1980s. And for confirming it was a Chevvy dealer However -- The current firehouse is on the SW corner of that intersection, Pancakes was the NW corner, which would put the old firehall on the NE corner, not the SE. And now I'll bow out -- I'm getting company in a few hours and probably won't be back on-line until they leave and I recuperate. (g) Cheryl At 11:53 PM 10/04/2002 -0400, Jane Ailes wrote: >Cheryl and Wayne, > >>OK, this is beginning to sound as if there are *3* places in town known as >>the "old" Fire Dept. Beginning in the 1950s, the Fire house was in the >>middle of a block, behind Ebert's (that'd be South High), across from Town >>Hall (currently I think, a Restaurant?). Beside Town Hall was a car >>dealership (Chevvy maybe?). >>Sometime between 1969 and 1980, a new Fire hall was built on the SWEST >>corner of that intersection. >>Jane AILES -- ask your mamma, please? -- > >I talked to my mother tonight. There were only two fire houses in Romney >in her lifetime. The old fire house is across the street from Pancake >Chevrolet (burned down 10 years ago or so) and the old Town Hall office >(now a restaurant) on High Street in the first block south of the traffic >light. The old fire house building still stands. Then sometime in the >1980's a new fire house was built up the hill where it is today (next block >south) near where the ice house and the old Kinney Shoe factory used to >be. Now my mother says she was always told that the graveyard was on the >corner next to the old fire house (NE corner of intersection of High St. >and Gravel Lane). This is the same intersection that the monument in the >cemetery refers to. Pancake Chevrolet used this corner lot next to the >fire house as a used car lot from at least sometime in the 1950's until >Pancakes burned down at least 10 years ago. During the Civil War this lot >was used for encampment. When Pancake's graded and leveled the lot in the >late 1950's or early 1960's my father got one truck load of the top >soil. My sister and I found at least one old bullet in that load of dirt. > >Recently I was reading Maxwell and Swisher and discovered that they have a >section on old Town of Romney graveyards, including names of people who >were buried in the various graveyards that are now gone. Sorry, I don't >have a copy of the book so I can't help with a direct quote. Wayne, I'm >fairly certain that the library in Capon Bridge has a copy of Maxwell and >Swisher. > >Hope this helps, >Jane > > > >At 09:18 AM 10/4/02, you wrote: >>At 09:38 PM 10/03/2002 -0400, you wrote: >> >> > >> >I went to the Old Presbyterian Church in Romney. I walked around the >> >church to find the cemetery, but it wasn't there. In front of the church >> >was the historical sign: "PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WAS FIRST ORGANIZED IN >> >ROMNEY IN 1878, AFTER SUPPLICATIONS DATING AS EARLY AS 1740. THE PRESENT >> >CHURCH WAS ERECTED IN 1860. IT WAS USED AS A STABLE AND HOSPITAL DURING >> >THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES". >> >>When I went to Vacation Bible School there, there were a few markers in the >>lawn. Face the main entrance to the church, make about 10 steps to the >>left and you're looking at the usual entrance to the Education building. >>There was a largish square of lawn in there and at the back near the >>building were not-more-than 5 stones. This was in the 1950s. >> >> >> >Since there was no cemetery there, I was told in earlier emails that the >> >cemetery sat next to the Volunteer Fire Department. So Linda and I headed >> >to the VFD. Today there is the old one that is being remodelled inside, >> >but the outside is original. And across the street is the new VFD that >> >has been around for at least 15 years or so (what I was told, maybe someone >> >>OK, this is beginning to sound as if there are *3* places in town known as >>the "old" Fire Dept. Beginning in the 1950s, the Fire house was in the >>middle of a block, behind Ebert's (that'd be South High), across from Town >>Hall (currently I think, a Restaurant?). Beside Town Hall was a car >>dealership (Chevvy maybe?). >>Sometime between 1969 and 1980, a new Fire hall was built on the SWEST >>corner of that intersection. >> >> >knows different). In the previous emails it mentioned that the cemetery >> >was covered over to be used as a parking lot. To find out if it was the >> >old or the new VFW parking lot, I will either rely on someone out there in >> >the email world to tell me, or go to the Shafer Funeral Home in Romney to >> >find out which parking lot it is. >> >> >> >> > >> >No matter which parking lot was home to the cemetery, it was 1 block over >> >and 4 blocks down from the Old Presbyterian Church. Does anyone know why >> >the cemetery was so far away. >> >>Jane AILES -- ask your mamma, please? -- I think my Romney segment of WV >>History mentioned the name of the persons who were the prime movers to get >>a Presbyterian "parish" in Romney, and if memory serves, it was the >>Armstrongs, and the Armstrongs owned land in that corner of Romney. >>Wouldn't be at all surprised if they were using a corner of their land for >>a cemetery and extended the privilege to co-religionists. >> >> > >> >Also in the previous email it was mentioned that the markers were moved to >> >the Indian Mound Cemetery. So we drive to the Indian Mound Cemetery and >> >talked with the grounds keeper. He pointed into the direction of the far >> >side of the cemetery and we drove on over. There was 16 stones neatly >> >lined up to two rolls in the back of the cemetery. In the middle of these >> >stones was a large stone tilted on it's side with the following >> >inscription: "Sacred to the memory of all those whose remains lie in the >> >Old Presbyterian Cemetery situated on High St. and Gravel Lane. The >> >markers of whose grave were removed to this plot, July 1941." This makes >> >it sound as if everything was moved, graves and markers. So with the >> >>Ummmm, a body that's been in the ground without benefit of grave vaults for >>a century, probably wasn't there to be moved. You might talk to Roy Giffin >>about that for surety. >> >> >> >address of High St. and Gravel Lane, we went to that address, and guess >> >what parking lot it was??? Both of them are on the same corner. >> > >> >So if anyone knows which parking lot it is, let me know, or I will go to >> >Shafers and find out. >> > >> >>You might ask Don Cookman, too. >> >> >>Cheryl >>*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* >>Cheryl Singhal ([email protected]) >> >>http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cpafug/ >>http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvhampsh/ >>http://www.fortunecity.com/millennium/blyton/772/ (Bottony Cross DAR) >>http://www.rootsweb.com/~cresap/ >>http://members.fortunecity.com/csinghal1/ (Joanna Waddill UDC) > >

That one I'd love to see! I wonder how it got there? Don't you love it when you find things like that? Patsy Pifer ----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Wayne McGahuey" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 11:22 PM Subject: [WVHAMPSH-L] pitch fork in a tree Greetings one and all, One note: Today at the Emmart Family Cemetery, and just down the road there is a Colonial oak tree, about 16 feet in dia. There is a hole about 6 inches in height on the side of the tree, and inside the tree you can see the end of a pitch fork. Kind of neat. I took a photo of it, it is hard to see in the photo, but it is there. Anyone want a copy of the photo. Wayne Hampshire Co. website: http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/hampco/index.htm My Homepage website: http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/index.htm

Jane, I know of the old firehouse, and the new one. See if the map below helps. I will try and make one with straight text and let me know if you understand it. I I New Fire House I I [parking lot] -----------------------------I I------------------------------- GRAVEL LANE -----------------------------I I------------------------------- [parking lot] I H I Romney Old Fire House I I I Visitor Center I G I I H I -----------------------------I I--------------------- S -----------------------------I T I--------------------- I I Wayne At 11:53 PM 10/4/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Cheryl and Wayne, > >>OK, this is beginning to sound as if there are *3* places in town known as >>the "old" Fire Dept. Beginning in the 1950s, the Fire house was in the >>middle of a block, behind Ebert's (that'd be South High), across from Town >>Hall (currently I think, a Restaurant?). Beside Town Hall was a car >>dealership (Chevvy maybe?). >>Sometime between 1969 and 1980, a new Fire hall was built on the SWEST >>corner of that intersection. >>Jane AILES -- ask your mamma, please? -- > >I talked to my mother tonight. There were only two fire houses in Romney >in her lifetime. The old fire house is across the street from Pancake >Chevrolet (burned down 10 years ago or so) and the old Town Hall office >(now a restaurant) on High Street in the first block south of the traffic >light. The old fire house building still stands. Then sometime in the >1980's a new fire house was built up the hill where it is today (next >block south) near where the ice house and the old Kinney Shoe factory used >to be. Now my mother says she was always told that the graveyard was on >the corner next to the old fire house (NE corner of intersection of High >St. and Gravel Lane). This is the same intersection that the monument in >the cemetery refers to. Pancake Chevrolet used this corner lot next to >the fire house as a used car lot from at least sometime in the 1950's >until Pancakes burned down at least 10 years ago. During the Civil War >this lot was used for encampment. When Pancake's graded and leveled the >lot in the late 1950's or early 1960's my father got one truck load of the >top soil. My sister and I found at least one old bullet in that load of dirt. > >Recently I was reading Maxwell and Swisher and discovered that they have a >section on old Town of Romney graveyards, including names of people who >were buried in the various graveyards that are now gone. Sorry, I don't >have a copy of the book so I can't help with a direct quote. Wayne, I'm >fairly certain that the library in Capon Bridge has a copy of Maxwell and >Swisher. > >Hope this helps, >Jane > > > >At 09:18 AM 10/4/02, you wrote: >>At 09:38 PM 10/03/2002 -0400, you wrote: >> >> > >> >I went to the Old Presbyterian Church in Romney. I walked around the >> >church to find the cemetery, but it wasn't there. In front of the church >> >was the historical sign: "PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WAS FIRST ORGANIZED IN >> >ROMNEY IN 1878, AFTER SUPPLICATIONS DATING AS EARLY AS 1740. THE PRESENT >> >CHURCH WAS ERECTED IN 1860. IT WAS USED AS A STABLE AND HOSPITAL DURING >> >THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES". >> >>When I went to Vacation Bible School there, there were a few markers in the >>lawn. Face the main entrance to the church, make about 10 steps to the >>left and you're looking at the usual entrance to the Education building. >>There was a largish square of lawn in there and at the back near the >>building were not-more-than 5 stones. This was in the 1950s. >> >> >> >Since there was no cemetery there, I was told in earlier emails that the >> >cemetery sat next to the Volunteer Fire Department. So Linda and I headed >> >to the VFD. Today there is the old one that is being remodelled inside, >> >but the outside is original. And across the street is the new VFD that >> >has been around for at least 15 years or so (what I was told, maybe someone >> >>OK, this is beginning to sound as if there are *3* places in town known as >>the "old" Fire Dept. Beginning in the 1950s, the Fire house was in the >>middle of a block, behind Ebert's (that'd be South High), across from Town >>Hall (currently I think, a Restaurant?). Beside Town Hall was a car >>dealership (Chevvy maybe?). >>Sometime between 1969 and 1980, a new Fire hall was built on the SWEST >>corner of that intersection. >> >> >knows different). In the previous emails it mentioned that the cemetery >> >was covered over to be used as a parking lot. To find out if it was the >> >old or the new VFW parking lot, I will either rely on someone out there in >> >the email world to tell me, or go to the Shafer Funeral Home in Romney to >> >find out which parking lot it is. >> >> >> >> > >> >No matter which parking lot was home to the cemetery, it was 1 block over >> >and 4 blocks down from the Old Presbyterian Church. Does anyone know why >> >the cemetery was so far away. >> >>Jane AILES -- ask your mamma, please? -- I think my Romney segment of WV >>History mentioned the name of the persons who were the prime movers to get >>a Presbyterian "parish" in Romney, and if memory serves, it was the >>Armstrongs, and the Armstrongs owned land in that corner of Romney. >>Wouldn't be at all surprised if they were using a corner of their land for >>a cemetery and extended the privilege to co-religionists. >> >> > >> >Also in the previous email it was mentioned that the markers were moved to >> >the Indian Mound Cemetery. So we drive to the Indian Mound Cemetery and >> >talked with the grounds keeper. He pointed into the direction of the far >> >side of the cemetery and we drove on over. There was 16 stones neatly >> >lined up to two rolls in the back of the cemetery. In the middle of these >> >stones was a large stone tilted on it's side with the following >> >inscription: "Sacred to the memory of all those whose remains lie in the >> >Old Presbyterian Cemetery situated on High St. and Gravel Lane. The >> >markers of whose grave were removed to this plot, July 1941." This makes >> >it sound as if everything was moved, graves and markers. So with the >> >>Ummmm, a body that's been in the ground without benefit of grave vaults for >>a century, probably wasn't there to be moved. You might talk to Roy Giffin >>about that for surety. >> >> >> >address of High St. and Gravel Lane, we went to that address, and guess >> >what parking lot it was??? Both of them are on the same corner. >> > >> >So if anyone knows which parking lot it is, let me know, or I will go to >> >Shafers and find out. >> > >> >>You might ask Don Cookman, too. >> >> >>Cheryl >>*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* >>Cheryl Singhal ([email protected]) >> >>http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cpafug/ >>http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvhampsh/ >>http://www.fortunecity.com/millennium/blyton/772/ (Bottony Cross DAR) >>http://www.rootsweb.com/~cresap/ >>http://members.fortunecity.com/csinghal1/ (Joanna Waddill UDC) Hampshire Co. website: http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/hampco/index.htm My Homepage website: http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/index.htm

Cheryl and Wayne, >OK, this is beginning to sound as if there are *3* places in town known as >the "old" Fire Dept. Beginning in the 1950s, the Fire house was in the >middle of a block, behind Ebert's (that'd be South High), across from Town >Hall (currently I think, a Restaurant?). Beside Town Hall was a car >dealership (Chevvy maybe?). >Sometime between 1969 and 1980, a new Fire hall was built on the SWEST >corner of that intersection. >Jane AILES -- ask your mamma, please? -- I talked to my mother tonight. There were only two fire houses in Romney in her lifetime. The old fire house is across the street from Pancake Chevrolet (burned down 10 years ago or so) and the old Town Hall office (now a restaurant) on High Street in the first block south of the traffic light. The old fire house building still stands. Then sometime in the 1980's a new fire house was built up the hill where it is today (next block south) near where the ice house and the old Kinney Shoe factory used to be. Now my mother says she was always told that the graveyard was on the corner next to the old fire house (NE corner of intersection of High St. and Gravel Lane). This is the same intersection that the monument in the cemetery refers to. Pancake Chevrolet used this corner lot next to the fire house as a used car lot from at least sometime in the 1950's until Pancakes burned down at least 10 years ago. During the Civil War this lot was used for encampment. When Pancake's graded and leveled the lot in the late 1950's or early 1960's my father got one truck load of the top soil. My sister and I found at least one old bullet in that load of dirt. Recently I was reading Maxwell and Swisher and discovered that they have a section on old Town of Romney graveyards, including names of people who were buried in the various graveyards that are now gone. Sorry, I don't have a copy of the book so I can't help with a direct quote. Wayne, I'm fairly certain that the library in Capon Bridge has a copy of Maxwell and Swisher. Hope this helps, Jane At 09:18 AM 10/4/02, you wrote: >At 09:38 PM 10/03/2002 -0400, you wrote: > > > > >I went to the Old Presbyterian Church in Romney. I walked around the > >church to find the cemetery, but it wasn't there. In front of the church > >was the historical sign: "PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WAS FIRST ORGANIZED IN > >ROMNEY IN 1878, AFTER SUPPLICATIONS DATING AS EARLY AS 1740. THE PRESENT > >CHURCH WAS ERECTED IN 1860. IT WAS USED AS A STABLE AND HOSPITAL DURING > >THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES". > >When I went to Vacation Bible School there, there were a few markers in the >lawn. Face the main entrance to the church, make about 10 steps to the >left and you're looking at the usual entrance to the Education building. >There was a largish square of lawn in there and at the back near the >building were not-more-than 5 stones. This was in the 1950s. > > > >Since there was no cemetery there, I was told in earlier emails that the > >cemetery sat next to the Volunteer Fire Department. So Linda and I headed > >to the VFD. Today there is the old one that is being remodelled inside, > >but the outside is original. And across the street is the new VFD that > >has been around for at least 15 years or so (what I was told, maybe someone > >OK, this is beginning to sound as if there are *3* places in town known as >the "old" Fire Dept. Beginning in the 1950s, the Fire house was in the >middle of a block, behind Ebert's (that'd be South High), across from Town >Hall (currently I think, a Restaurant?). Beside Town Hall was a car >dealership (Chevvy maybe?). >Sometime between 1969 and 1980, a new Fire hall was built on the SWEST >corner of that intersection. > > >knows different). In the previous emails it mentioned that the cemetery > >was covered over to be used as a parking lot. To find out if it was the > >old or the new VFW parking lot, I will either rely on someone out there in > >the email world to tell me, or go to the Shafer Funeral Home in Romney to > >find out which parking lot it is. > > > > > > >No matter which parking lot was home to the cemetery, it was 1 block over > >and 4 blocks down from the Old Presbyterian Church. Does anyone know why > >the cemetery was so far away. > >Jane AILES -- ask your mamma, please? -- I think my Romney segment of WV >History mentioned the name of the persons who were the prime movers to get >a Presbyterian "parish" in Romney, and if memory serves, it was the >Armstrongs, and the Armstrongs owned land in that corner of Romney. >Wouldn't be at all surprised if they were using a corner of their land for >a cemetery and extended the privilege to co-religionists. > > > > >Also in the previous email it was mentioned that the markers were moved to > >the Indian Mound Cemetery. So we drive to the Indian Mound Cemetery and > >talked with the grounds keeper. He pointed into the direction of the far > >side of the cemetery and we drove on over. There was 16 stones neatly > >lined up to two rolls in the back of the cemetery. In the middle of these > >stones was a large stone tilted on it's side with the following > >inscription: "Sacred to the memory of all those whose remains lie in the > >Old Presbyterian Cemetery situated on High St. and Gravel Lane. The > >markers of whose grave were removed to this plot, July 1941." This makes > >it sound as if everything was moved, graves and markers. So with the > >Ummmm, a body that's been in the ground without benefit of grave vaults for >a century, probably wasn't there to be moved. You might talk to Roy Giffin >about that for surety. > > > >address of High St. and Gravel Lane, we went to that address, and guess > >what parking lot it was??? Both of them are on the same corner. > > > >So if anyone knows which parking lot it is, let me know, or I will go to > >Shafers and find out. > > > >You might ask Don Cookman, too. > > >Cheryl >*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* >Cheryl Singhal ([email protected]) > >http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cpafug/ >http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvhampsh/ >http://www.fortunecity.com/millennium/blyton/772/ (Bottony Cross DAR) >http://www.rootsweb.com/~cresap/ >http://members.fortunecity.com/csinghal1/ (Joanna Waddill UDC)

Sure Wayne, Like seeing & hearing about your trips.......anything new on Evan Hiett Cem???

Greetings one and all, One note: Today at the Emmart Family Cemetery, and just down the road there is a Colonial oak tree, about 16 feet in dia. There is a hole about 6 inches in height on the side of the tree, and inside the tree you can see the end of a pitch fork. Kind of neat. I took a photo of it, it is hard to see in the photo, but it is there. Anyone want a copy of the photo. Wayne Hampshire Co. website: http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/hampco/index.htm My Homepage website: http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/index.htm

Greetings one and all, I do have another minor update. Today while doing the Emmart Family Cemetery, I decided to stop at the horse ranch down the road, I believed it is called the North River Stables or something like that, really didn't look. I talked with Susie, a or the manager of the place. She told me that she was told that there is one across the road from the ranch. She told me to make a right out the gate, do down the split rail fence until you come to the pond on the right. The cemetery she was told was across the road up on the hill. I walked the hill for a little bit, there were plenty of stones/rocks, but nothing that I could call a cemetery. I will look into this more in the future. I will place a [C] on the map program where I was told it was. Wayne of Capon Bridge. At 04:25 PM 10/4/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Greetings one and all, > >I updated the Presbyterian webpage today. Go ahead and see the photos. >Today I did go out and find one cemetery, actually it found me. I went >out and got lost in the back roads and came across the Emmart Family >Cemetery. I will try and place this out in the next few hours. > >The Emmart Family Cemetery has damaged stones, that the people nearest >believed that kids kicked them and knocked them down. A couple of the >stones got broken. Does anyone have some good instructions on how to >repair broken stones???? > >Wayne of Capon Bridge. > > >At 09:38 PM 10/3/2002 -0400, you wrote: >>Greetings one and all, >> >>I won't be making an update to the web pages tonight, but I did go to a >>cemetery and did take photos and will update the website tomorrow or >>during the weekend. >> >>I went to the Old Presbyterian Church in Romney. I walked around the >>church to find the cemetery, but it wasn't there. In front of the >>church was the historical sign: "PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WAS FIRST >>ORGANIZED IN ROMNEY IN 1878, AFTER SUPPLICATIONS DATING AS EARLY AS >>1740. THE PRESENT CHURCH WAS ERECTED IN 1860. IT WAS USED AS A STABLE >>AND HOSPITAL DURING THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES". >> >>Since there was no cemetery there, I was told in earlier emails that the >>cemetery sat next to the Volunteer Fire Department. So Linda and I >>headed to the VFD. Today there is the old one that is being remodelled >>inside, but the outside is original. And across the street is the new >>VFD that has been around for at least 15 years or so (what I was told, >>maybe someone knows different). In the previous emails it mentioned >>that the cemetery was covered over to be used as a parking lot. To find >>out if it was the old or the new VFW parking lot, I will either rely on >>someone out there in the email world to tell me, or go to the Shafer >>Funeral Home in Romney to find out which parking lot it is. >> >>No matter which parking lot was home to the cemetery, it was 1 block over >>and 4 blocks down from the Old Presbyterian Church. Does anyone know >>why the cemetery was so far away. >> >>Also in the previous email it was mentioned that the markers were moved >>to the Indian Mound Cemetery. So we drive to the Indian Mound Cemetery >>and talked with the grounds keeper. He pointed into the direction of the >>far side of the cemetery and we drove on over. There was 16 stones >>neatly lined up to two rolls in the back of the cemetery. In the middle >>of these stones was a large stone tilted on it's side with the following >>inscription: "Sacred to the memory of all those whose remains lie in >>the Old Presbyterian Cemetery situated on High St. and Gravel >>Lane. The markers of whose grave were removed to this plot, July >>1941." This makes it sound as if everything was moved, graves and >>markers. So with the address of High St. and Gravel Lane, we went to >>that address, and guess what parking lot it was??? Both of them are on >>the same corner. >> >>So if anyone knows which parking lot it is, let me know, or I will go to >>Shafers and find out. >> >>I will a page for this cemetery in the next few days, with photos of the >>parking lot and the markers at Indian Head. >> >>Wayne of Capon Bridge >> >> >>Hampshire Co. website: http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/hampco/index.htm >>My Homepage website: http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/index.htm > >Hampshire Co. website: http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/hampco/index.htm >My Homepage website: http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/index.htm Hampshire Co. website: http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/hampco/index.htm My Homepage website: http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/index.htm

Hi all! I am new to the list and assume there is a project in process of listing all Hampshire County graveyards with those names and dates interred there. I often visit the area of Hampshire County in the Paw Paw area and would be willing to help on the project on a limited basis and if there is no major time table to meet in the real near future. I have my late grandfather's book "Graveyard History of Morgan County". This book includes several Hampshire County graveyards. My grandfather kept the book up for several graveyards and wrote in all new burials. He probably did this until 1995 or 96. Let me know if I can be of assistance even though it may be for only a couple of graveyards. Bill Miller _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com

Those are excellent suggestions from Clara in NE, but Good Luck getting the "Historical Society" there to do anything one would expect a historical society to do. Wayne, the Hampshire Co. Library has microfilms of old Hampshire Reviews, filed by date. Just ask the librarian. The reader is in their genealogy room on the second floor. I'm sure there would be something in the newspaper of that time period.

Greetings one and all, I updated the Presbyterian webpage today. Go ahead and see the photos. Today I did go out and find one cemetery, actually it found me. I went out and got lost in the back roads and came across the Emmart Family Cemetery. I will try and place this out in the next few hours. The Emmart Family Cemetery has damaged stones, that the people nearest believed that kids kicked them and knocked them down. A couple of the stones got broken. Does anyone have some good instructions on how to repair broken stones???? Wayne of Capon Bridge. At 09:38 PM 10/3/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Greetings one and all, > >I won't be making an update to the web pages tonight, but I did go to a >cemetery and did take photos and will update the website tomorrow or >during the weekend. > >I went to the Old Presbyterian Church in Romney. I walked around the >church to find the cemetery, but it wasn't there. In front of the church >was the historical sign: "PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WAS FIRST ORGANIZED IN >ROMNEY IN 1878, AFTER SUPPLICATIONS DATING AS EARLY AS 1740. THE PRESENT >CHURCH WAS ERECTED IN 1860. IT WAS USED AS A STABLE AND HOSPITAL DURING >THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES". > >Since there was no cemetery there, I was told in earlier emails that the >cemetery sat next to the Volunteer Fire Department. So Linda and I >headed to the VFD. Today there is the old one that is being remodelled >inside, but the outside is original. And across the street is the new >VFD that has been around for at least 15 years or so (what I was told, >maybe someone knows different). In the previous emails it mentioned that >the cemetery was covered over to be used as a parking lot. To find out >if it was the old or the new VFW parking lot, I will either rely on >someone out there in the email world to tell me, or go to the Shafer >Funeral Home in Romney to find out which parking lot it is. > >No matter which parking lot was home to the cemetery, it was 1 block over >and 4 blocks down from the Old Presbyterian Church. Does anyone know why >the cemetery was so far away. > >Also in the previous email it was mentioned that the markers were moved to >the Indian Mound Cemetery. So we drive to the Indian Mound Cemetery and >talked with the grounds keeper. He pointed into the direction of the far >side of the cemetery and we drove on over. There was 16 stones neatly >lined up to two rolls in the back of the cemetery. In the middle of >these stones was a large stone tilted on it's side with the following >inscription: "Sacred to the memory of all those whose remains lie in >the Old Presbyterian Cemetery situated on High St. and Gravel Lane. The >markers of whose grave were removed to this plot, July 1941." This makes >it sound as if everything was moved, graves and markers. So with the >address of High St. and Gravel Lane, we went to that address, and guess >what parking lot it was??? Both of them are on the same corner. > >So if anyone knows which parking lot it is, let me know, or I will go to >Shafers and find out. > >I will a page for this cemetery in the next few days, with photos of the >parking lot and the markers at Indian Head. > >Wayne of Capon Bridge > > >Hampshire Co. website: http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/hampco/index.htm >My Homepage website: http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/index.htm Hampshire Co. website: http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/hampco/index.htm My Homepage website: http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/index.htm

I've never fixed a stone myself, but I have seen some which look like they have been put back together with some sort of mortar or cement mix. I know of at least one person who succeeded in repairing a family member's broken stone with a construction adhesive of some sort. Maybe a place that sells stones could advise you, or someone at a Home Depot??. "R. Wayne McGahuey" wrote: The Emmart Family Cemetery has damaged stones, that the people nearest believed that kids kicked them and knocked them down. A couple of the stones got broken. Does anyone have some good instructions on how to repair broken stones???? --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo!

"removed to this plot, July 1941" --- might there be: 1. Presbyterian Church records - (board minutes?) detailing the decisions regarding this 'removal' ? 2. If the stones, and remains (if there were any) were moved from property in the City of Romney to another property also in the City of Romney wouldn't City Hall records for July 1941 have some mention of this activity? 3. In Nebraska, when graves are moved the county coroner must be present. Would that have been the case in Hampshire County in July 1941? 4. As this would apparently have involved several persons and at least a day or two in July, 1941, would there be some mention of the activity in the Romney newspaper? Is it possible that some interested member of the Hampshire County Historical Society would help you with searching out records of this event? 5. If the "Shafer Funeral Home in Romney" assisted in the 'removal' their records may give the best details available. Regards, Clara in NE

At 09:38 PM 10/03/2002 -0400, you wrote: > >I went to the Old Presbyterian Church in Romney. I walked around the >church to find the cemetery, but it wasn't there. In front of the church >was the historical sign: "PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WAS FIRST ORGANIZED IN >ROMNEY IN 1878, AFTER SUPPLICATIONS DATING AS EARLY AS 1740. THE PRESENT >CHURCH WAS ERECTED IN 1860. IT WAS USED AS A STABLE AND HOSPITAL DURING >THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES". When I went to Vacation Bible School there, there were a few markers in the lawn. Face the main entrance to the church, make about 10 steps to the left and you're looking at the usual entrance to the Education building. There was a largish square of lawn in there and at the back near the building were not-more-than 5 stones. This was in the 1950s. >Since there was no cemetery there, I was told in earlier emails that the >cemetery sat next to the Volunteer Fire Department. So Linda and I headed >to the VFD. Today there is the old one that is being remodelled inside, >but the outside is original. And across the street is the new VFD that >has been around for at least 15 years or so (what I was told, maybe someone OK, this is beginning to sound as if there are *3* places in town known as the "old" Fire Dept. Beginning in the 1950s, the Fire house was in the middle of a block, behind Ebert's (that'd be South High), across from Town Hall (currently I think, a Restaurant?). Beside Town Hall was a car dealership (Chevvy maybe?). Sometime between 1969 and 1980, a new Fire hall was built on the SWEST corner of that intersection. >knows different). In the previous emails it mentioned that the cemetery >was covered over to be used as a parking lot. To find out if it was the >old or the new VFW parking lot, I will either rely on someone out there in >the email world to tell me, or go to the Shafer Funeral Home in Romney to >find out which parking lot it is. > >No matter which parking lot was home to the cemetery, it was 1 block over >and 4 blocks down from the Old Presbyterian Church. Does anyone know why >the cemetery was so far away. Jane AILES -- ask your mamma, please? -- I think my Romney segment of WV History mentioned the name of the persons who were the prime movers to get a Presbyterian "parish" in Romney, and if memory serves, it was the Armstrongs, and the Armstrongs owned land in that corner of Romney. Wouldn't be at all surprised if they were using a corner of their land for a cemetery and extended the privilege to co-religionists. > >Also in the previous email it was mentioned that the markers were moved to >the Indian Mound Cemetery. So we drive to the Indian Mound Cemetery and >talked with the grounds keeper. He pointed into the direction of the far >side of the cemetery and we drove on over. There was 16 stones neatly >lined up to two rolls in the back of the cemetery. In the middle of these >stones was a large stone tilted on it's side with the following >inscription: "Sacred to the memory of all those whose remains lie in the >Old Presbyterian Cemetery situated on High St. and Gravel Lane. The >markers of whose grave were removed to this plot, July 1941." This makes >it sound as if everything was moved, graves and markers. So with the Ummmm, a body that's been in the ground without benefit of grave vaults for a century, probably wasn't there to be moved. You might talk to Roy Giffin about that for surety. >address of High St. and Gravel Lane, we went to that address, and guess >what parking lot it was??? Both of them are on the same corner. > >So if anyone knows which parking lot it is, let me know, or I will go to >Shafers and find out. > You might ask Don Cookman, too. Cheryl *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* Cheryl Singhal ([email protected]) http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cpafug/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvhampsh/ http://www.fortunecity.com/millennium/blyton/772/ (Bottony Cross DAR) http://www.rootsweb.com/~cresap/ http://members.fortunecity.com/csinghal1/ (Joanna Waddill UDC)

Greetings one and all, I won't be making an update to the web pages tonight, but I did go to a cemetery and did take photos and will update the website tomorrow or during the weekend. I went to the Old Presbyterian Church in Romney. I walked around the church to find the cemetery, but it wasn't there. In front of the church was the historical sign: "PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WAS FIRST ORGANIZED IN ROMNEY IN 1878, AFTER SUPPLICATIONS DATING AS EARLY AS 1740. THE PRESENT CHURCH WAS ERECTED IN 1860. IT WAS USED AS A STABLE AND HOSPITAL DURING THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES". Since there was no cemetery there, I was told in earlier emails that the cemetery sat next to the Volunteer Fire Department. So Linda and I headed to the VFD. Today there is the old one that is being remodelled inside, but the outside is original. And across the street is the new VFD that has been around for at least 15 years or so (what I was told, maybe someone knows different). In the previous emails it mentioned that the cemetery was covered over to be used as a parking lot. To find out if it was the old or the new VFW parking lot, I will either rely on someone out there in the email world to tell me, or go to the Shafer Funeral Home in Romney to find out which parking lot it is. No matter which parking lot was home to the cemetery, it was 1 block over and 4 blocks down from the Old Presbyterian Church. Does anyone know why the cemetery was so far away. Also in the previous email it was mentioned that the markers were moved to the Indian Mound Cemetery. So we drive to the Indian Mound Cemetery and talked with the grounds keeper. He pointed into the direction of the far side of the cemetery and we drove on over. There was 16 stones neatly lined up to two rolls in the back of the cemetery. In the middle of these stones was a large stone tilted on it's side with the following inscription: "Sacred to the memory of all those whose remains lie in the Old Presbyterian Cemetery situated on High St. and Gravel Lane. The markers of whose grave were removed to this plot, July 1941." This makes it sound as if everything was moved, graves and markers. So with the address of High St. and Gravel Lane, we went to that address, and guess what parking lot it was??? Both of them are on the same corner. So if anyone knows which parking lot it is, let me know, or I will go to Shafers and find out. I will a page for this cemetery in the next few days, with photos of the parking lot and the markers at Indian Head. Wayne of Capon Bridge Hampshire Co. website: http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/hampco/index.htm My Homepage website: http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/index.htm