In answer to the 7/17question posted to Mineral County by olivermarie@mindspring.com (marie robey): My husband and I went to the Fort Ashby Cemetery in Hampshire County, West Virginia in July 1999 looking for Lease burials. We wrote down all the Leases we could find. They are: Norah Lee, daughter of A.J. & P.C. Lease died May 29, 1906 age 24 years, 4 mos, 22 days (in front of the above was Anna Lease - no other information) To the right of the "tall section" was: Lease, Gertrude S. 1891-1949 * and Lease, Adam M. 1880-1957 * They were next to: Lease, Arthur L. 1917-1984 and Lease, Dorotha M. 1920-1962 and Lease, Baby 4-3-1948 Baby daughter of Mr. & Mrs. C.D. Lease 1960 (note: this baby was near the foot of * above) Lease, George W. 1911-1974 and Lease, Myrtle I. 1915-1997 Somewhere behind the "middle section" was: Lease "Our Darling" 1963 Rebecca S., Daughter of Arthur & Sandra Lease Front of tall hill: Father: Lease, Charles J. 1906-19__ Mother: Lease, Ruth E. 1916-1972 To the left of them was: Hazel T. Lease Steigerwald 1903-1949 That's all the Lease burials we could find. I stopped in a near-by drug store, and the lady there told me the caretaker's name and suggested that I might call him, which I did. I can't remember the group he belongs to, like perhaps the Masons (they took over the care of the cemetery in the 1950's, I believe). He said there were no written records of who was buried there, and when they took over the care of the cemetery, it was in very bad shape. So basically, what you see on the tombstones is all the information there is (unless, of course someone has recorded information on their relatives privately through the years, or if someone has researched and documented Lease death records for Hampshire County). However, there must be quite a few Leases buried in unmarked graves because there is a book by Hazel Elisabeth Thornton on the Leise/Lease families and many of them were "buried in Fort Ashby Cemetery". Hazel has a web site that you can access at Familytreemaker.com -Kathy Lease Piechocki@aol.com