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

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, 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 have updated the website for the night. I have added two cemeteries to my list of 250. The first one is the Wilson Cemetery just out of Rio, sitting on the Hampshire Co, and Hardy Co. lines. http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/hampco/wilson.htm The next cemetery was rather hard to get to, but when I found it I felt good. I have called it the Rosebrough Family Cemetery. I see on my list of cemeteries I have a Rosebrook Cemetery near Rio also. These could be one in the same, but I doubt it. The oldest stones definitely had the last name of Rosebrough on them. This cemetery is in very poor shape. A very large tree has been chain sawed down and it now lays on top of some of the graves. Does anyone have a listing of all the people buried at this cemetery?? If so, could I get it.???? http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/hampco/rosebrou.htm That is it for tonight. 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

Greetings one and all, I will be making 3 updates tonight. I went out to Green Springs today with Stevie-Lee, my grand daughter. She just doesn't have the concept of what a cemetery is yet. She watches too much TV, asking me who killed all these people. I had to explain to her that people died of different causes other then being killed. Like age, illness and other things. The next cemetery, she asked the same question, who killed these people, and how far are they buried under us. I took a while to explain, but it appeared to go in one year and out the other. Anyway, my first update is the addition of the Arnold Family Cemetery. It took me almost 1 or so to find this one, as it was located behind a concrete wall, in the middle of a bunch of stickers. You should see my scratches. http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/hampco/arnold1.htm I met a lot of nice people looking for this cemetery, made a few friends today. Stevie also saw her first skinned raccoon. So our next cemetery we headed to was the McLaughlin Cemetery. See my next messages. 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

Greetings one and all, I finished the cemeteries that I went to today. McLaughlin Cemetery http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/hampco/mclaugh.htm French / Murphy Cemetery. http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/hampco/french.htm I have noticed that I'm having problems seeing things on CITYNET tonight. I will give them a call to see if there is a major problem. Let me know if you can't see these webpages. 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

Izetta. I did a little research on the McCauley Family Cemetery and the Homestead this past weekend, and here is what I came up with. I talked with Gary Riggleman who lives just down Timber Mountain Road from Route 50. His wifes mother is Mary Smith, the owner of the Apple stand at Looms, at the top of the hill on 50. Mary has lived around there for many years, and after talking with her and Gary I know know where the old McCauley Homestead is, and where another McCauley Homestead was. As well as information on the McCauley Family Cemetery. First, for the homestead. There appears to be two. One is/was in Looms. Behind the fruit stand (according to Gary). Nothing is left of the house at all. He said that there was no double chimney on this house, but if I remember right where was a rock foundation that was picked up and moved and used for other purposes years ago. He also talked of the house near the Kline Cemetery. On the hill when I was being stared down my the bulls and having to shooo the calf off the graves without the mommy cow eating me, there was a house next to the cemetery. Today you can still see the foundation and or rock holes. I will get back with Gary a little more about the names of the people that lived here, but I thought he said McCauley. Next for the McCauley Family Cemetery. There is none in the area, and that was the common consensus of everyone that was related to the McCauley name around here. Many of the McCauley's were buried at the United Methodist Church on Rt.50 at Looms. Now back to the old McCauley Homestead. You know where John Whitaker lived? The second house we came to with the Even Hiatt Cemetery. That was the old McCauley Homestead. There is two chimneys there, but there is a house in the middle of them. I have looked at aero maps, but there is no other homestead in the area. How is that? Ask your question, and I will get answers for you. 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

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