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

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