Dan Oates wrote a Cem abstract? How would one get a copy? I thought many people were geared up to do this same thing when Vicki published her Springfield Dist. material. I didn' t think anyone else had published? I have Dan's two books - 1860 census inventory and the Blue book. Please let me (and the list) know what we've missed! Thanks, Karen ---------- From: R. Wayne McGahuey[SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 9:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WVHAMPSH-L] Hampshire Cemeteries What is the actual name of this cemetery. I have seen Dan Oate book, but I don't remember see anything like the Berg Cemetery. Wayne of Capon Bridge At 12:45 PM 10/19/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Cheryl, > >"The Berg" is Isaac Mean's house that passed into the Williams >family. The house sits at the corner of Rt. 50 and Fox's Hollow Rd. The >graveyard is in the middle of the gravel storage area next to Fox's Hollow >Rd. to the north of the house. There used to be a huge barn between the >house and the cemetery but it burned down in the 1950's because the hay >stored in it heated up. I think Danny Oates inventoried this cemetery. > >I don't know anything about the other cemeteries you mention. > >Jane > >At 12:05 PM 10/19/02, you wrote: >>While sorting through to find the Ebenezer burials for Wayne, I encountered >>these others ... I checked the GNIS and not much joy there, but then not >>all the little family graveyards are ON the GNIS. >> >>Redland Cemetery -- is this up at Red House or somewhere in Hampshire? >> >>Morgan Cemetery -- MAY be over in Berkeley County, at least GNIS shows one >>over there. >> >>Aline Family graveyard -- absolutely no clues >> >>"The Berg" -- Somewhere around Romney -- Jane, would you know? >> >>Shannon -- in Springfield, WV, but not on GNIS >> >>Fairchance -- absolutely no clues >> >>McIntyre -- absolutely no clues >> >>Sugar Hollow -- absolutely no clues >> >> >> >>Context for all of these implies they're in a "reasonable" distance of >>Romney. >>However, I'm unable to tell whether some of these are possessive usage >>rather than nominative usage -- Hilton's (where Hilton lives) as opposed to >>Hilton's house (which Hilton owns) or as opposed to Hilton Hotel (the name >>of the bulding) or Hilton Head (the name of the town). That might make >>McIntyre cemetery the cemetery USED by the McIntyres rather than one named >>McIntyre. >> >>Still, I found county residents reported buried in these places, and >>figured I should mention 'em. >> >>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