This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZCC.2ACE/505.511.1 Message Board Post: Lillian: Thanks for responding. I found the cemetery last spring and have visited there twice since then. Some of the names I am interested in are Clay, Watson, Sansom, Parsons and Merritt. It just so happened that the day I first visited the cemetery, I also stopped at the library in Hamlin. (I had been there before and had asked about a listing of burials for Watson, but they did not have one.) I asked again about a Watson listing and the volunteer showed me that she was just punching holes in two new listings for Watson to put them into their notebook! What timing! I took photocopies of both listings and they have been a great help (though there are some errors). Lincoln County genealogy is a challenge, so the gravestones at Watson helped me identify people I could not have found otherwise. Thanks again for contacting me. If you want me to check the listings for anyone, just let me know.
Hi to all, I know that Watson Cemetery is in Lincoln Co., but it is JUST barely inside the county line. Many people from Wayne Co. are buried there also. I believe that the Wayne Co. library has a cemetery listing for Watson in one of the cemetery books that is there. I can't remember who did it, but it's either one of the DAR volumes, or one of the Wayne Co. Genealogical societies volumes or one of the two volumes that was done by Rennie and Mary Talbert. I just remember that I've seen it there and made a copy of that particular cemetery. I'm a CLAY, CLARK, HARLESS, DONAHUE descendant and my g-grandparents - James Loran and Mary Elizabeth Clark are buried there. Also, Mary Elizabeth's parents - David and Eliza Clark, as well as my uncle and Aunt - Thomas Edgar and Sylvia (Merritt) Clay. I visited the cemetery this summer for the first time and it is a very special feeling that you get when you're there and think of all of those who have gone before and how much of what we are - we owe to them and their willingness to persevere through life's hardships. Lynda Davis-Logan ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 1:02 PM Subject: [WVLINCOL] Re: Watson Cemetery > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZCC.2ACE/505.511.1 > > Message Board Post: > > Lillian: > > Thanks for responding. I found the cemetery last spring and have visited there twice since then. Some of the names I am interested in are Clay, Watson, Sansom, Parsons and Merritt. It just so happened that the day I first visited the cemetery, I also stopped at the library in Hamlin. (I had been there before and had asked about a listing of burials for Watson, but they did not have one.) I asked again about a Watson listing and the volunteer showed me that she was just punching holes in two new listings for Watson to put them into their notebook! What timing! I took photocopies of both listings and they have been a great help (though there are some errors). Lincoln County genealogy is a challenge, so the gravestones at Watson helped me identify people I could not have found otherwise. > > Thanks again for contacting me. If you want me to check the listings for anyone, just let me know. > > > > > ==== WVLINCOL Mailing List ==== > Learn the history of your name at The Name Center > http://www.TheNameCenter.com > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > >