This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Elias Richards/Martha Sprouse Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DFC.2ACI/2212.1.1.1.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Sandy, Thank you for sending the info. I have most of it. What I am looking for is the children born to Elias and Martha Richards after Stephen who was born in 1879. I believe he may have been my Uncle Sanford but not sure. As a child I was raised with all of Elias's children, my aunts and uncles but some must have used nicknames. My grandfather William had sisters named Hester. Oasie, Georgie, Lizzy, Nancy etc. I don't know if they were born after 1879 or if they are one of the older children called by something else. I have old reel movies of my grandparents and of their sibs. My grandfather used to say he had 13 children in his family. II am at a standstill again with this family. Any Ideas on how I should proceed in my search. As for Amos and Absolom my father,who is still alive, never heard about them so I think they may have passed away early in life. Keep me in mind if you get any new information. Thanks Judy Richards Nagy jnagy33530@aol.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Richards, McFoy, Nicely, Lee, Dotson, Whaley, Vaught Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DFC.2ACI/2212.1.1.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Census Place Slate, Wood, West Virginia Family History Library Film 1255416 NA Film Number T9-1416 Page Number 485B Sorry I forgot the source of the info in the last message from the 1880 census. The 1840 census with children's ages under 5 shows an aproximate wedding date of Otho and Rebecca Dotson Richards for 1833-1835. Rebecca would have been approximately 21 and Otho would have been in his forties. Wood county census 1840 Virginia page 157 Otho Richards age 50-60, son age 0-5, 2 daughters age 0-5, Rebecca age 20-30 Wirt County 1850 Census record household 31-31 Otho Richards 67 farmer Va Rebecca 36 Va Druzilla 13 Va Elias 14 Va Mary E. 11 Va Evaline 9 Va Rosetta 6 Va Emily J. 5 Va Victoria 2 Va Their last child together, Dovenor, was born in 1851, Otho must have died after this about 1854 because that is the time that Rebecca remarried to John Nicely. Wood county census Fountain Springs 1860 426-423 John Nicely 65 Va farmer Rebecca 41 Virginia John 18 Va Lucetta Richards 14 Va Victoria Richards 11 Va Dovenor Richards 9 Va Elias Richards 24 Va Don't know if this is our Rebecca or not, but found on LDS website. Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace Rebecca NICELY Self W Female W 71 PA Keeping House PA PA Mazie M. NYE GDau S Female W 15 PA At Home PA PA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source Information: Census Place Dewark, Northumberland, Pennsylvania Family History Library Film 1255164 NA Film Number T9-1164

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Richards, McFoy, Nicely, Lee, Dotson, Whaley, Vaught, Noland, Edwards, Boice, Sprouse Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DFC.2ACI/2212.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Elias RICHARDS Self M Male W 45 VA Farmer VA VA Martha RICHARDS Wife M Female W 34 VA Keeping House VA VA Josephine RICHARDS Dau S Female W 11 WV VA VA Nancy RICHARDS Dau S Female W 10 WV VA VA Absalom E. RICHARDS Son S Male W 8 WV VA VA Laura Va. RICHARDS Dau S Female W 7 WV VA VA Amos G. RICHARDS Son S Male W 6 WV VA VA Martha E. RICHARDS Dau S Female W 4 WV VA VA Hester E. RICHARDS Dau S Female W 3 WV VA VA Stephen S. RICHARDS Son S Male W 8M WV VA VA

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Richards/Sprouse Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DFC.2ACI/2212.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Wayne, I was wondering if you or anyone has found anything more on the Elias Richards/ Martha Sprouse family from 1879 through 1900. I am still trying to find the names of my grandfather's sibs born during this period. He was William Sheridan Richards born 3/30/1891. I believe he was the youngest of Martha and Elias. Also anything new on Otho Richards? Thanks Judy

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cokeley, Coakley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DFC.2ACI/2321 Message Board Post: Looking for information on the children of Isaac E. Cokeley and Jane Crolly. They had four children; Catherine Anne Cokeley b. December 13, 1852, married William Hamilton Morrison; Lorenzo Dow Coakley b. April 20, 1854, married Catharine Ludema Ruckman; James M. Lathrop Cokeley b. July 07, 1856, married unknown; and Oliver P. D. Cokeley b. May 17, 1859, married Hester Ann ?. I think they were born in Wood County, West Virginia.

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/DFC.2ACI/2320 Message Board Post: I'm looking for information on Clarence Miller (born in 1885 or 1886 in Ohio) and Nellie Harris (born in 1885 or 1886 in Wood County) and their descendants. They were married in 1909 in Washington County Ohio. The 1930 census has them living in Williamstown, Wood County with a son Harold (or Harol) who was then 19 years old. Can anyone help? Thanks

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/DFC.2ACI/2319 Message Board Post: I will do all types of genealogy research for this county. email me for details if interested.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Donohue, Riffle, Shields, Womer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DFC.2ACI/2318 Message Board Post: Looking for the death record of Mary Boggs Riffle, she died maybe in the Parkersburg area , she was the divorced widow of David Riffle, who died in Parkersburg in 1917, Mary was still alive then, in her 80's. Any info on this name would be helpful. Jane Boucher valjan@ptd.net. Mary Boggs Riffle was my great grandmother. thanks.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: JAYNES PAGE JONES Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DFC.2ACI/48.366 Message Board Post: Can anyone help me on the 3 daughters of Henry D. Jaynes. Mary, born 1859, and Margaret and Minna, born in 1868, all in VA/WVA. I just found this posting/family, and am wondering if Mary could be my grandmother. My father was orphaned at birth in 1882 in Galveston, TX area, and he always said his mother was Mary Jaynes of VA, and his father John Jones. His mother died at his birth, and his father when he was 5,and he had no other relatives he knew of besides 2 "old maid sisters" in Galveston, who disappeared in the terrible Galveston storm of 1900. I thought they could be Margaret and Minna. For 35 years I have been unable to trace my father, because I haven't been able to find a John Jones/Mary Jaynes marriage, or find them anywhere. I realize the name Mary is pathetically common, and the Jaynes family were fairly common in VA, but am hoping someone can help me with what happened to any of these 3 daughters, so I can learn quickly there is no hope of this being my Mary, or so I can learn that possibly she is my grandmother. ! Thanks for any help. Judy

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: metz Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DFC.2ACI/2317 Message Board Post: Looking for death record of my great uncle Robert Metz. He was born abt. 1932 in Calhoun Co., & died abt. 1960 in Vienna, Wood Co. Son of Wesley C. Metz & Pricie Starcher. He died while a digging hole for pipes & it caved in on him. Also don't know where he is buried, heard he might be buried in Ohio. Help if you can Heather

Transcription from the CIVIL WAR Pension file of Abisha (Abishia) CLARK, a brother of my GG-grandfather Joseph Thomas CLARK. I will send more as soon as I can transcribe the depositions. These two are a bit graphic in describing the ill health of Abisha. Affidavit for Officers or Comrades This Affidavit should, if possible be in the handwriting of the Affiant State of Nebraska County of Lancaster Joseph T. Clark being duly sworn, say that Abishia Clark of Co. G, 6th Regt. West Va. Vols., and that I was 1st Sargent, was a member of said organization. I do further swear that Abishia Clark contracted the following disability, while in said service, viz: had measles in Parkersburg, West, Va. In December 1861 and went to Clarksburg, West Va., some time in January 1862 at which place he took cold on measles, which settled on his lung; he coughed considerable and spit blood considerable. I know this from personal knowledge being in the same company with him and I further state that I lived near him through 1880 and he still had the same disease of lung. The said Abishia Clark is my Brother. I know these facts from being in the same company and near neighbors and I further swear that I have no interest in this Claim for Pension. Post office address is Saltillo, County of Lancaster, State of Nebraska. Joseph T. Clark late of Co. G, 6th Regt. West Va. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 3rd day of March 1885 and I hereby certify that the party whose name is attached to the above affidavit is reputable and credible and the person represented to be, and that I have no interest in this claim. The contents were read to Affiant before signing the same. My certificate is on file in the department. F. S. Palmer, Notary Public ==== Deposition Case of Ellen M. Clark, W.O. 606, 181 On this 3rd day of Sept. 1908 at Union District, County of Wood, State of West Va., before me George M. Beckett a special examiner of the Bureau of Pensions, personally appeared John N. Postlethwait, who being by me first duly sworn to answer truly all interrogatories propounded to him during this special examination of aforesaid claim for pension, deposes and says: I am 64 years of age; my post office address is Parkersburg, W. Va. R. F. D. #2 res. 8 miles N. E. of Parkersburg. My farm adjoins the farm in which Abishia Clark died, and the houses are not more than 2oo yards apart. Lived right here neighbors to each other nearly all the time from the close of the war or there about 1868. When I first knew him, I do not recall that he was complaining. In fact we did not socialize together much then or until later years. About 20 years ago he became disabled so that he could not work at all but was complaining for a number of years previously –he was not much of a complainer and a man of few words. The first I realized that he was ailing, he had a hacking cough. About 20 years ago he started to go to church and was later taken with a hemorrhage from his lungs, so he told me, in fact I saw him soon afterward at his house; he was still spitting blood and there was blood in the vessel in the house. From that day until his death he was never off of his farm to my knowledge; in fact for years seldom out of his house & seldom out of his dooryard. Why I heard he had a bad hemorrhage years before. One he had on a Sunday, rather on Saturday<text unreadable> to church. After that he had hemorrhages and I saw him spit blood slightly. Don’t recall any severe hemorrhages the last years of his life. The time he was examined at Marietta, Ohio, I went with him as it wasn’t considered safe to go before board alone. From the time he had the bad hemorrhage at the church he gradually failed and was thin in flesh; at death not weighing more than 100 pounds. I think at death –nearly “Skin and bones” as near as a man could be. And he was terribly stooped and his chest was sunken way in. I arrived at his bedside right after he died, in fact I thought he breathed once after I arrived, and I attempted to straighten him out & his back was so bent and so were his legs from sitting so long and lying in a half sitting position for so long that I could not straighten either his back or legs. It was a surprise to me that he did not die years before. He had a vessel to spit in all the time at his side –this spitting was very disagreeable. The spit-up was a yellowish stuff at times streaked with blood. He had a hollow vaporized (?) cough all those years and complained of choking with the phlegm & of smothering spells. Often told me that he had to sit up all night, that he could not rest, except in his chair. No, he had no pneumonia or fever at any time to my knowledge. I think he had bad colds if he had once pretty bad, and several years before he died, 10 or 12 years before I think. He was subject to cold as a person naturally would be in his condition. He had no liver trouble, chills, or kidney bladder troubles to my knowledge. Except he chilled when he had Lagrippe. I don’t know that he had any special stomach trouble. He had to eat light food and very little all those years. Never complained of his stomach that I can recall & no misery in that region-- no gas in stomach or vomiting. Well, that I know of. Well I heard him complain some of diarrhea, but I don’t recall that he had chronic diarrhea. No I don’ t recall that he ran off at the bowels. Hadn’t seen him for a few days before his death & I was not feeling well myself hence had not visited him as frequently as previously. Well, he complained of his heart a good bit and that is what caused him to be short of breath he thought, and sat up to breathe on that account—that and this phlegm, which he said he could not get up nor down. I don’t know that his heart pained him nor whether it beat slow or fast or fluttered, nor do I recollect as to his <unreadable>. Simply spoke of his heart in any connection with the smothering. I recall that he had a hectic (?) flush toward the last –rosy cheeks I suppose you mean. I don’t recall as to night sweats. He was not tropical at any time, not even about this fact that I recall but it was not from dropsy, and I tell you pretty nearly free from flesh. I never heard that he had caught cold at any time of that kind. Simply got worse and weakened and died. Didn’t know he was worse until sent for stating he was dying. So far as I know he was always of good habits. Never knew him to drink intoxicants at all. Chewed tobacco moderately and did not smoke at all to my knowledge. Well sir, I think lung consumption is what caused his death and very slow consumption at that. And his appearance when I arrived indicated that he had slept away quietly without a struggle. Don’t recall that he ran off at the bowels at the last. Oh yes, complained of his lungs all those years and wheezed a good bit. I hereby understood the questions asked me and my answers are correctly recorded as read to me. J. N. Postlethwait Subscribed and sworn to me before the 3rd day of Sept. 1908, and certify that the contents were fully made known to deponent before signing. George M. Beckett, Special Examiner Thank you, Kathie Harrison - CLARK-WV, CLARK-PA, CLARK-NE, CLARK-MO, CLARK-KY & CLARK-IA Surname List Admin. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~irishrose/lists.html

This cemetery has a new road into it and is very accessible if you know where it is. It is off of Missouri Creek Road. ----- Original Message ----- From: C. Mathews To: WVWOOD-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 9:54 PM Subject: Fw: [WVWOOD] Levi McDonald First Sams Creek Baptist Church oversees the maintenance. In December of 1998, someone visited the Sams Cemetery in Wood County, WV. "The county road, which runs by he cemetery has not been kept up and is now overgrown, washed out and several fallen trees blocks the path. The easiest access is through a neighboring farm by foot and one has to get permission to trespass on private property to get to it. The cemetery is small but is mowed and trimmed several times a year by a teenage boy. According to Catherine J. Sams this area is called Missouri Creek. According to the book, Wood County West Virginia Cemetery Inscriptions, Vol.1. pg. 135 of this book states that the Sams Cemetery on Missouri Creek is to be morved in 1966 to make way for Route 77. Practically all graves were moved to Big Tygart Cemetery with 3 moved to Mt. Olivet. Hope this helps! Carla cmathews@visi.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Marty Ryerson <mailto:martyr@charter.net> To: WVWOOD-L@rootsweb.com Sent: July 18, 2003 6:37 PM Subject: RE: [WVWOOD] Levi McDonald Cheked the Wood County Cemeteries web page, but it is not listed. Sams is a common surname in this area. Perhaps it is a small family plot? Marty -----Original Message----- From: atolah@juno.com [mailto:atolah@juno.com] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 12:25 PM To: WVWOOD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [WVWOOD] Levi McDonald I just got back from a trip to Parkersburg WVa for a funeral and while there checked to see where Levi McDonald was buried. I went to Leavitt's Funeral Home and got information as to where he was buried He was buried in Sams Cemetery at Mineral Wells Does anyone know where this cemetery is I checked with some of the people in that area but no one knows of a Sams cemetery but there is a Sams Creek Baptist Church but no cemetery beside it that I could see Any help on this would be greatly appreciated MJ Petty in NC ==== WVWOOD Mailing List ==== Rhonda Smith list manager wvwood-admin@rootsweb.com ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571 <http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237> &sourceid=1237 ==== WVWOOD Mailing List ==== Rhonda Smith list manager wvwood-admin@rootsweb.com ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571 <http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237> &sourceid=1237 ==== WVWOOD Mailing List ==== Rhonda Smith list manager wvwood-admin@rootsweb.com ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 ==== WVWOOD Mailing List ==== Rhonda Smith list manager wvwood-admin@rootsweb.com ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DFC.2ACI/2316 Message Board Post: Saturday, September 27 Location: Roane County Committee on Aging Building 811 Madison Avenue, Spencer, WV 9:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. Several members of the WV related MyFamily sites attended the Gen Fair last year and we had a blast! It was well-attended and much socializing went on. There were lots of vendors there, selling their WV related genealogy books and other items. There were several raffles, which was great fun. Hourly door prizes are given away, too, and the gifts are very nice. (I brought home quite a bit of the "loot" myself!) Genuine WV hotdogs and other food items were available, too. Whether you're looking for WV related reference books, good food or making contacts and meeting new cousins, and a fun-filled day, I guarantee you won't go away hungry! Try to be there with us this year! To reserve a display area, or for further information, you may contact one of the following: Johanna Nutter 2238 Mulberry Ridge Spencer, WV 25276 joeandjo30@wirefire.com Carol Board legallady@depotltd.com Arleen Boggess boggessa@wirefire.com For more information, visit the Society's announcement:at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvrchs/genealogical_fair.htm

First Sams Creek Baptist Church oversees the maintenance. In December of 1998, someone visited the Sams Cemetery in Wood County, WV. "The county road, which runs by he cemetery has not been kept up and is now overgrown, washed out and several fallen trees blocks the path. The easiest access is through a neighboring farm by foot and one has to get permission to trespass on private property to get to it. The cemetery is small but is mowed and trimmed several times a year by a teenage boy. According to Catherine J. Sams this area is called Missouri Creek. According to the book, Wood County West Virginia Cemetery Inscriptions, Vol.1. pg. 135 of this book states that the Sams Cemetery on Missouri Creek is to be morved in 1966 to make way for Route 77. Practically all graves were moved to Big Tygart Cemetery with 3 moved to Mt. Olivet. Hope this helps! Carla cmathews@visi.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Marty Ryerson <mailto:martyr@charter.net> To: WVWOOD-L@rootsweb.com Sent: July 18, 2003 6:37 PM Subject: RE: [WVWOOD] Levi McDonald Cheked the Wood County Cemeteries web page, but it is not listed. Sams is a common surname in this area. Perhaps it is a small family plot? Marty -----Original Message----- From: atolah@juno.com [mailto:atolah@juno.com] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 12:25 PM To: WVWOOD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [WVWOOD] Levi McDonald I just got back from a trip to Parkersburg WVa for a funeral and while there checked to see where Levi McDonald was buried. I went to Leavitt's Funeral Home and got information as to where he was buried He was buried in Sams Cemetery at Mineral Wells Does anyone know where this cemetery is I checked with some of the people in that area but no one knows of a Sams cemetery but there is a Sams Creek Baptist Church but no cemetery beside it that I could see Any help on this would be greatly appreciated MJ Petty in NC ==== WVWOOD Mailing List ==== Rhonda Smith list manager wvwood-admin@rootsweb.com ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571 <http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237> &sourceid=1237 ==== WVWOOD Mailing List ==== Rhonda Smith list manager wvwood-admin@rootsweb.com ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571 <http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237> &sourceid=1237 ==== WVWOOD Mailing List ==== Rhonda Smith list manager wvwood-admin@rootsweb.com ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

This was sent to me instead of the list. I was not the person who originally asked the question. Marty -----Original Message----- From: C. Mathews [mailto:cmathews@visi.net] Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 8:11 AM To: Marty Ryerson Subject: Re: [WVWOOD] Levi McDonald First Sams Creek Baptist Church oversees the maintenance. In December of 1998, someone visited the Sams Cemetery in Wood County, WV. "The county road, which runs by he cemetery has not been kept up and is now overgrown, washed out and several fallen trees blocks the path. The easiest access is through a neighboring farm by foot and one has to get permission to trespass on private property to get to it. The cemetery is small but is mowed and trimmed several times a year by a teenage boy. According to Catherine J. Sams this area is called Missouri Creek. According to the book, Wood County West Virginia Cemetery Inscriptions, Vol.1. pg. 135 of this book states that the Sams Cemetery on Missouri Creek is to be morved in 1966 to make way for Route 77. Practically all graves were moved to Big Tygart Cemetery with 3 moved to Mt. Olivet. Hope this helps! Carla cmathews@visi.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Marty Ryerson <mailto:martyr@charter.net> To: WVWOOD-L@rootsweb.com Sent: July 18, 2003 6:37 PM Subject: RE: [WVWOOD] Levi McDonald Cheked the Wood County Cemeteries web page, but it is not listed. Sams is a common surname in this area. Perhaps it is a small family plot? Marty -----Original Message----- From: atolah@juno.com [mailto:atolah@juno.com] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 12:25 PM To: WVWOOD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [WVWOOD] Levi McDonald I just got back from a trip to Parkersburg WVa for a funeral and while there checked to see where Levi McDonald was buried. I went to Leavitt's Funeral Home and got information as to where he was buried He was buried in Sams Cemetery at Mineral Wells Does anyone know where this cemetery is I checked with some of the people in that area but no one knows of a Sams cemetery but there is a Sams Creek Baptist Church but no cemetery beside it that I could see Any help on this would be greatly appreciated MJ Petty in NC ==== WVWOOD Mailing List ==== Rhonda Smith list manager wvwood-admin@rootsweb.com ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571 <http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237> &sourceid=1237 ==== WVWOOD Mailing List ==== Rhonda Smith list manager wvwood-admin@rootsweb.com ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571 <http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237> &sourceid=1237

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Elliott and Wiley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DFC.2ACI/2315 Message Board Post: I am searching for information and photos of James Elliott and Eliza Ann Wiley who had a farm in Waverly, Wood Co, WV. They had a daughter, Cora Belle who was born in 1888 and married John Fred Frey. Send any ifo to me at 311 N. Huron Street, Wheeling, WV 26003

I'd verify the following information. When I look at Wood County West Virginia Cemetery Inscriptions, Vol.1. pg. 135, it appears that the quoted information applies to the Rockport Cemetery, which was listed just above the information for Sams Cemetery. J French "According to the book, Wood County West Virginia Cemetery Inscriptions, Vol.1. pg. 135 of this book states that the Sams Cemetery on Missouri Creek is to be morved in 1966 to make way for Route 77. Practically all graves were moved to Big Tygart Cemetery with 3 moved to Mt. Olivet."

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Massey, Mayfield, Winans, King Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DFC.2ACI/2314 Message Board Post: I have been told that there is a lady that is doing the Massey family history at the Belleville HOmecoming In September of this year. I would desperately like to contact this person whomever she may be to share information with her. I am going to try to make it in for the homecoming...but can't be sure if my work schedule would allow it. I am a descendent of Samuel Massey and Nancy Mayfield Massey. (Massey-Winans-King) If anyone knows whom this person is, please share my email address/information with her so that she may contact me, or point me in a direction to find her. Thanks, Becky

Cheked the Wood County Cemeteries web page, but it is not listed. Sams is a common surname in this area. Perhaps it is a small family plot? Marty -----Original Message----- From: atolah@juno.com [mailto:atolah@juno.com] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 12:25 PM To: WVWOOD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [WVWOOD] Levi McDonald I just got back from a trip to Parkersburg WVa for a funeral and while there checked to see where Levi McDonald was buried. I went to Leavitt's Funeral Home and got information as to where he was buried He was buried in Sams Cemetery at Mineral Wells Does anyone know where this cemetery is I checked with some of the people in that area but no one knows of a Sams cemetery but there is a Sams Creek Baptist Church but no cemetery beside it that I could see Any help on this would be greatly appreciated MJ Petty in NC ==== WVWOOD Mailing List ==== Rhonda Smith list manager wvwood-admin@rootsweb.com ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

I just got back from a trip to Parkersburg WVa for a funeral and while there checked to see where Levi McDonald was buried. I went to Leavitt's Funeral Home and got information as to where he was buried He was buried in Sams Cemetery at Mineral Wells Does anyone know where this cemetery is I checked with some of the people in that area but no one knows of a Sams cemetery but there is a Sams Creek Baptist Church but no cemetery beside it that I could see Any help on this would be greatly appreciated MJ Petty in NC