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