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Cemeteries and cemetery readings

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Frederick B. Lambert, Collector and Compiler, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1281
Scope and Contents

Historical and genealogical notebooks, notes on census reports, cemetery readings, newspaper history, copies of church and school records, notes on slavery, newspaper clipping scrapbooks, and correspondence.

Dates: 1905-1959

Hardy and Hampshire Counties, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1171
Overview Copies of Fairfax grants and surveys made or copied by James William Kuykendall, county surveyor; record of the town lots in Moorefield; extracts from Hardy and Hampshire County records; cemetery readings; muster roll of the McNeill's Rangers, 1861-1865; prospectus for Kuykendall family history, and local history items. The volume contains detailed records for Cunningham, Harness, Kuykendall, Parsons, and Van Meter families. Other records pertain to the Casey, Fisher, Hite, Hopkins,...
Dates: ca. 1750-1922

Hardy County Cemetery Readings, Typed Document

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2045
Overview

Hardy County cemetery readings which were compiled by James Funkhouser for the Kimsey's Run Brethren Church, Harper, Chrisman, Inskeep, Miller, and Strawderman cemeteries, and an unnamed cemetery near Lost City. In addition there are readings from the Wilkins, Sager, and Dispanet family cemeteries.

Dates: 1968

Helen Scott, Compiler, Genealogy Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3109
Overview

Genealogical notes and research of a member of the Fayette Co., WV Genealogical Society, Helen Scott, on the following families: Arthur, Blake, Decker, Jaynes, Johnson and Scott. There are cemetery readings for Fayette County including the areas of Fayetteville, Mt. Hope, Oak Hill, and Pax and of the Blue Ridge Cemetery. There is also a copy of the genealogical research conducted by Laura Blake.

Dates: ca. 1500-1991

Henri Jean Mugler Diary and Memoir

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1335
Overview Diary and memoir of a Confederate soldier, railroad laborer, and shop owner from Grafton. The memoir begins with Mugler's birth in Alsace-Lorraine in 1838, and covers his immigration to the United States; enlistment in the United States Army in 1851; military duty in New York, Boston, Rhode Island, Texas, California, and the Washington Territory where he participated in the expedition against the Yakima Indians as a member of Company B, Third Regiment, United States Artillery, under Phil...
Dates: 1838-1899

Jackson County, Cemetery Readings

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2217
Overview

Cemetery readings from Jackson County, ca.1800-1966, including the Barnett Cemetery at Rock Castle; the Foster Chapel Cemetery; the Levi Moore Cemetery; the Given Cemetery; the Fairview Cemetery; the Mt. Moriah Church Cemetery; and the Pleasant Hill Cemetery.

Dates: ca. 1966-1971

Joseph F. McNeely Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0602
Scope and Contents

Mimeographed letters of Joseph F. McNeely requesting the restoration by the Presbyterian Church of Morgantown, of the McNeely family monument removed from the Presbyterian cemetery on the site of the new church.

Dates: February 24, 1954

Marion County, Cemetery Readings, Arnett Cemetery

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3397
Overview

Cemetery readings for Arnett Cemetery on Campbell Run Road, Marion County, West Virginia by Nellie Ornduff. Birth and death dates range from ca. 1780-1980. Photocopy of 12 page typescript.

Dates: 1989

Monongalia County, Cemetery Readings

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0924
Scope and Contents

Microfilm of records copied by Mr. McIntire from tombstones in cemeteries in Monongalia County, relating to all soldiers from the county. Includes names of servicemen in all U.S. wars and all known Civil War Confederate soldiers at the time. Dates covered include ca. 1770-1950.

Dates: ca. 1956

Monongalia County, Cemetery Readings, Grant District

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1121
Scope and Contents

Typescript of inscriptions in the burial plot on Stewart's Run (Michael's Cemetery), formerly the land of the Stewart family, in Grant District, Monongalia County, 1810-1852, copied by Mrs. H. L. Martin, Sr. See also Cemetery Readings, Michael's Cemetery, Grant District, Monongalia County in the Dille Papers.

Dates: 1958