Cemeteries and cemetery readings
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
Preston County Miscellaneous Papers, Cemetery Readings
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2395
Scope and Contents
Xerox copies of cemetery readings for Preston County, including the following cemeteries: Salt Lick, Pine Run, Pine Grove Church, Wesley Chapel Church, and Beatty Church.
Dates:
1820-1962
Preston County Miscellaneous Papers, Cemetery Readings
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1939
Scope and Contents
Cemetery readings for Freeland Cemetery and directions on how to reach cemetery.
Dates:
August 1996
Ripley Town History Typed Document [microfilm]
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1616
Overview
Brief sketch of the founding of the town of Ripley, West Virginia, its early history and settlers; cemetery readings of the Old Ripley Cemetery copied by the Historic Records Survey, 1940; and a copy of the deed from John Swan, Jr., to Jacob Starcher for the land on which Ripley was settled.
Dates:
ca. 1940
Rufus A. West, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0576
Scope and Contents
Manuscript and printed material, and pictures collected by Rufus A. West, a Morgantown antiquarian and faculty member of the College of Engineering, West Virginia University. There are also a small number of Mr. West’s personal papers, consisting of letters concerning West Virginia University College of Engineering, Oak Grove Cemetery Association, and the Wesley Methodist Church, all of Morgantown, and business records of the Town Hill Service Station, owned by Mr. West. The...
Dates:
1774; 1780; 1830-1952
Thomas Ray Dille Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0171
Scope and Contents
Papers of a Morgantown attorney, genealogist, and antiquarian. There are several series of office files relating to Dille's law practice, and extensive correspondence regarding his historical and genealogical studies. Families for which there are genealogical compilations include Dille, Ray, Stewart, McFarland, Tennant, David Evans, and John Evans. Monongalia County birth and death records; cemetery readings; copies of wills and indexes of will books; names in real estate and appraisement...
Dates:
1781-1948
Thomas Ray Dille Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0357
Scope and Contents
Gift of the brothers and sisters of Thomas Ray Dille, lawyer, historian, and genealogist of Morgantown W.Va. This collection contains the family histories of the Dille, David Evans, and John Evans families, as well as the Ray, Stewart, McFarland, and Tennant families. Materials include five loose leaf volumes of cemetery records of Monongalia County; family records of Monongalia County, and family Bible records. Additional materials about the Forks of Cheat Baptist Church,...
Dates:
ca. 1774-1939
U.S. Works Progress Administration, West Virginia Historic Records Survey, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0046
Overview
Copies of records from each county in West Virginia gathered by the depression-era public records survey funded by the Works Progress Administration. Included are registers of births, marriages, deaths, wills, estate settlements, and land records. Transcriptions of county and circuit court minute and order books are included as well as cemetery readings and registers; church record surveys; mimeographed calendars of the papers of West Virginia governors; and American Imprint Inventory slips...
Dates:
ca. 1930-1939
West Virginia Adjutant General, Burial and Cemetery Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3137
Overview
West Virginia Adjutant General burial and cemetery records including cemetery maps. The records consists of forms containing name; residence at death (city, county, state); cemetery name and location including town and county; date of burial; type of grave marker; information on grave marker including additional identification; date and place of birth; date, place, and cause of death; next of kin and their address; dates enlisted and discharged; serial number; rank; race; service branch; war...
Dates:
1825-1939
Wetzel County, Cemetery Readings, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1261
Overview
Tombstone readings from the Pursley Church, Beaver Run, and Old Wayman cemeteries located near Proctor, Wetzel County, West Virginia, and incidental data on the Peter Lehew family.
Dates:
1959
Willis Guy Tetrick, Jr. Genealogy Research Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3230
Overview
Genealogy research papers compiled by W. Guy Tetrick and his son Willis G. Tetrick, Jr. The Tetricks were from Harrison County and the material in the collection mainly regards families of Harrison County and north central West Virginia. The collection contains mostly original genealogical compilations and family histories. It also contains personal and business correspondence; financial records; publications regarding local and state history; newspapers and news clippings; obituaries,...
Dates:
1708-1997