Peyton family Cemetery

PEYTON FAMILY CEMETERY
Milton, Cabell Co., WV

Peyton Detail List

Latitude: N 38-29.611
Longitude: W 082-05.551
Elevation: 917 feet
Accuracy: 23 feet

From I 64 exchange in Milton, Cabell County, West Virginia go North on Johns Creek Road for 4.7 miles. At the top of the hill there is a mailbox that has a blue sign with the numbers "2399". Turn Right onto the small gravel road and go to the locked gate.  From here go to the end of the road. The road ends at a barn. Just before you get to the barn the cemetery will off to your Right.  The cemetery is fenced and cared for occasionally.

The Peyton Cemetery, on John's Creek Road in Milton, has been known by various names. Some of these maybe Wallace Cemetery or Lunsford/Jackson Cemetery. The Wallace Cemetery is actually the next one around the ridge past the Peyton. It is assumed Lunsford/Jackson was given to the cemetery because no one knew the name and those markers were some of the oldest in the cemetery. It has been found in several obituaries of those buried here that the name was Peyton Cemetery. Most of those buried here are members of the Alexander Peyton family, including two of his children who died young. The first burial was William E. Peyton in 1873, followed by George W. Lunsford in 1875, Lenora Peyton & Dr. Jackson in 1879 and another Peyton family member in 1891. (see Fieldstones)

The following list was compiled by actual reading of the tombstones. All the information, excluding annotation, is written on the tombstone. Annotations are included following the entry for the majority of the stones. Abbreviations are used for the following: d/o - dau of; s/o - son of; c/o - child of; w/o - wife of; h/o - husband of and b/o - brother of.

Submitted by Candie Freeman & Barry Huffstutler.
Read Apr 2002.
Revised 4 Jul 2002

Note: Ina, d/o Brady & Dora May Baylous.

Note: Clemit Joe, s/o Brady & Dora May Baylous.

Note: Zoma, d/o Brady & Dora May Baylous.

Note: Footstone is a fieldstone.

Note: Maiden name Phillips, side-by-side I. W. Cart.

Note: S/o John Sylvester Cart & Edna F. Cartmill.
Stone broken at ground level and top half lying on ground.

Note: D/o John Sylvester Cart & Edna F. Cartmill.
Side-by-side Harvey Cart.
Notice initials E.E. and E. F. on Harvey's stone.

Note: S/o John Sylvester Cart & Edna F. Cartmill.

Note: Isaac William Cart, side-by-side Adaline Cart.

Note: S/o Virgil Eustace Cart & Susan Lois Cartmill.

Note: Footstone is a fieldstone.

Note: S/o Joseph F. Daniels & Viola Merta Peyton.

Note: Merta is d/o Alexander Peyton & Paulina Rowsey.

Note: There is also a small Allen Funeral Home marker which reads
MADDIE DANIELS, 1915 - 1964.
Maudie is d/o Joseph F. Daniels & Merta Peyton,
g-dau. of Alexander Peyton.

Note: Zelma Juanita d/o Arthur Robinson Coleman,
Sr. & Sylvia Agnes Wallace.

Note: Footstone is a fieldstone.

Note: Footstone is a fieldstone.

Note: George, s/o Joshua A. Lunsford & Sarah Wallace, b/o John L. Lunsford, who mar Isabell Peyton.
Isabell is d/o Alexander Peyton and is buried in Lunsford Cemetery
with John and his parents.

Note: D/o Alexander Peyton & Paulina Rowsey. Hard to read.

Note: S/o Alexander Peyton & Paulina Rowsey. Hard to read.

Note: This is a child size sarcophagus.
The surname Wallace is slightly visible on one end.
 

Note: Isaac, s/o Henry Washington Wallace &Naomi E. Ball.
 

FIELDSTONES ONLY:
1. Fieldstone, no data, side-by-side Joseph F. Daniels
2. Fieldstones, head & foot, no data, infant size,
    side-by-side J. H. Daniels
3. Fieldstones, head & foot, no data, infant size, side-by-side #2.
4-10. Fieldstones, no data, head & foot, 1 row all side-by-side,
        total 7 pair fieldstones.
11. Fieldstones, head & foot, no data, infant or child,
     same row as Elza Bias and I. W. & Adaline Cart.
12. Fieldstones, head & foot, no data, infant or child,
     side-by-side #11.
13. Fieldstone, no data, side-by-side Zoma Baylous.
14. Fieldstones, head & foot, no data, side-by-side #13.
15. Fieldstones, head & foot, no data, side-by-side Infant Cart.
16. Fieldstone, no data, side-by-side #15.
17. Sarcophagus, no data, child size. Update: See Wallace above.
18. Fieldstones, head & foot, no data, child size,
     side-by-side sarcophagus.
19. Fieldstones, head & foot, no data, child size, side-by-side #18.
20. Fieldstones, head & foot, no data, child size, side-by-side #19.
21. Fieldstone, about 17 feet to right of Lenora Peyton,
     as you face front of stone.
22. Fieldstones, head & foot, no data, adult size, near George Lunsford. Believed to be Alzada Peyton Bias who died 23 Feb 1891. Alzada was the d/o Alexander Peyton & Paulina Rowsey and w/o Lindsey F. Bias. Alzada died 23 Feb 1891, believed to have died from the measles epidemic in Milton of 1891. Alzada left a family of four young children. Interview of James O. Peyton (her brother) by Fred B. Lambert states his sister Mrs. Bias buried in same cemetery as sister Mrs. Daniels and another brother and sister who died young. This interview accounts for the graves of William E. Peyton, Lenora Peyton, Merta Peyton Daniels and Alzada Peyton Bias, all children of Alexander Peyton. Alzada could be one of two unmarked graves, this one or possibly #21.

Note: Arthur Coleman was originally buried in this cemetery and moved to the Coleman/Wallace Cemetery in Mason Co. before 1983. This grave was located between Edmonds & Wallace. -Jerod Cobb, 4 Jul 2002