Browning Gap Cemetery

BROWNING GAP CEMETERY
Cabell - Lincoln County, West Virginia

Browning Detail List

Latitude: N 38° 16.335
Longitude: W 082° 14.849
Elevation: 1030 feet
Accuracy: 14 feet

From US Route 60 in Cabell County at Barboursville, WV.  Take Alt. 10 and Route 10 South to you come to Salt Rock.  At the Chevron Gas station turn Right onto Madison Cr. Rd.   Go about 5.5 miles or till you come to the Green Valley Church on your Left.   At the church Left and go to the second dirt road.  Take this road for about 0.3 mile and the cemetery will be on your Left.  The Cemetery  The cemetery is fenced and well maintain.
 

Note:  This cemetery is just across the Lincoln County line and has people buried in it from Cabell and Lincoln County.

The following list was compiled by actual reading of the tombstones. All the information, excluding annotation, is written on the tombstone.

Read   December 3, 2006.
Submitted by Barry Huffstutler

Footstone:  "SON"

This grave is marked with a Metal Marker only.
KOONTZ FUNERAL HOME

This grave also has 2 rock with it that has
"Peace" & "Patience" on them.

Location:  To the back and a little to the Right of the
marker for "Carrie & William Mays".

Footstone:  "DAUGHTER"

Jessie middle name was "Howard".
MORRIS FUNERAL HOME

Footstone:  "MOTHER"

This grave is marked with a Metal Marker only.
McGHEE FUNERAL HOME

Location:  This grave is located in the Back Right
side of the cemetery near the fence.

This grave is marked with a Metal Marker only.
McGHEE FUNERAL HOME

Location:  To the Left of the marker for
"Wetsel & Susie Bias".

There is also a Metal Marker that has his first name as "Wetzel"
KOONTZ FUNERAL HOME

KOONTZ FUNERAL HOME

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This grave is marked with a Metal Marker only.
REGER FUNERAL HOME

Location:  To the Left of the marker for "John Mays" is a
Metal Marker that has only 1896 on it.  To the Left of this
marker is the marker for the "Infant Mays".

Carrie middle name was "Ann" and her Death date was 1976.
WALLACE FUNERAL HOME  (Both)

Footstone:  "MOTHER"

This grave is marked with a Metal Marker only.
FERRELL MORTUARY, INC

Location:  To the Left of the marker for
"Carrie & William Mays".

Footstones:  "FATHER" and "MOTHER"

Footstone:  "PARSONS"

Born Sept. 22, 1920 -- Died Aug. 5, 1938 --
Buried Aug. 7, 1938   Age: 17
Parents:  Charles & Vesta (Bias) Parsons

The Death Records has the cemetery as
"Lawson" not "Browning".

Name could possible be "Lillian"

Footstone:  "PARSONS"

Isegene was a "Vaughn" and her nickname was "Doris".
HANDLEY FUNERAL HOME

Other Possible Burials:

Source -- Carrie Eldridge  (Cabell Cemeteries)

1.  Lawson,  James  --  1866 - 19942

2.  Lawson,  Mary  --  1878 - 1960

Note:  There are at least 11 graves marked with Field Stones

           Also there is a Rusty Metal Marker that only has 1896 as the
           birth year.  Also a Rusty Metal Marker that can't be read.