Doors to the Past

Davidson Cemetery

DAVIDSON CEMETERY
Cabell County, West Virginia
 

Davidson Detail List

Latitude: N 38ｰ  21.831
Longitude: W 082ｰ  16.476
Elevation: 646 feet
Accuracy: 19 feet

From US Route 60 in Cabell County at Barboursville, WV.  Take Alt. 10 to Booten Creek Rd. (4-H camp road).  Take this road until you come to a intersection.  Turn  Left over the railroad tracks and go to the the Esquire Country Club golf course on your Left.  Turn Left under the railroad underpass and go to the 2 road that turn Right.  Go up the hill and the cemetery is at the top on the Right.  It is not fenced and is not keep up.
 

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

Submitted by Barry Huffstutler.
Read   April 04, 2006.

ALBERTS
 
SAM  ALBERTS
1873 覧 1922
AT  REST
MARTHA  J.
DAVIDSON
DIED
JAN.  4,  1890
AGED
70YS  9MS  15D
覧覧

Footstone:  "M.J.D."

WILLIAM
DAVIDSON
DIED
OCT.  10,  1886
AGED
63YS  1MO  18DS
覧覧

Footstone:  "W.D."

WILLIAM  C.
DAVIDSON
1856 覧 1933
WILLIAM INFANT
JUDSON WAYLAND
1886 覧 1888 1901 覧 1901
DAVIDSON
EDDA  S.
DAU  OF
G.  &  N.  GALLAHER
DIED
MAY  16,  1851
Aged  10Mos.
13ds.
覧覧

Footstone:  "E.S.G."

NAOMI
Wife  of
GEORGE  GALLAHER
Died
MAY.  29,  1854.
Aged  23 Yrs.
3 mo.  11ds.
覧覧

Footstone:  "N.G."

KNIGHT
BORN  MAY
3,  1889
DIED  FEB.
13,  1887

Note:  The top part of this marker is broken off and gone.

Footstone:  "M.E.K."

NANCY  A.
DAU.  OF  W. & E.
KNIGHT
BORN    MAR.
15,  1863
DIED    DEC.
29,  1888
AT  REST

Footstone:  "N.A.K."

CONWELSEY  SIMMONS
DIED
NOV.  29,  1879
AGED
46YS.  2M  29D.
覧覧
I gaze a moment on this stone,
Then sadly turn aside,
As though I now had none to love
And all with him had died.

Footstone:  "C.S."

ELIZABETH  A.
Wife  of
C.  SIMMONS
DIED
JAN.  22,  1878
AGED
57YS.  6MS.  5DS.
覧覧
As a wife devoted.
As a friend ever kind and true.
In life she exhibited all the grace of a christian.

Footstone:  "E.A.S."

Note:  There are several signs of unmarked graves in the cemetery.

Other possible graves:

(From Cabell Cemeteries books by "Carrie Eldridge".

1.  Knight,  Cyntha Ann  --  1888 - 1928

 

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