Doors to the Past

Guyandotte Cemetery

GUYANDOTTE CEMETERY
Cabell County, West Virginia

Guyandotte Detail List

Latitude: N 38º 25. 676
Longitude: W 082º  23. 390
Elevation: 497 feet
Accuracy: 15 feet

Located in the East End of Huntington, WV. in the Guyandotte Section.  Take Route US 60 into Huntington.  Turn Right onto Bridge Street (Rt. 2) and go to the first Red Light.  Turn Right onto Main St. and go to 5th Ave.  Turn Right and the cemetery will be on your Right.  The cemetery will be across from the Guyandotte United Methodist Church. 

The cemetery is fenced and is keep up by the Park Board of Huntington.  There is considerable empty space which may have contained markers at one time.  There are some markers in this cemetery that can't be read.

Read  May 04, 2008
by  Barry Huffstutler & Ed Prichard

Submitted by Barry Huffstutler.

In  memory  of
EDGAR  OTHNIEL
infant  Son  of
Nathaniel  S.  &  Pauline
ADAM
died the 15th day of August
1841
aged 1 year & 29 days.
 
I take this little lamb said He
"And lay it in my breast;
Protection it shall find in Me
In Me be ever blest"

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MARY
BODUE:
of Rouong,
in the Kingdom of
FRANCE
who was born in the
year 1811.
and departed this
life
July 5th,
1840
aged 29 years.

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PVT
SHADRACK  COMBS
 
CO  H
13  KY  CAV
CSA
JAN  1  1844
APR  5  1922

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IN  MEMORY
of
JACOB COOPER.  WHO did
AT THIS PLACE SEP 1.
AD 1829  AGED 37 YE. 6 MON.
HE WAS A NATIVE of
WASHINGTON COUNTY, PA
─•─•─•─
 
Beneath this tomb insile-
nt.  dust here lines
A hart benevolent
truly Kind.
Although the gales of
fortune various blew.
Guile or artifice he nee. pursh
He stood resolv and steady
to his trust
Inflexable to ill and
obstinately Just.
── • ──

Footstone:  "J. C."

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REUBEN
CUMMINGS
DIED  JAN.  4,
1839
AGED  24
YEARS.
── • ──
A BROTHERS TRIBUTE

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DANIEL  DAVIS
1759 ── 1838
PVT.  REV.  WAR
WIFE,  BETSY  STEVENSON
1756 ── 1817

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JOSEPH  GARDENER
BORN
May  13,  1793.
DIED
Jan.  31,  1948
────

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FRANCES  I.
Dau. of
J. & E.  GARDNER
BORN
Sep.  30,  1842
DIED
Jan.  19.  1849
────

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JAS.  GELLENGWATERS
1756 ── 1856
PVT.  REV.  WAR

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IN
Memory of.
LEWIS. son of S. & S. Hand-
lev who met with a fatal accid-
ent, on board the Kanawha
Steamboat with many of his
Fellow mortals June 24 and
Whilst his tender parents wait-
ed around him full of grief he
Expired 25th. 1829
Aged 24 years.

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MARY,  WIFE OF
MAJ.  JOHN  HANDLEY
REV.  1812
1745 ── 1829

Died: 12-08-1829
In the 84th year of her life.

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ELIZABETH  A.
DAU.  OF
J. B. & W. HITE
DIED
OCT.  30,  1860
AGED
24ys  11ms  22 ds

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ISABELLA  V.
Dau.  of
F. & M. HITE
DIED
Mar.  23,  1857
Aged  7  Years
11mns.
────

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IN
MEMORY  OF
PRISCILLA  W.  HITE
Consort of
JOHN  B.  HITE
daughter  of
JOHN & ELIZABETH
WILSON,
was  born  May  25
1815,
and  departed  this
life
February  18
1839
Aged 23 years   8
months  &  24ds.

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Mrs.  ARLANA  HOLDERBY
Consort  of
JAMES  HOLDERBY  sq.
Born.  March Died.  April
March 12,  1792 24, 1826
 
Now know I that the Lord saved
his annoited: he will hear him from
his holy heaven with the saving
strength of his right hand.
Fear not the sentence of death re-
member him that have been be-
fore thee, and that come after for
this is the sentence of the Lord over
ill flesh.

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1788 1849
 
SACRET
to the memory of
ANTHONY  LAWSON SR
of Logan County Virginia
who was born at Stanton, Co.
of Northumberland England
on the 31 day of October
who on his return home from P----
departed this life at Guyandotte

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Mrs  ELOENORE  LETULLE
Consort  of
VICTOR  LETULLE
 
BORN  MAY DIED  JANUARY
3rd. 1763 27th. 1836
 
A  La MEMOIRE
D  ELENORE  GUEULLE
FEMME  LETULLE
 
Morte regrette de ses mombreux ames
Cette pierre est consaree
par son affectionne marie.

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CHAS.  LOVE
1753 ── 1824
PVT.  REV.  WAR
WIFE,  SUSANNA CHILDS
1756 ── 1826

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JOSEPHINE
Dau  of
J. H. & M. C.  MAYS
DIED
Oct 1, 1856
Aged  1 month
15 days.
 
ELIZABETH
Died  Mar. 3, 1858
Aged  2 Days

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JNO.  MORRIS
DIED 1818
CAPT.  REV.  WAR
WIFE,  MARGARET
DIED  1818

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Morris Fought With George Roger Clark

John Morris came from Kanawha near the
mouth of Campbell's Creek aand served in
George Rogers Clark's Illinois Expedition.

He was Captain of Kanawha Militia and
served with Virginia Troops in the Whiskey  
Rebelllion in Pennsylvania. Morris died
in 1818 and is buried in the Guyandotte
Cemetery Revolutionary War Service
 Plot. He was the father of Bishop
Thomas A. Morris and of Edmund
 Morris, first clerk of Cabell County.

TROYULOUS  C.
Dau of
Mrs.  M. K.  PERKINS
Drowned
Sept.  10,  1855
Aged  6  years
8 mo.  15 ds.
── • ──

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INFANT
Son of
W.L. & M.V.  PETERS
BORN  &  DIED
June  2,  1850
───

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ALLEN  RECE
1759 ── 1837
PVT.  REV.  WAR
WIFE,  MARY  CLIMER
1763 ── 1847

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IN
Memory  of
SILAS  SHAW
who departed this life Sep.
20th  1825
Aged  50  Years  5  mos.  &
15  days

Note:  The bottom part of the stone is gone and
can't be read.

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DUDLEY  M.
SON  OF
D.D. & E.C.  SMITH
DIED
Feb.  3,  1841
AGED
19ys.  5ds.
── • ──

Note:  Verse on marker can't be read.

FS:  "D.M.S."

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CHARLES  R.  WELLINGTON
DIED
June  6,  1817.
Aged  21 yrs.
&  10 months.
──────
FREDRICK  C.  WELLINGTON
DIED
June  27,  1849.
Aged  16 yrs.
7 mo.  2 ds.
──────

FS:  "C.R.W." & "F.C.W."

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ERASTUS
WELLINGTON
BORN
Feb.  18,  1793
DIED
Feb.  5,  1861

FS:  "E. W."

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FATHER
AND
MOTHER
AT  REST

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CHARLOTTE
WEBB
WIFE  OF  E.
WELLINGTON
BORN
Feb.  10,  1802
DIED
Mar.  24,  1886

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Other Possible Burials:  (Source Carrie Eldridge Cemeteries Books)

1.  George Mears  -- s/o F. Mears July 30, 1841 -- 2 years & 8 mos.

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