West Virginia Cemetery Preservation Association: Kincaid Family Cemetery, Mason Co.

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Cemetery Name:	Kincaid Family	Photos needed
County:	Greenbrier
USGS Quad:	Unknown
Coordinates:	38.xxºN -81.xxºW
Maintained by:	unknown
Land owner:	unknown
Date added to WVCPA register:	November 2011
Condition of cemetery**:	Unknown (July 2008)
Accessibility:	The cemetery is located in Anthony Creek district of Greenbrier County near Neola, WV.
Condition of cemetery as observed on the given date - may not be representative of care at other times of the year Scale: Excellent - Good - Fair - Poor - Abandoned**

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Dates in Red are not inscribed on the tombstone and have either been calculated based on death date or are as a result of research on the individual.

Notes from WVCPA contributor Kate Maynard from July 2008:

In Memory of Elizabeth the Daughter of Michael Gillilan Departed This
Life Dec the 17th 1841 in the 8th Month of Her Age EVAG

Transcriber notes:
There were at one time another 12 stones in this cemetery, most of them slate. One of the stones was likely that of Samuel Kincaid, Jr., son of Samuel Kincaid Sr., the original owner of this property and one of the four sons of Alexander Kincaid believed to have emigrated from Scotland to the British Colonies in 1746 after the Battle of Culloden. His father Samuel Sr. may have also been buried here as his death coincided closely with the acquisition of the land, but there is less reason to believe so.

Due to the ravages of the weather, use of the cemetery as a horse pen, and past destructive clearing of heavy brush in order to make it accessible to the horses, these 12 old stones are lost forever, as soon will be the remaining stones. This is a tragic loss in the making due
to the apparent lack of respect for this historic cemetery.

Updated: 07 September 2012