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Cemetery Name:

Casto-Fisher


Casto-Fisher Cemetery, Goldtown, Jackson Co., WV
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County: Jackson
USGS Quad: Kenna
Coordinates: 38.6358ºN  81.6862ºW 
Maintained by: Unknown
Land owner: Unknown
Date added to WVCPA register: July 2006
Condition of cemetery**: Poor (October 2006)
Accessibility: This cemetery is located on top of the hill above Young Hollow Road in the new “The Highlands” subdivision.  There is a new access road off Rt. 21 from what was previously used to access this cemetery. 
Directions from Charleston: Take I-77 north to the Goldtown exit. Turn onto Rt. 21 west for 3.5 miles to The Highlands housing development (you will easily see the large concrete bridge spanning the creek - cross the bridge and follow road up the hill). Cemetery is located at the end of the drive, on the left, where the road comes to a "T", with the left road traversing the hill to a large stone home on the hillside. While the cemetery location itself is easily accessible, being right alongside the road, there is such tremendous overgrowth of pine and other underbrush with many fallen branches and holes in the ground, it is not easily accessible unless you're fairly sure of foot. 
** 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

Last Name: First Name: Born: Died: Inscription: Photo: Source:
Beaver John     "CO. K 11th W.VA. INF." Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA volunteer reading of the cemetery in 1985, with follow-up in 2006
Casto [Illegible]     "Dau. of P.C. & M. Casto"
"Aged 5 M. 20 D."
[located near Malissa Casto's grave]		 Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA volunteer reading of the cemetery in 1985, with follow-up in 2006
Casto Ezra B. 10 March 1885 2 April 1889 "4 Ys. 23 Ds."
"Son of P. C. & M. Casto"		 Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA volunteer reading of the cemetery in 1985, with follow-up in 2006
Casto Perry C. 1848 11 September 1910 "Aged 62 Yrs."
[Son of Nathan B. & Margaret Casto]
[Husband and wife - shared stone]
"His Wife"
[Dau. of John M. & Mary Ann Fisher]		 Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA volunteer reading of the cemetery in 1985, with follow-up in 2006
Casto Malissa Fisher 20 May 1848 13 May 1927
Cunningham Infant   1821 "Infant of G.S. & M.T. Cunningham"   Source: WVCPA volunteer reading of the cemetery in 1985, with follow-up in 2006
Fisher John M. 10 October 1812 22 June 1877 "Aged 64 yrs. 8 mo. 12 ds."
[rest of inscription at bottom of stone illegible]
[not certain the second photo to right is of John's marker - the initials carved in the stone match his - this may be his footstone re-set in a concrete base many years ago]		 Click for photo of tombstone
Click for photo of tombstone		 Source: WVCPA volunteer reading of the cemetery in 1985, with follow-up in 2006
Fisher Mary A. 1 August 1814 1 May 1882 "Wife of J.M. Fisher"
"Aged 67 yrs. 9 mo."
[rest of inscription at bottom of stone illegible]		 Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA volunteer reading of the cemetery in 1985, with follow-up in 2006
Layne F.W.   19 May 1875 "39 yrs. 7 mo. 23 days"   Source: WVCPA volunteer reading of the cemetery in 1985, with follow-up in 2006
Layne Harrison F. 6 September 1857 12 May 1900 "Gone But Not Forgotten" Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA volunteer reading of the cemetery in 1985, with follow-up in 2006
Wolfe Joanah April 1863 14 June 1864 "In Memory Of..."
"Aged 1 year 2 months and 1(?) days"		 Click for photo of tombstone
Click for photo of tombstone		 Source: WVCPA volunteer reading of the cemetery in 1985, with follow-up in 2006
Wright James   February 1887 "25 yrs. 8 mo. 23 days"   Source: WVCPA volunteer reading of the cemetery in 1985, with follow-up in 2006
Wright Molly 10 June 1888 3 May 1911 "Dau. of J. & C. Wright"   Source: WVCPA volunteer reading of the cemetery in 1985, with follow-up in 2006
Young William S. 1870 1944 [Husband and wife - shared stone] Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA volunteer reading of the cemetery in 1985, with follow-up in 2006
Young Crecey 1850 1924
Unidentified Stones:
        [Stone marker near Jonah Wolfe's grave - illegible]   Source: WVCPA volunteer reading of the cemetery in 1985, with follow-up in 2006
        "Mother"
[No name or dates]		   Source: WVCPA volunteer reading of the cemetery in 1985, with follow-up in 2006
      2 March 1868 [Broken marker near John Fisher's grave]   Source: WVCPA volunteer reading of the cemetery in 1985, with follow-up in 2006
        [Plain marker - no names or dates - between F.W. and Harrison F. Layne's graves]   Source: WVCPA volunteer reading of the cemetery in 1985, with follow-up in 2006
      1864 "In Memory Of A Child"
"Aged ___ hours old"		   Source: WVCPA volunteer reading of the cemetery in 1985, with follow-up in 2006
  "John"     [Near John Beaver's grave]   Source: WVCPA volunteer reading of the cemetery in 1985, with follow-up in 2006
Image02       [precise relative location not known - may be one of the above from 1985 reading] Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA volunteer reading of the cemetery in 1985, with follow-up in 2006
Image03       [precise relative location not known - may be one of the above from 1985 reading] Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA volunteer reading of the cemetery in 1985, with follow-up in 2006
Image04       "L. F." ?
[precise relative location not known - may be one of the above from 1985 reading]		 Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA volunteer reading of the cemetery in 1985, with follow-up in 2006
Image06       [precise relative location not known - may be one of the above from 1985 reading] Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA volunteer reading of the cemetery in 1985, with follow-up in 2006
Image07       [precise relative location not known - may be one of the above from 1985 reading] Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA volunteer reading of the cemetery in 1985, with follow-up in 2006
Image09       [precise relative location not known - may be one of the above from 1985 reading - appears to perhaps be an infant marker] Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA volunteer reading of the cemetery in 1985, with follow-up in 2006
Image11       [precise relative location not known - may be one of the above from 1985 reading] Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA volunteer reading of the cemetery in 1985, with follow-up in 2006
Image12       [Located on the north side of the cemetery - may be one of the above from 1985 reading] Click for photo of tombstone Source: WVCPA volunteer reading of the cemetery in 1985, with follow-up in 2006
[Plus many more unmarked graves visible per 1985 reading by E. Harrison, WVCPA volunteer]

 

Comments: 

     

Dates or text 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.

WVCPA volunteer Elouise Harrison originally read this cemetery back in 1985, and it is from the notes she took then that this initial roster of burials has been recreated.  Elouise, and fellow Jackson County family historian David Reed, visited this cemetery in June 2006 to find it in serious neglect, and serious threat from the extensive construction being undertaken for a new housing development surrounding the cemetery.  Bulldozing and digging had been done close to existing graves, and in areas where there were thought to be some of the unmarked graves (as seen by grave-sized depressions in the sod) at the 1985 visit to the cemetery.  Elouise made some urgent inquiries following the visit in June, and was able to determine who was to have been maintaining this cemetery.  That person has been contacted, and it is hoped that the conditions have improved as to the care of this little family cemetery, and that it will continue to be properly maintained and monitored so that no harm comes to it from the construction going on all around it.  As WVCPA hears more about the ongoing status of this cemetery, reports will be posted on this page.  Elouise hopes to make it back to the cemetery soon to photograph the tombstones, provided the underbrush has been cleared away as anticipated. 

Update Oct. 2006: WVCPA visited this cemetery and photographed what we could in early October.  There had been some obvious clearing of underbrush, but there were still very many pine trees up to 4" and 5" in diameter covering most of the cemetery site and a few trees felled by storm.  Efforts are still underway by descendants to clear the cemetery, clearly mark its boundaries to protect it from surrounding development, with the hope to create a pleasant community area where the graves of their loved ones may be easily maintained and visited.  WVCPA will keep you informed of the progress.

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