West Virginia Cemetery Preservation Association: Eddy Chapel Cemetery, Mason Co., WV

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Cemetery Name:	Eddy Chapel	Click on photos above to enlarge
County:	Mason
USGS Quad:	Beech Hill
Coordinates:	38.8150ºN -82.0055ºW
Maintained by:	Eddy Chapel Cemetery Association
Land owner:	Unknown
Date added to WVCPA register:	December 2003
Condition of cemetery**:	Good
Accessibility:	Easily accessible, though steep and uneven terrain in places in the cemetery itself. Be advised that this cemetery and church are located in a somewhat remote rural area, and that the gravel road leading to them may be rough to travel in poor weather conditions.
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:
Arnold	Clermont E.	15 August 1848	17 May 1902	"CO I 1 REGT W VA VET INF"
Arnold	Plants	2 January 1853	5 October 1894	[Wife of Clermont]
Baldwin	Cornelius M.		19 April 1922
Blossfield	Bertha
Britton			February 1878
Chattin	John	1833	1907	[Civil War veteran]
Chattin	Georgia		29 June 1874
Coleman	Levi	6 January 1832
Coleman	Mary A.	21 October 1832	28 March 1908	"Wife of Levi Coleman"
Connolly	Benjamin Franklin	January 1922	June 1981	"PFC US ARMY" [Son of Elijah Tom & Mary Ellen Taylor Connolly, WWII Army]
Connolly	Clyde Richmond			[brothers] [Sons of Mary Ellen Connolly]
Connolly	William	1924	1925	[brothers] [Sons of Mary Ellen Connolly]
Connolly	D___tie ?			[Difficult to read]
Connolly	Elijah			[Infant]
Connolly	Elvin L.
Connolly	George P.	1910	1962
Connolly	Gertrude			[Infant]
Connolly	Hester A.	17 April 1844	18 February 1912	"Wife of John Connolly" "Resting in hope of a glorious resurrection"
Connolly	J.B.
Connolly	Lawrence Bernard	15 March 1932	6 August 2009	[Son of Charles and Sylvia Connolly, husband of Lynn (Gill) Connolly - from his obituary in the Pt. Pleasant Register Aug. 7, 2009]
Connolly	Leroy (?)
Connolly	Martha	1879	1902	[Wife of Columbus T. Connolly]
Connolly	Mary E.	1889	1959
Connolly	Walter
Cooper	Joseph R.		18 August 1974	"Son of Michael & Juanita Cooper"
Cottrill	Kimberly Dawn	2 February 1969	15 March 2007	[Dau. of James Durst Sr. and Jeanetta Plants - from her obituary in the Pt. Pleasant Register Mar. 19, 2007]
Derenberger	Ida			[Dau. of Riley Huffman, wife of Herman Derenberger]
Duff	Avalon Alice	29 December 1912	29 December 1912	"Dau. of Govey & Nina Duff"
Duff	Bertie
Duff	Berton W.	1881	1908
Duff	Govey H.	1878	1961	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Duff	Nina Lee	1880	1968	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Duff	James L.		17 November 1931
Duff	Martha	1823	1900
Duff	Sarah
Duff	William
Dunlap	Electa
Dunlap	Floyd V.	2 August 1902	11 August 1960
Dunlap	Israel			"CO. C 13th W.VA. INF."
Dunlap	James R.	17 April 1874	26 May 1960
Dunlap	Corpl. John			"CO. C 2 W.VA. VET. INF."
Dunlap	Maggie	1889	1890
Dunlap	Mary		11 May 1885
Dunlap	May R.	1 May 1872	19 December 1956
Dunlap	Nora	1876	1884
Dunlap	Robert R.	1874	1950
Dunlap	Virginia E.	1854	1933	"At rest"
Dunlap	Walter Harold	1893	1894
Dunlap	William			"CO C 13th W.VA. INF."
Durst	Bryan Matthew	27 February 1978	30 March 2007	[Son of James, Sr. and Jeanetta Durst - from his obituary in the Charleston Daily Mail Apr. 3, 2007]
Gandee	Cary H.	1908	1958	[Husband and wife - shared stone] "Married March 1, 1934"
Gandee	Macel L.	1911	2000	[Husband and wife - shared stone] "Married March 1, 1934"
Gibbs	Charlie?
Gibbs	____ G.W.			"CO D 13th W.VA. INF."
Gibbs	Harold
Gibbs	Ida
Gibbs	James Roy		18 September 1903	[Shared stone ?]
Gibbs	Pearl	1892	31 August 1903	[Shared stone ?]
Gibbs	Jennie	10 February 1870	25 October 1896	[Aged 26 yrs 8 mos 15 days - from her death record]
Gibbs	John
Gibbs	Leroy		3 June 1927	[Son of Sheridan & Julia Baldwin Gibbs]
Gibbs	Sheldon	14 October 1830	26 April 1896	"Aged 65 Ys. 6 M. 12 D." "Co. D 13th W.Va. Inf."
Gibbs	Andrew Sheridan			[Husband of Mary Jane Plants Childers Gibbs - married in 1894]
Gleason	Izetta		15 July 1900	[Dau. of Lewis & Sarah]
Gleason	Kate			[Shared stone - Kate was wife of Riley, and their children]
Gleason	Lou
Gleason	Victoria
Gleason	Riley		31 July 1910
Godby	Howard	28 October 1887	8 November 1953	"WEST VIRGINIA PVT BTRY C 69 FIELD ARTY WORLD WAR I
Greer	Florence	1_ December 1868	2_ ___ 1903	[Inscription barely legible]
Handley	Alice Duff	1858	1944
Haskett	Clarence	1914	199_	[Wilcoxen Funeral Home marker]
Hawkins	Nancy Jane	4 March 1873	6 November 1959	[Daughter of Chris & Isabell Lawson Plants]
Hayman	J. Q.			"CO. F 174 OHIO INF."
Haymond	Steve
Hill	Elvin A.	3 December 1925	17 December 1996	"PFC US ARMY WORLD WAR II"
Hill	Stephen E.	1966	1966
Hoffman	Clarence Leroy	1938	2005	"Father" [Husband and wife - shared stone] "Mother"
Hoffman	Ingrid	1936		"Father" [Husband and wife - shared stone] "Mother"
Hoffman	Jonas	1862	1940	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Hoffman	Amanda	1866	1941	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Hoffman	Clarence "Bill"	1904	1959	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Hoffman	Alma Ruth	1907	2004	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Hoffman	Louis	1887	1923
Huffman	Charles H.	February 1921	December 1984	[Son of Harry & Chloe VanKirk Hoffman] [Husband and wife - shared stone] [Dau. of Clarence & Alma Ruth Hoffman, wife of Charles Huffman - from her obituary in the Pt. Pleasant Register Aug. 8, 2006]
Huffman	Eva Mae	29 November 1925	5 August 2006
Huffman	Chloe A.	1886	1957	[Dau. of John VanKirk]
Huffman	Clarence A.	1924	1997	"In God's Care"
Huffman	Clarence Lee	7 October 1953	25 May 1957	"Son of Clarence & Gladys Stone Huffman"
Huffman	George	22 February 1853	22 May 1915	[From old obituary]
Huffman	Harold
Huffman	Harry H.	30 January 1895	August 1980	[Son of Jonas and Amanda Hoffman, husband of Chloe A. VanKirk Huffman]
Huffman	Homer
Huffman	Laura	1867	11 November 1939	[Wife of Riley]
Huffman	Lena
Huffman	Leslie E. Gene	12 December 1931	2 January 2012	[Son of Harry & Chloe Huffman - from his obituary from Wilcoxen Funeral Home, Pt. Pleasant, WV] [Husband and wife - shared stone] "Married Nov. 4, 1951"
Huffman	Vilda Maxine	1929	1991
Huffman	Liza
Huffman	Marjorie J.	1942	2004	"The Lord Is My Shepherd"
Jones	Forest	1930	1991	[Wilcoxen Funeral Home marker]
Kirkman	Jerry		abt 1940
Knisley	Brandon Lee	17 October 1998	8 May 2005	[Son of David S. & Misty Knisley - from his obituary in the Pt. Pleasant Register May 12, 2005] [Father and son - shared stone] "In God's Care" [From his obituary in the Pt. Pleasant Register May 12, 2005]
Knisley	David S.	8 January 1977	8 May 2005
Knisley	Erica Lynn		14 June 2002
Knisley	Skylor Monroe		2003
Lane	Lois L.			[Granddau. of Jerome & Anna Steele Plants]
Lane	Sarah Ann	1833	1923	[Dau. of David & Rachel Ward Gorrell]
LaRue	John J.			[Husband & wife]
LaRue	Sarah "Nancy"			[Husband & wife]
LaRue	Josiah			[Son of John & Nancy LaRue]
LaRue	Wyatt Hoy	2 July 1893	16 April 1910
Long	Charles
Long	Charles Benton
Long	Maud M.	_ April 1880	11 December 1965	"At Rest"
Martin	Honey
Mattox	Barbara	1868	1910
Mattox	Barbara Ann	1911	1933	[Mother & son]
Mattox	Bobby		4 April 1932	[Mother & son]
Mattox	Gilbert R.	1911	1931
Mattox	Infant	1918	1922	[Infant son of E.E. & I.M.]
Mattox	Josiah W.	29 August 1832	2 June 1908	[Co. B 13th W.Va. Inf] [Husband and wife - shared stone] "Wife of J.W. Mattox"
Mattox	Susan E.	5 January 1839	30 June 1902
Mattox	[Joseph Mathew Mattox family plot]
Mattox	James Wesley	1894	1894	"Son" [Son of Joseph Mathew Mattox]
Mattox	Iva Pearl	1902	1904	"Daughter" [Daughter of Joseph Mathew Mattox]
Mattox	Joseph Mathew	1872	1931	"Father"
Mattox	Nancy Jane	1873	1959	"Mother"
Mattox				[Tobias Mattox family plot]
Mattox	Mary I.	1867	1931	[Dau. of Christian Plants]
Mattox	Tobias W.	7 September 1861	10 January 1906	"In my Father's house are many mansions"
Mattox	Samuel W.	1886	1888	"Children" [Children of Tobias & Mary - shared stone with their father]
Mattox	Lottie L.	1896	1896
Mattox	Walter O.	1902	1903
Mattox	Walter H.	1932	1936
McCauley	George W.		7 February 1880	"Of Co. B. West Va. Infantry" "Aged __ Y. 4 M. 15 D." [rest of inscription illegible]
McCauley	William E.		7 June 1877	"Aged 20 Yrs. 4 Ms. __ Ds."
McDermott	Frank			[Shared stone ?]
McDermott	Mahala			[Shared stone ?]
McDermott	Hannah	1842	1883	"Mother" "Wife of Adam McDermott"
McDermott	Lizzie
Miller	Amanda G.
Montgomery	Emdetta	13 October 1943	13 December 2006	[Dau. of Emden and Wanda Mace, wife of Wm. "Bill" Montgomery - from her obituary in the Pt. Pleasant Register Dec. 15, 2006]
Murray	Jno.			"CO. A 59 ILL. INF."
Murray	Rebecca	17 February 1865	1 March 1903	"Wife of John Murray"
Newhouse	Philip
Ogden	[Children]			[Children of Mary & Tom Ogden]
Plants	[Child]			[Child of Joseph]
Plants	Annie M.	1905	1958	[Metal funeral home marker]
Plants	Annie Mae			"Mother"
Plants	Arthur			[Infant son of John & Sarah Plants]
Plants	Arthur G.	17 November 1880	16 May 1890	"Son of Christian & Isabella Plants" "Aged 9Y 5M 29D"
Plants	Christian	4 February 1832	14 March 1909	"CO. E 4 W.VA. INF." [Husband and wife - shared stone] "At Rest"
Plants	Isabel	6 October 1842	1925
Plants	David L.			[Shared stone - children of ...?]
Plants	Lola L.			[Shared stone - children of ...?]
Plants	Dimmie Dimple		1904	"Dau. of I.G. & Mary Plants"
Plants	Emerson B.		7 February 1952	[Son of Christian & Isabell Lawson Plants]
Plants	Ethel		27 August 1903	[Dau. of J.F. & Rosa Plants]
Plants	Fannie Stevens			[Wife of Emerson Plants]
Plants	Flossie	2 March 1904	17 March 1904 ?	"Dau. of C.T. & A. Plants" [rest of inscription illegible]
Plants	Liza
Plants	Gerald O.		4 April 1944	[Son & Dau. of Owens L. Plants] [Brother and sister - shared stone]
Plants	Enid K.	1942	1943
Plants	Harry Huston		13 December 1940
Plants	James W.	5 November 1905	8 February 1989	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Plants	C. Luella	7 May 1910	21 September 1996	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Plants	James W., Jr.	1937	1959
Plants	Jerome			"CO. C 7 OHIO INF. SP. AM. WAR"
Plants	John	10 July 1830	7 December 1896	"Come Ye Blessed" "Served Co. C 13th W.Va. Inf. 1863 - 1865" [rest of inscription illegible in photo]
Plants	Larry W.	4 May 1945	31 October 2001	"SP4 US ARMY VIETNAM"
Plants	M. Lois	1939	1957	"Children of Inez & Owens L. Plants"
Plants	Margaret A.		25 December 1873	"Dau. of John & Mariah Plants"
Plants	Melvin			[Son of Emerson & Fannie Plants]
Plants	Owens L.	1899	1990	[Husband and wife - shared stone] "Married Dec. 1, 1935" [Daughter of Walter & Bessie Underwood, wife of Owen L. Plants]
Plants	Inez Pearl	July 1915	April 1975
Plants	Ronald L.		June 1979	"Age 19 yrs"
Plants	Samuel A.		2 May 2007	[59 years of age - from his obituary in the Pt. Pleasant Register May 5, 2007]
Plants	Sarah C.		1 April 1882	"Wife of John Plants" "Aged 38Y. 4M. 10D." "How many hopes lie buried here"
Plants	Theodore H.	1876	1943	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Plants	Mary S.	1876	1970	[Husband and wife - shared stone]
Plants	William Homer	1904	1955	"Father"
Powell	William		abt 1920
Price	Mary Beth	4 September 1936	17 July 2010	[From her obituary in the Pt. Pleasant Register July 20, 2010]
Proffitt	Julia	21 March 1868	30 April 1889	"Wife of Emory Proffitt" "Aged 21 Ys. 1 Mo. 9 Ds."
Radcliff	Rev. F.L. ( Foreman Floyd)	1897	15 July 1965	[Husband and wife - shared stone] [Daughter of Mary & Philip Wilfong]
Radcliff	Hattie M.	1904	June 1974
Randolph	Marion Smith	19 July 1921	17 September 1998	"US ARMY WORLD WAR II"
Randolph	William Frank	23 January 1972	3 March 1985	[Son of Marion S. & Diana L. Hesson Randolph] "Brother"
Rayburn	Clara
Rayburn	Hannah
Rayburn	Mrs. Washington
Rhodes	Barbara		4 September 1910	"Aged 41 yrs, 10 mos"
Rhodes	Scott		1912	[Husband of Deborah Barbara Mattox]
Rhodes	Vernie		17 February 1947
Rice	Catherine Daugherty
Rice	Jesse A.	7 April 1871	16 December 1899	"Gone but not forgotten"
Riffle	Earl Franklin	2 June 1905	October 1978	[Son of Norman and Cora Roush Riffle, husband of Clara Margaret Flowers Riffle and Carrie Mae Connolly Riffle]
Riffle	Carrie M.	1912	1975
Rollins	Bernard Allen	6 February 1955	September 1979	[Son of Bernard and Clara Frances Rollins] [Crow-Hussell Funeral Home marker]
Rollins	Bernard E.	23 January 1925	20 January 2004	"PVT US ARMY KOREA"
Rollins	Kelly Elaine	1971	1971	[Crow-Hussell Funeral Home marker]
Rollins	Lewis Ray	8 June 1968	3 March 1985	[Son of Henry & Edna Gandee Rollins]
Selby	Charles	1846	1902	"CO. E 7 W.VA. CAV."
Selby	Charles N.		15 July 1875	[Son of H.T. & Pricilla]
Selby	Dick			[Husband and son of Pricilla Selby]
Selby	[Son]			[Husband and son of Pricilla Selby]
Selby	Ellen Jane	April 1841	5 July 1919	"Wife of Charles"
Selby	Enos			[Inscription too worn to read]
Selby	Temperance			"Aged 78 yrs. 8 mo. & 11 ds."
Selby	Grant
Selby	Harvey			[Shared stone ?]
Selby	Harlan
Selby	Emmett
Selby	Jack		9 December 1926
Selby	John B.			[Husband & wife - married in 1846]
Selby	Regina Powell			[Husband & wife - married in 1846]
Selby	Pricilla		22 November 1905
Selby	Thomas, Jr.	30 September 1921	8 October 1921	[Son of Thomas and Minnie Rice Selby]
Selby	Wilma M.
Smith	Rose		abt 1924	[Wife of David, sister to Charles Connolly]
Steele	Wilma Mae	1924	2 April 1964	[Dau. of Foreman & Hattie Wilfong Radcliff]
Stephens	James C.	4 February 1856	27 April 1933	[Born in Montgomery Co., VA, died at Ambrosia - family tradition says he is "buried in the back by an old fence with no marker"]
Stephens	Mary Margaret	1940	2002
Stephens	Matilda	1844	1932
Stephens	Thomas		20 March 1887	"Aged _______" "Co. B 8th O.V.I." [Inscription unclear - above text a guess]
Sullivan	Richard
Taylor	Doris Ellen Duff	1902	23 December 2005	[From her obituary in the Charleston Daily Mail Dec. 25, 2005] [Crow-Hussell Funeral Home marker]
Taylor	Edana E.	16 December 1921	24 July 1933	"In God's Care"
Taylor	Ernest Leroy	1925	1990	"TEC5 US ARMY WORLD WAR II"
Taylor	Herbert			[Shared stone?]
Taylor	Ralph
Taylor	Maxine
Taylor	Unknown
Taylor	Joseph Franklin	20 January 1920	11 December 1996	"BM1 US NAVY WORLD WAR II"
Taylor	Leslie "Edward"	30 January 1931	31 December 2009	[Son of Samuel Herbert Taylor and Lizzie Izora Taylor Hudson, husband of Betty Jean Taylor - from his obituary in the Pt. Pleasant Register Jan. 2, 2010]
Taylor	Mary Louise	8 November 1923	26 July 1926
Taylor	Mertie
Taylor	Robert E.	21 January 1898	24 December 1967	"Blackie" [Husband and wife - shared stone] "Beloved parents"
Taylor	Elsie V. Burgess	11 May 1899	1 December 1956
Taylor	Samuel H.	10 February 1910	20 May 1971	"WEST VIRGINIA PVT US ARMY WORLD WAR II"
Thomas	Ora
Thomas	Icie
Thomas	Flora
Underwood	Bernice	16 June 1918	20 January 2009	[Dau. of Theodore and Mary Susan McKinney Plants, wife of Delbert Underwood - from her obituary in the Pt. Pleasant Register Jan. 21, 2009]
Underwood	David R.	4 September 1943	15 March 1944	"Son of D.R. & Bernice Plants Underwood"
Underwood	Henery	1 December 1857	25 December 1936
Underwood	Lewis Ray	7 September 1938	7 September 1938	"Son of D.R. & B.V. Underwood"
VanKirk	Dorence W.	1945	1962	[Son of John & Thelma VanKirk]
VanKirk	Howard Lee	21 October 1948	12 August 1972	"VIRGINIA SP4 US ARMY VIETNAM" [Son of John & Thelma VanKirk]
VanKirk	John Charles	1859	1939	[Husband and wife - shared stone] [Dau. of Alfred & Janie Buckhannon Bowman]
VanKirk	Louisa	1865	4 March 1949
VanKirk	John G.	17 January 1931	8 February 1953	"WEST VIRGINIA A3C 3500 PILOT TNG WG AF"
VanKirk	John M.	1906	1992
VanKirk	Leo Lester	1940	1962	[Son of John & Thelma Plants VanKirk]
VanKirk	Thelma Plants	27 November 1911	February 1980	[Daughter of James L. Plants and Maggie Knapp Plants, wife of John M. VanKirk]
Wileman	John			[Married to a daughter of Jane Brown Morris or Morrison of Leon, who later married a Roseberry]
Wooten	John?
Unmarked or unidentified graves:
Image 026				"He is not here, He is risen"
Image 030				[Photo too dark, too worn to clearly identify]
Image 083				[No inscription - located near Joseph F. Taylor's grave]

Comments:

Dates in Red above 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.

Original reading used in the assistance of listing of names and inscriptions is used with permission from the work of the late Dell Plants, as published in "Mason County, West Virginia Cemetery Inscriptions", Vol. 5, compiled by Violette S. Machir, Point Pleasant, WV, reprinted by The Quality Print Shop of Middleport, OH, in 1989, and reprinted by The Meigs County Pioneers & Historical Society, Inc., Pomeroy, OH, in 1990. Additional names listed here are the result of WVCPA research and the contribution of individual family researchers.

Per January 2008, it is reported that the Eddy Chapel Cemetery Association is in the process of restoration of this cemetery.

Updated: 07 September 2012