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Cemetery
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| Cemetery Name: |
Rockcastle Church (a.k.a. Sayre) |
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| County: | Mason | |
| USGS Quad: | Elmwood | |
| Coordinates: | 38.7417ºN -81.8155ºW | |
| Maintained by: | unknown | |
| Land owner: | unknown | |
| Date added to WVCPA register: | 24 January 2004 | |
| Condition of cemetery**: | Excellent (October 2004) | |
| Accessibility: | Easily accessible in good weather. The gravel road heading in to the Rockcastle Church and cemetery area can be pretty wet and muddy at times of high water, and the last stretch of road going up the hill to the cemetery is pretty narrow in places with not much between you and the bottom of the deep gully below, so drive carefully! The cemetery itself is located on the crest of a hill north of the old Rockcastle Church. | |
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** Condition of cemetery as
observed on the given date - |
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| Comments:
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Click on the cemetery plot image to the left of this text to open full size in a new window. In the full image, click on the letter and arrow near the mini cameras to see a photo overview of the cemetery from that particular angle. WVCPA wishes to thank Rockcastle Cemetery historian, Tracy Cain, for all his hard work in making a current reading of this cemetery (as of October 2003), taking all the great tombstone photos, and for providing the cemetery plot diagram you see here. He has also provided photos of the nearby abandoned Rockcastle Church. As soon as we have completed a web page relating the history and photos of Rockcastle Church, we will provide a link here and on WVCPA's Historic Churches page. |
| Work completed under auspices of WVCPA: |
Update: In October 2004, WVCPA staff and local
Sayre family historian Hope Sayre Absten and her husband Cecil visited this
cemetery, Rockcastle Church and the Stone Cemetery in the vicinity. We
found both of the cemeteries well cared-for and the roads in pretty good
shape, despite the high water that must have washed through there following
the after-effects of the season's hurricanes that sent their torrents of
rain up along the Ohio River Valley. The Rockcastle Church, though
vandalized by considerable graffiti on the inside walls, windows knocked
out, and some of the siding torn off (with appearances that it had been used
for campfires nearby - so sad!), was still in quite a solid state. The
floor was quite sturdy, and the roof showed no obvious signs of
leakage. Of all the old, unused church buildings we have visited, this
one was - by appearances - the one that would take the least amount of work
to restore to at least a glimmer of its former self. Perhaps someone will,
Lord willing...
We took a number of photos of the church and will be adding them to those taken by Tracy Cain and others during the course of this winter. |
Updated: 07 September 2012