West Virginia Cemetery Preservation Association: Stone Cemetery, Mason Co., WV

Cemetery Reading

Cemetery Name:	Stone Family	Click images to enlarge
County:	Mason
USGS Quad:	Elmwood
Coordinates:	approx. 38.7382ºN -81.8262ºW
Maintained by:	Shinn/Stone family
Land owner:	Shinn Family (Stone family descendants)
Date added to WVCPA register:	October 2004
Condition of cemetery**:	Excellent (October 2004)
Accessibility:	This cemetery is located across the field at the top of the hill across from the Shinn home on the old Stone Family homestead. To get to the cemetery, take the road from Deerlick that follows Thirteenmile Creek upstream in the direction of the old Rockcastle Church (if you get to the church, you've gone too far!). After barely 2 miles in from the bridge at Deerlick, after you cross Spruce Run, a driveway goes up along the hillside on the east side of the creek. It's a very steep, and in 2004 wooded, drive, though regularly used by Buck Shinn's family. At the top of the hill are 2 houses, and the cemetery is easily visible across the field on the south side of the drive. In fairly dry weather, you can drive across the field (with permission, of course), and there is plenty of room to park and turn around alongside the fence around the cemetery. The cemetery itself is fairly level, well-trimmed lawn, so no problem to navigate even if you have some mobility difficulties.
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:
Maynard	David C.	7 November 1955		"Dave" "Father" [Husband & wife - shared stone] "Married May 17, 1981" "Angel" "Mother"
Maynard	Christine M.	27 October 1959	13 January 2001
Sayre	John Hazen	22 July 1917	1 March 2009	["Haze"] [Husband & wife - shared stone] "Married July 23, 1938" "Hey Haze"
Sayre	Okal Maxine Hill	21 January 1923	23 August 1999
Sayre	John L.	1892	1995	[Husband & wife - shared stone] "Together Forever"
Sayre	Lucretia F.	1895	1976	[Husband & wife - shared stone] "Together Forever"
Sayre	Viola F.	1930	1931	"Dau. of J.L & L.F. Sayre"
Shinn	Dale D.	18 November 1935	14 November 2007	"Buck" "Father" [Husband & wife - shared stone] "Married June 14, 1958" "Carole" "Mother"
Shinn	Treva C.	26 February 1942	12 September 1997
Shinn	Zane E.	1 January 1934	1 January 1995	"PFC US ARMY" "Retiree" [Shared stone]
Shinn	Miriam Butts	16 July 1935		"PFC US ARMY" "Retiree" [Shared stone]
Stone	Andrew L.	29 January 1879	6 May 1879	"Aged 3mo 8da" "Gone To Rest"
Stone	Benjamin E.	14 March 1886	17 October 1888	"Son of F. & M.B. Stone" "Aged 2yrs 7mo 3da"
Stone	Bird	1859	1930	"Erected by Effie Hill"
Stone	Elias Ichabod	13 April 1858	20 July 1931
Stone	Elizabeth	13 February 1829	25 August 1861	"Wife of John Stone" "Aged 32ys 6ms 12ds"
Stone	Eliza P.	22 February 1880	25 October 1884	"Aged 4Y 8M 3D" "Dau. of A.L. & S.A. Stone"
Stone	Fred M.	1855	1929	[Husband & wife - shared stone] "At Rest"
Stone	Mary B.	1856	1935	[Husband & wife - shared stone] "At Rest"
Stone	Hollie	2 August 1877	17 December 1906	"Aged 29yrs 4mo 15da"
Stone	Infant	2 August 1940	2 August 1940
Stone	Infant	31 January 1944	1 February 1944
Stone	Infant son	4 October 1903	4 October 1903	"Son of R.R. & Ianthe Stone"
Stone	James Ezra	29 January 1864	11 January 1945	"At Rest"
Stone	John W.	10 October 1829	4 March 1907	"Aged 77Ys 4Ms 24Ds" "Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep, for one who never wakes to weep"
Stone	Louisa Myrtle	1879	1924	"Wife of Minor Stone"
Stone	Lucretia M. Pratt	30 January 1845	14 July 1891	"Wife of John Stone" "Aged 46yrs 5ms 15ds"
Stone	Luverna A.	11 January 1881	14 November 1882	"Aged 1yr 10mo 3da"
Stone	Mary Jane	28 January 1869	15 January 1905	"Come Ye Blessed" "Aged 36Ys 17Ds" "A precious one from us has gone, A voice we loved is stilled, A place is empty in our home, That never can be filled"
Stone	Minor	1879	1935
Stone	Myrtle L.	1879	1924
Stone	Reuben	1869	1934	[Husband & wife - shared stone]
Stone	Iantha	1878	1963	[Husband & wife - shared stone]
Stone	Samuel A.	1917	1935
Stone	Thomas N. "Tom"		2 December 2009	[55 years of age - son of Darrell C. and Ruth Stone, husband of Debbie Stone - from his obituary in the Pt. Pleasant Register Dec. 5, 2009]
Stone	Vernon H.	1918	1983	"Father" [Husband & wife - shared stone] "Married September 12, 1939" "Mother"
Stone	Mary E.	1918	1974
Stone	Vernon W.	17 August 1945	5 June 2000	[Husband & wife - shared stone] "Married December 29, 1972" "Parents of Angie James Jr. and Kevin"
Stone	Viola B.	28 August 1948
Stone	Virginia M.	14 May 1907	13 December 1917	"Aged 10Y. 6M. 29D." "Dau. of R.R. & Ianthe Stone" "Our darling one has gone before, To greet us on that blissful shore"
Stone	Wesley	3 December 1853	8 September 1868	"Age 14yrs 9mo 5d" [Son of John & Elizabeth Stone]
Wilcox	Ina King	1903	1983	"Beloved daughter of Ruben and Iantha Stone" "At Peace With God"
*Unidentified:*
				[broken - only base remains]

Comments:

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.

After having visited hundreds of cemeteries over the years, you start to acquire a number of "favorites" that you particularly like. For us, this is one of those cemeteries. Perhaps it was the wonderful company we had in Hope & Cecil Absten (Hope is a Stone descendant), perhaps it was the beautiful October weather we had for that Sunday afternoon drive, the beauty of the sunshine filtering through the tall trees alongside the cemetery onto the lush green grass - probably a combination of it all. It just seemed to be the perfect place to have a picnic on a blanket and just sit back and listen to the birds and the wind in the leaves.

Updated: 07 September 2012