West Virginia Cemetery Preservation Association: Bowles Cemetery, Bowles Ridge, Putnam County, WV

Cemetery Reading

Cemetery Name:	Bowles (a.k.a. Bowles Memorial)	Click on the photos above to enlarge
County:	Putnam
USGS Quad:	Bancroft
Coordinates:	38.6074ºN 81.8083ºW
Maintained by:	unknown
Land owner:	unknown
Date added to WVCPA register:	September 2008
Condition of cemetery**:	Excellent (May 2008)
Accessibility:	The cemetery is located at the top of Bowles Ridge, on the west side of Bowles Road on a knoll in a cattle pasture. Easily accessible, though with a small hill to climb to the gate of the cemetery. No off-road parking at the bottom of the hill, other than to open the gate and park in the meadow field itself. Do keep the gate closed at all times, as this is an actively used pasture. Very well maintained when WVCPA staff visited in May 2008. Directions: from Rt. 34, take the Bowles Road (CR 34-8) west past Paradise Cemetery. In about 2 miles or less from Rt. 34, you'll see the gate by the road with the sign for the cemetery, and the cemetery itself on a tree-crowned knoll on the west (left) side of the road. It is on a relatively blind spot in the road for cars coming up the hill from Eighteenmile Creek to the north, so use extreme caution as you get in and out of the car and find a spot to park. If conditions are very wet, you may consider parking in the church parking lot just a short ways south of the cemetery just off Bowles Road. It's an easy stroll to the cemetery from there, as long as you stay well off to the side of the road.:
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:
Beller	Baby Boy	1 March 1934	1 March 1934
Beller	Buddy	30 August 1927	16 March 1929
Bowles		[Family marker] "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God" [Located near Henry E., Sr. and Martha Bowles' graves'
Bowles	Carrie Lee	1926	1926
Bowles	Darrell Lee	1936	1936	"Son of F.E. & Hazel Bowles"
Bowles	Frances M.	27 October 1913	19 February 2006	"Mother" [Mother and son - shared stone] "Son" "In Loving Memory"
Bowles	James C.	6 July 1936	19 August 1978
Bowles	Franklin C.	8 May 1931	4 August 2015	"Father" [Father and son - shared stone - death date from his obituary in the Charleston Gazette Aug. 7, 2015] "Son" "Precious Lord Take My Hand"
Bowles	Ricky L.	29 June 1960
Bowles	Franklin E.	1912	1936	"Coast Art. Hawaii - 10th. Inf. KY" "The Lord is my Shepherd"
Bowles	Henry Ellis	1869	1947	"Father" "Behold, the Lord cometh"
Bowles	Henry Ellis	1924	1925
Bowles	Martha Belle Carney	1868	1973	"Mother" "Come unto me, receive thy crown"
Bowles	James Fleming	1906	1952	"I shall not want"
Bowles	John Clayton	16 July 1933	5 September 1993
Bowles	Lawrence H.	14 June 1904	26 March 1982	"He Restoreth My Soul"
Bowles	Leroy	26 May 1929	13 April 1945
Bowles	William S.	1893	1976	"PFC WORLD WAR I" [Husband and wife - shared stone] "Till we shall meet and never part"
Bowles	Della M.	1897	1970
Durst	Rupert W.	5 April 1936	10 July 1992	[Husband and wife - shared stone] "In Loving Memory"
Durst	Goldie Bowles	6 June ____		[Husband and wife - shared stone] "In Loving Memory"
Guthrie	Margie Bowles		14 April 2008	[69 years of age - dau. of Sophia Boswell - from her obituary in the Charleston Daily Mail Apr. 17, 2008]
Kinder	Giles Russell	11 January 1886	12 July 1969	"Beyond the Sunset" [Husband and wife - shared stone and individual markers] "Beyond the Sunset"
Kinder	Hattie Lee Bowles	23 October 1890	27 March 1977
Kinder	Mary Ann	1941	1941	"Dau. of W.R. & Ruth Kinder"
Kinder	William Earl "Bob"	5 October 1919	4 April 1986	"PFC US MARINE CORPS WORLD WAR II" [Shared stone] "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life" [on opposite face:] "Precious Lord Take My Hand"
Kinder	Doris Neal	20 September 1932
Quick	Bertha A.	7 March 1901	26 January 1978	"In God I Am Secure"
Reynolds	Wilbur D.	15 December 1918	3 September 1997	"CM3 US NAVY WORLD WAR II" [Husband and wife - shared stone] [Rest of inscription illegible in photo - Virginia's obituary printed in the Charleston Daily Mail Apr. 3, 2009]
Reynolds	Virginia Belle	3 August 1922	1 April 2009
Robertson	Georgia Bowles	1 January 1903	19 May 1995	[Shared stone - Georgia & Cleo's inscriptions on opposite face of Giles and Hattie Kinder's stone] "Thy Will Be Done"
Robertson	Cleo Garcia	19 March 1898	11 December 1977
Robertson	Paul G.	1934	1975	"In God We Trust" "In Loving Memory" "Our Son Paul - Love Mom & Dad"
Unidentified or unmarked graves:
Image 19				[Illegible, though not very old, grave marker near Franklin C. Bowles' grave]

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.

The wonderful view from the cemetery, looking
southeast towards Charleston >>

Updated: 09 September 2015