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| Cemetery Name: |
Parkins (Family) |
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| County: | Putnam | |
| USGS Quad: | Bancroft | |
| Coordinates: | 38.5745ºN 81.7952ºW | |
| Maintained by: | unknown | |
| Land owner: | unknown | |
| Date added to WVCPA register: | June 2008 | |
| Condition of cemetery**: | Excellent (June 2008) | |
| Accessibility: | The cemetery is located a short distance down Manila Creek Road off Rt. 34 in Paradise. Easily accessible, the cemetery being located right by the paved road, though there is a small, steep bank to climb across a ditch to get up to the cemetery gate. No off-road parking available - only in neighboring driveways or on the narrow shoulder. | |
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** Condition of cemetery as
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Born: |
Died: |
Inscription: |
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| Harrison | Virginia I. Parkins | 5 May 1893 | 20 July 1983 | "Miss Virgie" [Dau. of Eli and Edith Parkins, wife of Wm. Edgar Harrison] |
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| Parkins | Clay | December 1896 | 21 July 1897 | [Son of N.M. and M.E. Parkins - Aged 8 Ms] |
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| Parkins | Eli | 17 February 1856 | 6 January 1895 | [Rest of inscription illegible] |
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| Parkins | Edith Elnora | 17 January 1864 | 15 August 1960 |
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| Parkins | Horton P. | 5 April 1885 | 8 December 1964 | 
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| Parkins | Lawrence Estill | 16 March 1927 | 11 May 2008 | [Son of Horton and Lydia
Parkins - form his obituary in the Charleston Daily Mail May 13, 2008] [Husband and wife - shared stone] "Mama tried" |
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| Parkins | Helen Loretta | 9 November 1931 | 26 August 2001 | |||
| Parkins | Mary Ellen | 19 April 1811 | 8 December 1898 | "Wife of Nathan M. Parkins" "Aged 87Y. 7M. 19D." [Rest of inscription illegible] |
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| Parkins | Ruth E. | 6 February 1929 | 1 June 1959 | 
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| Saviers | Andrew Lawrence | 24 January 1978 | "Grandson" |
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| Saviers | Hope Raynee Parkins | 6 August 1955 | 8 October 1978 | [Dau. of Lawrence and Helen Parkins] | 
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| Shank | Joseph B. | 25 February 1906 | 18 June 1988 | [Husband and wife - shared stone] |
  
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| Shank | Edith L. | 29 January 1914 | 7 March 1981 | |||
| Shank | Larry Burl | 26 June 1941 | 13 December 1970 | "WEST VIRGINIA PVT U.S. ARMY VIETNAM" |  |
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| Weber | Joseph L. | 15 August 1934 | [Husband and wife - shared stone] |
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| Weber | Glenna E. | 18 December 1942 | ||||
| Wright | Ruth Evelyn | 7 February 1921 | 3 June 1952 | [Aged 31Y. 3M. 27D.] | |
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| Funeral Home marker - illegible | |
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Grave marked with fieldstone near Ruth Parkins' grave |
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Grave with no marker - next to Helen and Lawrence Parkins' graves |
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Grave with marker - no inscriptions - near Ruth Parkins' grave |
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Grave with marker - no inscriptions - near Ruth Parkins' grave |
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Stones stacked alongside Mary Ellen Parkins' grave - look to be marking a grave, but uncertain. |
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| 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. |
Updated: 07 September 2012