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Guyandotte Cemetery

 
     

 The Guyandotte Methodist Church Cemetery is located across from the United Methodist Church on 5th Avenue.  This is the oldest church in the cemetery in Cabell County, with markers dating back to the 1810s/1820s.  The land for the cemetery was set aside in 1804 by Thomas Buffington as part of a gift of real property to be used as a church, cemetery, and school house.  

While nearby Highland Cemetery, a public burial ground, seemed to be a more popular burial site in Civil War era Guyandotte, this cemetery still contains the graves of many of Guyandotte's prominent early citizens.  Surnames therein include, but are not limited to: Hite, Smith, Holderby, Wellington, and Letulle.

Due to  the considerable open space, it is theorized that additional burials are located on the grounds in unmarked graves, possibly including several slave burials.  In 1927, the nearly neglected cemetery became the final resting place for several disinterred Revolutionary War soldiers.  Today it is maintained by the Park Board of Huntington, which also maintains Spring Hill, and several other local cemeteries. 

 

Guyandotte Cemetery Burial Listing

  • Adams,  Edgar Othniel

  • Bodue,  Mary

  • Combs,  Shadrack

  • Cooper,  Jacob

  • Cummings,  Reuben

  • Davis,  Betsy Stevenson

  • Davis,  Daniel

  • Gardener,  Joseph

  • Gardner,  Frances I.

  • Gellengwaters,  Jas.

  • Handley,  Lewis

  • Handley,  Mary

  • Hite,  Elizabeth A.

  • Hite,  Isabella V.

  • Hite,  Priscilla W.

  • Holderby,  Arlana

  • Lawson,  Anthony (Sr)

  • Letulle,  Eleonore

  • Love,  Charles

  • Love,  Susanna Childs

  • Mays,  Josephine

  • Morris,  Margaret

  • Morris,  Jno.

  • Perkins,  Troyulous

  • Peters,  (Infant)

  • Rece,  Allen

  • Rece,  Mary Climer

  • Shaw,  Silas

  • Smith,  Dudley M.

  • Wellington,  Charles

  • Wellington,  Fredrick

  • Wellington,  Erastus

  • Wellington,  Charlotte Webb

  • Mears,  George  (Unmarked)

 

 

 

 

 

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In  memory  of
EDGAR  OTHNIEL
infant  Son  of
Nathaniel  S.  &  Pauline
ADAM
died the 15th day of August
1841
aged 1 year & 29 days.
 
I take this little lamb said He
"And lay it in my breast;
Protection it shall find in Me
In Me be ever blest"

[ Headstone ]

MARY
BODUE:
of Rouong,
in the Kingdom of
FRANCE
who was born in the
year 1811.
and departed this
life
July 5th,
1840
aged 29 years.

[ Headstone ]

PVT
SHADRACK  COMBS
 
CO  H
13  KY  CAV
CSA
JAN  1  1844
APR  5  1922

[ Headstone ]

IN  MEMORY
of
JACOB COOPER.  WHO did
AT THIS PLACE SEP 1.
AD 1829  AGED 37 YE. 6 MON.
HE WAS A NATIVE of
WASHINGTON COUNTY, PA
─•─•─•─
 
Beneath this tomb insile-
nt.  dust here lines
A hart benevolent
truly Kind.
Although the gales of
fortune various blew.
Guile or artifice he nee. pursh
He stood resolv and steady
to his trust
Inflexable to ill and
obstinately Just.
── • ──

Footstone:  "J. C."

[ Headstone ]

REUBEN
CUMMINGS
DIED  JAN.  4,
1839
AGED  24
YEARS.
── • ──
A BROTHERS TRIBUTE

[ Headstone ]

DANIEL  DAVIS
1759 ── 1838
PVT.  REV.  WAR
WIFE,  BETSY  STEVENSON
1756 ── 1817

[ Headstone ]

JOSEPH  GARDENER
BORN
May  13,  1793.
DIED
Jan.  31,  1948
────

[ Headstone ]

FRANCES  I.
Dau. of
J. & E.  GARDNER
BORN
Sep.  30,  1842
DIED
Jan.  19.  1849
────

[ Headstone ]

JAS.  GELLENGWATERS
1756 ── 1856
PVT.  REV.  WAR

[ Headstone ]

IN
Memory of.
LEWIS. son of S. & S. Hand-
lev who met with a fatal accid-
ent, on board the Kanawha
Steamboat with many of his
Fellow mortals June 24 and
Whilst his tender parents wait-
ed around him full of grief he
Expired 25th. 1829
Aged 24 years.

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MARY,  WIFE OF
MAJ.  JOHN  HANDLEY
REV.  1812
1745 ── 1829

Died: 12-08-1829
In the 84th year of her life.

[ Headstone ]

ELIZABETH  A.
DAU.  OF
J. B. & W. HITE
DIED
OCT.  30,  1860
AGED
24ys  11ms  22 ds

[ Headstone ]

ISABELLA  V.
Dau.  of
F. & M. HITE
DIED
Mar.  23,  1857
Aged  7  Years
11mns.
────

[ Headstone ]

IN
MEMORY  OF
PRISCILLA  W.  HITE
Consort of
JOHN  B.  HITE
daughter  of
JOHN & ELIZABETH
WILSON,
was  born  May  25
1815,
and  departed  this
life
February  18
1839
Aged 23 years   8
months  &  24ds.

[ Headstone ]

Mrs.  ARLANA  HOLDERBY
Consort  of
JAMES  HOLDERBY  sq.
Born.  March Died.  April
March 12,  1792 24, 1826
 
Now know I that the Lord saved
his annoited: he will hear him from
his holy heaven with the saving
strength of his right hand.
Fear not the sentence of death re-
member him that have been be-
fore thee, and that come after for
this is the sentence of the Lord over
ill flesh.

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1788 1849
 
SACRET
to the memory of
ANTHONY  LAWSON SR
of Logan County Virginia
who was born at Stanton, Co.
of Northumberland England
on the 31 day of October
who on his return home from P----
departed this life at Guyandotte

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Mrs  ELOENORE  LETULLE
Consort  of
VICTOR  LETULLE
 
BORN  MAY DIED  JANUARY
3rd. 1763 27th. 1836
 
A  La MEMOIRE
D  ELENORE  GUEULLE
FEMME  LETULLE
 
Morte regrette de ses mombreux ames
Cette pierre est consaree
par son affectionne marie.

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CHAS.  LOVE
1753 ── 1824
PVT.  REV.  WAR
WIFE,  SUSANNA CHILDS
1756 ── 1826

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JOSEPHINE
Dau  of
J. H. & M. C.  MAYS
DIED
Oct 1, 1856
Aged  1 month
15 days.
 
ELIZABETH
Died  Mar. 3, 1858
Aged  2 Days

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JNO.  MORRIS
DIED 1818
CAPT.  REV.  WAR
WIFE,  MARGARET
DIED  1818

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TROYULOUS  C.
Dau of
Mrs.  M. K.  PERKINS
Drowned
Sept.  10,  1855
Aged  6  years
8 mo.  15 ds.
── • ──

[ Headstone ]

INFANT
Son of
W.L. & M.V.  PETERS
BORN  &  DIED
June  2,  1850
───

[ Headstone ]

ALLEN  RECE
1759 ── 1837
PVT.  REV.  WAR
WIFE,  MARY  CLIMER
1763 ── 1847

[ Headstone ]

IN
Memory  of
SILAS  SHAW
who departed this life Sep.
20th  1825
Aged  50  Years  5  mos.  &
15  days

Note:  The bottom part of the stone is gone and
can't be read.

[ Headstone ]

DUDLEY  M.
SON  OF
D.D. & E.C.  SMITH
DIED
Feb.  3,  1841
AGED
19ys.  5ds.
── • ──

Note:  Verse on marker can't be read.

FS:  "D.M.S."

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CHARLES  R.  WELLINGTON
DIED
June  6,  1817.
Aged  21 yrs.
&  10 months.
──────
FREDRICK  C.  WELLINGTON
DIED
June  27,  1849.
Aged  16 yrs.
7 mo.  2 ds.
──────

FS:  "C.R.W." & "F.C.W."

[ Headstone ]

ERASTUS
WELLINGTON
BORN
Feb.  18,  1793
DIED
Feb.  5,  1861

FS:  "E. W."

[ Headstone ]

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FATHER
AND
MOTHER
AT  REST

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CHARLOTTE
WEBB
WIFE  OF  E.
WELLINGTON
BORN
Feb.  10,  1802
DIED
Mar.  24,  1886

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