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by Kathie Harrison
for Wood Co., WVGenWeb Project 

Wood County
WVGenWeb Project
Cooley Chapel Cemetery

Walker, Wood County, West Virginia
Lat: 39° 13' 29"N, Lon: 81° 21' 17"W 

Contributed by Teresa Fordyce, Total records = 115.

Take Rt. 50 East out of Parkersburg for about 12 miles. Turn right onto Progress Ridge Road. Travel about 2 miles on Progress Ridge. A sign for the cemetery will be on the left. At the sign, take the gravel road up the hill. The cemetery is owned by the Cooley Chapel United Methodist Church which was established in 1904. There is a committee that raises money to maintain the cemetery. The president of this committee is Riley Hewitt (304) 679-3314. The cemetery is still active and well maintained. In addition to the transcription, there is 1 grave marked with a rock, 1 grave marked with a concrete marker with no information, and 1 funeral home marker with no information. This is a complete reading of all existing headstones from when I walked and transcribed this cemetery on Jul 29, 2002. Teresa Fordyce

*MFHM
Metal Funeral Home Marker

Allen, Clarence A.

b. Mar 18, 1911, d. Feb 4, 1980

Allen, H. Justine

b. Apr 1, 1918, d., w/o Clarence A. Allen

Allen, Robert Marshall

b. May 17, 1970, d. Aug 19, 1994

Allton, Caroline Virginia

b. Aug 4, 1904, d. Aug 18, 1918

Alton, Butler

b. 1874, d. 1957

Alton, Myrtle

b. 1880, d. 1966
w/o Butler Alton

Badgett, Lowell
b. 1926, d. 1926
s/o O. and S.E. Badgett

Badgett, Sarah E
b. 1890, d. 1933

Bonnett
no dates
*MFHM

Boston, Daniel C
b. 1893, d. 1969

Boston, Florence E
b. 1902, d. 1990
w/o Daniel C. Boston

Boston, Mary E
b. 1929, d.
w/o William B. Boston

Boston, William B
b. 1922, d.

Bush, Elless B
b. Feb 16, 1885, d. Apr 6, 1916

Bush, John W
b. 1848, d. 1926
Co. A. 7th W.Va. Vol. Inf. Civil War

Bush, Mary C
b. Jun 19, 1854, d. Aug 14, 1936
w/o John W. Bush

Bush, Seward Abbott
b. Oct 23, 1886, d. Feb 17, 1974
CPL US Army

Bush, Wilma J. Gearhart
b. Jun 6, 1906, d. Dec 31, 1991
w/o Seward A. Bush

Carr, Evelyn T. Reynolds Breitmeir
b. Oct 1, 1924, d. Apr 7, 1998

Chapman, Elizabeth A
b. 1872, d. 1921
w/o Frank R. Chapman

Chapman, Frank R
b. 1858, d. 1934

Chapman, Geo. B
b. 1899, d. 1915

Chapman, Harry G
b. 1902, d. 1960

Cox, Edna
b. Apr 14, 1907, d. Oct 23, 1926

Cox, Ella
b. 1877, d. 1943

Cox, Evelyn L
b. 1924, d. 1973

Cox, Infant
no dates, *MFHM

Cox, Mahala A
b. May 27, 1841, d. Apr 20, 1923

Day, John W
b. 1855, d. 1935

Day, Mary Jane
b. 1863, d. 1939
w/o John W. Day

Duerr, Arthur
b. 1886, d. 1967

Duerr, David
b. 1860, d. 1938

Duerr, Don
b. 1915, d. 1975

Duerr, Mary L

b. 1867, d. 1932
w/o David Duerr

Epler, Betty A
b. Mar 1, 1931, d.
w/o Fred L. Epler

Epler, Carrie B
b. 1884, d. 1960
w/o Charles E. Epler

Epler, Charles E
b. 1879, d. 1962

Epler, Fred L
b. Feb 20, 1921, d. Mar 29, 1999
TEC 4 US Army WWII

Epler, John C
b. 1907, d. 1919
s/o Charles and Carrie Epler

Epler, Mark E
d. Jun 27, 1955

Ewing, Anna L
b. 1867, d. 1936

Farnsworth, Daniel N
b. 1877, d. 1925

Gearhart, John N
b. May 14, 1874, d. Oct 31, 1959
WV MECH 47th Co. Coast Artillery

Gearhart, Mary M
b. 1880, d. 1951
w/o John N. Gearhart

Hart, Dovie

b. 1877, d. 1929

Hart, Myron R

b. 1872, d. 1954

Hays, Cyrus

b. 1854, d. 1940

Hays, Mary

b. 1860, d. 1940

Hazelett, Teresa Lorene

b. Apr 5, 1970, d. Apr 5, 1970

Hewitt, A. S.

b. Jul 26, 1890, d. Jan 10, 1924

Hewitt, Baby

no dates, *MFHM

Hewitt, Charles L

b. 1868, d. 1943

Hewitt, Ina

b. 1889, d. 1941
w/o Charles L. Hewitt

Hewitt, Mary Ellen
b. 1894, d. 1964
w/o Rufus G. Hewitt

Hewitt, Oliver V
b. 1861, d. 1930

Hewitt, Rosetta
b. May 4, 1868, d. Mar 11, 1927

Hewitt, Rufus G
b. 1888, d. 1975

Hitt, A. Deloris
b. 1930, d.
w/o Ernest W. Hitt
Hitt, David Wayne
b. Apr 12, 1970, d. Apr 12, 1970

Hitt, Ernest W
b. 1925, d.

Hitt, Joshua John
b. Mar 20, 1976, d. Mar 20, 1976

Horner, Howard C
b. 1915, d. 1979

Horner, Mary Janet Gearhart
b. 1919, d.
w/o Howard C. Horner

Hyde, Kathryn C
b. Aug 14, 1924, d.
w/o William Henry Hyde

Hyde, Tricia Suzann
b. Mar 1, 1970, d. Mar 1, 1970

Hyde, William Henry
b. Feb 8, 1918, d. Jul 22, 1988
TEC 5 US Army WWII

Kerby, Barbara Ann

b. Mar 17, 1957, d. May 5, 1957

Kerby, Bonnie Lou

d. 1955

Kerby, Clara B

b. Jun 29, 1895, d. Dec 9, 1964
w/o Gay Kerby

Kerby, Doug
no dates, *MFHM

Kerby, Gay
b. Feb 9, 1884, d. May 11, 1966
WV CPL US Army WWI

Kerby, Harley E
b. 1937, d. 1965

Kerby, Mary A
b. Mar 25, 1937, d.
w/o Virgil Harold Kerby

Kerby, Michael Dwayne
b. May 26, 1977, d. May 26, 1977

Kerby, Virgil Harold
b. Feb 18, 1933, d. Jul 9, 1982
CPL US Army Korea

Littleton, Daniel
no dates, *MFHM

Littleton, Eliza L
b. 1878, d. 1957
w/o Henry H. Littleton

Littleton, Henry H
b. 1877, d. 1961

Littleton, Infant
no dates, *MFHM

Littleton, Noel
no dates, *MFHM

Littleton, Orrell L
b. 1918, d. 1947

McLaughlin, Bertha
b. 1869, d. 1957
w/o Edward McLaughlin

McLaughlin, Edward
b. 1871, d. 1949

McLaughlin, Herman M
b. 1902, d. 1950

McLaughlin, Margaret Calvert
b. Apr 6, 1840, d. Sep 1, 1906
w/o Michael McLaughlin
Married Sep 24, 1856

McLaughlin, Marguerite
b. 1900, d. 1929

McLaughlin, Michael
b. Jan 2, 1830, d. Jun 24, 1915

McLaughlin, Patricia Ann
b. Jul 6, 1886, d. Jun 12, 1942

McLaughlin, Ruby E
b. May 9, 1896, d. Sep 14, 1898
d/o Edgar and S. E.

McLaughlin, Sarah Alban
b. Apr 3, 1865, d. Apr 3, 1905
w/o Edward McLaughlin

Mendenhall, Florence
b. 1886, d. 1957, *MFHM

Mendenhall, Isabelle
b. 1959, d. 1960, *MFHM

Mendenhall, Speck
b. 1889, d. 1975, *MFHM

Mendenhall, William C
b. 1886, d. 1962, *MFHM

Modesitt, Dewey R
b. Jun 23, 1903, d. Sep 20, 1977
PVT US Army WWII

Modesitt, Genevieve M
b. Sep 4, 1916, d.
w/o Dewey R. Modesitt

Modesitt, Icyphine
b. 1912, d. 1978
w/o James M. Modesitt

Modesitt, Infant
b. 1934, d. 1934
d/o James and Icyphine Modesitt

Modesitt, James M
b. 1910, d. 1995

Modesitt, Shirley L
b. Mar 10, 1905, d. May 1, 1976

Mooney, Lena M. Duncan
b. 1886, d. 1928

Patterson, G. Basil
b. May 2, 1904, d. Apr 9, 1926

Patterson, Velma I
b. Oct 3, 1924, d. Dec 21, 1942

Reed, Donald
b. Nov 7, 1946, d. Apr 6, 1997

Reed, Janis
b. Aug 17, 1938, d.
w/o Donald Reed

Riser, Marvin Keith

b. Dec 14, 1973, d. Dec 14, 1973

Shimpeno, D, Franklin

b. 1910, d. 1980

Shimpeno, David F

b. 1877, d. 1962

Stewart, Lavue

no dates
c/o R. H. and Ruth Stewart

Stewart, Ruth O. Duerr
b. Jun 3, 1892, d. Jul 23, 1923
w/o R. H. Stewart

Stull, Nellie B
b. Sep 9, 1898, d. Jun 25, 1994

Villers, Clyde D
b. 1904, d. 1978

Villers, Myma E
b. 1906, d. 1985
w/o Clyde D. Villers

Waters, Evelyn J
b. 1911, d.
w/o Philip A. Waters
Married Dec 21, 1940

Waters, Philip A
b. 1900, d. 1969