BARRETT GRAVEYARD

The Barrett Graveyard lies some way east of the old village of
Tavennerville.  It is up on the higher flat from the Kanawha River.
It lies near a bank made by a run which crosses the Central Avenue,
a new road up the Kanawha River, near the one-time baseball ground.

It is about one hundred fifty feet square, and has once had a fence,
now going to rack, made of dressed poplar boards with locust posts
hewed square.  Just outside the lower fence, on top of a bank leading
down to the east side of the run, stand three magnificent oak trees
with limbs reaching forty feet or more across the graveyard.

This is down the point from the old Barrett house, a hewed log
building built by Caleb Barrett many years ago.  The Barrett row is
at the lower side, by the fence, near the middle of the cemetery, and
partially under the oak tree.

There are ten graves, the parents and eight children.

Caleb Barrett was born October 8th, 1791, died April 25th, 1870, aged
seventy-two years.
Jemima Barrett, his wife, died August 4th, 1870.

In the same row were four unmarked graves.  These graves are under
the oak trees.
Caleb C. Barrett, born 1845 - died 1874.
Sarah V. Barrett, born 1843 - died 1893.
In the same row were Gertrude and Aletha.

A Barceloh died 1892.  His wife 1888.
A Baker in 1873, his wife in 1888.
John T. Chapman, born in 1827 - died in 1898.
Mary A., his wife, 1829 - 1895.
Then a Chapman child.
Levi B. Clovis, of the 14th W. Va. Inf.
Matilda, his wife, 1838 - 1895.
Paul Repps wife, 1888.
J. J. Harper and wife in the 90's.
I saw no old grave stones.

On November 23rd, I paid a second visit to the Barrett graveyard,
and made some further notes.  At this time, the vicinity was built up
and streets laid out.  The Parkersburg Machine Company had recently
completed an extensive plant on the old Barrett farm north of the
graveyard, and near the old ball ground.  The old log house was
gone, and there was a new red brick residence near the site, with
several other houses close.  Euclid Avenue passed near the end of
the cemetery, but had not been opened up yet.  I noticed these names:

Charles A. Alladaker.
Henry Chapman.
Moses Tefft, 1840 - 1892.
Martha A. Tefft, 1842 -1892.
Gordon S. Tefft, 1888 - 1924.
The Teffts lived over about the Pilcher place, on Hope Hill Run.
Samuel Matthews, 1835 - 1910.
Sarah Matthews, 1827 - 1898.


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