BELLEVILLE CEMETERY (Old Belleville Cemetery)
Wood Co. WV

Some Pioneer Graveyards of Wood Co. by John A. House


"By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place
which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed: and
he went out not knowing whither he went."

The Belleville Graveyard, when I visited it in late October, 1927,
was, for the greater part, well kept, and neat looking.  It lies back
some distance from the river bank, and while the oldest date I
noticed in 1802, there are doubtless graves here one hundred
thirty-five or forty years old.

The cemetery is at the upper, or original, settlement, and about
a mile above the present village, which was founded by Edward
Anderson, about 1858.

The site of the graveyard is several yards below the Lock Number
Twenty.

Many of the inscriptions copied have been placed since the
beginning of the twentieth century.

I noted among the names:

Horace Mitchell, 1854 - 1914.
Ella Mitchell (wife) 1855 - 1902.
Henry S. Mitchell, June 9th, 1828 - October 9th, 1881.
John W. Mitchell, February 24th, 1888, aged seventy-one years,
eight months.
Minnie E., daughter H.S. and P.A. Mitchell, September, 1867.
Anthony Williamson, March 1st, 1825 - May 5th, 1905.
Sarah (wife) August 2nd, 1822 - August 2nd, 1903.
Katie A. Williamson, wife of J. E. McCoy, born October 10, 1852 - died
August 4th, 1901.
Dr. Wesley C. Keever, December 1833 - April 10th, 1899.
Ann Rebecca (wife) April 29th, 1836 - September 11th, 1905.
Dr. John Stewart Keever, June 18th, 1831 - February 2nd, 1888.
Katharine A. (wife) November 20th, 1833 - April 9th, 1916.
Frank Keever, their son  (no dates copied).
Addie, wife of M. Whalen, November 1st, 1888, aged twenty-five years,
one month.
Amy Chipperfield, daughter Alexander & W. A. Burdette, born
1871 - died 1904,
aged thirty-two years, six months.
Austin Chipperfield, 1897 - 1925.
Caroline Chipperfield, 1901 - 1918.
Nathan Sheets, January 1st, 1850 - January 15th, 1917, sixty-seven years.
Sidney Agnes Sheets (wife), born February 19th, 1855, died about 1923.
John W. Buckley, died May 27th, 1885, aged thirty-eight years,
twenty-six days.
Abraham Pennybacker, August 7th, 1819, in fifty-fifth year.
Mrs. Elizabeth Pennybacker, December 6th, 1856, in sixty-seventh year.
Benjamin R. Pennybacker, 1817 - 1903.
Penelope S. (Beckwith) wife, 1821 - 1893, aged seventy-two years,
four months.
Janet (daughter) died August 20th, 1861.
David M. (son) died July 11th, 1854, aged two.
M. B. Pennybacker, born 1810 - died December 26th, 1889.
A daughter, Sallie Ann, died in 1856.
Beulah, daughter Louis R. and P. F. Pennybacker, died in 1881.  Her
brother, Walter M. in 1895.
Louis R. and Elizabeth Pennybacker  (no dates)
Captain Derrick Pennybacker, captain in Berks County, Pa. Militia
during the Revolution.  His daughter, Mary, married Samuel Hupp,
and is buried at Belleville.
George W. Gill, died March 20th, 1887, aged seventy-two
years, six months.
Eliza D. (wife) born near Dover, N. J., 1814 - died at Belleville,
July 1st, 1882, aged sixty-eight years, five months.
George S. Arnold, 1848 - 1926.
Alcinda (wife) 1850 - no date.
Katie Remley, October 5th, 1838, aged thirty-three years, eleven months.
Violet Hardwick, January 24th, 1877, twenty-one years, four months.
W. Mitchell Spencer, May 23rd, 1891, aged twenty-one years, three months.
James H. Owings, 1832 - 1921.
Penelope, 1842 - 1873.
Martin Hupp died 1828, in thirty-first year.
Rebecca Hupp (wife) August 24th, 1878, seventy-eight years,
nine months.
William, a son, Setember, 1850, aged twenty-five.
Samuel Hupp, August 9th, 1828, in eighteenth year.
Mary (his widow) November 28th, 1795 - October 11th, 1878.  (a
granddaughter of Derrick Pennybacker).
Philip Wells, 1841 - 1921 (a son of Caleb Wells).  (An old home carved
sandstone)
Azubolie Ames, wife of Cyrus Ames, died June 11th, 1802, in
the twenty-eighth year of her age.
Albert G. Congrove, 1830 - 1908.
Mary C. (wife) 1812 - 1900.
Miles Jacoby, 1798 - 1884.
Louisa Jacoby, 1800 - 1888.
Cordelia Reed, 1840 - 1915.
Wife of William H. White, January 13th, 1849, aged twenty-eight years,
seven months.
Kleinfelter White (her son) November 14th, 1848.
Alexander White (her son) August 3rd, 1847.
There were three old graves without makers in the row next the river.
John Brown, Co. I., 116th O. V. I.
W. H. Sheets, Co. D., 17th W. Va.
John Humphrey, Co. E., 1st W. Va.