CREEL CEMETERY (Thomas Creel Cemetery)
Wood Co. WV

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

There is another little cemetery, probably private to the
family of Thomas Creel, by the side of the lane between
Bacon Hall and the Davisville road.
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CREEL GRAVEYARD (Old Creel Graveyard)

The Old Pioneer Creel graveyard was a narrow strip lying
above the railroad, and below the old Southern Methodist
Church at Davisville.  Possibly it once included ground cut
away in building the railroad.  I visited it first in 1917, and
found it in a deplorable condition.  There were only six
headstones standing or lying near, and only one of these
had a legible inscription.

"In memory of Anna W. Creel, consort of John B. Creel, who
departed this life February 24th, 1824, aged twenty-one years."

The grave by her side was doubtless that of her husband,
Major John B. Creel.  He was the oldest son of George Creel,
Jr., she a daughter of Daniel Kincheloe.  He was born in 1779,
died in 1838.

One of the headstones four inches thick, is crumbed to an
edge of one and a half or two inches at the top.

When visited again, October, 1924, the graveyard was still more
forlorn in its appearance.

The old church is long since gone.
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CREEL GRAVEYARD

The Creel Graveyard lies on a flat point just above Spring
Run, or a tributary of the same, and is perhaps a quarter of a
mile from the church at the old Claysville road.  It covers over
an acre of ground and was - when I was in it, about 1917 - 
perhaps, neatly fenced in with plank.  There were many fine
monuments, but the grounds were badly grown up with
weeds, burrs and brush.

It being October 5th, there were great patches of blue
ageratum in bloom.

The graveyard lies out in an extensive field of bottom land,
and is reached through a gateway.  Across another flat, up
the run, are two large cedar trees which have grown in the
yard of somebody's house in years gone by.  This is a
comparatively recent graveyard.

Of the Creel graves, I noted -
Bushrod Washington Creel, February 10, 1805 - June 11th, 1875.
Alcinda Kincheloe, his wife, March 4th, 1857, forty-four years,
eight months.
Of the children of B. W. and A. Creel, I saw -
Bushrod W. - 1841.
Alcinda - 1852.
Then there is Catherine, wife of George R. Creel, born August,
1860, died July, 1895.
By her was the grave of George R., Jr., 1881 - 1905.
Lawrence Victor, his child, died 1905.
(Mr. Gibbens notes in his book, Jeptha Kincheloe, born May
17th, 1778, died November 25th, 1857, aged seventy-nine years,
six months.  Clara, his wife, born January 8th, 1778, died March
9th, 1858, aged eighty-six years, two months.)
The first inscription must be on the farther side of a large
granite monument, the other I copied as Clara Kincheloe, died
March 3rd, 1858, born January 8th, 1779, eighty-nine years,
one month.  One or the other was mistaken.  Clara Kincheloe
was the daughter of Anthony Buckner, and widow of George
Creel, Jr.
Other inscriptions are -
Hug, son of H. W. and Emma Pahl, 1887 - 1905.
David Fowler, 1865, child of T. and E. Fowler.
Thomas Fowler, child of T. and E. Fowler.
Same row, Mary E., wife of S. Porter, died 1865, age twenty-seven.
Then, Francis Lang, October 1st, 1862, sixteen years old.
A daughter of M. V. and C. Cundiff, 1863.
Children of Marcellus Clark.  His wife was a daughter of B. W.
Creel.
Children of Dr. W. C. Bond.  Elizabeth, a daughter of Bushrod
Creel, married Dr. E. D. W. Bond, a brother of the above Dr. Bond.
Carl, son of W. E. Duskey, date 1905.