LEACH GRAVEYARD
Wood Co. WV

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

The Leach graveyard, when I visited it the fall of 1923, had, that
I noted, no dates older than 1847, though the section was settled
twenty-five or thirty years earlier.

Abraham Hickman, 1848-1889.
Nancy Hickman, 1850 - 1903.
Elizabeth, wife of John Leach, died 1849.
James, son of John and Elizabeth Leach.
Drusilla, wife of Thomas B. Leach, May 27th, 1824, March 4th,
1847.  He was the son of Willis and Mary Margaret Leach, she a
Maddox.
Lucy J., daughter of William and Mary Leach.
Judah, wife of James Leach, died 1860.
Lewis Leach, died 1872, aged forty-six years, five months.
Catherine A., 1828 - 1914.
Benjamin Brooker, October, 1875, aged thirty-four.
Christa A. Brooker, September, 1918, aged sixty-nine.
Jacob Cornell, June 11th, 1816 - January 9th, 1871.
Susan Nicholas, August 3rd, 1846 - May 26th, 1868.
J. B. Mullen, 1821 - 1888.
Rhoda Mullen, April 22nd, 1828 - March 23rd, 1809.
Waterman P., child Thomas and Mary, was drowned April 6th,
1868.
C. W. Lemon, 1843 - 1886.
John Baker, 1858.
Sarah Baker, 1858 - 1907.
Jonathan Deem, November 1st, 1825 - December 28th, 1903,
seventy-eight years.
Jemima, his wife, October 19th, 1890, aged fifty-eight.

The only Buckner tombstone is a child of R. C. and Dora
Buckner, April 30th, 1878.

The graveyard is on a "hogback", back from the river, about
one hundred yards from, and a little below, the Leachtown Lock.

The oldest graves are in the eastern and where some trees
were left growing, more land had been added to the graveyard
(originally only about forty feet wide) farther up the point in the
old field.

A Jonathan Dee lived at the old Willis Leach place.  Leach sold
his farm and removed to Ohio, where he died.

The house had on the west side a big cedar tree, on the east an
enormous beech.