OLD LEWIS OR NEALE GRAVEYARD
Wood Co. WV

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

There is another pioneer graveyard lying well back from the Ohio
River, and about a mile farther down than the old Lewis home.

It is up on a little point by the side of a small hollow, which cuts
down from the table lands of the second bottom to the lower
grounds below.  It lies on Francis Keene's (east) side of the line
dividing the lands of Keene and George Neale, and back of an old
tenant house - once the schoolhouse of that district.

The graveyard is now out in a pasture field, and no care is taken
of the graves.  There has been a large locust tree growing among
the graves, but it was broken down in the storms of last summer.

I noted these names:
William F. Adams, A. M., killed on the steamboat Motto, on the
9th of August, A. D., 1856, in the twentieth year of his age.
*Adams marked out and Davisson penciled in.
Sacred to the Memory of Elizabeth, consort of David Creel, died
April 15th, 1833, aged thirty years.
(She was a daughter of George Neale, a granddaughter of George
Lewis, and a sister to Sarah Neale, wife of Alex H. Creel.)  A sand-
stone slab graven with a long verse covers the top of the grave.
George Neale, born January 10th, 1772 - died July 24th, 1853,
aged eighty-one years, six months.
Sarah (Lewis) wife of George Neale, born April 29th, 1771 - died
April 5th, 1863.  (Either the date has been 1857, or she has been
over ninety years old.)
Elizabeth S. Neale, wife of George Neale, born September 6th,
1803 - died March 11, 1836.  He was George Neale, Jr., son of
George, she, a daughter of Jonah Lewis, his uncle.
Lucy, daughter of Lewis and Elizabeth Neale, died May 17th,
1821, aged thirteen (age probably incorrect).
Another child died in 1823.
(Lewis Neale married Elizabeth Kincheloe in 1815.)
Charles D., son of D. S. and E. Laughlin, November 11th, 1830 -
December 21st, 1861.  (His mother was a daughter of Sandy Creel.)