LOCKER GRAVEYARD
Wood Co. WV

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

On the spur of land near where it leaves the ridge dividing Dry
Run and Berry's Run, on a gentle swell between the heads of two
hollows, putting into Berry's Run, and a half mile or more from the
Old Dils Mill site, was the log cabin built by Jeptha Locker, about
1830, or earlier.

He bought here one hundred fifty acres of land, of M. Chapman,
for Sixty-five Dollars, receiving a deed dated July 7th, 1829.  As
it was very common to buy land in pioneer days, receiving
possession under Title Bond several years before the date of
deed, he may have been here as early as 1824 or 1825.

There is an old cedar tree and three cherry trees standing in a
row, planted nearly one hundred years ago, in the front yard, and
now over tow and half feet in diameter.

A fourth cherry tree was blown down by the win in 1923, and a
fifth grew down under the hill by "the spring", the determining
factor of the site of pioneer cabins.

Along the side of the garden nearby, and out a little ways from
the old cabin, is an old private burying ground, with eight graves
still traceable.  There are two old flagstone markers (1816) with
inscriptions rudely chiseled -

Jephtha B. Locker, died November 17th, 1848, aged fifty-four
years, ten months.
Eliza Ann, daughter of J. B. and F. Locker, died May 14th, 1839,
aged six years.
The other graves are the wife and children.

Locker was married to Fannie McPherson on August 19th, 1819,
and the farm was bought adjoining her father.

Fannie, a daughter of Locker's, married Richard Lee Morrison,
in 1849.  She inherited the farm, and it was divided, at her death,
between her sons, William and David.

Morrison was a son of Hamilton Morrison, and his mother the
daughter of Richard Lee, of the Lee's Hill farm.