MOUNT MORIAH CEMETERY
Wood Co. WV

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

And, departing, leave behind them
Footprints on the sands of time.
Longfellow.

Mount Moriah Church and cemetery are situated on middle
Worthington Creek, on the St. Mary's Pike.

The church stands above the road, at the top of a very steep
rise, and at the end of what is known as the old brick pavement.
The church is reached up a narrow drive, which rises steeply,
but the ground levels off at the top of the grade, and the church
is on a level plateau, or lower flat, and the cemetery lying to the
east, or front of the church, is ideal with its gradual light slope
two ways, making a natural drain.

The church stands in a grove of tall trees, mostly oak, which
make a pleasant setting for any church or cemetery.

I have often been in this cemetery in late evening or early
twilight when the last sleepy bird was twittering, and the
whip-poor-will calling.  Surely this would be a peaceful place
to lie at rest.

On some of the stones, I noticed:
Susan, wife of Edward McPherson, died 1888, aged eight-five.
She was a daughter of Jesse Kincheloe, and lived on the farm of
which the graveyard was once a part.
Of their children I noted:
Angeline Baxter, wife of John, 1829 - 1896.
John A. Baxter, 1824 - 1836.
Elizabeth, wife of A. B. Wells, 1832 - 1904.
Austin B. Wells, Co. D, 11th W. Va.
Charles W. Wells ( a son) 1879, aged twenty-three.
Jacob Hoover, 1878, aged twenty-nine.
Monroe McPherson, 1840 - 1912 - A Union soldier.
William McPherson, born 1842.
Mary Jane, his wife, 1844 - 1923.
Mary A., wife of Jacob Affolter, 1850 - 1895.
David McKibben, March 4th, 1816 - February 24th, 1915.
Susannah, his wife, born October 13th, 1825 - died February
6th, 1907.  He was ninety-nine years, eleven months and ten
days old.
Josiah Ashby, 1881 - 1910.
George Wilson, Jr., 1856 - 1916, a son of William Wilson, of
Jerrie's Run.  Probably the father who died about 1922 is
buried near.
Ruth Pierpont, 1887 - 1919.  Lived at head of Johnson's Run,
originally Big Run.

Added Note
It is in this cemetery that the author of this historical record
is buried, near one of his beloved trees.
John A. House, April 10th, 1854 - October 30th, 1938.
Born in Monroe County, Ohio, son of John and Jane Connor
House.  By his side, his wife, Sarah Katherine, a daughter of
Jacob B. and Elizabeth Walker Smith, born December 14th,
1858 - died June 25th, 1930.