UHL CEMETERY
Wood Co. WV

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

There is an old graveyard lying by the side of the road somewhere
above the upper end of Muskingum Island, and perhaps one mile
below the Henderson home.

It is securely inclosed with a strong iron paling fence, but the
grounds are neglected and sodded with weeds, yarrow, pigweed,
with sarsaparilla and elder bushes clustering and climbing.  The lot
is about 80 by 150 feet but the marked graves occupy, say, 50 by
70 feet in the northwest corner.

This graveyard must be on or near the farms of the pioneers, Uhl,
Casteel, Henrie and Pugh.

I note the names:

Casteel,Allen, 		March 17, 1846 		d. March 17, 1872.	son of Archibald and Susan Casteel,  - 
By his side lies his mother: 
Casteel,Susan,		B. January 16, 1814 	d. December 16, 1880  	daughter of Samuel, and Mary S.,wife of Archibald Casteel.  - , aged sixty-six.
By her:  
A. Casteel - 		1865 - 						aged fifty-five.

In a family plot we find:
Uhl,Charles D.  	1829-1904 (75).
Uhl,Margaret , 		1831-1895 (64)					(wife)
Uhl, child of above, 				d.1856.

Same row:  
Johnson,Emma Nora,	1886 						daughter of John T.  - .

Uhl,David  		February, 1818.  				(Balance illegible)
Uhl,Ursula   								(Old sandstone slab, illegible)
Uhl,Eleanor, 		December 6, 1872				wife of George Uhl, , 70 years.
Uhl,George  		b. August 8, 1794; 	d. September 28, 1887.  Aged 93 years, one month and twenty days.

This David Uhl was George's father.  His wife, one Wilhelmina
DeSteger.  He came to Wood County from Pennsylvania, when
there were but four or five families here.

He built a cabin on the bank of the Ohio River, which was still
standing in 1882, being then used as a stable by John R. Uhl.  The
"portholes" were, it is said, "plainly visible" in 1882.

In this log house was born Charles D. Uhl (see above) in 1829.  The
mother was Wilhelmina DeSteger, wife of David Uhl, and likewise
"Dutch."

David Uhl used to carry powder and lead across the mountains,
and was a soldier in the War of 1812.  Names of children of David
Uhl, as given by my informant, are:

George, married Eleanor Hiett, whose father, James Hiett, came to
Wood County in 1799 (1796, says another account) "when the
county was inhabited by Indians and wild animals."  In 1882 he was
noted as "the only survivor of the War of 1812 in Williams District.
He "was with General Harrison in his campaign in the Black Swamp
of Ohio."
Charles D., born 1829.
John R., who owned the home farm in 1882.  He was born February
26, 1827.
Chris D., married Margaret Casteel.
A younger son of David Uhl was for three years in Company "G"
15th W. Va. Infantry.

Other graves are:
Parker,Caroline, wife of T. H. Parker, and daughter of George and Eleanor
Uhl - died March 23, 1866; aged thirty-five years.
Rector,Enoch  died 1893.  Aged thirty-three years.

This is a red granite monument, with letters cut into the stone, and
difficult - almost impossible - to read in the evening sunlight.  I doubt
if I got it correctly.  If I did, it marks the grave of a son of the
eminent
preacher.
Margaret, wife of Enoch Rector - October 29, 1881.  Aged 32.
Mindwell, wife of Elder Enoch Rector, died December 2, 1867, in her
63rd year.
Nancy, wife of James Roy - September 5, 1854.  Aged 37.
Elizabeth (perhaps Isabel) (Roy?) - died in 1867.  Aged 72.

(The wife of Rev. Enoch Rector, Mindwell Ransom, was of New England
Puritan stock.)