Wilson Cemetery
Trout Run, Wardensville
Hardy County, West Virginia





Census taken May 2002 by Suzanne W. Whitson.
suzanne.whitson@comcast.net

The Wilson cemetery is located on Trout Run Cut-Off Road in Wardensville, Hardy County, WV.

This cemetery is not visible from the road, but is located in a field near Trout Run on Trout Run Cut-Off Road. There are many fieldstones which serve as headstones and footstones and contain no information. Near the center of the cemetery stands an enormous monument with the following inscription: 


         WILSON

1722     William                 1801
1725     Elizabeth Blackburn     1806

Their Children

1747     Benjamin      1827
1749     Archibald     1814
1751     David         1804
1754     William       1851
1756     John          1827
1758     Moses         1760
1761     Moses II      1786
1763     James         1822
1766     Solomon       1819

1766     Elizabeth (Claypool)    1848
1769     Margaret (Ruddell)      1826

For brief history and contributors, see miscellaneous rec. book court
house

Erected 1953 by descendants
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Six other headstones were partially readable:

1.  M.W.
    1760

2.  aged 76 years

3.  E. Wilson Dec.
    Sept 2 1806 AD
    Aged 81 yrs

4.  Mary Rye
    Dec. Aug 21
    1812 AD 18 yrs

5.  Jeremy Rye
    Our Lord
      1754

6.  John Vonce
    April 27, 1809

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