Friends of the Old Stone Cemetery

06/07/2022

Rub-a dub-dub...
We've got some stones
that need a SCRUB!!!
Please join us on Saturday, June 18th from 11 am to 2 pm in historic Lewisburg!!
See our prior post for registration info!!
Hope to see you there as we continue saving...
ONE OLD STONE AT A TIME!!!

06/06/2022

Please join us, along with the GREENBRIER HISTORICAL SOCIETY, on SATURDAY, JUNE 18th from 11am to 2pm for a cemetery cleaning workshop where you will learn the basics of tombstone cleaning, the do's and don'ts of safeguarding tombstones & monuments!! We will give you the opportunity to get some hands-on experience cleaning some of our OLD STONES!!
All cleaning materials will be provided to those registered.
We recommend you bring old clothes, sturdy shoes, hats, sunscreen, chairs, and something to kneel on. Pack a lunch as a break will be included but water, drinks and snacks will be provided.

SPACES ARE LIMITED so registration is required!!
TO REGISTER click the link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeMFWY-eO9O-vORFrqvzLFHg8GGdSkO0BUDlvKeFFotTOfq8Q/viewform?fbclid=IwAR3-9ogIIwHSE_JQBfntCNIszU6ckZMCfdR-Abmj4Vi8HJYur9nA-P

05/25/2022

Splish...Splash
We've got some stones
That need a BATH!!

STAY TUNED for more info!!

05/14/2022

09/20/2020

Here we grow again....more details coming soon!! Huge thanks to Skip Deegans for overseeing the restoration of this new addition!!

06/19/2020

In the vein of being a good neighbor, today we celebrate our sister cemetery and neighbor--the Dick Pointer Cemetery.
Amanda Jackson is one of the 112 confirmed people buried in the Dick Pointer Cemetery. Most of the markers, be it an actual grave marker or either by family memorial--sometimes jugs, jars, pots, rocks, plantings, concrete blocks or a variety of other offerings--have disappeared through time but historical records and tedious research are helping restore the names of those buried in the cemetery. To date, another 72 people have been identified that are buried within the once 3 to 4 acre cemetery. Stay tuned as we continue "Saving the Pointer Cemetery" and remembering the lost. Today, we celebrate Amanda's life. A 1890s blurb in the Greenbrier Independent tells of Amanda having a three room, one story cottage built for herself by David Spotts Wetzel (buried in Old Stone) on a hill just above the home of William Worsham (also buried in Old Stone) (the area where the Asylum Restaurant now stands). Amanda died in that house on May 26, 1906 and conveyed the property to a sister and her daughter. Amanda had once worked as a house servant for Henry Mason Mathews (also buried in Old Stone)--a one time Governor of West Virginia.

02/24/2020

Godspeed, Mrs. Johnson, Godspeed!!!

01/18/2020

In honor of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, we are celebrating our neighbor, the Dick Pointer Cemetery, this weekend. The first burial in the cemetery is believed to have occurred in the late 1840s, most likely 1846, and the land was officially donated to the town of Lewisburg in 1854 by the family of John Gabriel McClenachen for a cemetery for enslaved people. In the late 1930s, it was estimated that about 300 souls were buried on what was then several acres of land. With burials from the 1940s until the late 1990s, it is estimated that about 350 souls are buried in the cemetery. For so many years less than 100 people were documented to be buried on the land but today, through thorough research, over 150 souls have been identified as being buried in the cemetery and more are being uncovered as we work to honor those buried in this sacred space. Follow us as we bring more names from the shadows of history as we work to save more of these OLD Pointer STONES!!

04/27/2019

Like a good neighbor...Old Stone is there...or at least we try to be!! Today with the help of the West Virginia Preservation Alliance and some local volunteers, we began restoring some stones in the Pointer Cemetery. Huge thanks to Beth & Tim Carroll, Nancy Price, Shannon Beatty, Kyle Bailey (WVPA), Gibbs Kinderman and all the other folks who came to help!! We rediscovered the plot of the Miller family--a mother, father and three children. Now we dig to find out more about the family!!