Mercer Family Cemetery
Laurel Point, Monongalia County, West Virginia, USA
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Laurel Point, West Virginia, 26501 USACoordinates: 39.63090, -80.00464 - Cemetery ID:
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Add PhotosAccording to The Mercer Genealogical Record (Abt 1933), p. [3-4]: "in the West Virginia hills, about a mile and a quarter northward from Laurel Point, a small settlement of houses on the Fairmont Highway [exit I-79 onto Route 19 West aka Fairmont Road] some four miles west of Morgantown. Directly up the hill from the residence is an orchard containing the older Mercer burial ground. This plot is some fifty feet square, completely enclosed with a fence, and with three, or perhaps four, rows of graves, all marked with small sandstone slabs at head and foot, but a majority without identifying inscription. Near the top of the plot are three modern monuments, the center one marking the grave of Minerva Mercer, born in 1817, died in 1902. On the left side is a monument to William Mercer, a son of Abner, the father of Jesse Mercer, owner of the farm in 1933. Robert Mercer, the original settler, is buried in about the exact center of the plot, and his son Abner two or three graves to the left in the same row. As all graves in this row are without inscription they can be identified only approximately."
According to The Mercer Genealogical Record (Abt 1933), p. [3-4]: "in the West Virginia hills, about a mile and a quarter northward from Laurel Point, a small settlement of houses on the Fairmont Highway [exit I-79 onto Route 19 West aka Fairmont Road] some four miles west of Morgantown. Directly up the hill from the residence is an orchard containing the older Mercer burial ground. This plot is some fifty feet square, completely enclosed with a fence, and with three, or perhaps four, rows of graves, all marked with small sandstone slabs at head and foot, but a majority without identifying inscription. Near the top of the plot are three modern monuments, the center one marking the grave of Minerva Mercer, born in 1817, died in 1902. On the left side is a monument to William Mercer, a son of Abner, the father of Jesse Mercer, owner of the farm in 1933. Robert Mercer, the original settler, is buried in about the exact center of the plot, and his son Abner two or three graves to the left in the same row. As all graves in this row are without inscription they can be identified only approximately."
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- Added: 11 May 2023
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2777656
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