Shavers Cemetery in Monongah, West Virginia

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Get directions Monongah, West Virginia, USA

Coordinates: 39.46690, -80.20780
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#44 on page 210 -

"Cemetery Readings in West Virginia

Fairmont and Grant Magisterial Districts,

Marion County",

book #929.509754-54 Wheeling Library

Prepared by

The West Virginia Historical Records Survey

Div of Community Services Programs

Work Projects Administration

Charleston, West Virginia

Historical records Survey March 1941

"1-1/4 miles North of Monongah, on Grove Hill Road, Alive Robe Farm"

"Established 1834 or earlier as private burial ground; extent, 2/3 acre; no restrictions as to types and placing of markers; fenced; not landscaped; condition - very bad. Lots not marked; graves marked by monuments, morticians' markers, and unlettered stones; lots not for sale; no burial records kept; still in use as burial ground. Earliest stone dated 1834. One Civil War veteran buried here. Marked graves, 43; unmarked graves 21 or more."

Stone readings see page 210 of above referenced book, Oct 25, 1938.