Mounts Cemetery, Logan County, WV

Mounts Cemetery

The photo gallery below shows a number of the headstones at the Mounts Cemetery at Mud Fork in Logan County, West Virginia. Some of the death records have called this the Baisden Cemetery and the Shamrock Cemetery. Everyone is welcome to add additional images or information about this cemetery.

The graves of the old J.B. Ellis Cemetery at Mud Fork were moved to Forest Lawn.

 

Mounts Cemetery, Logan County, West Virginia

32 thoughts on “Mounts Cemetery”

  1. My Mounts roots are from West Virginia. I know nothing of my family, but I do know that it’s a railroad family. I know that they migrated to Ohio and we still are a railroad family. Any information would be greatly appreciated

  2. Jim Compnotta
    Im looking for my Grandmother From Logan, Logan County West Virginia. Her name is Nettie Cox and her son who died in WW2 is Jim Compnotta. I was told by my fother Carmen Bruno, son of Nettie that she was burried next to Jim Compnotta. If anyone visits the cemetery Please let me know or post a picture of the grave site. My father was in Korea and never got to see his mother again and he wanted to find her grave site.
    Thank You,
    Tony

    1. Tony, familysearch.org shows Jim
      born in 1920 & death in 1945.
      Shows burial in Baisden Cemetery.
      Go to the findagrave.com site to
      see a Memorial for him.

      Familysearch.org shows many names
      of a Nettie with many birth dates.

      1. Bob
        Thank you for searching. I’v visited those web sites and came up with thesame info. Was hoping for some different info, but thank you anyways for trying and for your time. I’ll keep looking. Waiting for some birth certificates.
        Have a wonderful day.
        Tony
        aegisman2003@gmail.com

  3. I’m searching for my Grandfather, Roscoe Adkins. My mother thinks this possibly could have been where he was buried. She was only there when he was buried in October 23, 1957. She came there one other time to search for his grave, but had no luck. My mother is ill and I would love to find his grave for her. Any information as to getting information would be much appreciated.

  4. My grandfather was the Luther Mounts mentioned. Yes, our family owned that proprty. And there was a graveyard we weren’t allowed to go t.

  5. Kaye Weinreich

    I am trying to locate Augustie Marie Shreve 7/1887-12/1971 . Her death certificate says she was buried at Luther Mounts Cemetery, Mud Fork.

    1. Photo #19 in the above grave marker photos at the “Mounts” cemetery shows the grave marker for Gustie M. Shreve. This cemetery is located at the stoplight intersection of the RT 119/91 Mud Fork connector road from the Corridor G-Logan connector road RT 73 near the college. There is a gated access road to this cemetery off of the RT 119/91 Mud Fork connector road. The gate has a sign on it of “Mounts Cemetery”.

      1. In reading articles on this website I note that there is some confusion as to the name of the cemetery located at the stoplight intersection of the RT 119/91 Mud Fork connector road from the Corridor G-Logan connector road RT 73 near the college. Some people refer to this cemetery as the BAISDEN CEMETERY, others refer to it as the MOUNTS CEMETERY. Some may also refer to it as the LUTHER MOUNTS CEMETERY or as the SHAMROCK CEMETERY.

        I have no personal knowledge about the naming of this cemetery. I will note that on all of the government’s USGS topography maps since 1963 (1976, 1989 and 1996), the cemetery in question is named BAISDEN CEMETERY. I will note that on all those USGS maps, there is also a MOUNTS CEMETERY shown up in Lower Dempsey Branch. This MOUNTS CEMETERY is a few hundred feet away toward the north from the BAISDEN CEMETERY.

        Design and construction plan drawings of Corridor G-Logan connector road RT 73 also show the MOUNTS CEMETERY and the BAISDEN CEMETERY as separate and distinct cemeteries at about Station 75+00 of the road on Sheet 44 of the plan drawings. Both of the cemeteries are shown outlined in irregular shapes in heavy black dotted lines. Both cemeteries show that portions of each were taken by the road and some graves may have been relocated from each.

        On Sheet 2 of the Corridor G-Logan connector road RT 73 design and construction plan drawings is a listing of the names of parcels that were taken for the road.

        A portion of this BAISDEN CEMETERY was taken by the construction of the Corridor G-Logan connector road RT 73. This cemetery is on the SOUTH side of the Corridor G-Logan connector road RT 73. The design and construction plan drawings show a plat map of some 210 graves and a listing of the names in the BAISDEN CEMETERY. Many of the names of graves were listed as “unknown”. The listing also shows the locations of where the relocated graves were relocated to. The BAISDEN CEMETERY area taken by the road is listed on Sheet 2 of the design and construction plan drawings as parcel Number 134.4

        A portion of this MOUNTS CEMETERY was taken by the construction of the Corridor G-Logan connector road RT 73. The part taken by the road covers only a small portion of the irregular shaped area of the cemetery outlined in heavy black dotted lines on Sheet 44 of the plan drawings. For the MOUNTS CEMETERY, a 9,731 square foot parcel Number 125.1 was taken from a larger parcel which overlaps only a very small portion of the MOUNTS CEMETERY in question as mapped.

        Indications are that there is a plat map of the MOUNTS CEMETERY on Sheet 42 of the design and construction plan drawings. I don’t know if the names of graves in the MOUNTS CEMETERY is listed in the design and construction plan drawings.

        If any of the graves of the MOUNTS CEMETERY are still there, they would be on the NORTH side of Logan connector road RT 73, directly opposite the East (Logan) end of the concrete abutment of the U.S. Army SPC Harmon “Hoppy” Lee Hopson Jr. Memorial Bridge. On Google Maps, it appears that there is a fence line of 2-inch pipe posts in that area and there is a power pole nearby. This fence and power pole are visible as you drive by.

        It is the historical nature that larger tracts of lands usually ran within a watershed drainage area defined by streams and mountain ridgelines. Accordingly, the original Mounts tract more than likely ran from Mud Fork creek up the point between Lower Dempsey Branch and Lower Baisden Bottom.

        Accordingly, it is likely that the boundary line up the point between Lower Dempsey Branch and Lower Baisden Bottom would have the Mounts owning the West side of the point and perhaps Baisdens owning the East (Lower Baisden Bottom side) of the point which could have led to the Baisdens establishing a Baisden cemetery on their side of the point.

        The area where the college was built was known as the Luther Mounts farm which had a single large house on several acres of land. It would not be too unreasonable to assume the MOUNTS CEMETERY up in Lower Dempsey Branch may have been established as a family cemetery by the Mounts family on the upper end of their own property.

        It would be of interest to know where the access road to the “Baisden Cemetery” was prior to the construction of the Corridor G-Logan connector road RT 73.

        Note that the areas commonly referred to locally as “Baisden Bottom” and “Lower Baisden Bottom” is labeled as “Lintz Addition” on the USGS HOLDEN QUAD maps. It is interesting to note that the area known as “Lower Baisden Bottom” is listed as the “Town of Litz” on some real estate property records for the area.

    2. Drema & Robert Vance

      My name is Robert Vance from Logan County. Augusta Marie Shreve was my great aunt. She was my grandmother’s, Mae Vance’s sister. She is buried at Mounts Cemetery at Mudfork.

  6. Is this the Mounts cemetery that was located above Milk House Holler and was accessed at the top of Mount Gay near the church on the hill?

  7. Etta Estep McComas

    The polly collins that is buried here who was her husband my great grandfather James Estep was married to a polly collins Estep

  8. Deborah Estep Cooper

    Actually he died on Sept 2, 1962
    My baby brother, Stephen Luther Estep, is buried in the cemetery. He died Sept 2. 1961. Does anyone know how I could find out where he is buried. My elderly mom can’t climb the mountain to show me where his grave site it.

  9. My GGgrandmother was Polly (Brewster) Mayhone. She died in 1918 and her death certificate indicates she was buried in Mud Fork. I have not been able to locate her grave. If anyone knows where she is buried, please contact me at deb3891@comcast.net. Thank you.

  10. Many graves were moved to Forest Lawn Cemetery by the State, when road came thru Mud Fork. Some were unmarked graves and Forest Lawn Cemetery will have a record of all the graves and the location there. There are still many graves there that are unmarked.

  11. Lynda Davis-Logan

    If this is a Mounts Cemetery, then where are all the Mounts?? I know they intermarried with the names of Smith and Vance but I expected to see at least 1 Mounts grave marker….

    1. Joan Mounts Meade

      The Allen Mounts family was moved to Forrest Lawn when the state bought some of the cemetery for the new highway. My father Ted Mounts was the one that took care of this at the time.

  12. My great grand mother was Bessie Mounts and Mounts cemetery that Her family own is on TOP of Mt. Gay hill behind all the houses at the end of the road, and in the old days if you didn’t have a plot they would let people be buried there.

  13. We are looking for information for Dollie Rice I said she was buried in 1961 which is not right she died Feburary 17, 1981. We would appreciate any information you will be able to find she does not have a marker. Her son JE was not able to find his mother’s grave marker. Can you tell us where we can find the burial site.
    Millie Rice
    Jack Rice
    J.E. son

    e-mail miljack@gmail.com

  14. We are trying to locate the grave for Dollie Rice in Mounts Cemetery. Buried 1961.
    Maiden name Canturbury. If you have any information we would appreciate your contacting us at miljack@gmail.com
    Millie Rice
    Jack Rice husband
    J.E. – Son

  15. Annette Browning

    On Memorial Day, the cemetery is cleared off and the gate at the bottom of the hill is open. The road is paved and you can drive right to the cemetery. Note* A number of the graves were moved when the new road came thru.

    1. Annette
      I was up at the grave site a few days ago. I couldn’t find the graves where my mother, grandmother and other family members were buried. It had been at least 15 years and I couldn’t remember exactly where the graves were located. And I didn’t exactly come prepared to go tramping though the underbrush. I did find the fenced off graves to the right at the end of the road but I was unable to find the graves of my family. As I recall they were down over the hill about 10 or 15 feet from the road.

      From looking at the pictures shown above there are at least 2 of my family members that I know is buried there that are missing from the pictures. My grandmother Rosa Canterbury and my great uncle Elliott DeJournett (not sure about the spelling). Both, if I recall correctly, were buried next to my mother Dollie Rice. Both should also have a a plain James Funeral Home marker.

      1. When I visited the Mounts Cemetery, I was searching for my great grandmother’s grave. I took a photo of it and as many of the markers I could find. I know there are many other graves I didn’t see to photograph. Only the very top of the cemetery is cleaned off. The graves on the side of the hill are hidden in thick overgrowth. I wish I could have spent more time there to look but I couldn’t.

      2. John, if it has been a long time since you have been there, a lot of graves were moved when the new road came thru. I was there Memorial Day 2012 and all of the gravesites in the above photos are not there. I’m guessing some were moved?

  16. My baby brother, Stephen Luther Estep, is buried in the cemetery. He died Sept 2. 1961. Does anyone know how I could find out where he is buried. My elderly mom can’t climb the mountain to show me where his grave site it.

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