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From left, Thomas Butcher and his mother and father, Janet and Tom Butcher of Michigan, pose at the gravestone of Payton Butcher at the Kincheloe-VanDiver-Butcher Cemetery within the Poor Farm Cemetery — but pre-dating the Poor Farm Cemetery — at West Virginia University at Parkersburg. The Butchers, researching their family ancestry, were in Wood County last month. (Photo Provided)
The gravestone of John Barnett at the Barnett Cemetery near the 4-H grounds in Wood County. Barnett, an early settler of Wood County, died in 1852. May is Remember a Rural Cemetery Month in Wood County. (Photo Provided)
Mary Mount Barnett, the second wife of John Barnett, died in 1861 and is buried at the Barnett Cemetery near the 4-H grounds. Hers and her husband’s stones are down and broken. (Photo Provided)