The following excerpt is from the May 8, 2012 edition of NewsandSentinal.com:
PARKERSBURG [West Virginia] – One year ago, representatives of the Wood County Historical and Preservation Society volunteered to research existing death records and document those interred at Wood County’s pauper’s cemetery. That completed document was turned over to the Wood County Commission Monday.
Copies of the record will be sent to the West Virginia Department of Culture and History, made available at the courthouse, Wood County Library and may be put online at a future date at www.woodcountywv.com.
Bob Enoch, president of the society along with Jeff Little, with the society presented the documentation containing nearly 800 names of those buried at the Wood County Poor Farm Cemetery, which is located at Cedar Grover in the parking lot area of West Virginia University at Parkersburg.
“The earliest burials there we have are in 1888. There are another 25 years or so of burials that we have no records for, the county purchased the poor farm property back in 1864,” Enoch said. He noted there was a fire in February 1950 in the County Infirmary building and if records back then were kept, they were probably destroyed in that fire.
