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The Lorenzo D. Hill Family Cemetery, which I visited on 20 September 2013, is located across the Guyandotte River from Stone Branch in Logan County, West Virginia. Prior to the War Between the States, Lorenzo Dow Hill was a prominent resident and slave-owner in the Crawley Creek section of Logan County. This cemetery is also noteworthy in that it contains the final remains of numerous African-American residents. The cemetery can be accessed by following Sawmill Road, near Chapmanville.
Row 1
Robert E. Lowe (1851-1936); s/o Elisha and Elizabeth (Doss) Lowe
Carrie Lowe (1856-1947); d/o Lorenzo Dow and Nancy (Browning) Hill; m. Robert E. Lowe
Row 2
Hattie Lowe (1878-1908); d/o Robert and Caroline (Hill) Lowe
Pearl F. Lowe (1893-1909); d/o Robert and Caroline (Hill) Lowe
Row 3
James Hill (no dates); s/o Lorenzo Dow and Nancy (Browning) Hill
Thomas Hill (no dates); s/o Lorenzo Dow and Nancy (Browning) Hill
Sarah Hill (no dates); d/o Lorenzo Dow and Nancy (Browning) Hill
Robert Nelson Lowe (1916-1918); s/o Jim Lowe
Row 4
Ethel D. Lowe (1882-1903); d/o Robert and Caroline (Hill) Lowe
Nancy Browning Hill (1811-1891); m. Lorenzo Dow Hill
Lorenzo D. Hill (1808-1904); s/o Jacob and Sarah (Thomas) Hill
James Arden Lowe (1884-1930); s/o Robert and Caroline (Hill) Lowe
Row 5
unmarked rock headstone
Joseph M. Kitchens (29 April 1871-31 August 1905)
unmarked small rock headstone
unmarked rock headstone
unmarked rock headstone
Row 6
sunken spot — possible grave
unmarked rock headstone
unmarked rock headstone
unmarked rock headstone and footstone
unmarked rock headstone and footstone (child)
unmarked rock headstone
(pine tree)
unmarked rock headstone
Row 7
Dorsey M. Moon (1900-1957); s/o Samuel H. and Hattie (Stratton) Moon
Della Ferguson (30 January 1888-14 February ____); d/o George and Martha Hill; m. William Craddock Ferguson
W.C. Ferguson (08 August 1873-14 September 1945); s/o Joshua and Ellen (Craddock) Ferguson
(pine tree)
sunken spot — possible grave
Jack Hill (dates are buried); born 1858; died after 1930
Row 8
sunken spot — possible grave
Molly Claytor (03 July 1894-22 October 1946); d/o George and Martha Hill; m. Daniel Claytor of Floyd County, VA
unmarked rock headstone and footstone
Hiram Hill (30 March 1896-14 July 1919); s/o George and Martha Hill
unmarked rock headstone and footstone
unmarked rock headstone
mossy mound — perhaps a grave
George Hill (died 08 December 1930); s/o Hiram and Mary (Hill) Hill
Martha Hill (died 24 August 1906); m. George Hill
Peter H. Hill (22 December 1894-22 April 1958); s/o George and Martha Hill; WV PVT CO D 3 DEVELOPMENT BN WWI; fiddler who played with Dick Justice
Acre Wilson (1888-1959); s/o General and Adaline (Jones) Wilson
Row 9
sunken spot — possible grave
William Ward Hill (19 September 1923-09 January 1953); WV PVT WWII
unmarked rock footstone
unmarked rock headstone and footstone
Will Hill (15 June 1878-11 October 1896)
unmarked rock headstone and footstone
Row 10
unmarked rock headstone
unmarked rock headstone
(gap in graves, perhaps one or two graves here?)
unmarked rock headstone
unmarked rock headstone and footstone (baby?)
unmarked rock headstone
perhaps another grave, no rock markers
Row 11
Benjamin L. Hill (16 June 1916-07 July 1958); WV PVT CO E 357 ENGINEERS WWII
sunken spot — no rock markers
unmarked rock footstone
Juley Hill (1900-1922); d/o Melvin and Parlena J. (Robertson) Hill
Hugh Hill (12 November 1883-27 December 1904)
sunken spot — possible grave
unmarked rock headstone and footstone
Row 12
unmarked rock headstone
(pine tree)
Hariam Hill (1831-1913)
Mary Hill (1832-1907); d/o Lorenzo Dow Hill (master) and Julia the slave; m. Hiram Hill
unmarked rock headstone and footstone
perhaps one more grave, no rock markers
Row 13
Lewis Hamilton (1880-1916); m. Paradazie Hill
rock
unmarked rock headstone
(pine tree)
(gap)
Paradazie Stuart (14 August 1892-18 April 1960); d/o George and Martha Hill; m1. Lewis Hamilton; m2. John C. Stuart
John C. Stuart (05 March 1885-10 April 1961); PFC CO D 327 SERVICE BN QMC WWI
Hattie Wilson (1904-1961); likely Hattie Inez Bickley; d/o Charles and Mary (Black) Bickley; m. Acre Wilson
Row 14
Juanita M. Moon (1933-1971)
Row 15
Patrick D. Williams (18 September 1961-10 January 1962)
unmarked rock headstone and footstone
unmarked rock headstone and footstone
Row 16
Floyd Johnson (07 April 1895-21 December 1975); s/o Charles Johnson/ PVT US ARMY WWI
Ned Johnson (16 January 1893-16 October 1973); s/o Charles Johnson; PVT US ARMY WWI
William Bill Johnson (10 October 1890-27 June 1970); s/o Charles Johnson
Allen Johnson (1880-1960); s/o Charles and Mary Johnson
Row 17
Fannie Johnson (29 March 1903-23 January 1977); m. Willie Johnson
James A. Johnson (1949-still alive)
Myrtle A. Johnson (1955-2003); m. James A. Johnson
Nellie Jo Akers (13 January 1938-03 March 2009)
Brandon Ray Kirk 
Hello Brandon,
Can’t tell you how excited it is to discover this information on the Hill Family Cemetery.
I am the Grt Grt Grt Granddaughter of Lorenzo Dow Hill and Julia. Grt Grt Granddaughter of Hiram and Mary and Grt Granddaughter of Hiram and Mary’s son William Henry (aka Scott) and Annie L.
(née Morris) Hill from Barboursville, West Virginia.
I have been researching our family”s paternal and maternal lineage for eight and a half years
notably becoming our family historian.
This Hill Family Cemetery in for is Priceless!
I don’t know if you Jeanette Rowsey or of her book, “The Lost Village of Barboursville, but this has been another wonderful resource recently discovered and I have been in communication also with Jeanette.
I welcome any additional information, pics, resource leads etc , that you may have knowledge of with regards to my Hill ancestors.
I an thrilled that your work has documented this important aspect of my Hill family. This has been so heloful to fill in an absolute “brick wall” syndrome to passages of closure.
Thank You.
Hi, Madelaine. You just made my day. I’m so glad to know this information was helpful to you. Educator and local historian Fred B. Lambert (a hero) interviewed Scott Hill (1859-1940) many years ago and documented his memories of his family history. You can find Lambert’s notes in the F.B. Lambert Papers at Marshall University. For several years now, I’ve researched my region’s antebellum African-American history as well as the postwar African-American migrations into my region prior to the coal era that begins in, say, 1900. If you ever want to visit the Hill cemetery and need a guide, let me know. I live about ten minutes away. (I do know of Jeanette Rowsey’s book.)
Thank you so much for responding. Yes, I have the article from Marshall University and am working on getting the article that a Mr. Ball wrote for the Herald Dispatch also on my Grt. Grandfather William Henry “Scott” Hill. Mr. Ball article is a little more difficult to find since the information I am working with gives no date of publication.
I am hoping my soon communication to Jeanette Rowsey will be able to shed some light on her finding of the Ball article that she reference in her book. Should I ever get the opportunity to come that way I would certainly be grateful to contact you ahead and have you guide us through the Hill Cemetery.
Thanks again and have FANTASTIC DAY!
Good Afternoon Brandon,
I am inquiring of you to see if you know of any personal family history collection that the Charles Kinnard Morris family may have donated to an institution. I am trying to find if there is a record of the marriage/bond for my Grt Grt Grt Grandparents Benjamin and Mahaska Morris. And, any death record/information for Grt Grt Grt Gmother Mahala.
As I have begun this research, I have contacted Cabell County Court office to see if such record exists, spoker with Jeannie Simmons, Division of Culture and History West Virginia Archives Library, contacted and sole to Jim Kitchen, (upon Jeannie”s recommendation), Ashland (Boyd Library), Kentucky, searched and reviewed on line marriage’s Cabell 1851-1899 and deaths 1853-1922, ( I dont know if these records pertained to white marriages and deaths only) provided by Barry Huffstutler’s, “Door to the Past”, spent countless hours searching on Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org, with no success of finding Benjamin and Mahala marriage or her death.
I realize that of that era and their beings of slave holder Charles Kinnard Morris
there may not be a formal filed record of there marriage/bond. Or, there may never have been a formalized marriage. My hope still prevails in as much as the possibility such information could be in Charles Kinnard Morris family documents passed down, (perhaps, a descendant of this Morris family still lives in the area) and perserved.
I inquire of your knowledge to see if any resources for Charles Kinnard Morris related documents/materials, individual(s), I have not explored to this point in time may exist.
Thank you in advance.
Madelaine C. Gentry