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Brandon Ray Kirk, civil war, Fourteen, Fourteen Mile Creek, James Wilson Sias, John P. Frye Hollow, Lincoln County, Phyllis Kirk, Sulphur Spring Fork, Union Army, West Virginia, Wewanta
I recently visited the grave of James Wilson Sias, my great-great-great-grandfather, who was buried in the head of John P. Frye Hollow on Sulphur Spring Fork of Fourteen Mile Creek in Lincoln County, WV. 23 April 2016
James Wilson Sias served in the U.S. Army during the Civil War. Photo by Mom, his great-great-granddaughter. 23 April 2016
Brandon Ray Kirk 
Thank you Brandon for sharing this. I would love to visit this grave is it hard to get to? I have problems walking up hills or for very far. This is a shared ancestor of ours. I think we relate other ways as well……Jenny
This was a tough cemetery to locate, without question. The cemetery contains nearly a dozen graves, mostly marked only by rocks. It’s quite beautiful and very isolated by modern standards. Of course, as the crow flies, it’s not so far from the paved road on Sulphur. Years ago, Mom and Dad visited the cemetery with a guide, but on our recent trip they had trouble recalling its exact location. We spent a good hour or two finding it…and only spotted it due to the assistance of a hermit who lived in the woods nearby. You would need a four-wheel drive vehicle, likely a four-wheeler or side-by-side, to reach the spot. Thankfully, one local man has maintained the cemetery in recent years. It was in reasonably good condition, all things considered.
I can’t find John p Frye hollow road on the map. Is it called by another name? I know where sulphur spring fork road is I just don’t know where to go from there. Thanks.
That little hollow is unnamed on modern maps. You can’t really go straight up into it. You have to follow the ridge back from the Webb cemetery into the head of the hollow.