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<\/a>As you can see, the cemetery is sadly neglected.\u00ac\u2020Here are the inscriptions as found by Egbert T. Bush in 1917:<\/p>\n
Catharine Cherry d. 20 Nov 1815 [1845], daughter of Thomas & Catharine Cherry
\nHannah A. Cherry, d. 17 Oct 1858, daughter of Thomas & Catharine Cherry
\nJames James, d. 15 Jan 1814 [1844], age 75
\nMary Cherry, d. 4 Feb 1834, age 63, wife of James Cherry
\nElizabeth Hall, d. 2 Mar 1845, age 85, wife of Jacob Hall
\nJacob Hall, d. 28 May 1830, age 74 years.
\nR P 1781
\nT R 11 Oct 1766
\nElizabeth Strimple, d. 28 Oct 1856, wife of John Strimple
\nM W \u00ac\u2020[no date]
\nD E \u00ac\u20201801 K D
\nD BI b.1787\u00ac\u2020 F S D C W 32 Y A
\nD B I \u00ac\u2020born 1787
\nF\u00ac\u2020 S\u00ac\u2020 D\u00ac\u2020 C\u00ac\u2020 W\u00ac\u2020\u00ac\u2020 32 years of age<\/p>\n
Two daughters belonging to Thomas and Catharine Cherry of Kingwood are buried here. Catharine died November 20, 1845 and Hannah died October 17, 1858, both unmarried. Their birthdates were not given, but Catharine was probably an infant, and Hannah was probably a young adult. In 1845, Thomas Cherry owned a farm just over the township line in Kingwood, along Federal Twist Road. He was a supporter of John Quincy Adams and attended an \u201a\u00c4\u00faAdministration Meeting\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 in 1828 at the house of David Everitt who lived on Strimples Mill Road. In 1829 Cherry was elected to the Kingwood Twp. Committee.<\/p>\n
In my earlier post, I described the gravestone of James Cherry, which appeared to show a date of death as January 15, 1814, age 75. That seems to be how Mr. Bush saw it too. I was confused about who he could have been, until a reader (Sharon Davis) pushed me to realize what should have been obvious. I had misread the date\u201a\u00c4\u00eeit should have been 1844, not 1814. Things fall into place once we accept this later date. Sharon and I have worked it out that the James Cherry who was born about 1769 was the son of James Cherry Sr. of Shamokin, Pennsylvania. This elder James wrote his will in 1790, bequeathing property he owned in Kingwood Township to his heirs, including his son James.<\/p>\n
This James Cherry Jr. was also named in the will of his father-in-law Jacob Kyple in 1795. He was married to Kyple\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s daughter Mary, who died on February 4, 1834, age 63, and is buried next to her husband in the Cherry-VanCampen Cemetery. When her husband died ten years later, in 1844, he did not have a will, so the names of his children are not known. But I expect that one of them was Thomas Cherry, who administered the estate. (In the earlier post, I mistakenly identified him as a brother of James rather than his son.) Sharon\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s notes list the children of James and Mary Kyple Cherry as Catherine, Margret, Eleanor, Elizabeth, Lucy Ann, Mary and William\u201a\u00c4\u00eeno Thomas.\u00ac\u2020Thomas Cherry married Catherine Swartz, had at least four children, and died about 1865. I do not know where he was buried.<\/p>\n