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From: "David and Susan Scott" <>
Subject: Re: [WVRITCHI] Layfield Pioneer Cemetery
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:10:06 -0400
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I think if we found his name on a deed for the farm, we could also find the
subsequent owners (including today's owner) because the names of the seller
and buyer are both indexed.


-----Original Message-----
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Subject: Re: [WVRITCHI] Layfield Pioneer Cemetery

True....I was just wondering whether they could run the deeds forward, to
see who lives there now. Of course, it could have been subdivided.

----- Original Message -----
From: "David and Susan Scott" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: [WVRITCHI] Layfield Pioneer Cemetery


> If nothing can be found in the courthouse in Harrisville, you may want to
> try the Wood County courthouse in Parkersburg. Prior to the formation of
> Ritchie County in 1843, Layfield Run was in Wood County. It's possible
> that
> the farm was in Wood county when William lived there.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:]
> On Behalf Of John Foster
> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 7:13 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [WVRITCHI] Layfield Pioneer Cemetery
>
> It is probably on the home farm somewhere.
>
> Go to the assessor's office in the courthouse in Harrisville. You may be
> able to figure out where his farm is, at least, with some work in the deed
> indexes. Cemeteries are marked and bounded, because it is excluded as
> nontaxable. It still could be that this single grave wasn't included.
>
> Harrisville is interesting. The early deeds are bound by name. There's a
> whole book of COKELEY, so Layfield can't be far behind.
>
>
>
> As a clue, consider the small Moats cemetery. It's actually up a path on
> the
>
> side of a hill on the boundary of their farm, with some of those cedar
> trees
>
> in it.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 5:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [WVRITCHI] Layfield Pioneer Cemetery
>
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>> This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
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>> Author: rexroad133
>> Surnames: Rexroad, Layfield, Frymier, Brice, Michael, Collins
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>> Message Board Post:
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>> Greetings!,
>> No, I never did find anything else about Margaret Crawford or the
>> cemetery. Perhaps I will on a future trip up to West Virginia. But I did
>> have some success on other ancestors gravesites.
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