Linger Family Cemetery, Buckhannon, West Virginia

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia, United States
Surnames/tags: Linger Cemetery West_Virginia

The Linger Family Cemetery is a private cemetery located on the edge of Stone Coal Lake in Upshur County, West Virginia.

See the Linger Family Cemetery, Buckhannon, WV for people buried in this cemetery.

Contents 1 Progress 2 About 3 Interments 4 Condition 5 Contact, Location and Map 5.1 Directions 6 Links to Other Online Resources 7 Tasks Completed 8 To Do 9 Table of Interments 10 Sources

Progress

100% Documented and Complete

95% Linked to Profiles in WikiTree

100% of Photographs taken

About

This free space page for the Linger Family Cemetery is part of WikiTree's West Virginia Cemeteries Project, and was created to document the life and times of our ancestors that are interred there. The West Virginia Cemeteries Project is a subproject of the larger U.S. Cemeteries Project.

The Linger Family Cemetery is located on the edge of Stone Coal Lake in Buckhannon, West Virginia. This cemetery is located in Upshur County, West Virginia. The cemetery is actively maintained. Map of Stone Coal Lake.

The Table of Interments is a sortable listing of persons interred at this cemetery, some or all of whom are linked to existing WikiTree profiles. Although all grave markers in this cemetery have been photographed (or will be shortly), the photos can only be displayed for persons with existing WikiTree profiles.

If you know of a person interred at this cemetery that should be linked to an existing WikiTree profile, or needs to have a profile created for them, please contact Sandy Craig for assistance (FAG name is Kit and most of the photos of this cemetery on that website are my originals.) Sandy Craig is related to most of the ancestors in this cemetery and can also help with general genealogy.

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Interments

There are 14 recorded interments. Not all interments have tombstones. No tombstones have names. There is a Memorial tombstone that is dedicated to Nicholas Linger and Margaret McNemar Linger.

There are many tombstones that are rocks with no name. Since this is a private cemetery from the 1800's, it is possible there are additional non-marked graves.

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Condition

Good. The cemetery is located on the edge of Stone Coal lake about 1/4 mile from the road. This cemetery is managed by a Linger Family Trust.

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Contact, Location and Map

NOTE: There is not a cemetery office or contact person at this location. This is a private family cemetery that is easily accessible by car and then by a walk up a dirt road.

There is not an official address.

Address and Phone
Stone Coal Lake off of Rt 7
Buckhannon, West Virginia

Directions

It is on the east side of Stonecoal Lake. Take Route 7, one mile west of Buckhannon to Stonecoal Lake. Take the direct road on the right side of the lake and follow it for one mile. Cemetery is below the road on the edge of the lake. Park at the boat dock - take service road for 1/4 mile to the cemetery.

Gate to Cemetery

About 1 mile West of Downtown Buckhannon, WV.

GPS Coordinates
Latitude: 38.966805"N Longitude: -80.320753"W

Linger Family Cemetery on Google Maps

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Links to Other Online Resources

Please do not copy photos or other information from these websites unless it is your original material.

Find A Grave page.

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Tasks Completed

Photography

• Completed
• Approximately 100% of grave markers photographed on September 4, 2016.

Data Transcriptions

• 100%

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To Do

Project members are needed to:

• Profile and photo links and transcribed information needs to be cross-checked to ensure accuracy.
• Create an audio/video tour of the cemetery

Record a virtual tour of the cemetery that can be viewed as downloadable media on computers, tablets or other device. Such a tour would take the viewer around the cemetery to explore the history of the people buried here. Background information can be supplied.

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Linger Tombstone Cemetery

Table of Interments

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Seven Documented interments in this cemetery. All interments have been documented and added to this table. THERE ARE NOT NAMES ON ANY OF THE TOMBSTONES with the exception of the "main" tombstone that was dedicated to Nicholas and Margaret. Documented by Sandy Craig in September 2016.

Last Name	First Name	Born	Died	Notes	Photo click for larger	GPS Location
Lemons, formerly Linger	Margaret Alice	1868 August 25	1897 June 5	Married Ephraim Orr Lemmons #1	No Marker	N/A
Lemons, formally Linger	Sarah Francis	1866 September 23	1948 may 13	Married Ephraim Orr Lemons #2	No Marker	N/A
Linger	Dennis Lafayette	1858 November 6	1897	Married Lillie Simons	No Marker	N/A
Linger, formally Bowen	Frances Ann Bowen	1892 November	1901 February 12	Married to William Linger	No Marker	N/A
Linger	Isaac	Unknown	Unknown	Son to William & Rachel Bickel Linger	No Marker	N/A
Linger	Joseph I	1798 March 24	1870 September 17	Married to Martha Hinzman	No Marker	N/A
Linger formally Simon	Lillie Jeanette	1870	1895 August 19	Married to Dennis L Linger	No Marker	N/A
Linger	Louisa	Unknown	Unknown	Daughter to William & Rachel Bickel Linger	No Marker	N/A
Linger, formally McNemar	Margaret Peggy	1764	1827	Wife of Nicholas Linger Sr.	No Marker	N/A
Hinzman, formally Linger	Martha Jane "Mercy"	181 March 19	1884 March 22	Married to Joseph Linger	No Marker	N/A
Linger	Nicholas Sr.	1758	1827	Married to Margaret McNemar	No Marker	N/A
Linger, formally Bickel	Rachel	1805	1846	Wife of William Linger	No Marker	N/A
Linger	William	1803 March	1893 December 7	Husband to Rachel Bickel	No Marker	N/A
Linger	William Jefferson	1838 July	1913 March 20	Son to William & Rachel Bickel Linger	No Marker	N/A

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Sources

1. ↑ The Linger Family History by Fred Linger and Hartzel Strader