This cemetery is located in Big Sandy, at the end of Pearl St west of Hwy 155.  (We didn't know the name of it until recently and were calling it Pearl Cemetery.) Lee Cemetery is on private property, and took numerous phone calls by Tom Mitchell, board member of the Upshur County Historical Museum, to get to the right people so that we could get permission to go into the cemetery.

The following 12 names are submitted by Valencia Allen. She says they are listed in her ggggrandmothers bible as "names of the deathes in margan row lee semterry".  These are apparently unmarked graves at present.  We can only assume that the "Margan row" is a row with unmarked Margan/Morgan/Morgon/Margon graves also, since no stones for Morgan were found on the 2002 reading.  Submitted August 2009.

Uncle O Gipson
Alice Gipson
John Morgan or Morgon or Margon or Margan
Pirley Willson
Jerameil Diles
Vinnie Dixson
Dellar Hendrenson
Mahalie Morgan
Rufus Morgan
Amos Bailey
Ornge Hendrenson
Mary Butter

The below reading is for marked graves found and submitted by Sharon Pierce.
January 19, 2002, accompanied by Tom Mitchell, my son Steven Newman, his wife Cheryl, and son Jason, we trecked in close to a mile, on foot. The graves are scattered over a little less than an acre.  There are quite a few unmarked graves, some that we have notated.  It is overgrown, and a lot of the stones are on the ground.  We read every stone that we could find, but feel there is a possibility that we may have missed some, as there is a thick carpet of pine needles across the whole cemetery.

Thanks go to Steven Newman for the added pictures!

Unreadable FHM

stone with top half missing--no name
b. April 28, 1911         d. Nov 24, 1928

upright rock

upright rock

Nettie wife of H Marsh
b. Aug 15, 1894           d. Nov 19, 1917

unreadable FHM

Hilliard Robinson             h/o Josephine Robinson
b. Feb 15, 1869          d. Jul 29, 1909

Calvin Campbell             Age 60 yrs
d. Apr 15, 1905

Betty Williams              Age 87 years
d. Aug 1, 1920

marble slab no marking seen

Grover             s/o Dave & Sarah Peirson
b. Mar 1, 1889          d. Nov 28, 1912

unreadable FHM

unreadanble FHM

inside of a wrought iron fence
Leach                  Reed - Service FHM
1876 - 1951

Fannie Sandford
b. 1867            d. Mar 31, 1916

J L Conwright
b. Mar 15, 1850             d. Nov 12, 1908

G Cleveland                 Masonic emblem
b. Jan 12, 1876                 d. Jul 29, 1911

rusted iron marker

Sarah Johnson
b. 1860              d. May 18, 1923

Stephen Sharpliss              Age 70 years
d. Jun 16, 1917

O S Sharpless
b. Oct 1889                d. Oct 22, 1918

Horace C Davenport                      Okla Pvt 804 Pioneer Inf
Dec 27, 1923       (only date)

Large upright stone with concrete slab & sea shells
Derrik   1948

Unreadable Peoples FHM
Marshall TX

Ed Brown                  Pvt 165 Depot Brig.
Feb 24, 1933           (only date)

Jardan Norman               Pvt 327 Serv Batt
Nov 6, 1935           (only date)

Hollie Greenwell
b. Jun 18, 1864            d. Feb 2, 1906

Lurenuy, wife of D V Johnson
b. Dec 1, 1862           d. Nov 8, 1900

unmarked inside wrought iron fence

unreadable FHM

on same stone
Bill Davis                 d/o Parthenia Hill
b. Aug 1, 1902              d. Sep 4, 1916
Grace Hill
b. May 9, 1912            d. Jan 12, 1916

Paul Walton
1961                    FHM-only info readable

Hadley Walton                 Age 28; FHM
Aug 25, 1952

unreadable
Peoples FHM
 

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