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Snow Hill Cemetery

Located in Ore City, this cemetery is fairly well maintained and fenced, but does
have many unmarked graves.  Read Oct 23, 1998 by Bill Starnes and submitted 
by the Upshur County Historical Commission.
Thanks to Maribeth Buce for the
pictures and the updates.

As hard as we all try, we are human and sometimes when reading a cemetery we miss a grave covered with leaves, fireants, or bushes. Sometimes the headstone has sunk and is mostly underground. Our area also has many graves only marked with iron ore rocks and even many unmarked graves. There are headstones that have long ago been destroyed by the elements or even vandalizm, and are hard to impossible to read the details. We would appreciate it if you would let us know if you did not find your relative which was buried here, and would appreciate your letting us use the information you know about them. With the combined efforts of us all, we can make the Upshur County web site bigger and better.

Frey        (no dates)

Finley, Lorene 
Mar 3, 1909       Aug 6, 1957

Culberson, Mrs Maude                FHM 
1904         1989

Culberson, Virge        FHM
1901          1996

Jeffery, JJ Sr 
May 1, 1870          Feb 9, 1948

Jeffery, Mary 
-------          Jul 21, 1951

Smith, Brenda         FHM
1963          1997

Smith, Kenneth E 
Mar 21, 1960          Jul 6, 1982

Anderson, Nellie Ruth 
Jul 6, 1934         Aug 15, 1975

Robertson, John Sr           Tx Pvt US Army WW I
Sep 9, 1892       Apr 6, 1964

Jones, Gertrude 
May 1, 1909        Mar 31, 1988

Jones, M       (no dates---concrete slab)

Smith, Margaret 
Apr 26, 1927          Jan 23, 1978

Smith, Wade "Buddy" 
May 23, 1923        Apr 28, 1981

Concrete slab--no name no dates

Colbert, Durene 
Nov 23, 1929         Dec 12, 1982

Hardeman, Son J 
Nov 27, 1905         Jan 20, 1990

Smith, Alta D 
Apr 28, 1914        Jun 10, 1991

Smith, Ervin 
Dec 8, 1908         Aug 11, 1982

Wilson, Doris J            FHM
1937          1997

Smith, Margie Ann              died at the age of 104 years
-------           Jan 11, 1978

Johnson, Lavora Vaughn           FHM
Sep 16, 1914          Feb 14, 1998

Jones, I T              Deacon
Sep 17, 1905         Mar 16, 1997

Jones, Mrs I T        FHM
1908          Dec 30, 1980

unreadable funeral home marker

Derrick, _____               FHM
1958         1961

Derrick, _______          FHM
1953         1961

Williams, Mrs          FHM
Nov 4, 1905          May 19, 1970

Jones, Augusta 
--------         Apr 9, 1936

Jones, Joe 
---------        Aug 25, 1933

(Edwards, Jessie Lee Hardeman           Obit  
May 10, 1920            Apr 27, 1992
(Edwards, Andrew 
Apr 12, 1912            --------

Jones, Robert M          FHM
Sep 17, 1908         Sep 26, 1994

Johnson, Lena Mae 
Mar 18, 1913           Jun 15, 1989

Smith, Jessie Lewis 
Sep 3, 1947         Aug 28, 1976

Smith, D B                 Obit
Apr 10, 1914          Dec 24, 1974

Smith, Lloyd Noland 
Oct 10, 1939         Sep 11, 1971

Smith, H B 
Sep 1, 1934         Jul 1, 1970

Walker, Andrew 
Dec 11, 1862          Nov 10, 1926

Currie, Lydia D 
Nov 10, 1892         Mar 10, 1925

Walker, Abbie             Age 75 years
--------          Feb 19, 1936

Edwards, Willie 
Jul 13, 1879         Jan 5, 1967

Edwards, Lena 
Nov 5, 1887          Mar 15, 1951

Edwards, Willie A 
May 10, 1910         Aug 16, 1966

concrete slab      no name     no dates

Jones, Robert 
Sep 13, 1931         Jul 10, 1981

Edwards, Marvell A 
Feb 26, 1924         Dec 13, 1974

Jones, Bunnie         Tx Pvt US Army WW I
Sep 21, 1897        Apr 22, 1972

Hollins, Bernice 
May 1, 1924        Jun 2, 1971

Jones, T George          Tx PFC US Army
Feb 12, 1944         Aug 3, 1964

Cook, Billy R              FHM
1958         1991

Jeffery, Herbert 
Apr 25, 1898          Jul 16, 1997

(Morris, Hazel R 
Feb 6, 1931             --------
(Morris, Thomas O 
Aug 15, 1932          Oct 11, 1986

Morris, Thomas D 
Jan 31, 1950        Mar 11, 1984

Jeffery, Willie Lee 
Feb 6, 1933         Nov 26, 1977

Watson, Bobb Joe G 
Nov 29, 1953          Jun 19, 1984

Wilson, John R         FHM
1971          1973

Smith, John A 
Sep 13, 1942         Dec 18, 1971

Smith, Lorrese 
1892           1963

Smith, Hughe L          Tx Pvt US Army
Mar 17, 1920           Jan 7, 1945

Smith, Connie M 
Apr 3, 1925         Jan 2, 1979

Smith, David 
1917          1993

(Watson, Valrie 
Jul 29, 1939          Oct 22, 1991
(Watson, Lee Pope 
1935                   -------

(Watson, Earnest 
1933         --------
(Watson, Freddie M 
1937         ---------

Jeffery, John L 
May 3, 1935            Mar 14, 1996

Unmarked Graves sent in by Helen J. Thompson Sullivan :
Joseph Thompson

Joseph's wife was Caroline Wright Thompson (don't have her birth date), died October 7, 1863, buried at Snow Hill. The story has been handed down that he
came home from the Civil War ill and they both died around the same time.

Joseph's mother -- Julia Ann Woody Thompson, born May 17, 1814, in North Carolina died, July 2, 1867, buried at Snow Hill. Julia was Alfred's first wife. He had another wife named Phebe (?). I think she is buried there.

She also says:  I have a copy of a paper which states that Alfred and P. T. (Phebe) Thompson donated some land, which was close to the Thompson School House and Alfred Thompson's pasture, to the Thompson Community for a burial ground or grave yard. Guess this is Snow Hill Cemetery.

UPDATES:

Roger Smith 
Oct 6, 1950         Jun 2002

Leonard Edwards              US Navy WWII
 Jan 21, 1917           Mar 31, 1999

Leonard Edwards                U.S.N.  WW II
1-21-1917           3-31-1999 

Dan Miles          FHM
1922           2002 

Brenda L. Smith               Buried next to Kenneth E. Smith
2-21-1963     9-16-1997 

Ardean Jones 
11-30-1911            3-10-2000

French Beckham              FHM
6-6-1936             3-15-2001 

Jeffery, Roberta Black            Age 99; taken from obit
11-14-1905 Upshur, Co            9-10-2005 Gilmer, Tx

Edwards, Charles Ray            Obit; age 56
2-20-1951          5-27-2007

Jeffery, Roy Lee          Obit; age 60
8-26-1946          2-21-2007


 

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