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.

Yesterday, January 19, 2002, we decided to give it a try.  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.

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 website bigger and better.

Thanks go to Steven Newman for the added pictures!

Respectfully submitted:
Sharon Pierce            January 20, 2002

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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