Ward Cemetery

WARD CEMETERY BURIAL INFO

CLICK HERE FOR GRID MAP

PLEASE NOTE: Ward Cemetery is NOT connected in any way to the website "Find A Grave" nor that website's owner Ancestry.com. The Ward Cemetery burial information found on the website "Find A Grave" is not an official listing of burials in Ward Cemetery and does not accurately reflect the burial records of Ward Cemetery. There is no automatic upload from Ward Cemetery to the "Find A Grave" website. The information on "Find A Grave" is user-submitted by many different volunteer contributors using both proven and unproven sources, and sometimes no sources are used and the volunteer contributor just makes a guess as to burial location without any documentation at all.

The original burial records and plot maps for Ward Cemetery were lost in a fire and do not exist in any form in any other location. The current Ward Cemetery records were created by mapping the cemetery off into grids and recording the information from the headstones and funeral home markers. Plot numbers were assigned to the burials based on their location on the grid map. For this reason, burials in Ward Cemetery can be located by plot number only if there is an existing, readable headstone or funeral home marker on the grave. There are many burials in Ward Cemetery that are unmarked. It is not possible to identify persons in the unmarked graves without the original records and plot maps.

If you need a look-up of a plot number or need help locating a marked burial, please send the request using the CONTACT FORM on this website or send an email to the records manager at jan@wardcemetery.com or call (304) 981-1116 for burial records information. If there is no answer, please leave a message and someone will return your call as soon as possible.

This GRID MAP is the only official map that exists of Ward Cemetery. The digitized map below is based on the original grid map created by Lee Roy Smith, a former caretaker of Ward Cemetery, and corresponds to the 1999 inventory list of MARKED graves. There have been some minor landscape changes over the years, and some trees/bushes may no longer be present in some locations as shown on the map, and there may be new trees/bushes growing in other areas of the cemetery.

You will need a plot number to locate a marked burial using the grid map.

All plot numbers of burials correspond to this grid map.

MAP UPDATED MAY 2019

PLEASE CLICK ON MAP TO SEE LARGER IMAGE

CLICK ON MAP TO SEE LARGER IMAGE

Ward Cemetery is an independent community cemetery and is NOT connected in any way to the Ward Church of God or the former Ward Reunion.

The Ward Cemetery Advisory Committee, Inc., is NOT connected in any way to the former Ward Funeral Fund and Accident Association, Inc.

Requests for permissions, or questions/comments concerning this website should be directed to the website administrator Jan Smith Richardson jan@wardcemetery.com

This website was created for the sole purpose of sharing information concerning Ward Cemetery. Neither Ward Cemetery, the Ward Cemetery Advisory Committee, nor the website administrator makes any representation or warranty whatsoever and assumes no responsibility or liability whatsoever in connection with the accuracy, completeness, or currency of the materials on this site, or the suitability, functionality, or operation of the materials on this site or on any other site which may be linked to this site.

Any unauthorized redistribution of photos or data without prior written consent is strictly prohibited.

Ward Cemetery

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WARD CEMETERY BURIAL INFO CLICK HERE FOR GRID MAP

WARD CEMETERY BURIAL INFO

CLICK HERE FOR GRID MAP