Higginbotham Cemetery - Watts
Hill
Tombstones and obituary records reviewed by:
William Morris Higginbotham
Charleston, WV
Misterhigg@aol.com
05/25/2008
Semi-well tended cemetery located in a residential section at the corner of Vincent and Butler Streets on the west side hill of Charleston.
GPS Location: N 38o 21.993' W 081o 38.396'
Located on what is believed to be a partial of the farm of Samuel Augustus Higginbotham.
Samuel may have bought this farm from John B. Booram family, the oldest marked grave in the cemetery.
Samuel Augustus Higginbotham was the son of
Samuel H. Higginbotham (1805-1869) and Rebecca Lowery Higginbotham (1804-1894).
Samuel Augustus Higginbotham was a farmer and served as a Private for the Union Army, Company H, WV 7th Calvary in the Civil War.
Samuel Augustus Higginbotham
Born Dec. 5, 1840
Died Oct. 21, 1896
Mahala Jane Given Higginbotham
Born: 1845
Died: April 25, 1886
Gussie Rutledge
June 17, 1891 - June 11, 1911
Mahala J. Scarberry
Wife of C. O. Scarberry Jr.
Jan. 1, 1857 - Oct. 18, 1895
Exie Luray Scarberry
Dau. of C. O. & M. J. Scarberry
Feb. 25, 1887 - Jan. 17, 1889
Homer Wilson Pierce
1892 - 1934
Clemmie A. Thomas
Wife of Robt. Morgan Dau. of F. M. & R. A. Thomas
1884 -1908
Rebecca A. Thomas
Wife of F. M. Thomas
1862 - 1912
William A. Sevy
1848 - 1893
Wife of S. W. Goff
Died July 11, 1898
Aged 53 Years
R. C. Singer Jr.
Died May 26, 1905
Age 6 Months 26 Days
Hattie Singer
Wife of R. C. Singer
Died Jan. 23, 1911
Age 29 Years
Corpl. Jas. Haas
Co. B 84 PA. Inf.
(First Mayor of Elk City, now Charleston's west side)
James Stanley
Died Mar. 17, 1894
Aged 77 Years 2 Days
Henry P. Reveal
Died Jan. 31, 1905
Aged 35 Years 9 Months 26 Days
William P. Reveal
Died Feb. 2, 1905
Aged 74 Years 4 Months 13 Days
Sarah S. Reveal
Wife of William P. Reveal
Died May 2, 1905
Aged 72 Years 2 Days
C. J. Rust
Jan. 11, 1838 - Apr. 15, 1911
Mary A. Fry
Died Feb. 4, 1898
Aged 50 Years 10 Months 4 Days
John Donnally
April 15, 1873 - Mar. 11, 1928
James Carl Haas
May 14, 1909 - June 18, 1971
Wm. M. Sparkes
Mar. 23, 1853 - Feb. 2, 1895
ADY.P.J
Green B. Melton
Died Sept. 16, 1889
Aged 29 Years 10 Months 2 Days
Lucinda Ritter Melton
Daughter of C. B. & H. Melton
Died Dec 28, 1889
Aged 16 Years 1 Month 1 Day?
Brisben W. Young
Born March 4, 1872
Died June 27, 1896?
Mollie A. Donnally
1865 - 1910
William Howard Young
Apr. 1871 - Aug. 13, 1923
Josephine Skobla
Feb. 14, 1874 - Nov. 11, 1962
Wm. H. Fauver
Co. C 7 W. Va. Cav.
Elizabeth J. Mays
Wife of C. W. Mays
1858 - 1922
Thomas F. Surgeon
Died Apr. 10, 1892
Aged 47 Years 10 Months 4 Days
John B. Booram
Born Sept. 1, 1810
Died Dec. 19, 1869
Margaret Booram
Born Feb. 6, 1813
Died Jan. 15, 1896
Mary K. Booram
Died April 14, 1888
Aged 46 Years
Additional burials, based on obituaries in the Charleston newspapers, are:
Henry Gumm Steward (African-American)
Died June 2, 1937
Aged 72 Years
Claude E. Pridemore
Died December 30, 1937
Aged 54 Years
Charles B. Carney
Died October 17, 1922
No age given
Florence Donnally
Died September 8, 1939
Aged 70
Mrs. Sally Ann Pierce
Died February 4, 1941
Aged 81
Lothan H. Carney
Died February 13, 1941
Aged 62
Mrs. Blanche Mays Pridemore
Died June 30, 1941
Aged 55
Mrs. Nora Strickland Edens
Died September 17, 1953
Aged 67
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Stanley Haas
Died April 4, 1952
Age 91
Wife of James Haas
Mrs. Genora Painter
Died December 28, 1935
Aged 73
Fleming G. Chandler
Died September 11, 1940
Aged 76