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Bias Branch (Ball) Cemetery
Bias's Branch, Boone County

Cemetery:       Bias Branch
Other:          May be called Ball Cemetery
Sign:           No
Street:        
City:           Bias's Branch
Township:      
County:         Boone
State:          WV
Nation:         usa
Zip:           
lat_ns:         N
lat_h:         
lat_mmss:      
long_ew:        W
long_h:        
long_mmss:     
Status:         Abandoned
Size:           Small
Directions:     half mile of main road going up spruce river
Type:           Road-public
Location:       Rural
Terrain:        Hillside
Watersource:    No
Features:       trees and lots of weeds
Property:       Public
Access:         Open
Enclosure:      None
Gate:           None
Established:    don't know
Gravestones:    don't know
Oldest:         don't know
Newest:         within the last month or two
Removed:        Unknown
Relocated:      Unsure
Repairs:        Unsure
Methods:        Adhesives
Restoration:    Unsure
Association:    Unsure
Records:        Unsure
Inventory:      Unsure
Availability:  
Landscaping:    No
Paths:          Yes
Trees:          Yes3
Crypts:         No
Fencing:        No
Brickwork:      No
Ironwork:       No
Sculpture:      Unsure
Fountains:      No
Roads:          No
Buildings:      No
Cement:         Yes
Granite:        Yes
Marble:         Unsure
Native:         Unsure
Slate:          Unsure
Others:         Unsure
Wood:           Unsure
Materials:      Unsure
Architectural:  Unsure
Angels:         Unsure
Draperies:      Unsure
Fraternal:      Unsure
Hands:          Unsure
Lambs:          Unsure
Monograms:      Unsure
Plants:         Unsure
Photos:         Unsure
Religious:      Unsure
Scrollwork:     Unsure
Urns:           Yes
Carvings:       Unsure
Condition:      Cemetery poorly maintained
Unmarked:       Unsure
Broken:         Yes
Toppled:        Yes
Disintegrating: Yes
Buried:         Unsure
Weather:        Unknown
Pollution:      No
Vandalized:     No
Report:         No
VA1:           
VA2:           
VA3:           
VA4:           
VA5:           
Overgrowth:    
Overgrowth1:   
Overgrowth2:    Graves-Disturbing
Overgrowth3:    Gravestones-Disturbing
Overgrowth4:   
GroundCover:    Yes
Moss:          
Vines:          Yes
Drainage:       Good
Problem1:      
Problem2:      
Owner:          Cemetery
Use:            Agricultural
Bordering:      Residential
Change:         Same
Reason:         Roads
Visited:        Rarely
Archeology:     Unknown
Habitat:        Unknown
Contacted:      noone

Surnames:

Artie Nelson Dillon--Jerry Dillon are the only ones I know by name

Other_Information:

The last time I was at the cemetery it was taken over by overgrowth.  It has been several years before 1981.  As far as I know it hasn't been cleaned up.  I no longer can climb up the hill to see how it's doing.

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Name:           Nina Workman
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Date:           04-01-05



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