Date: 8 -6-2000
Cemetery: Holdern Cemetery
Street: off Rt 3 Princeton between New Zion &
El good
City: Princeton
County: Mercer
State: West Virginia
Nation: U S A
Zip: 24740
Nearby: (Rt3 Cheese Creek Rd) to Powell Mountain Rd
-leads to a place known as the flats -joins up to New Zion Rd at this
point stop and ask for Charlie Edwards he can point out the cemetery -
there is a new home beside the cemetery and a road but I don't know
who they are or the name of the road - the land use to belong to
Everet White - if needed I can find out the name of the road and the
people living there with a few phone calls dn rd
Land Type: Private
Status: Abandoned
Accessible: Unsure
Unmarked graves: Yes
Graves within: 50-75
Oldest grave: unknown
Newest grave: Feb20,1929 William F Steel
Records: Unsure
Inventory: Unsure
Records location:
Owner: Unknown The Steel family has a fence
around their stones rest of cemetery is neglected
Current Condition:
Cemetery neglected
Overgrown-trees
Overgrown-ground cover
Overgrown-vines
Other problems: no more than 8-10 stones, rocks that had names,
two civil war vets there with stones leaning but still standing
Previous contacts: no one I'm out of state
one of the vets is my ggrandfather Jacob "Meador" Meadows
the other is Jas H Fletcher
Current Status: No work started as of yet
Submitted by / Contact for additional Information:
name: Vera Bushinsky
Email: Chiqupin@aol.com
