1871 - 1902 (30 years)
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| Name |
CALVERT, Catherine "Kitty" E. |
| Birth |
Nov 1871 |
State of West Virginia, USA  |
| Gender |
Female |
| _UID |
E79CC10610E5FB439406F9A25EA4BCF060C6 |
| Death |
29 Oct 1902 |
Saint Albans, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA |
| Burial |
Halstead Family Cem., Saint Albans, WV |
| Person ID |
I13700 |
Garys-Tree |
| Last Modified |
28 Jan 2009 |
| Family |
HALSTEAD, Hezekiah, b. 17 Oct 1872, Peytona, Boone County, West Virginia, USA d. 17 Dec 1941, So. Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA (Age 69 years) |
| Children |
| | 1. Living |
| | 2. Living |
| | 3. Living |
| | 4. HALSTEAD, Thomas L., b. Nov 1895 |
| | 5. HALSTEAD, Grace A., b. Oct 1897, State of West Virginia, USA d. 1901, Indian Creek, Monroe County, West Virginia (Age 3 years) |
| | 6. HALSTEAD, Noma F., b. May 1899 |
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| Family ID |
F4974 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
7 Feb 2024 |
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| Notes |
- She died of Childbed Fever.
In the Early part of 1984 a group of Eagle Scouts were
involved in cleaning up a woodlands trail that winds through the
area called Dry Ridge. When the boys discovered an abandoned
cemetery just off the age-worn trail, one boy in particular, named
Brian McKinney, asked his leader for permission to restore it as a
community project.
Unfortunately most of the community will never see or
appreciate his efforts because access to the remote graveyard is
by way of a foot-wide path that winds up a mountain ridge for 3/4
of a mile. Brian levelled up the tilting headstones and cleaned
away the scrubby brush camouflaged the cemetery for so many years.
He also added a simple hand-made fence and fashioned two attractive
signs to designate the cemetery.
Fortunately for me (Florence L. Halstead), as the Halstead
Family Historian, Brian did some research on the names he found on
the headstones.
Three members of the Halstead Family were buried in the
cemetery at about the turn of the century and another relative was
buried alongside them in 1917.
The largest is a memorial to Catherine E. Halstead who was
born in 1871 and died on the 29 of October, 1902. "Sleep Dear
Wife" is written in flowing script on the headstone.
By checking records at the cultural center, Brian was able to
find marriage certificates and death Records. He discovered that
Catherine was the wife of "Hez" Halstead. She died of Childbed
Fever.
Their daughter, Grace A. Halstead died the year before her
mother just prior to her fourth birthday. She is buried alongside
Catherine.
The child's cousins, James G. Halstead and Robert Nyde are
also buried in the family cemetery. Robert was just a toddler when
he died four days after the other child.
The two children both died of Scarlet Fever, and they died in
Indian Creek ( Another rural area outside of St. Albans, West
Virginia). Possibly they got sick and were quarantined together
there.
James was 22 years old and an employee of the C&O Railroad
when he was killed by a train.
There are no remains of houses in the forested vicinity of the
cemetery, but a foundation and a well about three miles away may be
the remains of the home that may have belonged to the Halstead
family.
Over in the brush, Brian and the scouts found a flat stone
with three initials on it. They couldn't read the letters, but
could feel them. They were "CEH". They figured it was the
footstone for Catherine and replace it.
Then while looking for material to help prop up the headstones
they chopped pieces from three flat rocks usually set at a
perpendicular angle behind the graves.
Brian didn't think about it then but later thought they might
be the markers for three more graves since there were no other
rocks around there like them and they are set in a straight line
next to each other.
This is from a book put together by Florence Halstead for The
Halstead Family Reunion, July 18-20, 1986.
All names and dates are taken from the same book.
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