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  Love it! I first visited the French Cemetery in 1989 when I came to my grandfather Walter Franklin Oxley's funeral. He is buried in Cunningham Cemetery in St. Albans but grew up on the farm surrounding the French Cemetery (which is now Berry Hills CC). His father moved the family there in the early 1900's and farmed it until his death in 1925 - he and his wife Arminta Miles are buried there. I enjoyed my Uncle Ben telling me of the various crops (corn, wheat, etc.) he remembered when visiting as a boy, pointing down some of the fairways. I also recently learned that the property for the cemetery was donated by Reuben Daggs who purchased it in 1847. Interestingly, he is the grgrgrandfather of my grandmother Hazel Hudson. Reuben may have been the first white child born in what is now Charleston - it was called Fort Lee when established in 1788 and Reuben was born there in 1790. Daniel Boone was on the Kanawha County Assembly and Lt. Col. of the militia at Fort Lee in 1791.

  Added August 21, 2020 by Robert M Jarrell
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  Very clean neat quaint quiet cemetery. Paul Hudson and son in law Delbert Huffman are the head of the grounds maintenance crew. It is one of the oldest cemeteries in Kanawha Valley.

  Added June 29, 2019 by Julie Hudson Basham