Indian Mound Cemetery

Indian Mound Cemetery. . This cemetery is centered around what is known as the Romney Indian Mound. Indian Mound Cemetery is also the site of the First Confederate Memorial, Parsons Bell Tower, and re-interments from Romney's Old Presbyterian Cemetery. The cemetery is currently owned and maintained by the Indian Mound Cemetery Association, Inc. There are over one thousand people interred in the cemetery, including veterans from many wars, going as far back as the Revolutionary War., Some of the notable sites in Indian Mound Cemetery: , 1. The Indian Mound - One of the largest remaining mounds in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. , 2. Confederate memorial - Dedicated on September 26, 1867 , 3. Stephen Ailes (1912-2001), United States Secretary of the Army , 4. William Armstrong (1782-1865), United States House Representative from Virginia , 5. Edna Brady Cornwell (1868-1958), First Lady of West Virginia , 6. John Jacob Cornwell (1867-1953), 15th Governor or West Virginia , 7. Marshall S. Cornwell (1871-1898), newspaper editor and publisher, poet, and author , 8. Dr. William Henry Foote (1794-1869), Presbyterian clergyman and historian , 9. David Gibson (1795-1873), Merchant, Veteran of the War of 18 12, he donated the land for the cemetery. , 10. John Jeremiah Jacob (1757-1839), first ordained Methodist minister of Hampshire County , 11. John Jeremiah Jacob (1829-1893), 4th Governor of West Virginia , 12. Howard H. Johnson (1846-1913), Instrumental in the West Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind being located in Romney. , 13. George Preston Marshall (1896-1969), owner and president of the Washington Redskins , 14. Gilbert Proctor Miller (1866-1927), orchardist, founder of Hampshire County's fruit industry.