(1) The western end of the graveyard has three graves in which are buried JOSEPH CHEUVRONT, born in the city of Stasburg in the Empire of France, February 2, 1757, and died at home near the graveyard March 25, 1832; age 75 years, 1 month and 23 days, and his two wives: 

(2) ELIZABETH ELSWORTH, who was born in Rowan County, North Carolina, March 20, 1759, and died at her home with typhoid fever August 18, 1800; age 41 years, 4 months and 28 days.  She was the daughter of Moses Elsworth and Maria Elizabeth Hinkle and the first wife of Joseph Cheuvront.  They were married in German Valley (now) Pendleton County, West Virginia, early in the year 1777, and they were the parents of eleven children. 

(3) SARAH BOLLEN, the second wife of Joseph Cheuvront, was born in Pennsylvania, June 22, 1780, and died at the home of Enoch Cheuvront, her son, about the year 1864; aged about 84 years, and was the last person buried in the family burying ground.  They were married at Painesville, Ohio, where Sarah lived, Jan. 26, 1802, and were the parents of three sons and one daughter. 

(4) JOSEPH CHEUVRONT, JR., was born at Fredericksburg, Virginia, Dec. 26, 1783, and died with typhoid fever just six days before his mother's death, August 12, 1800; age 16 years, 7 months and 16 days.  His grave is located at the south side of the second row, from the west, and is the first grave made in the burying ground, August 14, 1800. 

(5) SIMEON CHEUVRONT was born on Coburns Creek (now) Harrison County, West Virginia, March 10, 1790, and died in the year 1800; day unknown, quite probably with typhoid fever.  He was just 10 years of age and was the third burial in the family graveyard. 

(6) MOSES CHEUVRONT was born at Coburns Creek, (now) Harrison County, West Virginia, Dec. 30, 1787, and died in the first frame house his father built near the graveyard in the year 1802; day unknown.  He was 14 years of age and was the fourth burial there. 

(7) CASSANDRA CHEUVRONT, the only daughter of Joseph Cheuvront and Sarah Bollen, was born in the frame house near the graveyard, Dec. 28, 1812, and committed suicide by drowning in the Gusman Mill Dam in Nov. 1839, over a love affair with Darius Hinkle.  She was 26 years and 10 months of age at the time of her death. 

(8) DANIEL HITT CHEUVRONT, youngest child of Joseph Cheuvront, was born Jan. 20, 1821, and named for a Methodist Minister that was Presiding Elder in the Baltimore Conference; died from an infected cut on his knee when about 14 years of age.   

These children are all of the immediate family of the Rev. Joseph Cheuvront that were buried there.  Possibly some children of Aaron Cheuvront, who lived upon the 93 acres purchase by his father in 1799, and located where Midway is now, near Good Hope, West Virginia, where he built a large two story log house, weather boarded and ceiled, which he sold to James Burnside in 1838. 

(9) JANE COURTNEY CHEUVRONT, second wife of Enoch, who was reared at Morgantown and died when her only son, William Hunter Cheuvront, (named for a Methodist preacher) was born.  Jane Courtney was the mother of 3 children — 2 daughters and 1 son. 

The Grandchildren of the Rev. Joseph Cheuvront and Elizabeth Elsworth who are buried in the family graveyard, located on the hill southwest of the residence (1950) of Raymond Cheuvront VanScoy: 

(10) BENJAMIN F. CHEUVRONT, youngest child of Caleb Cheuvront and Rebecca Covert, who died as a result of the burning of the first house Caleb built, when just six months and 22 days old.  He died Feb. 7, 1842. 

(11) MRS. THORNHILL, who was the daughter of Catherine Cheuvront Stanley, and married a Mr. Thornhill. 

(12) A daughter of Priscilla Cheuvront and John Powers, who died with hydrophobia, having been bitten by a dog at her home at Bridgeport before the family moved to Jackson County. 

(13) ARMANDA CHEUVRONT, a daughter of Enoch, who died when just a little girl. 

Joseph Cheuvront, Jr. was the first burial there, Aug. 14, 1800, and Sarah Bollen was the last,  buried about 1864. 

 "Rev. Joseph Cheuvront departed this life on Saturday, March 31, 1832, after a sojourn upon earth of seventy-five years.  He was ordained a deacon by Bishop Asbury in 1790, at Union Town, Fayette county, Pa., and an elder by Bishop George, in 1823, in this county.  He was one of the "standard bearers," of Methodism, who came out forty-five years ago, into this then "moral waste," as well as natural wilderness, to prepare the way of the lord.  In those days of border warfare, when the earliest settlers of western Virginia were often alarmed by the approach of the indians, and some fell victim to their cruel rage, Father Cheuvront, then in his prime of life, was the first Methodist, and the first to lift up his voice as a herald of the cross.  In his house Christ's ministers have ever found a "prophet's room" and a cordial reception.  He has been for a long time a most correct and efficient recording steward, a valuable member of our quarterly conferences, a rigid disciplinarian, and a firm methodist.  In his death we are called to mourn the loss of one of our most pious and substantial friends.  He bore his suffering with exemplary patience and submission to the will of God . . . 

 On Monday, March 19, his complaint assumed a mortal aspect, from which time he neither ate nor drank for twelve days. 

 On Saturday, 24th, his speach failing, he motioned for a slate, and wrote on it, "I want a plain coffin, and to buried in a winding sheet, and brother George Collins to preach at my funeral, and I want you to see to it,"  handing it to one of his sons.  On Sunday he wrote also this memoir of his life; - - "Since God is pleased to deprive me of the power of speach, I address this to you, my children, as a memoir, which I request each of you to transcribe and keep for future generations.  I was born in the city of Strasbert, Feb. 2, 1757, and was raised in the city of Nancy, and was educated very young.  In the year 1770, being in my fifteenth year, I went to England, where I stayed till the year 1774, when I embarked for America, and landed at Fredericksburg, Va.  In 1778, I was converted to God; and the year following I united myself to the despised methodists, and by them have been employed as a class leader, an exhorter, a local preacher, a travelling preacher, as a decon, as an elder, and as a recording steward.  In all which places I have, I believe, given satisfaction to my brethren.  I have now been in the Church fifty-three years, and never has a charge been brought against me, I do not say this to boast, but, to stimulate you to support and maintain a good character.    In the year 1781, at the seige of York, God delivered me from all tormenting feat, and gave me two seals to my ministry.  I have filled some important stations in the state; in all which I have endeavored to establish my character and yours.  I have tried to be a father to you, and with great difficulty I have raised you to what you are.  I have often counseled you, and set good examples before you; and yet some of you remain unconverted, and some of you who profess religion are very superficial and lukewarm.  And now must I leave you in the hands of the wicked one?  May the Lord hear and answer my prayers in your behalf, This is the last advice of your dying father, Try to set the fear of  God before your eyes.  Do not greave one another; live in peace and love together; be good to your mother, and do not lay anything in her way that might grieve her.  I bid you all farewell.  I am truly resigned to the sufferings I now experience.  I have long looked for, and desired the hour of my dissolution.  I love God and all mankind.  I feel that I am bound for the kingdom of glory.  Glory be to God in the highest.  Remember your father was a methodist preacher. 

 In consequence of a stoppage in his throat on Monday night, he apprehended that the hour of his departure was at hand, and bade his family a tender farewell.  But on Tuesday morning he walked into the kitchen, when an expectoration came on which caused a discharge of blood.  He tore the handkerchief off his head and neck, clapped his hands and shouted, "Glory to God, I shall soon be gone."  He then walked into another room, and sat down and made signs that he wanted to be shaved; but while preparation was making he became so happy that he sprang upon his feet, and began to shout, "Glory to God in the highest," and exhorted all that were present.  One of his children said, "He had better set down."  He replied, "Let me talk, and thank God for the use of my tongue once more."  Then said he, "I thought last night that my work was done, but I have something to do yet."  He then went through the congregation of relations and neighbors present, shaking hands and exorting them.  He then sat down nearly exhausted, but in a few minutes said, "I want to be shaved" and with a little help shaved himself.  On Wednesday morning he was very happy, and seizing the hand of a countryman of his who was present, exorted him to get his soul converted to God, and ordered a Dutch Testament to be brought, and told him to read it to him, and made him a present of the testament. 

 Once, when the family thought he had left them, their cryes seemed to recall him back again, and he wrote on the slate, "I want no noise."  Being asked if he wished any particular passage of Scripture preached from at his funeral, he motioned for the Bible, and in a moment turned to 1 Tim. I, 15.  He then wrote on the slate, "I think mortification has taken place.  Glory to God, I long to be gone.  Amen, amen, saith my soul."  And once he ejaculated, "Glory to God! This is the way Methodist preachers die!"  Which reminds us of Addisons dying speach, "Come see how a Christian can die."  He preserved his senses perfectly to the very last, and on Saturday morning ended his honorable career.