They are (some of them) buried in the Core Cemetery.  We heard from a real person, "The Core cemetery is on Miracle Run Road, which turns off in the bend of the road in Bula.  Go up Miracle Run .6 tenths of a mile (that's just a tad over a half a mile) and turn to the right on Luther Park Road where there are about 6 or 7 mailboxes for the trailer park.  Cross the RR-tracks and make a right and it's up that road (to the right) about 300 to 400 yards.  You can drive right up to it!"

We got this information through a genealogical research place and it confirmed Mama Sherry's memory that maybe it was Core cemetery.  We were at that point in our research where we had some non-digital photographs of patriarch Henry Fox's gravestone.

Grandma Betty had taken the picture of Henry Fox's grave when she made a trip from Michigan to West Virginia to meet up with her long-lost-to-her sister Louise.

Louise and Betty June, sisters, children of Pearl Fox Wilson

Both women were getting on in their years and the visit to the cemetery pretty much depressed Betty.  I remember because around that time she wrote me a letter.  Pearl's daughter Betty June LOVED LIFE, no matter what it threw at her.  And she couldn't believe that it just seemed like a minute, how it had gone by.
Betty wrote on the back of the pictures that she sent to my mama, "Half these stones are family."


I was cruising around on the internet one day and found a picture of the Core Cemetery on Panoramio.




Look!  I said to Mama, this picture of Henry's grave DOES look like the graves in this cemetery.



This is also where we find...


Henry and Clarissa's oldest child Adaline (who married David Haught).

They're in the Core Cemetery.

David had been born to William and Hannah Haught in Monongalia County when it was considered to be Virginia.  When he was a teenager he witnessed the birth of the state of WEST Virginia.


The Census of 1880 gives us William and Hannah's young family with William (age 6), Henry (age 4), Cora (age 3), and Samuel (1).


I find more about David and Adaline's children in what was originally a GEOCITIES web site by Jay D. Haught called "Haught Family of America."

In that genealogical temple we also find the children Martin and Minnie.


Our Adaline should not be confused with Adaline Fox (born 28 JAN 1856) whose parents were Martin and Anna Fox.

The sad news is that our Adaline died of a fever many years before her husband David.  Adaline was only 28 years old at the time of her death and left behind a considerably young family.

Adaline and David's son, William, is also buried in the Core Cemetery (West Virginia) and I find his obituary at Greene County Obits:

"William Haught, 93, of Bula, died Sunday at 10:30 A.M. at his home. He was born April 12, 1873, at Miracle Run, a son of the late David and Adaline Fox Haught.  He was married twice, his first wife, Rebecca Lemley Haught dying in 1916. His second wife, Mrs. Ida Henderson Haught survives.  He was a retired farmer and member of the Bula Baptist church. Two sons, Freddie and Homer, three brothers, and two sisters preceded him in death.  Survivors by his first marriage are Freeman Haught of Brave, David R. Haught of Waynesburg, Lloyd Haught of Allison Park, Pa., and Mrs. Helen Cummins of Wana. Survivors by the second marriage are Quinton Haught of Latrobe, Pa., Bill and Pete Haught of Wana, Mrs. Ruth Folwell of Jefferson, Pa. Mrs. Minnie Moore and Mrs. Louise Hall of Waynesburg, and Mrs. Flora Hoffman of Greensburg, Pa. Also surviving are 24 grand-children, 15 great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren.  Friends are being received at the Owen Funeral Home in Blacksville where services will be held Wednesday at 1:30. Interment will be in the Core Cemetery at Bula."

As is...son, Martin Luther Haught who died in January of 1955. (FamilySearch MM9.1.1/N9MX-NRN).

For William see:  "WVA, Deaths, 1853-1970," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N9MX-J3N), Adaline Fox in entry for William Haught, 09 NOV 1966.


The mystery thickens a bit when we go into some cemetery readings.  We can access many cemeteries in West Virginia through a website called "I Dream Of Genealogy" and dip into a Monongalia County West Virginia Cemeteries database...or maybe the beginning of one.


Reading the reading of the Core Cemetery we can make some leaps like:
Oarissa Fox might be Clarissa Fox.

But we hesitate to do too much leaping in our family tree research.  Don't want to lead anybody down the wrong path.

We did receive an "in memoriam" of Mrs. Clarissa Fox and it confirms all of the basic information we found about our Miracle Run people through our genealogical information.

Although Grandma Betty didn't take pictures of EVERY gravestone in the cemetery where she went with Louise, we have some.  And it seems like Elias and his wife Ida Mae, Elias' brother William and his wife (Ida Mae's sister) Ada Jane, and Henry and Clarissa Fox are all in the same place.

Elias died at age 90 of Bronco Pneumonia.  We can see his death records at wvculture.org
On the death record, Elias' parents are listed as Henry Fox and Carlisis Long.  He "caught the death of a cold," as they say, and Mammy was most likely devastated.  But Elias had outlived most of his brothers.  Lindsey had gone home early in 1941 and Reason in the fall of that year.  Samuel and Reason in the fifties.  None by apparently genetic diseases, more like hard work and pollutants like greasy food and other environmental factors which clog arteries, tear up stomachs and increase the risk of unstable body fluids (like too much mucus in lungs).


Ida Mae died of a "myocardial infection" some five years later.  And we'll wonder about that a little more carefully when we discover more about her brother Thomas.  Ida Mae's infection was "due to" "extreme cachexia" and "carcinomatosis."  She was sick for about two years.  We found her death recorded in the Registry of Deaths and we also found her Death Certificate.  Through an index on FamilySearch of County Records.  And saw the images at wvculture.org

On her Death Certificate we found out her parents names.  John Delaney and Rebecca Blaker.

Ida Mae was almost 88 years old when she died.  At that time her usual residence was not on the farm, but on the  RFD in Wadestown.


Buried right near Mammy and Pappy are Elias' brother William and his wife (Ida Mae's sister) Ada Jane Delaney Fox.

The brothers and sisters were close their whole lives!



Ada Jane's Death Certificate tells us that her parents were also John Delaney and Rebecca Blaker (both born in Pennsylvania).  William, her surviving widower, was the informant of her death which happened on the night of August 13th, 1940.  The principal cause of her death was "Chronic Miliary Tuberculosis."  And she was weak with "Anemia with marked Cachexia."  She'd been attended by the physician George Park of Blacksville for about a week before she slipped away.  At that time William and Ada had been living in Fairview on Rural Route No. 1.  That part of the rural route popularly called, "Bula."  She had been last working in September of 1939, well, as a housewife.  So we'l wonder if she visited somebody or somehow elsewise acquired the TB.

Ada was only 57 years old.  And William, considerably older than she, survived her by fourteen years before he too, went home.  He died of "Coronary Thrombosis."  And his death certificate confirms his mother's maiden name as Long, although her name is recorded there as Claussa.

"West Virginia, Deaths, 1853-1970," index (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1/N9MX-4QP:  accessed 10 JUNE 2013), William Fox, 25 JUNE 1954.

Looking at causes of death in peoples' medical records and seeing how family members did or did not have similar instances of death has long been how the best medical care practices defining risk and chances.