A visit to the Rufus C. Ball Cemetery ...
Introduction ...
Since our focus is on geography, we don't have burial or interment information. Nor do we have any contact information for the Rufus C. Ball Cemetery. For information of that nature, we suggest the Find-A-Grave <1> website: The Rufus C. Ball Cemetery (FG ID #2540843)
Note: We have organized the cemeteries in our Gazetteer based on a problem that we had while working on our own genealogy. Without specifying the cemeteries involved, we found an ancestor that we believed to have been buried in one cemetery was actually buried elsewhere.
We discovered that his burial had been refused at the last moment and the family had scrambled to make new arrangements. By looking at nearby cemeteries, the surrounding communities and in newspapers of the period, we were finally able to locate his burial site.
Should you find yourself in the same situation, we hope that our Gazetteer helps you discover your lost ancestor.
The Location of the Rufus C. Ball Cemetery ...
We are using the following GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude) for the Rufus C. Ball Cemetery
Lat: 38.0000° (38° 0' 0")
Lon: -81.8471° (-81° 50' 49")
The Rufus C. Ball Cemetery is located in Boone County<2>.
The county seat for Boone County is located in Madison. Madison lies just to the north northeast of the Rufus C. Ball Cemetery .
Name Variations for Rufus C. Ball Cemetery ...
When doing your research, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Various errors happen - anything from simple spelling to bad translations.
Rufus C. Ball Cemetery has also been known as:
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
List of nearby cemeteries ...
Based on our list of cemeteries, we know of 40 that are within 3 miles [4.8 km]<3> of the Rufus C. Ball Cemetery.<4>
We've listed the following cemeteries based on their distance from Rufus C. Ball Cemetery, with the nearest first.
- Miller / Patrick Miller Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Bias Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bias Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bias Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- The Bias Cemetery is located in Boone County
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2543116 <1>
- Canterberry Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Canterberry Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Canterberry Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- The Canterberry Cemetery is located in Boone County
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #77942 <1>
- Canterbury Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Miller Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Miller Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Miller Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- The Miller Cemetery is located in Boone County
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #79199 <1>
- Floyd Miller Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Ball - Bias Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Sander Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Stolling Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stolling Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Stolling Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- The Stolling Cemetery is located in Boone County
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2285288 <1>
- Hager Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Workman Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Workman Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Workman Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- The Workman Cemetery is located in Boone County
- Cook Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Continue List (28 more) ...
- Webb Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Hunter Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Powell Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Kentucky Knoll Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Lucas Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Caldwell Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Burwell Ballard Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Ball Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Stacy Belle Miller Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Zatto Miller Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Miller Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Miller Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Miller Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- The Miller Cemetery is located in Boone County
- Dent Family Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Little Rock Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Nelson Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Hager Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Gore Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gore Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Gore Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- The Gore Cemetery is located in Boone County
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #78480 <1>
- Epling Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Old Elkins Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Obediah Bias Family Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Ball Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Ball Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ball Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ball Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- The Ball Cemetery is located in Boone County
- Adkins Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Bob Hunter Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Baldwin Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Ashby Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ashby Cemetery
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Ashby Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
- The Ashby Cemetery is located in Boone County
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Ashby Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<3> to the southwest of Jeffrey.
- The Ashby Cemetery has also been known as:
- Bias Branch Cemetery
- Bias Cemetery
- Preacher Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2257165 <1>
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to the Ashby Cemetery
- From the Rufus C. Ball Cemetery to the Ashby Cemetery
- Family Gardens Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Memory Gardens
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Ballard Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
For an expanded list with details, please visit our List of cemeteries.
List of neighboring communities ...
The following 27 communities are within Less than 2 miles<3> of the Rufus C. Ball Cemetery.
We've listed the following communities based on their distance from Rufus C. Ball Cemetery, with the nearest first.
- Havana
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Ramage
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Greenview
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Powell Creek
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Hewett
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Jeffrey
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Secoal
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Low Gap
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Washington Heights
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Ottawa
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Turtle Creek
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Price Hill
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (15 more) ...
- Clothier
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Quinland
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Uneeda
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Foch
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- South Madison
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Madison
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Danville
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Manila
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Rock Creek
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Bigson
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Lanta
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Lanta. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lanta
- Lanta is located in Boone County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Lanta
- From the Rufus C. Ball Cemetery to Lanta
- Bob White
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Van
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- West Junction
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Foster
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
For the full list of neighboring communities with details, please visit our extended List of Communities.
Nearby communities with newspapers ...
The following communities are those where newspapers have been published and are located in the vicinity of the Rufus C. Ball Cemetery. The following communities are located in Boone County.
More information can be found on our list of Local Newspapers for The Rufus C. Ball Cemetery.
We've listed the following communities alphabetically.
Websites to help with your research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their websites are open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that might help with the Rufus C. Ball Cemetery:
- Pages specific to West Virginia:
- Pages specific to Boone County:
- Genealogy information for nearby counties:
- Cemetery Information and Directories:
- About the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church ...
- Although we don't have a link to the Rufus C. Ball Cemetery
itself, you might be curious about the African Methodist Episcopal Church. See their website at:
- The African Methodist Episcopal Church
Miscellaneous References and Mentions ...
Our approach is to add the name of a cemetery whenever we see it mentioned - usually from newspapers, old books and maps. Typically we have little information to start with, but we continue to add detail as we find it.
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that we found useful for the Rufus C. Ball Cemetery:
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for State of West Virginia: https://www.wv.gov/
Footnotes ...
<1> | The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com. |
<2> | If you're interested in how the shape of West Virginia's counties, including Boone, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |
<3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- ) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point at the Rufus C. Ball Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.0000, Longitude: -81.8471 |
<4> | While we have an extensive database of cemeteries (with over 200,000 entries), you can be assured that it's not complete and our list will be missing cemeteries. |
<5> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |
<6> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
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