SITE DIRECTORY
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Fraternal Memorial Park
FRATERNAL MEMORIAL PARK
FOUNDED: 1928
ADDITONAL NAMES: Grasselli, Memorial Park, Fraternal Park, and Mount Zion
AFFILIATION(S):
Historic Clarksburg WV Cemetery Preservation Alliance
HISTORY:
Although little information on the cemetery is available it is known that it was utilized for predominately African Americans and burials began in 1928 and continued through to the last known burial in 1978. Other information obtained concerning the cemetery consists of World War I and World War II War veterans buried in the Cemetery Upon investigation of the Cemetery Headstones and additional research from the WV death indexes database (West Virginia Department of Arts, Vital Research Records Search Selection, 2018), HRC identified a total of seven men that are World War I veterans that are buried within The Fraternal
Memorial Cemetery. HRC identified one man that may be a World War II veteran and we have identified his draft card. In addition, his death certificate was checked in the veteran box, but the war was not named. An additional four men were found to have draft registration cards from fold3 (Ancestry, 2018) military database and The National Archives online database (Administration, n.d.). The four individuals with draft cards could not be definitively concluded that they went to War.
BCN Contact Information:
Shaun Jedju
ShaunMJedju@hcwvcpa.org