Reip Cemetery

The Reip cemetery sits atop a wooded hill overlooking the old Reip farm near Euclid, WV. It is a small cemetery containing only 2 generations of Reips -- Frank, father of Goldie Reip Elliott, and his father Peter, and their wives.

Access to the cemetery is from the foot of the lane leading to the farm. It is on the opposite side of the lane from the farm, and you have to walk along the lane while gradually climbing uphill in order to reach the cemetery. It is surrounding by a low chain link fence and is periodically cared for by some of the local descendants. Because of its somewhat difficult access, however, I have trimmed weeds several times I have been there, too. The photo shown here looks across the cemetery and down over the hill toward the foot of the lane. If you could see ninety degrees to the left of the angle from which this photo was taken you could see the farm house, which is directly below the hill. See more photos of the cemetery and the gravestones here.

Frank Reip died in 1953 and is buried along with his wife Victoria Mace, 1881-1921. Victoria was the mother of Goldie and her three sisters. Since Frank outlived Victoria by more than 30 years, he remarried twice after her death. I'm not aware of any children by these marriages and neither of his subsequent wives are buried in this cemetery.

Frank's parents, Peter Alexander Reip (1856-1929) and Luverna Ellen Downey (1855-1940), are also buried in this cemetery. Peter was born in Calhoun County (although I don't know exactly where) and Luverna was born in Gilmer County. Records indicate that they both died there in Euclid. I conclude from these facts and that no other children of Peter were buried here that either he and Frank built the farm house after Frank's siblings were grown, or that Frank built the farm hose by himself and Peter and Luverna lived with them in the last years of their lives. This would make the date of the farm house around the first or second decade of the 1900s.

 
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