Compiled by Teresa
Martin Klaiber 2023
As
the year winds down, so does this year’s series “Whispers from the Grave…” These mini bio’s do not include everyone in
the cemetery but highlight many. Most
can also be found on find-a-grave. Hopefully these blog posts help give a little
more detail to newer researchers. As a
trustee of the cemetery for almost 30 years I have collected information on
each person in Klaiber Cemetery.
If
you have been a reader of our mini bio’s you will notice that each person has
some tie, directly or indirectly with others in the cemetery. Beatrice is a good example. Beatrice is the daughter of Larkin and Rebecca
Stamper Gallion. She is a direct
ancestor of Thomas Sexton who changed his surname to Gallion when he moved to
Kentucky. Thus she is related to both
the Sexton’s and Gallion’s in the cemetery.
Beatrice
was born 3 June 1897. She married
Everett Wooten 26 September 1914 in Boyd County at her parent’s house. Their first son, Russell Warren Wooten was
born 5 July 1915 in Boyd County, Kentucky. The family moved to Logan County,
West Virginia where they had a son James Clifford Wooten 19 June 1918.
He did not thrive and died, “with stomach troubles” in Shamrock, West Virginia,
27 September 1920. His death certificate
simply states he was brought back to Kilgore, Kentucky for burial. The family
supplied a sweet grave stone in the cemetery.
The
family rented and Everett drove a truck for the coal company. He was a evangelist minister of the Pilgrim Holiness
Church and spoke at many church gatherings in Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia and
later in Indiana where son Russell was also a minister. Everett even worked as a garbage collector
while still working hard as a coal miner to make ends meet in the 1950’s. Beatrice died 1 April 1950 from heart issues
and asthma in Logan County, West Virginia.
Her death certificate states burial was April 6th in Sexton
Cemetery. This is an alias often used by
those related to the Sexton’s for Klaiber Cemetery and should not be confused
with Sexton Cemetery just a few miles away on Pigeon Roost.
On
2 December 1950 Everett Wooten married, second, Corda Alice May, in Jackson
County, West Virginia. They moved to
Gallia County, Ohio where Corda died 5 October 1965.
Everett
then settled in Waterloo, Lawrence County, Ohio. He was in Terre Haute, Indiana when he died
from cancer 19 December 1973 and was brought back to Klaiber Cemetery for
burial. The Terre Haute Tribune incorrectly stated he was from Waterloo,
Iowa. He died at the residence of son Rev.
R. W. Wooten stating that Everett was a retired minister who had been a
minister 30 years.
