Chilton Cemetery
Also known as Wilson Cemetery
South Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA
Originally owned by the Wilson family, this cemetery rests atop Mound #8 of the Kanawha Valley Mound Complex and is known as the Wilson Mound. The Chilton Cemetery was known as the Wilson Cemetery in early Kanawha County Records. Martha Elizabeth Wilson married Joseph Blackwell Chilton, and the cemetery became known as the Chilton Cemetery.
In the 1880s, the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution conducted extensive excavations of the mounds and earthworks in the Kanawha Valley The explorations were supervised by Cyrus Thomas, and were conducted by Col. P. W. Norris. According to Thomas, the square enclosure of the Wilson Mound was 5-6 ft high with a ditch inside the walls.
The mound had been opened by the Wilson family years before the Smithsonian explorations, and the enclosure had been leveled. Near the center of the mound, human bones and several celts and "lance heads" had been found. At the time of the Smithsonian excavations, the mound was already being used as a cemetery.
Originally owned by the Wilson family, this cemetery rests atop Mound #8 of the Kanawha Valley Mound Complex and is known as the Wilson Mound. The Chilton Cemetery was known as the Wilson Cemetery in early Kanawha County Records. Martha Elizabeth Wilson married Joseph Blackwell Chilton, and the cemetery became known as the Chilton Cemetery.
In the 1880s, the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution conducted extensive excavations of the mounds and earthworks in the Kanawha Valley The explorations were supervised by Cyrus Thomas, and were conducted by Col. P. W. Norris. According to Thomas, the square enclosure of the Wilson Mound was 5-6 ft high with a ditch inside the walls.
The mound had been opened by the Wilson family years before the Smithsonian explorations, and the enclosure had been leveled. Near the center of the mound, human bones and several celts and "lance heads" had been found. At the time of the Smithsonian excavations, the mound was already being used as a cemetery.
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