Hinchman Family Cemetery
(Today known as the Frye Cemetery)
Follow McComas Road to Roach. Turn onto Roach Road. You will immediately cross over a bridge. You will then see the cemetery beside the road on your right.

This cemetery was not used after about 1885 until the Frye family began to use it again in the 1960's. I have only included the names of people who were buried in the cemetery when it was known as the Hinchman Cemetery.

***According to the W.P.A. reading in April 1938, there were two markers in the cemetery. W.P.A. also noted that there were 4 unmarked graves. It is worth noting that the W.P.A. readings are not completely accurate. I read several other Cabell Co. cemeteries in their book and have found that they frequently overlooked marked graves. I guess they recorded what was easy to reach & didn't venture into the "brush" looking for markers.***

***Sometime prior to 1938, an unknown landowner in the Roach community removed most of the long, flat markers from the cemetery to make a walkway to his house. This listing of burials is compiled from records in the F.B. Lambert collection at Marshall U.***

ELIZABETH WIFE OF WM. HINCHMAN DIED JAN. 8, 1857 AGED 52 YRS. 1MO. 16DS. (BIRTHDATE NOV. 23, 1804) (D/O ADAM & MARY [WILLIAMS] HATFIELD - 2ND WIFE OF WM. HINCHMAN) (W.P.A. 1938 READING SHOWS HER STONE BEING IN THE CEM. IT IS NOT THERE TODAY.)

LEANDER H. SON OF WM. & E. HINCHMAN DIED DEC. 13, 1856 AGED 21YRS. 10MO. 25DS. (BIRTHDATE JAN. 18, 1835) (STONE IS BROKE IN HALF AND LYING ON GROUND.)

THERE IS ONE ROCK MARED GRAVE IN THE CEMETERY.

UNMARKED BURIALS

ELIZABETH R. (CHAPMAN) HINCHMAN B. OCT. 28, 1813 - D. JUL. 5, 1882 (D/O GEORGE & ELIZABETH [PARKER] CHAPMAN - 3RD WIFE OF WM. HINCHMAN)

HENRY HINCHMAN B. JUNE 20, 1837 - D. SEP. 10, 1837 (S/O WM. & ELIZABETH [HATFIELD] HINCHMAN)

JOHN W. HINCHMAN B. JUNE 1, 1841 - D. OCT. 8, 1861 (S/O WM. & ELIZABETH [HATFIELD] HINCHMAN)

MARY ELIZABETH (SIMMS) HINCHMAN B. JAN. 11, 1801 - D. JUL. 5, 1832 (1ST WIFE OF WM. HINCHMAN)

WILLIAM HINCHMAN B. DEC. 23, 1800 D. OCT. 2, 1862 (H/O THREE WIVES NAMED ELIZABETH)

OTHER POSSIBLE BURIALS

GEORGE CHAPMAN B. OCT. 28, 1777 D. AFTER 1860 (AGE 83 IN 1860 CENSUS)

ELIZABETH (PARKER) CHAPMAN B. 1787 D. AFTER 1860 (AGE 73 IN 1860 CENSUS)

ANDREW SUPPLEE HATFIELD B. JUL. 25, 1737 D. JAN. 15, 1813 ***ANDREW HATFIELD BOUGHT 578 ACRES AT ROACH IN 1802. IT INCLUDED ALL THE AREA THAT LATER BECAME KNOWN AS "HINCHMAN BEND". SOME DESCENDANTS SAY HE & CHRISTINA ARE BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY. OTHERS HAVE SAID THEY WERE BURIED DOWN THE HILL CLOSER TO THE RIVER AND ROUTINE FLOODING EVENTUALLY ERASED ANY TRACE OF THE SPOT. THE D.A.R. LATER WANTED TO PLACE A MARKER ON ANDREW'S GRAVE TO HONOR HIS REVOLUTIONARY WAR SERVICE. NOT KNOWING HIS EXACT PLACE OF BURIAL, THEY PLACED MARKER FOR HIM IN THE ADAM HATFIELD CEMETERY UP THE ROAD AT INEZ.***

CHRISTINA (SNIDOW) HATFIELD B. 1739 D. OCT. 25, 1809 (W/O CAPT. ANDREW S. HATFIELD)

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