Tombstone Tuesday--Asby Pool

    My paternal great great great great grandfather, Rev. Asby Pool, was an early circuit rider delivering his Methodist message to folks in Pennsylvania, Maryland and what is now West Virginia. 

     He was born on June 04, 1787 to William and Esther Pool in Hampshire, Virginia. He married first Vilender Lanham. Following Vilender's death, he married second, Christina Smith. Asby died in Monongalia County, West Virginia on January 18, 1867. His tombstone is located in the Jerome Park area outside Morgantown in a residential area. I am not certain if the tombstone is there as a memorial or if Asby is actually buried there, although on an old Morgantown map, there is a mark for the Pool Cemetery in the Jerome area.

In Memory of

Rev Asby Pool

and Family

        In the past couple of years, and again yesterday, I have been contacted by relations and residents of the Jerome Park area alerting me to the fact that Rev. Asby Pool's memorial monument has been totally destroyed.  Unfortunately, I do not have access to Morgantown newspapers to read any articles related to the destruction.

     Yesterday I did receive several photographs taken at the site of the monument showing the destruction.  The rubble is laying about the former site.  The section with POOL is there.  What type of personality defiles a final resting place?  

Asby Pool Biography on Flipside

  

Sources: 

 -Monongalia County, West Virginia Marriage Records, Book A, page 27. 

 -Monongalia County, West Virginia Marriage Records, Book A, page 49. 

 -Wilkins, Robert Poole, The Poole Family of Hampshire and Monongalia County, West Virginia, Grand Forks, North Dakota, 1988, pages 10-15

Updated: January 2026

 

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