The view down twoard Coon Creek off interstate 79 - it goes around to the left behind Coon Knob. In fact, you could walk up Coon Knob by pulling off to the side of the highway. Carl Davis said he hunts coons up there and accesses the top by pulling off the side of the interstate. The interstate cuts right along Coon Knob. Coon Knob is actually not visible in this picture.

There is a State Transportation shed/office here by the name of Coon Knob (right at the entrance to I-79)
We started out going through Gassaway and up the mountain behind and down. It had been recently graded so it was easy to traverse
Driving toward Davis property (Ellis property on the right - before Davis) from Gassaway. The road down the mountain was recently graded. I made it down easily. However, I needed my powerful 4 wheel landcruiser to get through this. An easier way to the Ellis homestead is come down the oposite side - the road is paved to the Davis Farm. Park and walk across the creek to the Ellis place.
Fred took us first to the Ellis hearth. (we had passed back and forth several times without realizing it - before we found Fred)

Nothing but a cellar and part of a hearth left at the bottom of the mountain. Halfway to the top of the mountain (coon knob) is the graveyard. I don't think its a recognized graveyard.

At the very top of Coon Knob was an original homestead - I didn't venture up - too steep.

That house burned down and the replacement was built in at the bottom.

Aunt Mary Ellis (Leon's Aunt, his father's sister) came back here with her son Scotty and pitched a tent (a trailer really) and tried to live her without electricity sometime in the 60s or 70s.

Her husband, Carl Hall tried to live here and farm but 'he wasn't no farmer')

I wouldn't have been able to find anything if I hadn't picked up Fred Singleton off the side of the road (really!) - he knew where everything was and was a kind gentle soul. Great help to Leon as Leon's legs were vascularly constricted. He got operated on as soon as we got home. Femeral bypass.
Leon counldn't make it all the way up to the graveyard. I am shooting pictures from the graveyard - so he was close.
Looking down from the graveyard. I've seen this cemetary referred to as Dean Cemetary in some of the GenWeb sites
Following are some of the gravestones from the Coon Knob Cemetery. (I've seen this graveyard called Dean Cemetary in genweb sites)
Silas McTheny was Nancy Belle Matheny's brother. They spelled their names different (which was pretty common for this area)
Mahala Ellis was David's mother. I've heard it said that David was illegitimate and he took her name (Ellis). Carl Davis told me she went blind later in life
There are some "hall's" buried up there but Carl Hall says that Nelson Hall (Mary's husband) was related to the Ohio Halls and not the Braxton County Halls
David and Nancy are buried up there
We then went to the Duckworth homestead. There were more buildings intact. The cemtary is a 'real' one that's kept up by the city. Duckworth as Blanche Jones (Leon's mother) mother - Rebecca (Rebica) Duckworth Jones family name
 
 
 
 
 
We could drive right to the cemetery. This is kept up (mowed) by the city. Its right behind the Duckworth property.
 
 

Then its on down to the Jones homestead
Rebecca Jones - Joshua's mother- I've seen it spelled Rebica
We had a nice long visit with Carl and Auda Davis. Sadly a few years later Carl was mowing with his tractor and it fell on him and crushed him.
 
Courthouse in Sutton - lots of records