Spencer Cemetery

{{Short description|Cemetery in Marshal County, West Virginia, US}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}

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| name = Spencer Cemetery

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| image = Spencer Cemetery silhouetted.jpg

| caption = Silhouetted on the hilltop

| location = 668 Burley Hill Rd., Cameron, West Virginia

| coordinates = {{coord|39|52|01|N|80|32|15|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = West Virginia#USA

| built = {{Start date|1914}}

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| added = December 12, 2012

| area = Less than one acre

| refnum = 12001051{{cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/upload/weekly-list-2012-national-register-of-historic-places.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Listings|date=2012-12-21|work=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 12/10/12 through 12/14/12|publisher=National Park Service|access-date=February 19, 2014|archive-date=July 9, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160709190834/https://www.nps.gov/nr/listings/20121221.htm|url-status=live}}

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Spencer Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at Cameron, Marshall County, West Virginia. The cemetery includes just one grave monument and two related headstones for John W. "Jack" Spencer (1841–1914) and his third wife, Eva "Effie" (Winters) Spencer (1866–1919). The eight foot-tall carved limestone marker is in the shape of two tree trunks with entwined branches. It includes an engraved badge of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR).{{cite web|url=https://wvculture.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Spencer-cemetery.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Spencer Cemetery|date=April 2012|author=Cathy Lucey and Erin Riebe |publisher=State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation}}

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

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