Harsh Memorial Cemetery Fund
The Harsh Memorial Cemetery Fund provides funding for the maintenance and upkeep of the Harsh Cemetery, located on Clover Run, Tucker County, WV.
TYPE OF FUND: Cemetery
DATE ESTABLISHED: April 2025
PURPOSE: The purpose of this fund is to create perpetual funding to provide maintenance and upkeep of the Harsh Cemetery, located on Clover Run, Tucker County, West Virginia.
DISTRIBUTION: The Fund shall be used and distributed, at the discretion of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for the sole purpose of supporting the maintenance and upkeep of the Harsh Cemetery. The Foundation shall make a distribution on an annual basis as outlined in the Foundation’s general policies to Denver Lee Rosier, Jr. or the current Fund Advisor at the time, or at the direction of the Fund Advisor directly to a Third Party for the purposes outlined herein, with the exception, that upon recommendation of the Board of Directors of the Harsh Cemetery, the distribution may be reinvested with the Fund.
VARIANCE POWER: If, in the judgment of the TCF Board of Directors, the restrictions and conditions of the Fund become unnecessary, incapable of fulfillment or inconsistent with the charitable needs of the community, the TCF Board of Directors maintain the right to modify the terms of this Fund. Tucker Community Foundation has exclusive legal control over its assets.
FUNDING: The donor desires to establish an endowed fund named the Harsh Memorial Cemetery Fund with the Foundation. The donor will transfer and deliver to the Foundation the following property: $15,685 to establish the fund.
BACKGROUND: The Harsh Cemetery is located in the community of Clover Run in Tucker County, West Virginia. The cemetery was founded on April 7, 1923, when Flossie Harsh donated the land where the cemetery is now located. There are several family members and descendants of the Harsh, Rosier, Amie, Price, Bell and other community members buried there. Currently the cemetery is taken care of by the people that have family members buried there. Over the years it has been maintained by the Rosier family and by the Coffman family and other volunteers along the way.
The families wish to ensure that there is funding available every year so that the cemetery can continue to be maintained. To start, they plan on letting the fund grow while they still have volunteers that will take care of the cemetery. In the future, they will start to get yearly drawdowns once they must start to pay for maintenance and upkeep services.