Simon Peter Graham & Martha Stamback

Abe Cemetery

Locality:
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Roanoke County
96.03-2-19.1
Bent Mountain
H-8
584580
4115560

Temporal Period:
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20th century
Euro-American
Ridge bench
1440 feet
Flat


Site Dimensions: 58.08 by 65.94 feet

Survey Description: Site consists of a small family cemetery with three interments. All graves are marked with marble headstones. Site is well maintained and is not enclosed by a fence. Site is covered with grass and historic plantings include periwinkle ground cover and yuccas. Site is one of three cemeteries situated side by side. John & Lucy Ferguson Cemetery is located to the immediate southeast and Smallwood Cemetery is located to the immediate northwest. Site was field inspected, photographed, and headstone inscriptions were transcribed. Site size was derived from property survey map.

Survey Date: 4/98

Field Notes: __X__Yes ___ No

Photographs: __X__Yes ___ No

Reference(s): Roanoke Valley Historical Society 1986 Roanoke County Graveyards Through 1920. Privately printed, RVHS, Roanoke. Additional Comments: This cemetery was field inspected by the Roanoke Valley Historical Society and documented in their report as the Ferguson-Abe Cemetery (1986: 116). The following information was derived from Charles Abe, property owner and member of the Abe family. The cemetery is marked on the USGS Bent Mountain map sheet and labeled �cem.� It is also marked on local realty maps and labeled �Abe Cemetery.� The Abe Cemetery is here recorded as separate and distinct from the adjoining John and Lucy Ferguson Cemetery and the Smallwood Cemetery. The following biographical information was transcribed from the three headstones in the cemetery.

Marker Inscriptions:


Mata
Abe
Virginia
Officers Steward 1 CL
U.S. Navy
April, 2 1933

Mary
Light
Abe
May 8 1885
June 27 1980

Farmer
Elijah
Abe
Virginia
SFC
Infantry
World War II
July 28 1923
March 23 1967
BSM


75


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