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