Alcorn Cemetery

Locality:
Realty Map:
USGS Map:
Grid Locus:
UTM Easting:
UTM Northing:
Roanoke County
107.00-4-38
Garden City
F-10
93220
4113400
Temporal Period:
Cultural Affiliation:
Landform:
Elevation:
Aspect:
20th century
Euro-American
Knoll
1270 feet
Flat


Site Dimensions: 85 by 120 feet

Survey Description: Site consists of an active, community cemetery containing at least 47 interments. Identified graves included: 32 marked with inscribed stone markers, cement markers, or metal markers; 14 marked with uninscribed stone bricks; and at least one unmarked grave. Site is located in a residential area and is surrounded by a modern chain link fence. Site is well maintained, contains one cedar tree, and is covered with mowed grass. No other plantings were observed. Site was field inspected, photographed, and headstone inscriptions were transcribed and compared to previous site documentation. Site size was estimated by pacing the horizontal extent of the surrounding fence lines.

Survey Date: 2/98

Field Notes: _X_Yes ___ No

Photographs: ___Yes _X_ No

Reference(s): Roanoke Valley Historical Society
1986 Roanoke County Graveyards Through 1920. Privately printed, RVHS, Roanoke.

Additional Comments: Assigned temporal period was based on range of death dates on observed headstones. These dates range from 1905 through 1997. However, the presence of uninscribed markers and markers without dates may indicate an earlier use of the site. Site is marked on local realty maps, but it is not marked on the USGS Garden City map sheet. This cemetery was surveyed by the RVH S and their report provided biographical information from a single headstone which predated 1921 (1986: 1).

Marker Inscriptions:


Shockley
Ruby L.
1916-1982
A.R.
1911-1985


RL Shockley
(cement tablet)


F
Shockley
(cement tablet)
Raymond E. Shockley
MSGT US Air Force
Vietnam
Jul 7 1938 Feb 6 1980


Shockley
Marshall
1904-1979
Mattie B.
1907-____

EUR Shockley
Born Oct 4 1848
Died May 6 1928
Gone but not forgotten
(cement marker)
WH
Shockley
(cement tablet)


John T. Shockley
Virginia
PFT US Army
World War II
May 19 1927 Jul 3 1946


Harold Victor Alcorn
Oct. 12, 1903
Jan. 3, 1982


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Alcorn Cemetery (continued)


W M Lyle
Mar ????
Sep 21 1936?
(cement marker)


Sallie L. Ridgeway
Dec. 18, 1903
Nov. 2, 1905
(modern granite tablet)


Eugene Elvin
Campbell
Oct. 4, 1910
Nov. 27, 1955
Sleep brother dear
and take your rest
God called you home.
He thought it best.


Nannie L.
Campbell
May 1, 1879
Jan. 18, 1923


Cox
Hazel C.
June 29, 1909
______
William E.
June 29, 1906
May 2, 1975



Dillion
Alfred V.
1897 - 1976
Ethel C.
1905 - 1968


Berta T. Nunley
1892 At Rest 1984


Ridgeway (headstone)
footstone:
Seraphine E. Ridgeway
June 17, 1869
Jan. 7, 1925
footstone:
William B. Ridgeway
Aug. 27, 1867
Aug. 17, 1950


Killis A.
Campbell
July 24, 1867
Aug. 2, 1911


Katherine Eunice
Daughter of
WE Hazel S. Cox
Dec. 18, 1928
Jan. 8, 1929


William David
Son of
Charles & Lillie Dangerfield
May 30, 1928
March 11, 1937
At rest in heaven.


Bennett Eugene Scott
1943 - 1997
(Metal marker)
Luther W. Nunley
Sept. 4, 1885
June 27, 1923
Asleep in Jesus, blessed
sleep. From which none
ever wake to weep.




Gladys M.
Weaver
July 04, 1902
Mar. 8, 1924


Janice M.
Dudley
1933 - 1962


Infant Dau.
Of
Mr. & Mrs. Alfred V.
Dillion
1945 - 1945


4 cement tablets inscribed
Shockley" but no initials
or dates

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