Site Dimensions: 99 by 247 by 99 by 213 feet

Survey Description: Site consists of a cemetery which apparently started as a family cemetery but has developed into a community cemetery. The cemetery is still active and contains 86 graves marked with marble and granite markers and at least two unmarked graves. Other unmarked graves may be present. Site is well maintained, covered with grass, and enclosed by a galvanized pole and chain link fence. Some yucca plants survive outside the fence. Three inscribed fieldstone markers were observed in a discard pile outside of the fence. These stones had been replaced with modern granite markers; presumably, other original markers have been replaced with modern markers. Site was field inspected, photographed, and headstone inscriptions were compared to previous site documentation. Site size was derived from realty maps.

Survey Date: 2/98

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: Temporal period was based on death dates on observed headstones which ranged from 1907 through 1993. Nearly 80% of the observed headstones date to the latter half of the 20th century. Site is marked on the USGS Garden City map sheet and on realty maps. This cemetery was surveyed by the Roanoke Valley Historical Society (RVHS) and documented as the Amos II Cemetery. The RVHS survey report provided biographical information transcribed from five headstones which predated 1921 (page 3). These headstones were also observed during the current survey. Inscriptions from headstones in this cemetery were not transcribed due to the large number of interments in the cemetery, and because 80% of the headstones date to the latter half of the 20th century. The following information provides biographical information derived from three inscribed fieldstone markers observed in a discard pile outside of the cemetery fence and also provides information inscribed on modern replacement markers.

Marker Inscriptions:

EP 1917 BOR DE 25. 1833 (replaced by modern marker inscribed Andy Wray)

H Wray RN SEP O. 1851 DI APR, 19 1910 (replaced by modern marker inscribed Henry Wray)

MP Wray BORD. DEC 1839 DIED MAR 3, 1910 (replaced by modern marker inscribed Mack C. Wray 1839 � 1910)