Site Dimensions: 100 by 117 feet

Survey Description: Site consists of a small cemetery with approximately 37 interments. Observed graves include six marked with inscribed granite or marble markers, three with uninscribed cut stone markers, 20 with uninscribed fieldstone markers, and at least 37 unmarked grave depressions. One grave is enclosed by an iron fence which measure 10 by 11 feet. A fence does not enclose site, but two wooden posts and a stone marker suggest that a fence once formed the northeast boundary of the cemetery and separated it from the adjacent Hogan Cemetery. Site is covered by a thick growth of periwinkle and yucca plants are also present. The northeast boundary was derived from local realty maps, but all other boundaries were estimated by pacing the horizontal extent of graves. Site was field inspected and headstone inscriptions were transcribed and compared to previous site documentation.

Survey Date: 11/97

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 headstones with inscribed death dates which range from 1854 through 1961. However, the presence of numerous unmarked graves and graves with uninscribed fieldstone markers may indicate an earlier or later use of the site. This site is marked on the USGS Garden City map sheet, but it is mislabeled as the �Bandy Cem.� It is also marked on local realty maps, but it is incorrectly merged with the adjacent Delaney Court cemetery. Some of this confusion stems from the fact that the Angel Cemetery is one of three cemeteries located adjacent to one another. The Hogan Cemetery is located to the immediate northeast, and the Delaney Court Cemetery is located to the immediate southwest. Additionally, the boundaries between these cemeteries are diffuse and not readily apparent. A close inspection reveals boundaries defined by variation in mortuary practices and marked by a few wooden posts that remain from previous fences. While the RVHS (1986: 141) report combined this cemetery with the adjacent Hogan Cemetery, two of three local individuals who were interviewed identified this cemetery as the Angel Cemetery, and all three considered it socially separate from the adjacent Delaney Court Cemetery and Hogan Cemetery.

Angel Cemetery (continued)

Marker Inscriptions:

W. W. Maxey Born Nov. 13, 1911 Died Dec. 20, 1915 ___________ Infant Born June 06, 1913 Died June 13, 1913 Mrs. Nora V. Mensch 1890 1961 (metal marker set in cement)

In Memory of Francis M. Son of Permella Buchanan. Born May 28 th 1841 Died July 11 th 1854 (maker�s mark: Fagan Salem) Infant Stutler Died February 2nd Aged 0 yrs 0 mos. (metal marker)

Mary Pamelie Marsh Wife of Alex Cox Dec. 31 1856 Feb. 17 1927 (surrounded by iron fence)