Locality:
Realty Map: 98.04-2-31 Cultural Affiliation: Euro-American
USGS Map: Garden City Landform: Ridge bench
Grid Locus: G-8 Elevation: 980 feet
UTM Easting: 594380 Aspect: Southeast
UTM Northing: 4115590
Site Dimensions: 30 by 55 feet
Survey Description: Site consists of a small family cemetery containing at least 19 interments. Observed graves include: nine with uninscribed fieldstone markers, five with inscribed fieldstone markers, two with inscribed marble markers, and three unmarked graves. Unmarked graves were identified on the basis of ground surface depressions. Historic plantings include: tulip poplar, hemlock, oak, yucca, periwinkle, and English ivy. Orientation of graves ranges from 65 to 80 degrees. Cemetery is not enclosed by any fencing. Site is situated on a small bench of a ridge which was apparently truncated by road construction. Cement markers with VHD (Virginia Highway Dept.) on two sides of the site indicate that at least a small part of the cemetery is under VDOT ownership. 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 observed graves.
Survey Date: 2/98
Field Notes: _x_Yes ___No
Photographs: _x_Yes ___No
Reference(s):
1986
Additional Comments: Assigned temporal period was based on the range of death dates inscribed on observed headstones. These dates range from 1874 through 1895. However, the presence of uninscribed fieldstone markers may indicate an earlier or later use of the site. Cemetery is not marked on the USGS Garden City map sheet, but it is marked on local realty/tax assessment maps.
This cemetery was initially surveyed by the RVHS (1986; 22) and their report provided biographical information on eleven members of the Boone, Naff, and Peters family who were buried in the cemetery. Some of this information was derived from inscriptions on grave markers, and some of the information was apparently obtained from another source.
Marker Inscriptions:
Issac Naff Chas S. Boone In Memory of
Born Born Rebecca Boon.
Died Died Died June _____
Aged Our father has gone stone has sunk and death date
83 yrs. 7 mos. & 2 days to a mansion of rest, partially buried)
To the glorious land
by the Deity blest.
In Memory E.B.W.P. L x Boon
of 1874 Born ??? e ??? 7
Emily Boon (fieldstone marker) 1815
Born
____ 31, 1884 1895
(fieldstone marker has (partially illegible
sunk so month of death fieldstone marker)
was not determined)
The RVHS provided the following information pertaining to individuals buried in the cemetery,, but associated headstones with inscriptions were not observed during the 1998 survey:
Ellen Boone Peters, deceased 1903
O.W. Boone
Rebekah Flora Boone
Levi Boone
Mary Boone
Doda Boone