Brubaker Cemetery

Brubaker Cemetery

 

Locality: Roanoke County                  Temporal Period:                  2nd quarter 19th c. through 20th c.

Realty Map:          26.17-1-6                                Cultural Affiliation:              Euro-American

USGS Map:           Salem                                      Landform:                              Ridge slope

Grid Locus:            K-5                                          Elevation:                              1200 feet

UTM Easting:       587520                                    Aspect:                                  Southeast

UTM Northing:    4132270

 

Site Dimensions:  220 by 256 feet

 

Survey Description: Site consists of a large, active cemetery with at least 126 interments enclosed by a chain link fence.  Most interments are marked with inscribed marble and granite headstones, but some are marked with inscribed and uninscribed fieldstone markers.  All graves are oriented to the southeast.  Site is now covered with grass and few historic plantings are apparent on the site.  Site does contain two cedar trees, one walnut tree and one maple tree.  Site was field inspected, photographed, and headstone inscriptions were transcribed and compared to previous site documentation.  Site size was derived from local realty maps.

 

Surveyed By:        T. Klatka & D. Richardson

Survey Date:         10/97

 

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.

 

Works Progress Administration of Virginia, Historical Inventory, Roanoke County, Virginia, Document #314.

 

Additional Comments: Assigned temporal period was based on inscribed headstones; however, the presence of uninscribed markers and inscribed markers without death dates may indicate an earlier use of the site.  Death dates on observed markers range from 1831 through the present.  Site is not marked on the USGS Salem map sheet.  The cemetery is marked on realty maps and labeled as the Old German Baptist Church Cemetery.

 

 This cemetery was initially surveyed in 1937 by the Works Progress Administration of Virginia and recorded as the “Henry Brubaker Cemetery” in Document #237 of the Historical Inventory of Roanoke County, Virginia.  The WPA file provided biographical information for three graves and described the cemetery as “fenced and kept in good condition.”

 

The RVHS also surveyed this cemetery and referred to it as the “Brubaker Cemetery” (1986: 25-30).  Their report listed biographical information transcribed from 101 graves markers that predated 1921.  The following information was derived from headstones which postdate 1920 and one dated to 1919.  Interested readers should consult the RVHS report for a list of the earlier inscriptions.

 

Marker Inscriptions:

 

Fanny Shepard Jones                          Leanna Garman Brunk                                         Eliza M. Naff

March 3, 1874                                       July 28, 1903                                                          Dec. 9, 1838

March 16, 1928                                     May 24, 1971                                                         Sept. 21, 1926

Asleep in Jesus


Brubaker Cemetery (continued)

 

Molly Alice Skiles                                Sallie Janney Sink                                                Father

Infant Daughter of                               Nov. 9, 1886                                                          Samuel H. Jamison

Jerry and Alice                                     Mar. 28, 1973                                                         July 16, 1844

Oct. 6-9, 1993                                        At Rest                                                                  Feb. 20, 1927

 

Brubaker                                Mother                                                                   Brubaker

W. Paul                   Myrtle                   Catherine Jamison                                Jacob J.                  Mary Alma

1917-1977                1914-__                 Mar. 28, 1848                                         Jan. 21, 1916          Aug. 3, 1916

                                                                May 22, 1935                                         Apr. 17, 1994

                                                                Asleep in Jesus

 

Nannie H.                                              Henry F. Brubaker                                                Mary R.

Wife of                                                   June 4, 1886                                                           Wife of

H.F. Brubaker                                        Dec. 17, 1970                                                         H.F. Brubaker

1888-1937                                                                                                                               1899-1990

 

Bowman                 Carolyn Frances                                                   Martha Ann

Earl E.                     Francis B.              Infant of                                                                 Brubaker

May 6, 1981           Oct. 31,1919           Earl E. & Frances B.                                             Aug. 15, 1941

Mar. 1, 1985                                           Bowman                                                 Sept. 3, 1941

Mar. 5, 1945

 

Infant Son of                                         Lucy Madora                                                        Elder J.E. Brubaker

H.F. & Nannie                                       wife of                                                                    Mar. 8, 1854

Brubaker                                                elder J.E. Brubaker                                               Oct. 12, 1930

May 12, 1932                                         June 26, 1857                                                         They are not lost - but

                                                                June 29, 1924                                                         gone before

                                                                How desolate our home

                                                                bereft of thee

 

Loah B. Montgomery                          Charles B. Montgomery                                      Skeggs

Jan. 8, 1892                                            Oct. 15, 1890                                                          infant son & daughter of

Oct. 16, 1981                                          May 11, 1984                                                         F.E. & Annie M.

 

Bettie Wade

Oct. 3,     Apr. 4,

1894        1919


 

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