Locality:
Realty Map: 76.12-1-13 Cultural
Affiliation: Euro-American
USGS Map:
Grid Locus: K-2 Elevation: 1120 feet
UTM Easting: 587270 Aspect: Flat
UTM Northing: 4121780
Site Dimensions: 20
by 40 feet
Survey Description:
Site consists of a small family cemetery defined by six graves marked
with formal headstones and one grave
marked with only the base for a missing headstone. All of the headstones lie on the ground
surface with inscriptions facing up.
Every stone is broken and partially covered with grass and sod. Cemetery is located in the rear of an
undeveloped lot between 4329 and
Survey Date: 4/98
Field Notes: _X_Yes ___No
Photographs ___Yes _X_No
Reference(s):
1986
Works Progress Administration of
Additional Comments:
Assigned temporal period based on range of death dates inscribed on
headstones. These dates range from 1845
through 1877. An additional grave marked
only with the base of a missing headstone may reflect an earlier of later use
of the site. Site is not marked on the
This cemetery was initially surveyed in 1937 by the Works
Progress Administration of Virginia and recorded as the “
The site was also surveyed
by the Roanoke Valley Historical Society (1986: 46) and the name of cemetery
was shortened to the “
Marker Inscriptions:
In memory of In
memory of In
memory of Mantilledees
John S. Chapman Charles
W. Chapman Chapman
Born Born Born
Died Died Aged
2 yrs. 3 mos. 6 days
Aged 53 years, 1 mo. Aged
2 years 3 mos. 6 days
8 days
J. Milton Chapman Walter
C. Chapman In
memory of
Son of
N. & Louise
Born Nov. 5, 1859 C???
& Sarah
Died
Born
Died