Coles Cemetery

 

Locality: Roanoke County                  Temporal Period:                  1^st half 20^th c.

Realty Map:          103.00-3-56/57                       Cultural Affiliation:              Euro-American

USGS Map:           Bent Mountain                     Landform:                              Knoll

Grid Locus:            B-11                                        Elevation:                              2680 feet

UTM Easting:       578920                                    Aspect:                                  Flat

UTM Northing:    4112640

 

Site Dimensions:  20 by 20 feet

 

Survey Description:  Site consists of a small family cemetery with at least five graves.  All of the observed graves were marked with inscribed markers.  Informant reports suggest the presence of at least one other grave.  The cemetery is covered with a dense growth of scrub brush and briars.  Historic plantings include three large locust trees.  Site was field inspected and grave marker inscriptions were transcribed.  Site size was estimated by pacing the horizontal extent of the observed graves.

 

Survey Date:         11/98

 

Field Notes:           _x_Yes   ___No

Photographs:        ___Yes  _x_No

 

References:           None

 

Additional Comments:        Assigned temporal period was based on the 1922 through 1939 range of death dates inscribed on observed headstones.  However, the presence of another reported grave may reflect a later use of the site.  The cemetery is not marked on the USGS Bent Mountain map sheet or on local realty maps.  A local resident provided the location for this cemetery.  She reported the graves of John and Emma Shelor Coles, a son John Coles, a son-in-law J. Lewis Harvey, and one grandson J. Lewis Harvey Jr.  The grave for son John Coles was not observed during the 1998 survey.  However, evidence for the grave may have been obscured by dense vegetation.  Informant also reported the graves for Doug & Carrie Kefauver and their child Coles were moved to Evergreen Cemetery.

 

Marker Inscriptions:

 

Harvey                                                                   John Lewis, Jr.                                      Minnie Hurt,

John Lewis Harvey, M.D.                                   Son of                                                    Wife of John Coles

April 4, 1886                                                          J.L. & E.C. Harvey                                1869 - 1926

June 27, 1939                                                         Feb. 5, 1922

(footstone:  JLH)                                                  Aug. 10, 1923

 

Coles

Father                     Mother

1836 – 1922            1846 – 1931

(two uninscribed footstones present)

 

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