Duckwiler-Hurt-Board Cemetery

 

Locality: Roanoke County                  Temporal Period:                  19th c.     

Realty Map:          73.00-2-11                              Cultural Affiliation:              Euro-American

USGS Map:           Elliston                                   Landform:                              Ridge top

Grid Locus:            K-1                                          Elevation:                              1280 feet

UTM Easting:       576340                                    Aspect:                                  Flat

UTM Northing:    4122450

 

Site Dimensions:  152.13 by 108 by 234.61 by 239 feet

 

Survey Description:  Site consists of a cemetery with at least 43 graves.  These graves included ten with inscribed markers, 16 with uninscribed markers, and 17 unmarked graves identified on the basis of ground surface depressions.  All of the observed graves were oriented to the southeast.  Historic plantings include periwinkle, cedar and oak trees.  Site was field inspected, photographed, and grave marker inscriptions were transcribed and compared to previous documentation.  Site size was derived from local realty maps.

 

Survey Date:         10/98

 

Field Notes:           _x_Yes   ___No

Photographs:        _x_Yes   ___No

 

References:           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 #100.

 

Additional Comments: Assigned temporal period was based on the 1837 through 1898 range of death dates documented from headstone inscriptions.  However, the presence of uninscribed fieldstone markers and unmarked graves may reflect an earlier or later use of the site.  Some of the headstones identified during the survey had fallen and were obscured by vegetation.  It is likely that other headstones documented by previous survey efforts but not observed during the 1998 survey have fallen and remain hidden by vegetation.  The cemetery is marked on the USGS Elliston map sheet and identified as the “Duckwiler Cem.”  The cemetery parcel is marked on local realty maps but is not labeled.

 

This cemetery was initially surveyed in 1936 by the Works Progress Administration of Virginia and recorded as the “Joseph Duckwiler Cemetery” in Document #100 of the Historical Inventory of Roanoke County, Virginia.  The WPA file provided biographical information for ten graves.   The WPA file described the cemetery as unfenced, poorly maintained, with an old and a new part.

 

The RVHS also surveyed the cemetery and recorded it as the “Duckwiler Cemetery I.”  The survey report documented biographical information derived from the WPA survey file and observation of inscriptions on 22 headstones that predated 1920 (1986:  111-112).  All of the inscriptions recorded by the WPA were also recorded by RVHS; however, many of these inscriptions were not observed during the 1980 cemetery.    The RVHS added, “most of the graves had stones at one time, but most are missing.  There are no stones in the adjacent Doyle plot.”

 

 


Duckwiler-Hurt-Board Cemetery (continued)

 

Marker Inscriptions:

 

William Green Hurt                                              Infant child of                                       In Memory Of

Born Feb. 17  1853                                                P.H. Hurt                                                Mary Board

Died Oct. 9th  1854                                                Born Feb. 25                                          Wife of

(broken headstone)                                             1855                                                        G.B. Board

                                                                                                                                                Born August 16th 1829

                                                                                                                                                Died Dec. 9th 1853

 

Sacred to the memory of                                     In Memory of                                        In Memory of

Joseph Duckwiler                                                 Alice B. Hurt                                         Minnie L. Bandy,

Born Feb. 16th 1794;                                             Daughter of                                           Daughter of

Died Jan. 4th 1877                                  P.H. & Nancy A. Hurt                         J.T. & S.I. Bandy

“The violets o’er thee bloom                             Born Dec. 9 1860,                 Born June 12, 1871

The star their vigils keep                                    Died July – 1861                                   Died July 20, 1875

While neath this lonely tomb

They lifeless from shall sleep                             M.D.                                                       …from thy

But when the last loud trump shall sound,      (footstone only)                                   Thy gentle spir..

And all the dead shall rise,                                                                                                 Sorrow’s no..

We’ll meet thee in a better clime                        S.L.D.                                                     (fragmented headstone;

And dwell above the skies.”                              (footstone only)                                   footstone: NAH)

(footstone:  JD)

 

Inscriptions documented by the WPA and RVHS surveys but not observed during the 1998 survey:

 

Green Duckwiler                                                   John Duckwiler                                     Sarah Lucinda Duckwiler

Sept. 28, 1831                                                        Jan. 10, 1835                                          Dec. 20, 1844

Nov. 25.1840                                                         Nov. 24, 1840                                        May 9, 1845

 

Miriam                                                                    Lucinda                                                  Nancy Ann

Wife of                                                                   Wife of                                                   Wife of P.H. Hurt

Joseph Duckwiler                                                 Joseph Duckwiler                                 Daughter of Joseph Duckwiler

June 15, 1796                                                         Apr. 29, 1807                                         Oct. 5, 1827

July 22, 1837                                                          Dec. 28, 1844                                         Dec. 19, 1859

                                                                                                                                                (only footstone observed

                                                                                                                                                by RVHS)

 

Inscriptions documented by the RVHS but not documented by the WPA or 1998 survey:

 

James M. Rettinger              In memory of Alice B. Hurt                                 Ocie Bradley

son of                                     Daughter of P.H. and Nancy A. Hurt

J.W. and N.F                         Born Dec. 9, 1860                                 .               Grover Harrison Doyle Died July 1861

Rettinger                                Lewis Barnett                                                                        Rosa McDaniel

Born

Dec. 23, 1897                         Minor Buck                                                                           John Bradley

Died                                                       

Jan. 26, 1898                          Rhoda Jane (Light) Doyle                                                   Alice Sesler

Asleep in Jesus                                   

                                                Charlie Wade Doyle


 

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