Duckwiler-Hurt-
Locality:
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:
1986
Works Progress Administration of
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 “
The RVHS also surveyed the cemetery and recorded it as the “
Marker Inscriptions:
William Green Hurt Infant
child of In
Memory Of
Born
Died
(broken headstone) 1855 G.B.
Board
Born
Died
Sacred to the memory of In
Memory of In
Memory of
Joseph Duckwiler Alice
B. Hurt Minnie
L. Bandy,
Born
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
The star their vigils keep Died
July – 1861 Died
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
Nov. 25.1840 Nov.
24, 1840
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
July 22, 1837 Dec.
28, 1844
(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