Garner-Saunders Cemetery

 

Locality: Roanoke County                  Temporal Period:                  2nd, 3rd, 4th quarters 20th. C.

Realty Map:          87.17-6-11.1                           Cultural Affiliation:              Euro-American

USGS Map:           Bent Mountain                     Landform:                              Ridge top

Grid Locus:            K/L-6                                      Elevation:                              1240 feet

UTM Easting:       588000                                    Aspect:                                  Flat

UTM Northing:    4117660

 

Site Dimensions:  122.92 by 130.21 by 136.87 by 151.51 feet

 

Survey Description:  Site consists of a cemetery with at least 20 graves.  Observed graves included 10 marked with granite markers, four marked with metal markers, three marked with uninscribed fieldstones, two marked with metal military memorials, and at least one unmarked grave visible as a ground surface depression.  Cemetery is maintained and covered with mowed grass.  Historic plantings include two boxwoods.  Site was field inspected, photographed, and grave marker inscriptions were transcribed.  Site size was derived from local realty maps.

 

Survey Date:         11/98

 

Field Notes:           _x_Yes   ___No

Photographs:        _x_Yes   ___No

 

References:           None

 

Additional Comments:  Assigned temporal period was based on the 1928 through 1998 range of death dates inscribed on observed headstones.  However, the presence of uninscribed fieldstone markers and an unmarked grave may reflect an earlier use of the site.  The cemetery is not marked on the USGS Bent Mountain map sheet, but it is marked on local realty maps and labeled “Garner Cemetery.”  Site lies on the rear lot of a recently constructed Episcopal Church – Church of the Holy Spirit, an evangelical parish (6011 Merriman Road).

 

Marker Inscriptions:

 

                Saunders                                               Leon Frank Simmons                                           Simmons

Essie Myrtle          Robert Henry                        1932        1964                                        Joseph F.               Esta M.

Nov. 27, 1878        Oct. 12, 1869                          (metal marker)                                       Sept. 14, 1887   July 9, 1892

May 12, 1956         Nov. 3, 1937                                                                                          Sept. 16, 1963   Oct. 29, 1977

 

Charles E. Simmons                                             James Edmond Hunley                        Roger Lee Hunley

1919            1975                                                        US Navy                                                US Navy

(metal marker)                                                       Vietnam                                                  Sep 4  1944  Apr 22  1998

1946            1989

 

Etna D. King                                                         Effie M. St. Clair                                   Virgie Anna Grubb

Jan. 16, 1892                                                          Apr. 26, 1900                                         1888        1952

Mar. 3, 1976                                                           July 16, 1944

 

W. Harold Garner                                 Betelle S. Garner                                   Thomas Jefferson

May 14, 1936                                                         May 12, 1907                                         Garner

Oct. 18, 1937                                                          Dec. 28, 1993                                         Mar. 12, 1853

                                                                                                                                                May 1, 1928


 

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