Locality:
Realty Map: 79.03-5-56 Cultural
Affiliation: Euro-American
USGS Map: Garden
City Landform: Ridge top
Grid Locus: I-2
/ I-3 Elevation: 1140 feet
UTM Easting: 596200 Aspect: Flat
UTM Northing: 4121000
Site Dimensions:
120.5 by 420.5 feet
Survey Description: Site consists of a large cemetery which
continues to serve the needs of the local community. At least 192 interments are present including
116 with formal headstones made from marble, cement or rock, 64 with
uninscribed fieldstone markers, 3 with wooden crosses, and at least 9 unmarked
graves. Other unmarked graves may be
present. All of the graves are oriented
to the east. A U-shaped gravel road
surrounds site. The site is maintained
and covered with mowed grass. Historic
plantings include periwinkle, yucca, cedars, and a mixture of deciduous and
evergreen trees. Site was field
inspected, photographed, and headstone inscriptions were transcribed and
compared to previous site documentation.
Site size was derived from local realty/tax assessment map; however,
pacing of horizontal distribution of graves provided a smaller size of 90 by
390 feet.
Surveyed By: T.
Klatka & D. Richardson
Survey Date: 9/97
Field Notes:
x Yes No
Photographs:
x Yes No
Reference(s):
1986
Additional Comments: Assigned temporal period based on
observed headstone inscriptions; however, the presence of fieldstone markers
and unmarked grass may indicate an earlier use of the site. Death dates on observed headstones range from
1886 to 1997. Site is marked on the USGS
Garden City map sheet and on local realty maps.
Site features use of inscribed fieldstone markers that date to the 1920s
and 1930s.
The RVHS surveyed this cemetery and documented biographical
information from 26 headstones which predated 1920 (1986: 123-124). The following information supplements the
RVHS report with additional biographical information obtained from other
headstones in the cemetery that predated
1950. During the 1997 survey headstones
which postdated 1950 were counted but biographical information was not transcribed
from them. Interested readers should
consult the RVHS report for additional information on this cemetery Bold, italicized font indicate clarifications
or corrections of the the transcriptions.
Marker Inscriptions:
W.
Gearheart Herbert R. Simmons Vera
Garnand
John Henry
(marble stone added to earlier Apr.
14, 1927
inscribed fieldstone markers) We
will meet again
Cara Jane Garnand Marshall
F.
Gearheart John
L. Martha C. Robertson
At Rest.
Gearheart Elizabeth Ann
Robertson In
Loving Memory
Elias Morgan Della
Layman
1874-1963 1878-1924
Andrew A. Infant
Daughter of Boss
S. Adams
(Sunken stone - Elizabeth
Boulding 1880 1957
rest of stone
could not be read)
Lewis L. Adams Elizabeth M. Boulding Archie
Boulding
Born Wife
of Wife
of
Died
His memory is
Blessed
Martha Ann Eldridge
Ray Weaver W.
Lee Weaver
Daughter of “Buck”
W.L. & Blanche
Weaver Killed
in Action
Issac N. Spradlin Nancy
T. Wimmer
Died
Aged 65 Years Issac
N. Spradlin
Ira F. Spradlin John
E. Tempy E. Robertson
Robertson Sidney
Lewis Royal
Jeter
George Cecil
Freda Shelvatine Herbert
G. Henry
J. Clark
Doss
Aug. 25. 1938
Sidney F. Hendrick James
F. Palmer
Michael Dase G.
R.
Garnand Curtis