Grogan-Calloway Cemetery

 

 

Locality: Roanoke County                  Temporal Period: 2nd-4th quarters 20th c.

Realty Map:          103.00-5-1                              Cultural Affiliation:              African-American

USGS Map:           Bent Mountain                     Landform:                              Ridge slope

Grid Locus:            D-10                                        Elevation:                              2880 feet

UTM Easting:       580300                                    Aspect:                                  Northwest

UTM Northing:    4113380

 

Site Dimensions:  15 by 35 feet

 

Survey Description:  Site consists of a family cemetery with ten interments.  Observed graves include two marked with an inscribed double headstone, seven marked with metal markers, and one recent interment not yet marked.  The inscription on one of the metal markers was not legible.  Orientation of the graves ranged from 60 to 65 degrees.  Site appears to be located at the eastern edge of a yard in front of an abandoned house.  Site is covered with mowed grass and no historic plantings were observed.  At the eastern boundary of the cemetery two survey stakes were observed.  One of these wooden stakes was marked “COR. PROPOSED CEMETERY” and the other was marked “CEM. 9-7-93.”  Obviously, this suggests the cemetery was surveyed in the recent past, but the bounds have not been included on local real estate maps.  The alignment of the survey stakes and graves suggests the northeast - southwest site dimension may be 100 feet.  However,  no other survey stakes were observed so it is not know of the southeast – northwest dimension of the site is larger than documented in this report.  Site was field inspected, photographed, and headstone inscriptions were transcribed.  Site size was estimated by pacing the horizontal extent of observed graves.

 

Survey Date:         9/98

 

Field Notes:           x Yes    No

Photographs:        x Yes     No

 

Reference(s):         None

 

Additional Comments:  Assigned temporal period was based on death dates observed on grave markers and informants’ reports of the recent interments.  The earliest death date observed on legible markers is 1948.  The presence of one illegible marker may represent an earlier use of the site.   Site is not marked on the USGS Bent Mountain map sheet or on local real estate maps.

 

Marker inscriptions:

 

Grogan                                                   Frederick Lee                                        Ben Grogan

Julia A.                                                   Calloway                                                1897-1948

1915-1997                                               1963-1987

James J.

1915-1961

 

Grogan infant                                        Grogans infant                                      Charles Grogan Jr

1952-1952                                               1951-1951                                               1967-1967

 

Russell

Grogans

1970-1971


 

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