Locality:
Realty Map: 6380201 Cultural
Affiliation: Euro-American
USGS Map:
Grid Locus: L-8/L-9 Elevation: 1080 feet
UTM Easting: 588240 Aspect: Northwest
UTM Northing: 4129010
Site Dimensions: 35
by 35 feet
Survey Description:
Site consists of a small family cemetery with at least seven
graves. Two graves were marked by a
modern headstone, one grave was marked by a fragmented headstone, one grave was
marked by an uninscribed footstone, and three unmarked graves were identified
on the basis of ground surface depressions.
Other graves may be present. All
of the observed graves were oriented to the east. This cemetery is in poor condition, covered
with scrub brush, saplings, and littered with refuse. Site was field inspected, photographed, and
grave marker inscriptions were transcribed and compared to previous
documentation. Site size was estimated
by pacing the horizontal extent of the observed graves.
Survey Date: 11/98
Field Notes: _x_Yes ___No
Photographs: _x_Yes ___No
References:
1986
Works Progress Administration of
Additional Comments:
Assigned temporal period was based on the 1821 through 1875 range of
death dates inscribed on observed headstones or documented by previous surveys. However, the presence of uninscribed
fieldstone markers and unmarked graves may reflect an earlier or later use of
the site. The cemetery is not marked on
the USGS Salem map sheet and or on local realty maps. The name of the cemetery has been altered to
include both of the families know to have used the cemetery.
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 documented
biographical information derived from inscriptions on four headstones that
predated 1920 (1986: 130). All of the headstones recorded by the WPA
were also recorded by RVHS; however, the WPA recorded the name Christine Ground
while the RVHS recorded the name Christina Grounds. The RVHS report also noted that the marker
for Christina and John Garst was a replacement stone set around 1952. In the following transcription of grave
markers, bold print indicates information recorded by the RVHS but not observed
during the 1998 survey because of fragmented markers. Italicized print indicates information
observed during the 1998 survey but not documented by the RVHS.
Ground-Garst
Cemetery (continued)
Marker Inscriptions:
John Garst, Sr. Christina
P. Garst To the memory George Ground
Nov. 10, 1796 Mar.
2, 1798 Elizabeth
Ground
June 25, 1875 Sept.
25, 1861 Consort of George Ground
Died Age
88 Y 11 M 28 Days
Those
Was erected to
Their memory
By L. Zirkle
wife