Hall-Garman Cemetery

 

Locality: Roanoke County                  Temporal Period:                  1st Quarter 20th Century

Realty Map:          21.00-1-21                              Cultural Affiliation:              Euro-American

USGS Map:           Glenvar                                  Landform:                              Ridge top

Grid Locus:            E-4                                          Elevation:                              2380 feet

UTM Easting:       570600                                    Aspect:                                  Flat

UTM Northing:    4133660

 

Site Dimensions:  10 by 35 feet

 

Survey Description: Site consists of a small cemetery with five graves.  Four of the graves were marked by inscribed marble headstones and one was marked with an uninscribed fieldstone marker.  All of the graves were oriented to the east.  The site not maintained and is surrounded by a dense growth of saplings, weeds and scrub brush.  The site is located approximately 30 feet southeast of a house.  Historic plantings on the site include yucca and baby’s breath flowers.  Site was field inspected and headstone inscriptions were transcribed and compared to previous site documentation.  Site boundaries were estimated by pacing the horizontal extent of the observed graves.

 

Surveyed By:        T. Klatka & A. Sweeney

Survey Date:         4/97

 

Field Notes:           X  Yes    No

Photographs:           Yes   X No

 

Reference(s):         Roanoke Valley Historical Society.

1986            Roanoke County Graveyards Through 1920.  Privately printed, RVHS, Roanoke.

 

Additional Comments:  The assigned temporal period of the cemetery was based on headstone inscriptions; however, the presence of an uninscribed fieldstone marker may indicate an earlier or later use of the cemetery. Land surrounding the cemetery currently owned by Wayne Perkins; his father-in-law, Arthur Bennett, now occupies a house on the property.  Cemetery is not marked on the Glenvar map sheet or on local realty maps.

 

This cemetery was surveyed by the RVHS and recorded as the “Hall Cemetery III” (1986:  133). The RVHS transcribed inscriptions from four headstones that predated 1921.  The name of the cemetery has been altered for this report to reflect the two family names represented in the cemetery.

 

Marker inscriptions:

 

Winnie Lee Hall                                    Ira Nelson Hall                                      Haden Hall

Aug. 7, 1905                                          Died Mar. 24, 1907                               Dec. 24, 1851

Aug. 9, 1908                                          Aged 32 yrs. 10 mos. 25 days            Nov. 19, 1915

                                                                                                                                Aged 63 yrs. 10 mos. 25 days

Edward A. Garman

Jan. 28, 1879

Oct. 2, 1908

Aged 29 yrs. 3 mos. 2 days.


 

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