Hartman-Lyles Cemetery

 

Locality: Roanoke County                  Temporal Period:                  20th century

Realty Map:          107.00-2-2 or 3                       Cultural Affiliation:              Euro-American

USGS Map:           Garden City                           Landform:                             Ridge slope

Grid Locus:            H-9                                          Elevation:                              1180 feet

UTM Easting:       595090                                    Aspect:                                  Southwest

UTM Northing:    4114230

 

Site Dimensions:  50 by 75 feet

 

Survey Description:  Site consists of a small family cemetery with 27 graves.  Observed graves included seven marked with inscribed cement markers, three with inscribed granite or marble markers, three with inscribed headstones and uninscribed footstones, eleven with uninscribed fieldstone markers, two with metal markers, and one with a metal marker and uninscribed fieldstone.  All of the observed graves were oriented to the east and southeast.  Other graves may be present.  Graves are not enclosed by a fence.  Historic plantings include oak and cedar trees.  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:           Roanoke Valley Historical Society

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

 

Additional Comments:        Assigned temporal period was based on the 1906 through 1995 range of death dates inscribed on observed headstones.  However, the presence of uninscribed fieldstone markers may reflect an earlier use of the site.  The cemetery is not marked on the USGS Garden City map sheet or on local realty.  Site is located closed to the boundary between parcels 107.00-2-3 and 107.00-2-2.  Headstones observed in the cemetery include a number of well crafted cement markers.  When the site was surveyed, three graves had been recently cleaned, scraped and decorated with red, plastic flowers.

 

This cemetery was initially surveyed by RVHS and designated as the “Hartman Cemetery II.”  The report documented biographical information derived from inscriptions on five headstones that predated 1921 (1986:  134).  All of the headstones recorded by RVHS were also observed during the 1998 survey.

 

Marker Inscriptions:

 

Dolla Lyles                                                            Vola Lyles                                             William H. Lyles

Born 1917                                                              Born Aug 1 1906                                  Born Mar. 21 1878

Died 1917                                                               Died Sept 21                                          Died

(cement headstone,                                             1906                                                        June 9 1928

fieldstone footstone)                                           (cement headstone,                             (cement headstone,

                                                                                fieldstone footstone)                           cement footstone: WH)


Hartman-Lyles Cemetery (continued)

 

H M Hartman                                                        Oscar Carter                                          Duffie Hartman

Jan 15 1870                                                            (metal marker)                                       Born Oct 27 1900

April 12 1930                                                                                                                         Died

(cement headstone,                                                                                                             June 4 1920

cement footstone: HMH)                                                                                                    (cement headstone,

                                                                                                                                                cement footstone: DH)

 

Grover D.                                                               Callie                                                      E P Hartman

Hartman                                                                 W                                                            Born

Born 1893                                                              Hartman                                                 Nov 22 1904

Died Oct. 15,                                                         1895                                                        Died

1938                                                                        1958                                                        Oct 25 19??

(cement headstone,                                             (cement headstone,                             (cement headstone,

cement footstone: GDH)                                     cement footstone: CWH)                    fieldstone footstone)

 

Hartman                                                                 Nancy H.                                               John Allman

Norvan Randolph                                                                Hartman                                                 Hartman

Hartman                                                                 Sept. 2, 1880                                          June 8, 1878

Aug. 21, 1908                                                        Nov. 6, 1972                                          Nov. 18, 1960

Dec. 14, 1933                                                         (granite headstone,                              (granite headstone,

Weep not, father and mother,                            granite footstone:                                                granite footstone:

For me.                                                                   Mother)                                                 Father)

For I am waiting in glory

For thee.

(marble headstone,

marble footstone: NRH)

 

S.B. Hartman                                                         S.H. Hartman

Born                                                                       Born

June 11 1839                                                          Jan 12 1843

Died                                                                        Died

July 10 1927                                                           Nov 21 1913

(cement headstone,                                             (cement headstone,

cement footstone:  SBH)                                     cement footstone: SH)


 

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