Hartman-Bowles Cemetery

 

Locality: Roanoke County                  Temporal Period: 1st half 20th century

Realty Map:          107.00-2-34.1                         Cultural Affiliation:              Euro-American

USGS Map:           Garden City                           Landform:                              Ridge bench

Grid Locus:            G-9                                          Elevation:                              1120 feet

UTM Easting:       594170                                    Aspect:                                  West

UTM Northing:    4114230

 

Site Dimensions:  88.05 by 39.6 by 89.09 by 41 feet

 

Survey Description:  Site consists of a small family cemetery with at least 28 interments.  Identified graves included five marked with inscribed stone or cement headstones, 19 marked with uninscribed fieldstone markers, and at least four unmarked graves identified as ground surface depressions.  Orientation of graves ranged from 66 through 80 degrees.  A wooden post and wire mesh fence encloses the site.   A thick stand of scrub brush covers the sites, but it appeared that periodic clearing has occurred in the past.  Plantings include periwinkle and yucca, the cemetery is surrounded by deciduous forest and pastures.  Site was field inspected, photographed, and headstone inscriptions were transcribed and compared to previous site documentation.  Site size was derived from a local realty map.

 

Survey Date:         3/98

 

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: Assigned temporal period was based on the 1907-1943 range of death dates inscribed on observed headstones.  However, the presence of uninscribed headstones and unmarked graves may reflect an earlier or later use of the site.  Site is not marked on the USGS Garden City map sheet.  It is marked on local realty maps but the parcel is not labeled.

 

This cemetery was surveyed by the RVHS and their report documented biographical information from two graves that predated 1921.  The following biographical information was transcribed from the inscribed markers observed in the cemetery during the 1998 survey.

 

Marker Inscriptions:

 

Mr. William Jordan                                              Cecil Bowles                         Abe Lewis Hartman, Jr

1875 – 1936                                                            Born Jan. 18                          Apr. 6, 1902

(uninscribed fieldstone marker                          1906                                        June 17, 1939

and temporary metal marker)                              Died Aug. 11, 1907               the light of his young life went

                                                                                (cement)                                 down

                                                                                                                                As sinks behind the hill

                                                                                                                                The glory of a setting star –

                                                                                                                                Clear and suddenly still.

Lucy J. Hartman                                                   Abraham L. Hartman

June 3, 1865                                                           Dec. 18, 1867

Dec. 31, 1943                                                         Dec. 9, 1941

In memory of a loved                                           In memory of a loved

one that sleeps here                                            one that sleeps here


 

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