Locality:
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):
1986
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
(uninscribed fieldstone marker 1906
and temporary metal marker) Died
(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. 31, 1943
In memory of a loved In
memory of a loved
one that sleeps here one
that sleeps here