Locality:
Realty Map: 21.00-1-35 Cultural
Affiliation: Euro-American
USGS Map: Glenvar Landform: Ridge bench
Grid Locus: D-4 Elevation:
2250 ft
UTM Easting: 569580 Aspect: Flat
UTM Northing: 4133550
Site Dimensions: 25 by 25 feet
Survey Description:
This small cemetery contains seven graves. All of these graves were oriented to the
northeast and marked with inscribed marble markers. A wood post and wire mesh fence once
surrounded the cemetery but only deteriorated remnants remain today. The surrounding land is used as
pasturage. Cattle have trampled the site
surface and toppled most of the markers.
Weeds and a few deciduous saplings grow on the site, and the only
historic plantings appear to be a large cedar and a wild rose bush. The site is not maintained. The site was field inspected, photographed,
and headstone inscriptions were compared with previous site documentation. Site size was obtained by measuring the
horizontal extent of the remnant fence posts around the cemetery.
Surveyed By: T.
Klatka & A. Sweeney
Survey Date: 4/97
Photographs: _x_Yes ___No
Reference(s):
1986
Additional Comments:
Assigned temporal period was based on the range of death dates inscribed
on observed headstones. These dates
ranged from 1875 through 1916. All of
the headstones in the cemetery were originally set so that the inscriptions
faced to the southwest. However, the
location of associated ground surface depressions and footstones indicated that
all of the graves were oriented to the northeast. All of this suggests the cemetery was
originally designed with an approach or entrance along the southwest side. The cemetery is not marked on the Glenvar map
sheet or on local realty maps.
The RVHS surveyed this cemetery and documented biographical
information from all of the headstones in the cemetery (1986: 139).
This information was verified during the 1997 survey.
Marker inscriptions:
Mary C. J.A.
Henderson Sarah
R. Henderson
Wife of
She was a kind friends
in sorrow o’er
and affectionate wife thee
weep.
a fond Mother, and
a friend to all.
A. Lucy John
M. Henderson
Daughter of
JA & MC Henderson
Nov. 6, 1885
Suffer little children God
called him home
to come unto me. He
thought it best.
Elizabeth A. Henderson
She believed and sleeps in Jesus