Locality:
Realty Map: 79.02-1-13 Cultural
Affiliation: Euro-American
USGS Map: Garden
City Landform: Ridge top
Grid Locus: K-1 Elevation: 1100 feet
UTM Easting: 598480 Aspect: Flat
UTM Northing: 4122140
Site Dimensions: 117.19 by 105 by 116.91 by 113.09 feet
Survey Description:
Site consists of a family cemetery with about 53 interments. Site appeared to be maintained and was
covered with mowed grass. Observed
graves included: 18 marked with inscribed marble and granite markers; one
marked with metal marker mounted onto a wooded cross; two marked with metal
plates; one with a cement marker; two with metal markers; one marked with a
bronze plaque mounted on marble; one marked with a footstone only; six marked
with uninscribed fieldstone markers, and five marked with uninscribed cut
marble/granite markers. At least 16 unmarked depressions on the ground surface
may represent additional graves. The
northeast, northwest, and southeast boundaries were marked by remnants of a
chain-link fence and two cut-stone (granite?) posts. Two wood posts and one granite post mark the
southwest boundary of the
Survey Date: 11/97
Field Notes: _x_Yes ___No
Photographs: ___Yes _x_No
Reference(s):
1986
Additional Comments: Assigned temporal period was based on
observed death dates which range from 1917 through 1982. However, the presence of uninscribed fieldstone
markers and numerous unmarked graves may indicate an earlier use of the
site. Modern cleaning of the site
surface and the application of fresh soil on subsided grave shafts may cover
and obscure the location of other unmarked graves. Site is marked on the USGS Garden City map
sheet and labeled as “Hogan Cem.” Site
is also marked on local realty maps.
The RVHS surveyed this cemetery and documented biographical
information derived from seven gravestones that predated 1921 (1986: 141). The RVHS report combined this cemetery
with the adjacent Angel Cemetery. The
boundaries between the cemeteries can be defined on variation in mortuary
practices, but the boundary is not readily apparent. Three local residents maintained the Hogan
Cemetery is socially separate from the Angel Cemetery. The following provides a comprehensive list
of inscriptions on observed grave markers.
Marker Inscriptions:
Robert Edward Melvin
Alvin
Fred Vaughn
Son of Son
of US
Army
D.E. & M.M. H.C.
& Edna B. World
War II
Nimmo Chisom 1924 1982
May 2, 1923 May
21, 1917 (metal
marker at
July 17, 1923 Dec.
16, 1917 foot
of grave)
Hogan
Cemetery (continued)
Carl James
G. Spradlin E.F.T.
Edison 1908 1952 (inscription
on
Spradlin (metal
marker footstone;
head-
Virginia attached
to was
no observed)
PVT Co C wood
cross)
86 ENGR Combat BN
World War II
PS Jenkins James
Michael Chisom Otho
Arnold Chisom
Co 1 April
22, 1958
5 VA REG Nov.
3, 1938
CSA (metal
plate) (metal
plate)
Delia Ann Mary
Jane Simmons Alice
V.
Wife of Jm 1884 1949 Daughter
of
Chisom (metal
marker) H.L.
& S.E. Bailey
Born 1853 July
18, 1943
Sep. 12, 1923
Gone but not forgotten
Little Fats Hogan In
memory only
son of James
E. Lillie N. J.W. Hogan,
Sr.
R.M. And R.L. Dec.
21, 1864 Oct. 10, 1881
Blankenship Nov.
20, 1947 Oct. 25, 1950
Feb. 13, 1944 At
rest (metal
& marble marker)
Larry W. Hodges
Nelson John
Wm. Lucy Hogan Thelma P. Hogan
July 6, 1954 Aug.
4, 1875 Apr. 7, 1885 our beloved sister
July 6, 1954 July
31, 1932 Feb. 15, 1969 1928 1929
Father and Mother our
beloved mother our
beloved father
John O. Hogan 1907
- 1936 1903 1978
Born Nov. 19. 1848
Died Dec. 30. 1920
His Wife
Nancy A. Lacy Beulah
Hill Hogan
Born Dec. 9, 1846 our
beloved mother
Died Jan. 17, 1921 1915
- 1977
Inscriptions reported in RVHS report (page 141), but not
observed during the current survey:
Francis Chisom (hand carved stone, no dates)
Whorley
Terzah B./ 1822 - Sept. 1865
Wm. W./ 1818 - Dec. 1872 ( a double stone with above, “In
memory of our father & mother