Hogan-Chisom Cemetery

 

Locality: Roanoke County                  Temporal Period:                  20th century

Realty Map:          80.00-1-23/38                         Cultural Affiliation:              Euro-American

USGS Map:           Garden City                           Landform:                              Ridge top

Grid Locus:            L-1                                          Elevation:                              1120 feet

UTM Easting:       599150                                    Aspect:                                  Flat

UTM Northing:    4122840

 

Site Dimensions: 30.5 feet by 70.9 feet

 

Survey Description:  This site consists of a small family cemetery containing ten interments.  Most graves were marked with inscribed, granite headstones.  One grave was marked with an uninscribed cut stone marker, one was marked with an uninscribed cement marker, and one grave was unmarked.  All of the graves were oriented to the southeast.  A fence constructed of chain-link fence with galvanized poles encloses the cemetery.  Site appeared maintained and covered with mowed grass.  Yucca plants were present.  Site was field inspected, photographed, and headstone inscriptions were transcribed..  Site size was determined by measuring the horizontal extent of the surrounding fence lines.

 

Survey Date:         11/97

 

Field Notes:           _x_Yes   ___No

Photographs:        _x_Yes   ___No

 

Reference(s):

Additional Comments:  Assigned temporal period was based on death dates inscribed on observed headstones and on informant reports.  Cemetery came into use sometime between the mid 1920s and 1932.  Site is not marked on the USGS Garden City map sheet.   Most of the following information was transcribed from headstone inscriptions.  However, information regarding unmarked graves and graves with uninscribed markers was provided by informant Curtis Lacy Hogan.

 

Marker inscriptions:

 

Hogan                                                                                    Hogan

Curtis Lacy            Elna Claudine Myers                           John W.                 Mary A.

June 4, 1924           March 31, 1924                                     1881-1960               1886-1966

----                           June 11, 1997                                         Gone, but not forgotten

 

Mary Jane                                                                                                             Milton

Daughter of                                                                           P.F.C. Joe Milton                  Eula Ann Milton

Mr. & Mrs. Joe Milton                                                        Mar. 6, 1911                           Jan. 10, 1914

Born Mar. 17, 1934                                                               Nov. 9, 1944                          Aug. 16, 1978

Died Apr. 6, 1935                                                  Gone, but                               Memories are forever

Darling, we miss you.                                                          Not forgotten.

 

Uninscribed cut stone marker                                            Uninscribed cement marker

(grave of Mary Black Craig                                                (grave of Rose Chisom deceased

February 1932)                                                                      deceased prior to 1932)

 

Unmarked depression

(grave for Rose Chisom’s two children

deceased prior to 1932)


 

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