Howbert-Day Cemetery

 

Locality: Roanoke City                        Temporal Period:                  19th c. through 1st quarter 20th c.

Realty Map:          1260514                                  Cultural Affiliation:              Euro-American

USGS Map:           Roanoke                                                Landform:                              Knoll

Grid Locus:            D-1                                          Elevation:                              1060 feet

UTM Easting:       591850                                    Aspect:                                  Flat

UTM Northing:    4123250

 

Site Dimensions: 27.93 by 89.5 by 65.5 by 162.96 feet

 

Survey Description:  Site consists of a small family cemetery with at least four interments.  Three graves were marked with inscribed marble and granite headstones with fieldstones used for footstones, and another grave was marked with uninscribed fieldstone markers at the head and foot of the grave.  All interments were oriented to the southeast.  Other unmarked graves may be present.  Three other graves (dating to 1862, 1869, and 1873) for members of the Howbert family were moved to Fairview Cemetery.  Site is located between two lots in a circa 1950s residential subdivision.  Site is maintained and includes plantings such as yucca, lilies, and periwinkle groundcover.  Site is not enclosed by a fence.  Site size was derived from City of Roanoke realty map.  Site was field inspected, and headstone inscriptions were transcribed and compared to previous site documentation.

 

Surveyed By:        T. Klatka & D. Richardson

Survey Date:         11/97

 

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:  Site was not marked on USGS Roanoke map sheet.  Assigned temporal period was based on death dates inscribed on observed markers and information documented by the RVHS.  According to available information the graves date from 1810 through 1902.

 

The RVHS surveyed this cemetery and documented biographical information for seven graves that predated 1921 (1986:  143).  This included information derived from the headstones of Evan Day, Walter F. Dillon, and John G. Anderson.  Additional information related to three members of the Howbert family whose remains were removed to Fairview Cemetery, and the grave for an “infant child of Evan and Ann [Day, who] died in 1810.”

 

Headstone inscriptions are as follows:

 

Evan Day                                               Walter F. Dillon                                                    John G. Anderson

Sept. 11, 1763                                        Born                                                                       son of

Aug. 10, 1843                                        July 27, 1872                                                          F.P. & M. M. Anderson

Husband of Ann Edington                 Died                                                                        June 23, 1880

                                                                Aug. 16, 1902                                                        71 yrs. old

Weep not father and mother for me                  Died April 4, 1869.

                                                                For I am waiting in glory for thee


 

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