John Henry Mitchell Cemetery

 

Locality: Roanoke City                        Temporal Period:                  Indeterminate

Realty Map:          1410207/1410208   Cultural Affiliation:              Indeterminate

USGS Map:           Roanoke                                                Landform:                              Ridge Top Knoll

Grid Locus:            C-12                                        Elevation:                              1000 feet

UTM Easting:       590080                                    Aspect:                                  Southeast

UTM Northing:    4125300

 

Site Dimensions:  Unknown

 

Survey Description:  Site consists of a small family cemetery with at least five graves.  Graves were documented during a land survey plotted on a survey plat.  All of the identified graves were oriented to the east.  Site was field inspected; however, an extremely dense stand of briars prohibited a thorough survey of the cemetery.  One ground depression on the ground surface was identified.  Historic plantings include day lilies.

 

Survey Date:         6/99

 

Field Notes:           _x_Yes   ___No

Photographs:        ___Yes  _x_No

 

References:           None

 

Additional Comments:  A thorough field survey and documentary research should provide social and temporal information pertaining to this cemetery.  The cemetery is not marked on the USGS Roanoke map sheet or on local realty maps.  Cemetery was recorded as a cluster of at least five graves on the “Plat of Survey made for Fuel Oil & Equipment Co., Inc., former property of John Henry Mitchell Heirs, to be conveyed to W.B. Adams and Martha D. Adams” (Roanoke County Deed Book 1336, Page 163).  On the survey plat, four graves were plotted immediately east of a razed residential structure (parcel number 1410227).  To the immediate south of these four graves and just north of Roanoke Avenue another grave was plotted (parcel number 1410208).  Name of the cemetery was derived from the title of the survey plat; however, it should be considered tentative until additional research is conducted.


 

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