Locality:
Realty Map: 31.00-1-9 Cultural
Affiliation: Euro-American
USGS Map: Glenvar Landform: Ridge bench
Grid Locus: A-7 Elevation: 1840 feet
UTM Easting: 566960 Aspect: Southeast
UTM Northing: 4130310
Site Dimensions: 88 feet by 88 feet
Survey Description:
Site consists of a cemetery with about 96 graves. Observed graves included 34 with uninscribed fieldstone
markers, 59 with inscribed marble headstones, two inscribed fieldstone markers,
and one metal marker. All of the graves
were oriented to the southeast.
Cemetery is enclosed by a chain-link and metal post fence. The site is maintained, covered with mowed
grass, and has a cedar tree as well as some petunias. Yucca plants are located immediately outside
the cemetery fence. Site was field
inspected, photographed, and headstone inscriptions were transcribed and
compared with previous documentation.
Surveyed By: T.
Klatka & A. Sweeney
Survey Date: 4/97
Field Notes: _x_Yes ___No
Photographs: _x_Yes ___No
Reference(s):
1986
Works Progress Administration of
Document # 160.
Additional Comments: Assigned temporal affiliation was based
upon legible headstone inscriptions; however, the presence of numerous
uninscribed fieldstone markers may indicate earlier interments. Death dates on the headstones from 1853
through 1996. Site is marked on the Glenvar map sheet and identified as “Johns
Cem”.
Site is not marked on local realty maps.
This cemetery was initially surveyed in 1936 by the Works
Progress Administration of Virginia and recorded as the “
The RVHS surveyed this cemetery and documented biographical
information derived from 37 headstones which predated 1921 (1986: 144-145)
The headstone inscribed M.P. and recorded by the WPA was not documented
by the RVHS and was not observed during the 1997 survey. However, more extensive documentation was
collected for the headstone recorded by the WPA as M. McCullock. The following list contains biographical
information derived from headstone inscriptions that were observed in the
cemetery during the 1997 survey.
Marker Inscriptions:
John K. Shelor Samuel
Redmond Eakin Luvenia
Brillhart Eakin
Born Nov.21, 1900 Born
May 20, 1864 Born
Died June 21, 19967 Died
April 21, 1940 Died
Oct. 9, 1954
Age 95 Gone,
But Not Forgotten Her
Memory Is Blessed
Lelia Brunk Shephard Our
Loving Son Eakin
April 16, 1863 M.
Wayne Davis Jr. Husband and Wife
Resting in hope of a Jan.
15, 1970 Oct.
6, 1906
Glorious Resurrection
Luvenia Eakin
Shelor Barton David
H. Shelor
Oct. 2, 1866 James
Edward Hannah Rebecca Feb. 3, 1865
May 24, 1958 1878-1948 1877-1978
The Lord Is My
Shepherd The
Lord Is My Shepherd
Gladys Mae
Ruth Elizabeth Orah
Alice Eakin
Infant Daughter Infant
Daughter
Clarence &
Hannie Clarence
& Hannie
Shepherd Shepherd Gone
But Not Forgotten
1930 1938
J.M. Graham Burrel
Virginia
Bodell
Mar. 13, 1863 Lorrain
Turner
Oct.
29, 1925 Let
Our Father’s
Mar. 20, 1926 Will Be
Done
How
Soon Fades The
Tender
Flower
Abbie Dallas Susannah
Shelor A
Wife of Born (Inscribed
fieldstone marker)
G.M. Akin Dec.
8, 1838
Died
Roy Junior Marie
Martin Francis
R Martin
Eakin July,
30 1927 Feb
21 - July 26
Born Mar
5, 1933 1931
Feb. 10, 1920 A
Little Angel
Died
Darling We Miss Thee
Johns
Cemetery (continued)
William W J.M.
Graham Mary J
John Mar.
13, 1863 Wife of
Born J.M.
Graham
May 22, 1870 (Both
on same June 19, 1857
Died monument)
Adah L. Brunk Edward
Brunk Hannah
Died July 14, 1903 Died
Jan. 19, 1902 Wife of
Aged 18 yrs 4 mos. & 2 days Aged 53 yrs. 9 mos. & 2 days J.W.
Died
Aged
69 yrs.
Asleep
in Jesus.
James W. Dallas John
W. Dallas Abbie
A. Eakin
June 6, 1840 Aug.
12, 1860 Born
Apr. 28, 1917 Mar.
31, 1914 Gone
but not forgotten
Gone but not forgotten. At
Rest
Ann Eakin Annie
L. Eakin Frank
A. Eakin
Sept. 29, 1805 Sept.
6 1881
Feb. 8, 1883 Jan.
12, 1882
The Lord is my Shepherd Asleep
in Jesus, Blessed Sleep Gone but not
forgotten
George E. Eakin George
M. Eakin John
May 1, 1880 June
5, 1828
Sept. 15, 1880 Apr.
26, 1897
Father,
peaceful be thy silent slumber.
Louvenie Eakin Ora
E. Eakin Redmond
Eakin
Jan. 2, 1842 Apr.
22, 1892
Apr. 20, 1863 Nov.
16, 1892
He leadeth me beside He
maketh me to lie down
the still waters in
green pastures.
Susannah Eakin William
D. Eakin In
Memory of
June 24, 1836 Jan.
23, 1882 Willis
M. Graham
Mar. 21, 1913 Sept.
3, 1883
Rest, Mother, rest
in quiet sleep Rest,
Willis, rest is quiet sleep
While
friends in sorrow o’er thee weep
(maker’s mark: W.B. Brightwell
& Co., Salem, Va.)
David John Griffith
John Infant
son of
Brother Father M.M.
& L.A. John
Died July 1, 1865 Died
Oct. 28, 1883 Died
Aged 20 yrs. 10 mos. 18 days Aged
78 yrs.
Johns
Cemetery (continued)
John John Liona
John Mary
J. John
Jan. 4, 1831 Mother
Oct. 12, 1917 Died
Dec. 27, ????
Aged
59 yrs.
Elizabeth Bowers Mary
J. Eakin
Wife of Wife
of
P.J. Bush & Benjamin J. McCulloch Benjamin McCulloch
Aug. 18, 1828
Mar. 20, 1869
Ann E. J.
B. Obenshain
Wife of
J.B. Obenshain
May 9, 1853 At
Rest
Rest, Mother, rest in quiet sleep
While friends in sorrow o’er thee weep
In Loving Remembrance of Barkley
Painter Susanna
Painter
Minnie B. Obenshain June
10, 1818
Aug 8, 1874 Sept.
6, 1884
Feb. 12, 1920 Death
leaves a shining mark.
Mark B. Sessler Mary
David
Shelor
Feb. 16, 1809 Wife
of
Aug. 6, 1892 Mark
B. Sessler
Blessed are the dead
Which die in the Lord
From henceforth… I
know that my
They may rest Redeemer
liveth
From their labors, etc. -
Job 19 & 27
Headstones documented by the RVHS, but not observed during
the 1997 survey:
Ida M. Eakin / Nov. 10, 1887 /
John H. Eakin / Oct. 12, 1885 / Sept. 15, 1888 / dearest
one, thou art gone to heaven
Sarah Shelor / Dec. 8, 1838 /