Locality:
Realty Map: 4360603 Cultural
Affiliation: Euro-American
USGS Map: Garden
City Landform: Ridge bench
Grid Locus: I-1 Elevation: 940 feet
UTM Easting: 596200 Aspect: South
UTM Northing: 4122940
Site Dimensions: 25.4 by 41.4 feet
Survey Description:
Site consists of a small family cemetery containing about 12
interments. Five interments were marked
by formal headstones, three were marked with uninscribed fieldstone markers,
and four unmarked graves were identified on the basis of ground surface
depressions. Graves are enclosed by a
concrete wall which measures 25.4 by 41.4 feet and about 2.5 -3 feet high. All graves were oriented to the southeast. Historic plantings included five large oak
trees and a dense groundcover of periwinkle.
Site was field inspected, photographed, and headstone inscriptions were
transcribed and compared to previous site documentation. Site size was estimated by measuring the
horizontal extent of the surrounding enclosure.
Surveyed By: T.
Klatka & D. Richardson
Survey Date: 10/97
Field Notes: _x_Yes ___No
Photographs: _x_Yes ___No
Reference(s):
1986
Works Progress Administration of
Document #111.
Additional Comments: Temporal affiliation of site was based
on death dates inscribed on headstones.
These dates ranged from 1858 – 1887.
The presence of unmarked graves and graves marked by uninscribed
fieldstone markers may indicate an earlier or later use of the site. Site is not marked on the USGS Garden City
map sheet, but it is marked on local realty maps. Although no headstones or unmarked graves
were identified outside the cement wall,
a lush growth of periwinkle to the west of the wall suggests the possibility
that other interments might be located outside the cement wall.
The cemetery was initially surveyed by the Works Progress
Administration of Virginia and was recorded in Document #111 of the Historical
Inventory for
The site was also surveyed by the RVHS and their report
included biographical information derived from five inscribed headstones
observable in the cemetery and one interment not observed during the survey but
listed on the WA survey file for the cemetery (RVHS 1986: 147-148).
Finally, records of an independent survey of the cemetery were deposited
in the Cemetery Files in the
Kefauver
Cemetery (continued)
Marker Inscriptions:
Susan Nidy In
memory of In
memory of
wife of Peter
Kefauver Eva
C. ----
Peter Kefauver Died (inscription
not
Died Sept. 3, 1887. Dec’r.
28, 1877 legible)
Aged Aged
76 years (footstone:
E.C.G.)
88 years & 2 mos. (footstone:
PK)
In memory of In
memory of
W. M. Kefauver Philip
Kefauver
Born Aug. 6, 1849 departed
this life
Died June 20, 1867
(footstone: W.M.K.) Aged
23 years and
6 days
(footstone: P.K.)
The RVHS report included the following information from the
partially illegible headstone listed above:
Griggs, In Memory of/ Eva C., wife
of Sam Griggs/ Born July 2, 1838/ Died
The same report includes the following information recorded
on the WPA survey file for the cemetery.
In Memory of Mrs. Eva G. / Kefauver
/ Wife of Daniel / Born July 2, 1835 / Died
Similarities in the months and days of birth and death from
these two records suggest they may refer to the same grave marker; however,
archival research will be necessary in order to clarify the matter.