Kingery-Brough Cemetery

 

Locality: Roanoke County                  Temporal Period:                  2^nd through 4^th quarters 20th c.

Realty Map:          107.00-2-29                            Cultural Affiliation:              Euro-American

USGS Map:           Garden City                           Landform:                              Ridge bench

Grid Locus:            F-9/G-9                                   Elevation:                              1050 feet

UTM Easting:       594000                                    Aspect:                                  West

UTM Northing:    4114390

 

Site Dimensions: 50 by 50 feet

 

Survey Description:  Site consists of a small family cemetery with  nine interments.  This modern cemetery is  maintained and all of the graves were marked with modern stone or metal markers.  Site is covered with mowed grass and is surrounded by a pine forest.  Metal pipes marked the four corners of the property.  Site was field inspected, photographed, and headstone inscriptions were transcribed.  Site size was derived from the local realty maps.

 

Survey Date:         3/98

 

Field Notes:           _x_Yes   ___No

Photographs:        ___Yes  _x_No

 

Reference(s):         None

 

Additional Comments: Assigned temporal period was based on death dates observed on headstones.  These dates ranged from 1948 through 1996.  Cemetery is marked on the USGS Garden City map sheet and on local realty maps.

 

To avoid confusion with other Kingery cemeteries in the local area, the name of this cemetery was derived from the two family names present on headstones.

 

Marker Inscriptions:

 

In Loving Memory                               Kingery                                                                  Kingery

Gary W. Kingery                                  In Loving Memory                               Henry Lynn           Dewley M.

Apr. 26, 1970                                         John W.                                                 Sept. 25, 1889        May 2, 1898

Apr. 28, 19970                                       May 18,      Apr. 12,                              July 8, 1948            May 21, 1962

1923           1996

 

 

Calvin Kingery                                     Jerry S. Kingery                                    Abe Lewis Kingery

Jan. 23, 1946                                          Florida                                                    AS US Navy

June 5, 1958                                           SP4 US Army                                        Nov 20 1920          Jan 28 1988

Vietnam

Feb. 17 1952          Oct 22 1972

 

Barry Lynn                                            Charles T. Brough

Kingery                                                  Virginia

Aug. 20, 1950                                        PVT US Army

World War II

Jan. 19 1916           March 9 1971

 

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