Locality:
Realty Map: 76.03-7-21.3 Cultural Affiliation: Euro-American
USGS Map:
Grid Locus: H-3 Elevation: 1500 feet
UTM Easting: 584390 Aspect: Flat
UTM Northing: 4120350
Site Dimensions: 30 by 30 feet
Survey Description: This
family cemetery contains five interments marked with inscribed marble and
granite headstones. One uninscribed fieldstone
marker was also observed, but it may represent a footstone associated with one
of the marble headstones. The cemetery was covered with young saplings and a
dense growth of vegetation that hinder observation of the ground surface. It is possible that other, unidentified
graves are present. The observed graves
were not enclosed by fence, but vegetation was cleared and mowed on the area
immediately surrounding the cemetery.
During the field inspection all of the headstone inscriptions were
transcribed and compared to previous site documentation. Site size was derived from local real estate
maps that document a size of 30 by 30 feet.
However, the distribution of observed graves covers a smaller area
approximately 15 by 15 feet.
Field Notes: _x_Yes ___No
Photographs: ___Yes _x_No
Reference(s):
1986
Additional Comments:
Assigned temporal period was based on death dates observed on
headstones. These dates ranged from 1904
through 1955. Observed headstone
suggests cemetery was active from 1904 through 1915, then experienced reuse in
1955. One grave marker without a death
date may reflect a later use of the site.
Site is not marked on the
This cemetery was surveyed and documented by the RVHS and
their survey report provided biographical information three graves that
predated 1921 (RVHS: 151). The following information was derived from
grave markers observed in the cemetery and it represents a complete listing of
information available at the time of the 1998 survey.
Marker Inscriptions:
Willie G. Maude S. Bertha G. Father and Mother
(base of stone buried by dirt from
a nearby groundhog burrow.) Died _______________
Died
Aged
62 years
Gone
but not forgotten