Light Cemetery

 

Locality: Roanoke County                  Temporal Period:                  20th c.

Realty Map:          105.00-6-2                              Cultural Affiliation:              Euro-American

USGS Map:           Bent Mountain                     Landform:                              Ridge bench

Grid Locus:            I-9                                           Elevation:                              2240 feet

UTM Easting:       585120                                    Aspect:                                  Northwest

UTM Northing:    4114890

 

Site Dimensions: 40 by 50 feet

 

Survey Description:  Site consists of a small family cemetery with five graves.  All of the graves were marked with modern, incised headstones, and enclosed by a galvanized pole and chain link fence.  Site was maintained and covered with mowed grass.  Plantings include a cedar tree, Blaze Running rose, double lilac, forsythia, japonica, snowball, peonies, day and Asiatic lilies, and Rose of Sharon.  Site was field inspected, photographed, and headstone inscriptions were transcribed.  Site size was estimated by pacing the horizontal extent of the surrounding fence lines.

 

Survey Date:         5/98

 

Field Notes:           _x_Yes   ___No

Photographs:        _x_Yes   ___No

 

Reference(s):         None

 

Additional Comments:  Family member Christine Light Grisso indicated the cemetery was established by Charles Wilson Light and Jennie Shaver Light.  Site is not marked on county realty maps or on the USGS Bent Mountain map sheet.  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 survey.

 

Marker Inscriptions:

 

                                Light                                                                       Haret K. Ferguson

Charles Wilson                     Jennie Eller                                            Wife of E.F. Light

Mar. 30, 1882                         Nov. 8, 1884                                          Died Aug. 15, 1926

Apr. 30, 1955                         Jan. 10, 1980                                          Age 80 yrs.

In memory of loved ones who sleep here.                                       Gone, but not forgotten.

 

 

E. F. Light                                                                                              Mother

1857 – 1922                                                                                            Rosa Belle Maxey

Age 65 years                                                                                         May 10                   May 30

Gone but not                                                                                         1883                        1917

forgotten


 

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