Locality:
Realty Map: 77.18-1-38 Cultural
Affiliation: Euro-American
USGS Map: Garden
City Landform: Ridge bench
Grid Locus: B-3 Elevation: 1200 feet
UTM Easting: 589330 Aspect: Southeast
UTM Northing: 4120580
Site Dimensions: 93.1
by 107.87 by 73.92 by 72.4 feet
Survey Description:
Site consists of a extended family cemetery with at least 68
graves. Observed graves included 50 marked
with marble and granite markers, five marked with marble headstone bases only,
and 10 unmarked graves visible as ground surface depressions. Previous surveys
documented another three graves not observed during the current survey. Other graves may be present. All of the observed graves are oriented to
the northeast. Numerous headstones and
footstones are stacked along the southeast side of the cemetery. These markers may represent dislodged markers
or older markers that have been replaced.
Cemetery is surrounded by a chain link fence. Site is covered with mowed grass and historic
plantings include daffodils, periwinkle, and yucca. Site was field inspected, photographed, and
grave marker inscriptions were transcribed and compared to previous documentation. Site size was derived from local realty
maps. Local residents indicated that
site was once enclosed by a wood post and wire mesh fence. When the chain link fence was erected the
boundaries of the cemetery changed to decrease site size.
Survey Date: 5/98
Field Notes: _x_Yes ___No
Photographs: _x_Yes ___No
References:
1986
Works Progress Administration of
Virginia, Historical Inventory, Roanoke County, Virginia, Document #336.
Additional Comments: Assigned
temporal period was based on the 1851 through 1949 range of death dates
inscribed on observed headstones.
However, the presence of illegible and broken markers, as well as unmarked
graves, may reflect an earlier or later use of the site. The cemetery is marked on the USGS Garden
City map sheet but is incorrectly labeled as the “Hackett Cem.” The cemetery is also marked on local realty
maps.
This cemetery was initially surveyed in 1936 by the Works
Progress Administration of Virginia and recorded as the “Garst-Lockett
Cemetery” in Document #336 of the Historical Inventory of Roanoke County,
Virginia. The WPA file provided
biographical information for the graves of Jacob Garst, Magdaline Garst, and
Forrest Lockett. The WPA file described
the cemetery as public and in fair condition.
The RVHS also surveyed this cemetery and altered its name to the “Lockett-Garst
Cemetery.” The survey report documented
biographical information derived from inscriptions from 34 headstones that
predated 1921 (1986: 152-154). All of the headstones recorded by the WPA
were also observed during the RVHS survey and the 1998 survey.
Marker Inscriptions:
Wife of Jacob Jacob
Garst Elizabeth
M.
(base of headstone Born Daughter
of Geo. T. & Mary A.
only) Oct.
10, 1766 Garst
Died Born
Feb.
25, 1854
Age
87 yrs. Died
4
mos. 15 days
Tamsey Garst Jacob
Garst George
Garst
Died Born Born
Sept. 13, 1883. Dec.
20, 1790 Nov.
15, 1821.
Aged Died Died
About 89 years Dec.
6, 1879.
(markers Mark: (marker’s
mark:
“Salem, Va.) “Salem,
Va.”)
Mary F. Garst Evaline
Garst Joseph
Garst
Born Died Born
Feb. 14, 1835 Oct.
12, 1915
(remainder of inscription Aged
79 years Died
not legible)
(base of headstone only) In
memory of Infant
Magdaline
Garst Child
of
Born George
F.
Sep.
24, 1771 White
Died
Maude Muller In
memory of Bessie
Lou Peters
Dau. Of Charles
C. White Born
M.E. & F.J. Died
July
Garst 6th,
1853 Died
Born Nov.
20, 1898.
Jun. 10, 1884 Aged
Died 16
yrs. 6 mos. & 29 days
Wilford A. Peters Peters
Born Robert
W. Julia A.
Feb. 3, 1892 Mar.
20, 1859
Died May
15, 1946
Maria S. Lockett In
Memory of In
memory of
Born Mary
Lockett Forrest
Lockett
July 12, 1842, Wife
of Born
May 22, 1891 Forrest
Lockett Apr.
19, 1794.
Age Born Died
48 yrs. 9 mos. & 10 days Feb.
23, 1810 Nov.
15, 1862.
Died Aged
68 yrs. 6 mo.
Sept.
29, 1891 26
d.
Aged
81 yrs. 7 mos. 6 days
Marcia A. Rosa
May Infant
of
Daughter of Dau.
Of W.M.
& J.A.
W.F. & M.J. W.F.
& M.J. Lockett
Lockett Lockett 1906
Born Born
Oct. 16, 1872
Aged Died
4 mos.
Aged
17 yrs. 9 mos. & 8 das.
Large obelisk with the following three inscriptions:
Jennie A. Wife of Son
and Daughter of Mother
Wm. T. Lockett W.T.
& J.A. Julia
A. Trout
Born Lockett Wife
of
Aug. 21, 1857, W.M.
Lockett
Died 1878-1906
Maggie L. W.
C. Leslie Gertrude
H.
Wife of Born Daughter
of
W.G. Leslie Mar.
29, 1860 J.H.
& R.D.
Born Died Lockett
Apr. 14, 1870 July
7, 1907 Born
Died
Dec. 10, 1900 Died
Aged
30 yrs. 7 mos. & 26 dys.
(illegible headstone) (base
of headstone only) (base
of headstone only)
Infant Son May
Etherline Bryant Jacob
Peters
Of Born Born
Jack & Nov.
16, 1898
Rosa B. Died Died
Garst Jan.
30, 1902
Born
Died
Lockett-Garst
Cemetery (continued)
Louisa G. Peters Forrest
T. Garst Louisa
M. Lockett
Born Oct.
23, 1859 Born
Aug. 23, 1826 Jan.
17, 1925 Sept.
22, 1832,
Died At
Rest Died
Apr. 9, 1916 July
3, 1910.
Aged
77
yrs. 9 mos. & 11 days.
Lockett Forrest W. Hattie M.
William F. Margaret J. Son
of
Nov. 10, 1844 Mar.
16, 1846. W.E. & Wife
of
July 31, 1924 Ap.
23, 1933. Hattie W.E.
Lockett
Lockett
May
22, 1908
Wellington E. Lockett Fannie
M. H.J.G.
Lockett
November 9, 1874 Wife
of
January 10, 1937 H.J.G.
Lockett
(base of headstone only; J.H. Amanda
footstone: T.W.L.) Peters Peters
June
24, 1851
May
20, 1930
(double
headstone)
Cecil W. Lockett Lockett
Aug. 2, 1932 J.
Henry Rosa T.
Sept. 4, 1935 July
11, 1888
Nov.
30, 1943
---ita M. Lockett Mary
Florence Lockett
----
---- ---- 1877
Died
Markers not observed during 1998 survey, but documented by
RVHS:
Footstone with initials J.M.G. (Janie Myrtle Garst, 31 July
1906 –
Footstone with initials T.M.L.
Freeman, Aquilla / Infant son of / G.T. & L.E. Freeman /
Jan. 29 1907 /