Lockett-Garst Cemetery

 

Locality: Roanoke County                  Temporal Period:                  2nd quarter 19th c. – 20th c.

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:           Roanoke Valley Historical Society

1986        Roanoke County Graveyards Through 1920.  Privately printed, RVHS, Roanoke.

 

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.


Lockett-Garst Cemetery (continued)

 

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                                         Aug. 6, 1846

                                                                Age 87 yrs.                                            Died

                                                                4 mos. 15 days                                      Feb. 18, 1864

 

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.                                          July 3, 1890

(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                                          Apr. 26, 1827

(remainder of inscription                     Aged 79 years                                      Died

not legible)                                                                                                            Feb. 15, 1896

 

(base of headstone only)                    In memory of                                         Infant

                                                                Magdaline Garst                                   Child of

                                                                Born                                                       George F.

                                                                Sep. 24, 1771                                         White

                                                                Died

                                                                July 8, 1851

 

Maude Muller                                       In memory of                                         Bessie Lou Peters

Dau. Of                                                  Charles C. White                                  Born

M.E. & F.J.                                            Died July                                               Sept. 6, 1881

Garst                                                       6th, 1853                                                  Died

Born                                                                                                                       Nov. 20, 1898.

Jun. 10, 1884                                                                                                          Aged

Died                                                                                                                        16 yrs. 6 mos. & 29 days

July 15, 1884

 

Wilford A. Peters                                                                 Peters

Born                                                       Robert W.                              Julia A.  

Feb. 3, 1892                                           Mar. 20, 1859                         Jan. 30, 1872

Died                                                        May 15, 1946                         Jan. 20, 1944

Apr. 9, 1916


Lockett-Garst Cemetery (continued)

 

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                                          Jan. 1, 1871

Aged                                                      Died

4 mos.                                                     Oct. 9, 1888

                                                                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

Mar. 5, 1889

 

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                                                                                                                        July 11, 1908

Dec. 10, 1900                                                                                                         Died

Aged                                                                                                                      July 15, 1909

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                                        Feb. 6, 1818

Rosa B.                                                  Died                                                        Died

Garst                                                       Jan. 30, 1902                                          Nov. 20, 1898

Born

May 26, 1901

Died

May 28, 1901


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                                                    Campbell

Nov. 10, 1844        Mar. 16, 1846.        W.E. &                                                   Wife of

July 31, 1924          Ap. 23, 1933.         Hattie                                                     W.E. Lockett

                                                                Lockett                                                   Nov. 25, 1885

                                                                May 22, 1908                                         Apr. 2, 1920

                                                                June 7, 1910

 

Wellington E. Lockett                         Fannie M.                                              H.J.G. Lockett

November 9, 1874                 Wife of                                                   Dec. 22, 1839

January 10, 1937                                   H.J.G. Lockett                                       Jan. 5, 1911

                                                                Oct. 2, 1842

                                                                July 22, 1916

 

(base of headstone only;                    J.H.                                                         Amanda

footstone: T.W.L.)                               Peters                                                     Peters

                                                                June 24, 1851                                         July 7, 1852

                                                                May 20, 1930                                         June 16, 1931

                                                                                                (double headstone)

 

Cecil W. Lockett                                                   Lockett

Aug. 2, 1932                                          J. Henry                 Rosa T.

Sept. 4, 1935                                          July 11, 1888          Mar. 1, 1888

                                                                Nov. 30, 1943        Nov. 16, 1936

 

---ita M. Lockett                                   Mary Florence Lockett

----                                                           April 19, 1877

---- ---- 1877                                           Oct. 20, 1964

Died

Jan. 12, 1886

 

Markers not observed during 1998 survey, but documented by RVHS:

 

Footstone with initials J.M.G. (Janie Myrtle Garst, 31 July 1906 – 13 June 1908

Footstone with initials T.M.L.

Freeman, Aquilla / Infant son of / G.T. & L.E. Freeman / Jan. 29 1907 / Dec. 16, 1907


 

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