Mallory-Gordon-Danner Cemetery

 

Locality: Roanoke County                  Temporal Period:                  2nd half 19th c., 1st quarter 20th c.

Realty Map:          27.06-3-5                                Cultural Affiliation:              Euro-American

USGS Map:           Roanoke                                                Landform:                              Ridge top

Grid Locus:            E-3                                          Elevation:                              1160 feet

UTM Easting:       592200                                    Aspect:                                  Flat

UTM Northing:    4134450

 

Site Dimensions:  70.7 by 60.4 feet

 

Survey Description:  After this cemetery and the surrounding property were purchased for development, it was vacated in 1997 with the removal of graves.  Removal of the interments occurred just prior to the 1997 survey.   During the July 1997 site inspection, scattered fragments of headstones were identified on the surface of the cemetery.  Historic plantings noted on the site included yucca plants and one oak tree.  Site was field inspected and photographed.  Site size was derived from tax assessment maps.

 

Surveyed By:        T. Klatka & D. Richardson

Survey Date:         7/97

 

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 #225.

 

Additional Comments:  Assigned temporal period was based on information documented by the WPA and RVHS.  The RVHS recorded graves with inscribed headstones that predated 1921, but did not record more recent graves, unmarked graves or graves marked with uninscribed fieldstone markers. The cemetery parcel recorded on local realty maps is certainly large enough to hold more than eight graves, and numerous fragments of headstones were observed on the site surface during the 1997 survey.  Therefore, the number of graves in the cemetery is uncertain. The cemetery was not marked on the USGS Roanoke map sheet, but it was marked on local realty maps and labeled “formerly, the Danner Cemetery.”  A sign posted on the site identified the parcel as the future home of Hollins Institute, a speech pathology evaluation center.

 

This cemetery was initially surveyed in 1937 by the Works Progress Administration of Virginia and recorded as the “Mallory-Gordon Cemetery” in Document #225 of the Historical Inventory of Roanoke County, Virginia.  The WPA file provided biographical information for four graves, and reported a date of 1858 for the earliest grave.  The WPA file described the cemetery as “fenced, but unkempt.”

 

The RVHS also surveyed the cemetery recorded it as the “Mallory-Gordon-Danner Cemetery.” Their survey report documented biographical information derived from inscriptions from eight headstones that predated 1921, and indicated that “nothing is left of this graveyard but a few overturned stones in an area used for a cow pasture” (1986:  156-157),.  Four of the headstones recorded by the RVHS were also recorded by the WPA.  However, the William Mallory grave recorded by the WPA was not observed during the RVHS survey.


Mallory-Gordon-Danner Cemetery (continued)

 

Marker Inscriptions:

 

I.                     Graves documented by the WPA survey:

 

Wm. Mallory / 1858

Martha C.  / wife of W. Mallory / Died Oct. 7, 1863 / Age 24 yr. 11 mo.

May S. / dau. of W. & M.C. Mallory / Died Sept. 17, 1863 / Age 3 yrs.

Jacob S. / son of W. & M.C. Mallory / Oct. 3, 1863 / Age 2 yrs.

 

II.                   Graves documented by the RVHS:

 

Crist, Daisy L. / Jan. 19, 1876 / Sept. 1907

Danner, A.J. / June 12, 1853 / Aug. 13, 1919

Danner, Sarah Frances / Beloved wife of / A.J. Danner / Born 1849 / Died Jan. 2, 1906 / Wife and Mother / At Rest

Danner, Mary E. / Born / June 12, 1836 / Died / Oct. 1, 1897 / these are they which came / out of great tribulation,  / and have washed their robes, / and made them white in the / blood of the Lamb. Rev. 7:14

Mallory, Martha C. wife of / William Mallory / Died Oct. 7, 1863 / Aged 24 yr. 11 m. (maiden name: Gordon)

Mallory, May S. dau. of / W. & M.C. Mallory / Sept. 17, 1863 / Aged 3 yrs.

Mallory, Jacob C. / son of / W. & M.C. Mallory / Oct. 3, 1863 / Aged 2 yrs.

Reynolds, Mary J. / Born / Sept. 8, 1837 / Died / June 30, 1916 / At Rest


 

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