Locality:
Realty Map: 27.06-3-5 Cultural
Affiliation: Euro-American
USGS Map:
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:
1986
Works Progress Administration of
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 /
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