Martin Cemetery

 

Locality: Roanoke County                  Temporal Period:                  4th quarter 19th c., 20th c.

Realty Map:          88.04-1-25                              Cultural Affiliation:              Euro-American

USGS Map:           Garden City                           Landform:                              Ridge bench

Grid Locus:            F-5                                          Elevation:                              1240 feet

UTM Easting:       593320                                    Aspect:                                  Southwest

UTM Northing:    4118200

 

Site Dimensions: 117 by 152 by 122 by 152 feet

 

Survey Description:  Site consists of an active community cemetery with at least 91 interments.  Observed graves include 78 marked with stone markers, 5 marked with metal alloy markers, and at least eight unmarked graves visible as ground surface depressions. Other unmarked graves may be present.  All of the observed graves were oriented at approximately 80 degrees.  The eastern side of the cemetery contained the older graves while the central and western parts contained more recent graves that date to the second half of the 20th century.  Site is covered with mowed grass and a few yucca plants are present.  Site has been enclosed by a chain link and iron post fence (covered with aluminum paint).  Site was field inspected, headstone inscriptions were compared to previous site documentation, and total number of interments were counted.  Site size was derived from local realty maps.

 

Survey Date:         2/98

 

Field Notes:           _x_Yes                   ___No

Photographs:        ___Yes                  _x_No

 

Reference(s):         Roanoke Valley Historical Society

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

 

Additional Comments:   Assigned temporal period based on death dates inscribed on observed headstones.  These dates range from 1899 through 1996; however, the presence of unmarked graves may indicate an earlier use of the site.  Majority of the interments in the cemetery date to the second half of the twentieth century.  Site is marked on the USGS Garden City map sheet and on local realty maps. Site is located to the immediate southeast of the Clearbrook Baptist Church and borders the southwest side of Singing Hills Road (Route 933).

 

The RVHS completed a survey of this cemetery and documented biographical information transcribed from four graves that predated 1921 (RVHS 1986:  158).  The same markers were observed during the 1998 survey, but no attempt was made to transcribe all of the recent grave markers.

 

Marker Inscriptions:

 

Rufus Adams                        Isabell Smith                                                         Virga Bradley

Dec. 24, 1865                         Daughter of J.G. & V.E.                                       May 16, 1906

Jan. 18, 1899                          April 19-May 30, 1907                                         April 18, 1907

Grandparent of                     Our darling one hath gone before

Howard StClair                     to greet us on the blissful shore.

 

Elsie P. Patsel

June 9, 1912

June 26, 1914

 

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