McClung Cemetery

 

Locality: Roanoke County                  Temporal Period:                  20th century

Realty Map:          50.01-1-16.02                         Cultural Affiliation:              Euro-American

USGS Map:           Roanoke                                                Landform:                              Ridge bench & slope

Grid Locus:            L-8                                          Elevation:                              980 feet

UTM Easting:       599560                                    Aspect:                                  East

UTM Northing:    4129250

 

Site Dimensions: 127.7 by 267.5 by 130 by 195 feet

 

Survey Description:  Site consists of a small family cemetery containing at least 14 interments.  Nine graves were marked with marble or granite headstones, three graves were marked with uninscribed fieldstone markers, and two uninscribed obelisks marked at least two additional graves.  Unmarked graves may be present.  All of the observed graves were oriented to the southeast.  The cemetery is maintained, covered with mowed grass, and did not appear to contain any historic plantings.  Site size was derived from county realty maps.  The cemetery encompasses an area the includes gentle to moderately sloping terrain.  All of the observed graves were confined to a 50 by 65 feet area characterized by minimal slope.  Other areas of the cemetery were inspected but no other definite graves were observed.  Site was field inspected and headstone inscriptions were transcribed and compared to previous site documentation.

 

Surveyed By:        T. Klatka & D. Richardson

Survey Date:         8/97

 

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: Temporal period was based on death dates inscribed on observed headstones.  These dates ranged from 1900 through 1990.  However, the presence of uninscribed fieldstone markers may reflect an earlier use of the site.  The western and southern boundaries of the cemetery border residential development.  Nearby property owners have encroached on the cemetery, and have deposited yard waste in the cemetery area.  Site is not marked on the USGS Roanoke map sheet, but it is marked on local realty maps and labeled “McClung Cemetery.”

 

The RVHS surveyed this cemetery and documented biographical information transcribed from two headstones which predated 1921 (1986:  185). Family member Margaret Jewel Tynan reported that the cemetery was established John B. and Elizabeth F. McClung and also reported two deed references (DB 26, page 3 and DB 41, page 468).

 

Marker Inscriptions:

 

J. B. McClung                                       Elizabeth F.                                            William St. Clair

Born Oct. 23, 1823                                wife of J. B. McClung                          Dec. 30, 1907

Died Aug. 2, 1901                 Born Nov. 5, 1827                 Sept. 26, 1990

(footstone: JBM)                                  Died Jan. 6, 1900                                   (metal marker

(footstone: EFM)                                 at foot of grave)


McClung Cemetery (continued)

 

Nugent S. St. Clair                                Thomas P. St. Clair                               Emma Thrasher

Oct. 11, 1910                                          Dec. 13, 1876                                         Apr. 7, 1881

July 12, 1982                                          Feb. 23, 1958                                         Mar. 27, 1923

(metal marker

at foot of grave)

 

John Sawyer Moses                                            Schoonover                          Margarette Jewell Tynan

1883 – 1955                                            Edgar Lee        Mary S. St. Clair          Sept. 28, 1925

(metal marker)                                       1906 – 1968                                            ___________

                                                                                                                                (Informant’s headstone)

 

A large base for a double headstone is also present in the cemetery.  Margaret Jewel Tynan reported that the headstone had been placed in the cemetery but was removed when A.T. St. Clair decided to be buried in Michigan.

 

She also reported that Nugent St. Clair, Mary Sue St. Clair Shoonover, and William Frederick St. Clair were the children of Thomas St. Clair and Emma Thrasher St. Clair.  Mary Sue St. Clair was wed to Edgar Lee Schoonover.  The wife of Nugent St. Clair was buried in Bedford County.


 

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