McGuire Cemetery

 

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

Realty Map:          113.00-1-27                            Cultural Affiliation:              Euro-American

USGS Map:           Garden City                           Landform:                              Ridge top

Grid Locus:            D-11                                        Elevation:                              1210 feet

UTM Easting:       591180                                    Aspect:                                  Flat

UTM Northing:    4112360

 

Site Dimensions: 40 by 55 feet

 

Survey Description:  Site consists of a small family cemetery with 15 graves.  Eleven of the graves were marked with inscribed granite markers and four were marked with uninscribed fieldstone markers.  Historic plantings include lush periwinkle, yucca, and a number of holly trees.  Site was enclosed by a wood post and wire mesh fence with a gate on the north side of the cemetery.  All of the graves were oriented between 90 and 98 degrees.  Site was field inspected, photographed, and headstone inscriptions were transcribed and compared to previous site documentation.  Site size was estimated by pacing the horizontal extent of the surrounding fence lines.

 

Survey Date:         2/98

 

Field Notes:           _x_Yes   ___No

Photographs:        _x_Yes   ___No

 

Reference(s):         Roanoke Valley Historical Society

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

 

Additional Comments: Temporal period of site was based on death dates inscribed on observed headstones.  These dates ranged from 1898 through 1963.  However, the presence of graves marked with uninscribed fieldstone markers may reflect an earlier or later use of the site.  The cemetery was not marked on the USGS Garden City map sheet or the local realty maps.  This cemetery was surveyed by the RVHS and their report listed biographical information derived from two headstones which predated 1921 (1986: 156).

 

Marker Inscriptions:

 

McGuire                                 Harry R. Maddux                                  Alvin Dale

John W.                 Nannie M.                             Dec. 6, 1899                                           son of

Dec. 15, 1864         Sept. 16, 1875                        Dec. 11, 1936                                         RP & Edith

Dec. 15, 1936         Nov. 27, 1963                        He was the sunshine of our               McGuire

home.                                                     Feb. 6, 1926

Feb. 8, 1926

A little bud of love

To bloom with God above.

 

Alton J. McGuire                                                  Lulie M.                                                 Laura B. McGuire

Born                                                                       McGuire                                 Jan. 29, 1868

Sept. 28, 1904                                                        Born                                                       Nov. 30, 1954

Died                                                                        Jan. 22, 1898                                          Gone, but not forgotten

Sept. 11, 1917                                                        Died Feb. 12, 1898

McGuire Cemetery (continued)

 

Charles T. McGuire                              Robert B. Hardy                                   Martha M. Hardy

Oct. 30, 1866                                          1836                                                        1841

June 11, 1945                                         Feb. 27, 1924                                         June 30, 1924

He is at rest in heaven.                        Our father has gone to a                     Asleep in Jesus blessed

mansion of rest, to the                        sleep from which none

glorious land by the deity best.         ever wake to weep.

 

Nancy McGuire

August 2, 1841

January 3, 1927

Asleep in Jesus! Blessed sleep,

From which none ever wake to sleep.

 

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