Owen Cemetery

 

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

Realty Map:          85.01-1-25                              Cultural Affiliation:              Euro-American

USGS Map:           Bent Mountain                     Landform:                              Knoll

Grid Locus:            E-4                                          Elevation:                              1860 feet

UTM Easting:       581610                                    Aspect:                                  Flat

UTM Northing:    4119890

 

Site Dimensions:  45 by 55 feet

 

Survey Description:  Site consists of a small family cemetery with 22 graves.  Twenty-one of the observed graves were marked with inscribed headstones and one was marked with an uninscribed fieldstone marker.  All of the graves ranged in orientation from 89 to 99 degrees east of north.  The unenclosed cemetery is covered with mowed grass and no historic plantings were observed.  Site was field inspected, photographed, and grave marker inscriptions were transcribed and compared to previous documentation.  Site size was estimated by pacing the horizontal extent of the observed graves.

 

Survey Date:         7/98

 

Field Notes:           _x_Yes   ___No

Photographs:        _x_Yes   ___No

 

References:           Roanoke Valley Historical Society

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

 

Additional Comments:  Assigned temporal period was based on the 1888 through 1989 range of dates inscribed on observed headstones.  However, the presence of an uninscribed fieldstone marker may reflect an earlier use of the site.  The cemetery is not marked on the USGS Bent Mountain map sheet or on local realty maps.

 

This cemetery was initially surveyed by the RVHS and recorded as the “Owen Cemetery.”  The oral history of Mrs. B.H. Owen and headstone inscriptions were used to document biographical information for six graves that predated 1921 (1986:  190). All of the headstones recorded by the RVHS were also observed during the 1998 survey.  However, the RVHS reported that a fieldstone marked the grave of Alice Owen, but during the 1998 survey the her grave was marked with an inscribed headstone.

 

 

Marker Inscriptions:

 

Jack Lee Adcock                                  Jesse Henry Puckett                            Samuel Brooks      Nora Lee

Jan. 22, 1926                                          Sept. 13, 1895                                        1890 – 1991            1892 - 1985

Jan. 25, 1926                                          June 20, 1954                                                             Hailey

 

Owen Cemetery (continued)

 

Lucy                                                       Lucian Johnson                                    Eula Puckett

Johnson                                                 Son of                                                    Jones,

Wife of                                                   J.H. & Lucy                                           Nov. 10, 1916

Jesse                                                      Puckett                                                   Nov. 21, 1994

Puckett                                                   May 22, 1918

Born                                                       Jan. 10, 1921

June 14, 1891

Died                                                        Callie M.                                                Garland Grice

May 22, 1918                                         Grice                                                       Mar. 28, 1879

(obelisk)                                                 1884 – 1959                                            Nov. 6, 1940

 

Effie D.                                                   Grace Estelle Owen                              Bettie E. Owen

Grice                                                       Dec. 22, 1895                                         Wife of

1916 – 1916                                            Jan. 30, 1942                                          Joseph A. Owen

                                                                At Rest                                                  Oct. 17, 1867

                                                                                                                                July 9, 1949

 

Joseph A. Owen                                   Adline Owen                                         Alice O.

June 22, 1844                                         Sept. 9, 1841                                          Daughter of

Jan. 25, 1923                                          Dec. 24, 1888                                         Joseph & Adline Owen

At Rest                                                                                                                  1875 – 1888

 

Infant                                                     McKinley                                              Lelia L. Owen

Roosevelt Owen                                   Son of                                                    Apr. 3, 1915

1908                                                                                    Joseph & Bettie                                    Mar. 14, 1976

Owen

Born De. 1, 1900

Died Dec. 24, 1918

 

Raleigh M. Owen                                                 Owen

Jun 31, 1906                                           Benjamin H            Susie L.

Feb. 23, 1989                                         Jan. 27, 1894          Sept. 7, 1907

                                                                June 16, 1976

 

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