Locality:
Realty Map: 73.00-1-63 Cultural
Affiliation: Euro-American
USGS Map: Elliston Landform: Ridge bench
Grid Locus: I-3 Elevation: 1500 feet
UTM Easting: 574930 Aspect: South
UTM Northing: 4120400
Site Dimensions: 45
by 50 feet
Survey Description:
Site consists of a small family cemetery with 19 graves. The observed graves included eight with uninscribed
fieldstone markers, six with marble or granite markers, three with cement
markers, one with an illegible metal marker, and one unmarked grave
identifiable as a ground surface depression.
The observed graves ranged in orientation from 90 to 101 degrees east of
north and well enclosed by a chain link fence.
Cemetery is covered with mowed grass and plantings include periwinkle,
boxwood, daylilies, and peonies. 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 surrounding fence lines.
Survey Date: 10/98
Field Notes: _x_Yes ___No
Photographs: _x_Yes ___No
References:
1986
Additional Comments:
Assigned temporal period was based on the 1891 through 1977 range of
death dates inscribed on observed headstones and recorded by a previous
survey. However, the presence of
uninscribed fieldstone markers and an unmarked grave may reflect an earlier or
later use of the site. The cemetery is
marked on the USGS Elliston map sheet and labeled “cem” but it is not marked on
local realty maps. Cemetery appears to
be located on parcel 73.00-1-63.
The RVHS surveyed this cemetery and apparently used an oral
history to document biographical information for three graves that predated
1921 (1986: 190). The report also
included biographical information for eight graves in another cemetery located
“about 500 yds. Away” from the Owens Cemetery.
Marker Inscriptions:
Jacob S. Melvina
M. Inez
Elvina Owens
Smith Smith Wife
of
May 31, 1851 Apr.
11, 1852 George
Andrew Reynolds
Feb. 8, 1926 May
28, 1922
He has gone to She
was the
A mansion of rest. Sunshine
of our (footstone:
Mother)
(cement marker) Home.
(cement
marker)
Owens
Cemetery (continued)
Charles Raymond A.C.
Owens Pearl
O. Owens
Son of Feb.
1847
J.W. & E.J. Baker Feb.
1935
Feb. 27, 1899 (cement
with (footstone:
POS)
June 3, 1924 footstone:
ACO)
Owens Mattie
E. Smith James
R. Owens
Lewis Edward July
20, 1893
Feb. 6, 1889
Mar. 28, 1977 (footstone:
Mother)
(footstone: Father)
Information recorded by the RVHS:
Florence Farris – daughter of Molly Mitchum
Molly Mitchum Farris – died 1891
George Reynolds, Jr. – infant born and died July 1907