Locality:
Realty Map: 73.00-1-63 Cultural
Affiliation: Euro-American
USGS Map: Garden
City Landform: Ridge bench
Grid Locus: E-11 Elevation: 1300 feet
UTM Easting: 592870 Aspect: Northwest
UTM Northing: 4112200
Site Dimensions: 50 by 140 feet
Survey Description:
Site consists of a community cemetery with about 91 graves. Identified graves included: 51 marked with inscribed marble, granite,
cement or metal markers; 34 with uninscribed fieldstone markers; and at least
six unmarked graves visible as ground surface depressions. The presence of an uninscribed obelisk may
mark one or more additional graves. Five
discarded uninscribed fieldstone markers were observed at the rear of the
cemetery. Modern markers may have
replaced these discarded markers, but this is not certain. South part of the cemetery contains at least
three graves within a fenced enclosure.
The site is well-maintained & covered with mowed grass. Plantings include: yucca, boxwoods, roses,
daffodils, periwinkle, and cedar trees.
Southwest boundary marked by a wire mesh fence, and northeast boundary
is borders Route 615 (Webb Road). Site was
field inspected and headstone inscriptions were transcribed and compared to
previous site documentation. Site size
was estimated by pacing the horizontal extent of observed graves.
Survey Date: 3/98
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 1894 through 1993. However, the presence of uninscribed
fieldstone markers and unmarked graves may reflect an earlier use of the
site. Site is marked on the USGS Garden
City map sheet and on local real estate maps.
This cemetery was surveyed by the RVHS and recorded in their
survey report as the Oylers Cemetery (1986:
191). As mentioned in their
report, none of the markers in the cemetery were inscribed with the Oyler name;
however, informant Herman Hartman reported that he has met with members of the
Oyler family who indicated that their ancestors were buried in this
cemetery. The RVHS report listed
biographical information transcribed from nine grave markers which predated
1921. The marker they recorded for
Robert E. Boone (June 10, 1904 - Feb. 21, 1920 / Gone but not forgotten) was
not observed during the current survey.
The following information provides biographical information transcribed
from headstones observed during the 1998 survey.
Marker Inscriptions:
Arlan L. Looney Cora
Alice Jordan Margie
L. Caperton
Virginia Wife
of 1921
- 1961
PVT QM Corps Henry
Thomas Looney (metal
marker)
World War II
Nov 28 1916 Oct 12
1945
Oyler
Cemetery (continued)
Jordan Baby Baby
(cement marker) (memorial
tablet) (memorial
tablet)
Margie Amos Amos Nannie
Esther
(memorial tablet) Henry
Edward Mary Frances Bartinikas
1864 - 1905 1868 - 1940 1886
- 1941
Charles B. Amos Thomas
E. Amos Fitzgerald
1889 - 1943 Dec.
29, 1900 Nathaniel Roxie M.
Dec. 3, 1945 Oct.
16, 1891
Nov. 23, 1954
Jordan Jordan Father
(Large monument) James
C. Mollie E. Braxton
footstone: footstone: Aug. 2, 1869 Aug. 28, 1870 Hartman
James C. Georgia A. Mar. 26, 1943 Nov. 2, 1934
March 9, 1901 Oct.
20, 1908
Oct. 29, 1973
Willie Coy Jordan Clara
Murray Hartman George
C. Hartman
1900 - 1972 1893
- 1977 1890
- 1972
(metal marker) (metal
marker) (metal
marker)
Frances F. Hartman Simon
Peter Charles
T.
Dec. 28, 1875 Hartman Hartman
July 31, 1958 Mar.
8, 1866
Aug. 18, 1938 PVT.,
155 Depot Brig.
41 Div
Effie Lee J.G.
Looney Joseph
Wife of Aug.
15, 1881
G.W. Hartman Dec.
15, 1920
1886 - 1942 Gone
but not forgotten On
that brilliant
At Rest immortal
shore
We shall meet to part
no more.
Looney In Loving Memory of Mother
“Pete” Henry
Thomas Mother Bessie
Ashwell
William L. May
3, 1884 Octavia Looney Thomas
June 29, 1906 Aug.
7, 1934 Hartman Oct.
7, Nov. 13,
Sept. 21, 1934 1852
- 1939 1893 1942
Othella Murray Octavie
M. Ferris Flora
M. Payne
Mar. 24, 1926 Oct.
5, 1906
Oct. 2, 1943 June
18, 1942
Oyler
Cemetery (continued)
Murray John W. Hall James
P. Hall
Jacob A. Rena Aug. 22, 1871 Born
1876 - 1953 1879
- 1935 June 24, 1951 -----
Died
(broken stone, part missing)
Nannie E. The
Lord is my Shepard John
A. Boone
Wife of Herbert
E.
Jn. A. Boone Boone May
5, 1938
Born June
10, 1904 Gone,
but not forgotten
Aug. 26, 1871
Died Gone
but not forgotten
(broken stone)
Sallie W. John
R. Adkins Walter
S.
Wife of Oct.
1 1898 Son
of
John R. Adkins Feb.
10 1949 Jno.
A. & N.E.
Born June 27, 1897 Boone
Died Feb. 11, 1938 Born
Oh now I miss you dear
sister, since you left us Died
alone, but I hope to meet
you again in that bright
and happy home.
Charles P. Earnest
M. W.C.
Hall
Son of W.C. & M.L. Hall Son
of Born
Born W.C.
& M.L. Hall
1882 Born Died
(stone has sunk & remainder March 15, 1886
of inscription illegible) Died Weep
not he is at rest.
Weep not Father and
Mother for me
(stone has sunk & remainder
of inscription illegible)
Kingery
Born
Died
Aged 29 yrs.
6 mos. & 8 ds.