Locality:
Realty Map: 1520315 Cultural
Affiliation: Euro-American
USGS Map:
Grid Locus: B-13 Elevation: 1060 feet
UTM Easting: 589610 Aspect: West
UTM Northing: 4124930
Site Dimensions: 30 by 30 feet
Survey Description:
Site represents a small family cemetery with six marked interments
enclosed by a wrought iron fence.
Observed graves were marked with headstones and oriented to the
southeast (125 degrees). Interior
surface of the cemetery has been covered with fine gravel; this ill-designed
attempt to control vegetation precludes any attempt to inspect the site surface
for information regarding historic plantings, the presence of any other graves,
or the internal nature of the cemetery.
The area surrounding the cemetery has been used for vegetable gardening
and some of it is covered with mowed grass.
A surface inspection failed to identify conclusive evidence of
additional graves outside the fence.
However, the local realty maps indicate that the cemetery occupies a
large area. It is not known if the
cemetery contains unmarked graves or if much of the reserve is unoccupied. Site
was field inspected, photographed, and headstone inscriptions were transcribed
and compared to previous site documentation.
Site size was derived by measuring the horizontal extent of the
surrounding fence lines.
Surveyed By: T.
Klatka & D. Richardson
Survey Date: 10/97
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: Assigned temporal period was based on
death dates inscribed on observed headstones.
These dates ranged from 1863
through 1888. Site is marked on local
realty maps but is not marked on the USGS Roanoke map sheet.
The RVHS surveyed this cemetery and documented biographical
information from the six headstones visible on the site (1986: 193).
The following information was transcribed during the 1997 survey.
Marker Inscriptions:
In Memory of Esther
Persinger William
Fayette
Dolphus G. Persinger Born Persinger
Born June
6, 1807 Born
Feb. 9, 1816 Died
Died July
22, 1888 Died
Aug. 25, 1864
At Point Lookout Mtn. (These
two graves marked with a single headstone).
(Footstone: D.G.P.)
Persinger
Cemetery (continued)
Mr. Wm. Persinger Mary
Hester
born Daughter
of
March 19, 1801: Joel
& Margaret
Died
Par. 9, 1876 Born
Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep, May 11, 1853
From which none ever wakes to weep. Died
(Footsone: W.P.)
A loved one has gone from our
circle.
On earth we shall meet her no more.
She has gone to her home in
heaven,
And all her afflictions are o’er.
2D LT In
memory of
William Persinger William
Persinger, Jr.
CO E Born
42 REG
VA INF Died
Sept 22 1834
July 30 1863 From
wounds received in
(modern stone) Battle
of the Wilderness
(This original
stones has been
toppled,
displaced, and
Covered with
gravel.)