Reynolds-Beaker Cemetery

 

Locality: Roanoke County                  Temporal Period:                  20^th century

Realty Map:          65.00-1-33 or 32                     Cultural Affiliation:              Euro-American

USGS Map:           Salem                                      Landform:                              Ridge bench

Grid Locus:            C-14                                        Elevation:                              1240 feet

UTM Easting:       579270                                    Aspect:                                  Northwest

UTM Northing:    4123330

 

Site Dimensions:  50 by 50 feet

 

Survey Description:  This small family cemetery contains about 15 graves.  The observed graves included six  with granite markers, four with cement markers, two with metal markers, two with uninscribed fieldstone markers, and one with a lawn marker.  Site is covered with grass and no historic plantings were noted.  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:         9/98

 

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 1907 through 1995 range of death dates inscribed on observed headstones.  However, the presence of uninscribed fieldstone markers may reflect an earlier use of the site.  The cemetery is not marked on the USGS Salem map sheet or on local realty maps.  Cemetery borders long driveway for 3446 Harborwood Lane, Salem.

 

This cemetery was initially surveyed by the RVHS and recorded as the “Reynolds Cemetery” (1986:  197).  Biographical information was documented from inscriptions on two headstones that predated 1921.  Both of these headstones were observed during the 1998 survey.  Informant James Reynolds reported that the two uninscribed fieldstones mark the graves of a Reynolds infant and a Tate infant.  He also said Bill Garrett cast the cement markers.

 

Marker Inscriptions:

 

Maggie R.                                                              Maude R. Beamer                 Lottie E. Reynolds

Wimmer                                                                 April 20, 1880                                        1897 - 1930

Apr. 26, 1876                                                         June 27, 1948                                         (metal marker)

Aug. 9, 1961                                                          (footstone: MRB)

(footstone: MRW)

 

George A. Reynolds                                            Ruth V. Reynolds                                 Mary Reynolds

1862 - 1938                                                             July 23, 1906                                          Lemon

(metal marker)                                                       March 26, 1995                                     Born

                                                                                                                                                March 31, 1878

                                                                                                                                                Died

                                                                                                                                                April 10, 1907

                                                                                                                                                (cement with footstone)

Reynolds-Beamer Cemetery (continued)

 

Ora E. Reynolds                                                   Mother                                                   Father

Born                                                                       Reba J. Reynolds                                 Jas. W. Reynolds

Jan. 27, 1874                                                          Born Apr. 22, 1845                               Born Dec. 15, 1850

Died                                                                        Died Dec. 22, 1926                                Died Oct. 12, 1927

Jan. 19, 1919                                                          (cement with footstone)                      (cement with footstone)

(cement with footstone)

 

                Reynolds                                                               Reynolds                               Randolph D. Reynolds

John Lee                Pearl May                              Dad                         Mom                       Cpl. US Marine Corps

1884 – 1969            1884 – 1976                            Frank T.                 Delsie M.               Korea

                                                                                April 21, 1927        Nov. 15, 1938        Dec 1 1929  Feb  15 1982

                                                                                June 16, 1990         ___________      Ranny

                                                                                (Frank Thomas Reynolds

                                                                                PVT US Army

                                                                                World War II

                                                                                Apr. 21, 1927  Jun 16  1991

                                                                                metal marker at foot of grave.)

 

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