Locality:
Realty Map: 54.04-6-39 Cultural
Affiliation: African-American
USGS Map: Glenvar Landform: Ridge top
Grid Locus: I-12 Elevation: 1360 feet
UTM Easting: 574730 Aspect: Flat
UTM Northing: 4125620
Site Dimensions: 25
by 40 feet
Survey Description:
Site consists of a small family cemetery with nine graves. The observed graves included seven with
inscribed granite markers, one with a metal marker, and one with an uninscribed
fieldstone marker. This unenclosed
cemetery is covered with a young growth of deciduous trees 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: 10/98
Field Notes: _x_Yes ___No
Photographs: _x_Yes ___No
References: None
Additional Comments: Assigned
temporal period was based on the 1932 through 1964 range of death dates
inscribed on observed headstones.
However, the presence of one uninscribed fieldstone marker may reflect
an earlier or later use of the site. The
cemetery is not marked on the USGS Glenvar map sheet but it is marked on local
realty maps and labeled “cemetery.” The
cemetery intersects the rear boundaries of two lots in the Cherokee Hill
subdivision. It is located along the
northwest boundary of the subdivision near the intersection of
Marker Inscriptions:
Walter Reynolds Buchanan
Reynolds Ann
Serena
PVT At
Rest 1860
- 1932
813 C. Trans Corp (footstone:
BR) At
Rest.
Buchanon Reynolds Henry
Osiah Reynolds Dora
Reynolds
(metal marker at
foot of grave: Mary
Carpenter Infant
of
Mr. Buchanon Mrs. Age 79 Dora
Reynolds
Reynolds Jr. 1884 1963
1897 – 1964) (metal marker)