Reynolds-Carpenter Cemetery

Reynolds-Carpenter Cemetery

 

Locality: Roanoke County                  Temporal Period:                  20th century

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 Cherokee Hills Drive (Rt. 1161) and Scout Circle (Rt. 1240).

 

Marker Inscriptions:

 

Walter Reynolds                                                  Buchanan Reynolds                            Ann Serena

Virginia                                                                  1854 – 1939                                            Reynolds

PVT                                                                        At Rest                                                  1860 - 1932

813 C. Trans Corp                                                (footstone: BR)                                     At Rest.

August 8, 1896                                                                                                                     (footstone:  ASR)

March 15, 1941

 

Buchanon Reynolds                                            Henry Osiah Reynolds                        Dora Reynolds

Nov. 23, 1897                                                        Apr. 22, 1889                                         Mar. 1, 1887

Aug. 1, 1964                                                          Nov. 23, 1953                                        Mar. 18, 1956

(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)

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