Routt Cemetery

 

Locality: Roanoke County                  Temporal Period:                  20^th century

Realty Map:          Garden City                           Cultural Affiliation:              Euro-American

USGS Map:           Garden City                           Landform:                              Ridge bench

Grid Locus:            K-5                                          Elevation:                              930 feet

UTM Easting:       598540                                    Aspect:                                  West

UTM Northing:    4118670

 

Site Dimensions:  40 by 75 feet

 

Survey Description:  This site consists of a small family cemetery with 11 identifiable graves.  Six of the observed graves were marked with granite, marble, or metal markers, four graves were marked by uninscribed fieldstone markers, and one unmarked graves was identifiable as a ground surface depression.  Most of the graves within the cemetery were oriented to the northeast, but the most recent graves were oriented to the west.  Although the observed graves clustered in an area which measured about 20 by 29 feet, the boundaries of the site measured about 40 by 75 feet.  Three corner boundaries of the cemetery were marked by metal pipes.  The maintained cemetery was covered with mowed grass and historic plantings included boxwoods and yucca.  Site was field inspected, photographed, and headstone inscriptions were transcribed.  Site size was estimated by pacing the horizontal extent of the surrounding corner markers.

 

Surveyed by:        T. Klatka & D. Richardson

Survey Date:         10/97

 

Field Notes:           _x_Yes   ___No

Photographs:        _x_Yes   ___No

 

Reference(s):         None

 

 Additional Comments:  Assigned temporal period was based on death dates inscribed on observed headstones and information reported by informants.  The Routt Cemetery was originally field inspected and documented in 1982 and recorded as site 44RN263 in the Department of Historic Resources’ Archaeological Site Inventory files.  The site is not marked on the USGS Garden City map sheet or on local realty maps.

 

Marker Inscriptions:

 

Anne Elizabeth Jacobs                        Mrs.  Emma R. Patsel                           Woodrow Wilson

1880 - 1953                                            1889 - 1969                                             U.S. Navy

World War II

Aug 4 1918   Feb 28 1985

 

Mother                                                   Mother                                                   Raymond Corvin Love

Lola G.                                                    Viola Marie Jacobs                              1920            1992

Jennings                                                                Holt

Oct. 2, 1920                                            Jan. 1, 1920

March 29, 1994                                     June 4, 1994

Beyond this veil of tears

There is life above

 

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