Locality:
Realty Map: 99.00-2-20 Cultural
Affiliation: Euro-American
USGS Map: Garden
City Landform: Ridge top
Grid Locus: H-8 Elevation: 1100 feet
UTM Easting: 595820 Aspect: Flat
UTM Northing: 4115710
Site Dimensions: 50 by 100 feet
Survey Description:
Site consists of a family cemetery that contains a minimum of 14
interments. Seven graves were marked
with granite and marble headstones, five other graves were marked with
uninscribed fieldstone markers, and one grave was marked with an uninscribed
marble slab. An informant reported that
one of the marked graves contains two children, and other children were buried in
unmarked graves. Orientation of the marked
graves ranged from 88 through 90 degrees.
Five large oak trees prominently marked the site, and no other historic
plantings were noted. Timber surrounding
the site was recently clear-cut and pieces of flagging tape used to marked the
boundaries of the site were observed on many trees. Site boundaries demarcated by the flagging
tape measured about 100 feet (north-south) by 50 feet (east-west). The distribution of marked graves within the
cemetery measured 85 feet (north-south) by 20 feet (east-west). All marked graves were clustered together,
except for the grave of Mary Simmons located bout 47 feet away. Site was field inspected, photographed, and
headstone inscriptions were transcribed.
Site size was estimated by pacing the horizontal extent of the marked
boundaries.
Surveyed Date: 4/98
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.
These dates ranged from 1926 through 1975. However, the presence of uninscribed
fieldstone markers and the report of unmarked graves in the cemetery may
indicate an earlier use of the site.
Site is not marked on the USGS Garden City map sheet or on local realty
maps.
Marker Inscriptions:
Weaver Mary F. Simmons William Simmons
Josiah Nancy
A.
(footstones: Father & Mother. Illegible Wife of
metal marker at head of Josiah’s G.T. Patsel
grave. Metal marker
at head of Nancy’s Nov. 25, 1883 Clarence
Simmons
grave: Nancy Ann Wallace / Died Feb. 21, 1927 Feb.
6, 1907
October 27, 1951) In
memory of a
loved One
who sleeps here.