Locality:
Realty Map: 95.02-2-61.1 Cultural Affiliation: Euro-American
USGS Map:
Grid Locus: G-7 Elevation: 1440 feet
UTM Easting: 583840 Aspect: Flat
UTM Northing: 4116760
Site Dimensions: 60
by 75 feet
Survey Description:
Site consists of a small family cemetery with at least 10 graves. Observed graves included one marked with a
metal marker, one marked with an inscribed footstone, six marked with uninscribed
fieldstone markers, and two unmarked graves visible as ground surface
depressions. Observed graves varied in
orientation from 94 degrees northeast through 104 degrees southeast. Other graves may be present. Site was cleared in the past, but a lack of
maintenance permitted the growth of a young deciduous forest with a dense
understory. Yucca plants were the only
historic plantings observed in the cemetery.
Site was field inspected 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: 5/88
Field Notes: _x_Yes ___No
Photographs: ___Yes _x_No
References:
1986
Additional Comments: Assigned
temporal period was based on the circa 1910 through 1980 range of death dates
inscribed on observed headstones or reported by informants. However, the presence of uninscribed
fieldstone markers and unmarked graves may reflect an earlier or later use of
the site. The cemetery is not marked on
the
The RVHS surveyed this cemetery, referred to it as the
“Sloan Cemetery II,” and documented biographical information for three graves
(1986: 223). It is not certain if the
information provided by the RVHS was reported by an informant or transcribed
from grave markers.
Marker Inscriptions:
Miss Mary S. Sloan
1893
1980 (inscribed
footstone;
(metal marker) associated
headstone
was
not inscribed)
Information documented by the RVHS:
Shockey, Mr. and Mrs. , neighbors, buried about 1910
Sloan, infant, unnamed child of Cary and Mada Bell Sloan,
born and died 1919
Sloan, James Jefferson/ b.