Sutphin Cemetery

Sutphin Cemetery

 

Locality: Roanoke County                  Temporal Period:                  1st half 20th c.

Realty Map:          85.03-1-15                              Cultural Affiliation:              Euro-American

USGS Map:           Bent Mountain                     Landform:                              Ridge bench

Grid Locus:            D-6                                          Elevation:                              1820 feet

UTM Easting:       580940                                    Aspect:                                  Flat

UTM Northing:    4117870

 

Site Dimensions:  15 by 30 feet

 

Survey Description:  Site consists of a small family cemetery with four graves.  All of the observed graves were oriented to the southeast and were marked with marble headstones.  A chain link fence surrounds the graves.  The site was covered with high weeds and no historic plantings were observed.  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 fence enclosure.

 

Survey Date:         8/98

 

Field Notes:           _x_Yes   ___No

Photographs:        ___Yes  _x_No

 

References:           Roanoke Valley Historical Society

                                1986        Roanoke County Graveyards Through 1920.  Privately printed, RVHS, Roanoke.

 

Additional Comments:  Assigned temporal period was based on the 1915 through 1930 range of death dates inscribed on observed headstones.  The cemetery is marked on the USGS Bent Mountain map sheet or the local realty maps.  Cemetery is located behind a house at 5902 Lost Mountain Road.  The UTM grid coordinates are estimated.  Vegetation, topography, and outdated maps hindered an accurate plot of the site on the map.

 

The RVHS surveyed the cemetery and documented biographical information derived from the inscription on one headstone that predated 1921 (1986:  226).   This stone was also observed during the 1998 survey.

 

Marker Inscriptions:

 

Charlie Sutphin                                                     Chattie Avis                                          Robert

Apr. 23, 1883                                                         Wife of                                                   Son of

Apr. 21, 1938                                                         Charlie Sutphin.                                    C. & C.A. Sutphin

He united with the Church                                 Born                                                       Born & Died

Dec. 15, 1919                                                         Nov. 8, 1890                                          July 25, 1915

Gone, but not forgotten                                      Died

                                                                                Jan. 11, 1923

 

Minnie Mable

Wife of Charlie Sutphin

Born

May 19, 1885,

Died

Jan. 18, 1930.


 

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