Locality:
Realty Map: 113.00-1-44.1 Cultural Affiliation: African American
USGS Map: Garden
City Landform: Ridge bench
Grid Locus: B-13 Elevation: 1460 feet
UTM Easting: 589950 Aspect: Southeast
UTM Northing: 4110980
Site Dimensions: 35
by 125 feet
Survey Description:
Site consists of a family cemetery with at least 36 interments. Observed graves included: five with granite markers;
one with a marble marker; two with metal markers; one with an uninscribed
cement marker; one with an uninscribed fieldstone marker and a metal marker; 15
with uninscribed fieldstone markers; and at least 11 unmarked graves. Additionally, four dislodged temporary metal
markers were observed on the site. These
may indicate additional graves.
Orientation of the graves ranged from 31 through 49 degrees. Site was not enclosed by a fence, but it has
been surrounded on three sides by a horseshoe-shaped turn in a gravel
road. The location of uninscribed
headstones adjacent to this road indicates that the road runs directly over a
number of the graves. Site is covered by
a young stand of deciduous trees. Site
was field inspected, photographed, and headstone inscriptions were
transcribed. Site size was estimated by
pacing the horizontal extent of observed graves.
Survey Date: 3/98
Field Notes: _x_Yes ___No
Photographs: _x_Yes ___No
Reference(s): None
Additional Comments: Assigned temporal period was based on
the range of death dates inscribed on observed grave markers. These dates ranged from 1928 through
1988. The presence of uninscribed
fieldstone markers and unmarked graves may reflect an earlier use of the
site. Site is marked on USGS Garden City
map sheet and on local realty maps.
However, both maps combine the Taylor with the nearby Wade cemetery and
label them as a single cemetery. These
cemeteries are separated by 50 feet, each have different internal structures,
and different grave marker styles.
Further, the recorded size for the combined cemeteries, 38 by 187 feet,
appears too small. The Taylor family and
other local informants reported that the Taylor and Wade cemeteries are two
distinct, separate cemeteries. Site is
associated with the Piedmont Church.
Marker inscriptions:
Mrs. Annie T. James
L. Taylor Wiley Jackson
Campbell May
21, 1949 Taylor Robert Louise M.
1903 1988 July 9, 1974 1879 – 1961 Mar. 26, 1912
(metal marker) (granite
marker with (granite marker) Feb. 19, 1986 _________
metal marker at foot)
Clara Dudley Bennie Nellie T.
Roy Mr.
Otha
Taylor Arrington Oct. 11, 1901 Taylor
1881 - 1937 Virginia Apr. 26, 1928 1916 1980
(granite marker) PVT
35 Constr. Co. (granite
marker with (metal
marker)
August 5, 1932 metal marker with name Mrs
(marble marker) Nellie Taylor Roy at foot)