Locality:
Realty Map: 103.00-1-2 Cultural
Affiliation: Euro-American
USGS Map:
Grid Locus: L-9 Elevation: 2760 feet
UTM Easting: 577040 Aspect: South
UTM Northing: 4114560
Site Dimensions: 51
by 53 feet
Survey Description:
Site consists of a small family cemetery with about 15 graves. Observed graves included: 11 marked with
marble grave markers, three marked with
uninscribed fieldstone markers, and one unmarked graves visible as a ground
surface depression. All of the observed
graves ranged in orientation from 115 degrees to 127 degrees southeast. Site is covered with mowed grass. Three sides of the cemetery were bounded by a
wood post and wire mesh fence, while the northwest side of the cemetery was marked by wood posts
only. Site was field inspected,
photographed, 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: _x_Yes ___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 1877 through 1955 range of
death dates inscribed on observed headstones.
However, the presence of uninscribed fieldstone markers and an unmarked
grave may reflect an earlier or later use of the site. The cemetery is not marked on the USGS Bent
Mountain map sheet and or the local realty maps.
The RVHS also surveyed the cemetery and documented
biographical information derived from inscriptions from six headstones that
predated 1921 (1986: 228-229). All of the headstones recorded by the RVHS
were observed during the 1998 survey.
Two of the headstones, as well as an uninscribed fieldstone marker and
an illegible metal marker, were found dislodged and leaning against a tree
stump.
Marker Inscriptions:
Elizabeth Beverly Elizabeth
Beverly Joseph
M. Terry
Terry Whittle
Terry
Daughter of Daughter
of
John Coles Terry William
Conway (footstone: J.M.T.)
And his wife Whittle
Elizabeth Whittle U.S.N.
& C.S.N.
May 28, 1875 and
his wife
Feb. 2, 1911 Elizabeth
Beverly
(footstone” uninscribed)
Sinclair
Terry-Coles
Cemetery (continued)
Obverse of Marker: Reverse
of Marker: Joseph
Dandridge
John Coles Terry In
Loving Memory of Terry
U.S.N.
Son of John
Coles Terry, Jr. Son
of
Joseph Motley Terry of
Bent Mountain, Virginia. John
Coles Terry
And Son
of and
his wife
Catherine Thompson Coles John
Coles and Elizabeth Elizabeth
Whittle
Born Oct. 28, 1844 Beverly
Whittle Terry
At Farmington, near Born
Aug. 4, 1879
Chatham, Va. Died
March 3, 1927 (at
head of grave)
Died Feb. 25, 1926 And
with the morn ______________
Cadet V.M.I. soldier with Those
angel faces smile Joseph
Dandridge
Stonewall Jackson Which
I have loved long since, Son
of
And Jubal Early and
lost awhile. John
Coles
C.S.A. resident of
Bent Mountain, Va. Beverly
Terry
Married 1872 Born
Elizabeth Beverly Whittle Feb.
3, 1874,
He chose the way of truth Died.
In his spirit was no fear
Neither shadow of turning In
him was life.
(footstone: J.C.T.) and
the life was
the
light of men.
Blessed is the man (at
foot of grave)
Unto whom the Lord
Imputeth not _____ J.C.T.
Jr. M.W.T.
Ly and ____ ____ (footstone
only) (footstone
only)
_____
(most of the inscription on C.C.T.
this marble headstone was (footstone
only)
covered by cement)
Obverse of large marker: Reverse
of large marker: Martha
Wilkinson
Grace Fortesque Terry Moncure Widow of Philip St. Leger Moncure, M.D. Daughter
Born Bent Mtn., Va., Aug 9, 18 Norfolk, Va. of
Dau. of John Coles Terry and Va. Med. So. A.M.A. Benj. & Delilah M.
Elizabeth Beverly Whittle Amer.
College of Surgeons Terry
Mem. Colonial Dames of America 33rd Degree Mason, died 1955 Died - 1879
D.A.R. A.P.V.A. Buried at his
ancestral church The
sufferings of
Va. Horticultural Society Aqui,
Stafford Co., Va., circa 1751 This
present time are
Not
to be compared
Catherine Coles Illegible metal marker With
the glory which
Daughter (dislodged
and Shall
be revealed
Of leaning
against In
us.
John Coles a
tree stump) (dislodged
headstone
Elizabeth leaning
against a
Beverly Terry tree
stump)
Born
Died
Aug. 12, 1877 (dislodged headstone leaning against a tree
stump)