Wade Cemetery

 

Locality:                 Roanoke County                  Temporal Period:                  1^st – 3^rd quarters 20th c.

Realty Map:                          113.00-1-44.1                         Cultural Affiliation:              African American

USGS Map:                           Garden City                           Landform:                              Ridge bench

Grid Locus:                            B-13                                        Elevation:                              1480 feet

UTM Easting:                       589920                                    Aspect:                                  Southeast

UTM Northing:                    4110980

 

Site Dimensions: 50 by 57 feet

 

Survey Description:   Site consists of a small family cemetery containing 13 graves.  Eleven of the graves were marked with granite or marble markers, one grave was marked with uninscribed fieldstone markers, and one unmarked graves was visible as a ground surface depression.  It is not certain if other graves are present.  Ten graves at the front (west) of the cemetery ranged in orientation from 95 through 102 degrees southeast.  Two marked graves in the rear (east) part of the cemetery were oriented at 70 and 74 degrees northeast, and the unmarked grave was oriented along a bearing of 130 - 310 degrees.  Site has been enclosed by a wood post and wire mesh fence.  A mixed pine-deciduous forest surrounds the site, and the cemetery contains one pine tree and some daffodils.  A gate is located on the west side of the cemetery and all of the headstone inscriptions face the entrance way.  Site was field inspected, photographed, and headstone inscriptions were transcribed.  Site size was estimated by pacing the horizontal extent of the surrounding fence lines.

 

Survey Date:         3/98

 

Field Notes:           _x_Yes   ___No

Photographs:        _x_Yes   ___No

 

Reference(s):         None

 

Additional Comments:  Assigned temporal period WAs based on death dates observed on the headstones.  These dates ranged from 1915 through 1954.  The presence of one unmarked grave and one grave marked with uninscribed fieldstone markers may indicate an earlier or later use of the site.  Site is marked on the USGS Garden City map sheet and on local realty maps.  However, both maps include the Wade Cemetery with the nearby Taylor Cemetery as a single cemetery and label them as a single cemetery.  Although both cemeteries were associated with the Piedmont Church, they are separated by fifty feet,  each has a different internal structure, and each has different grave marker styles.  The Taylor family and other local informants reported that the Taylor and Wade cemeteries are two distinct and separate cemeteries.  Remnants of the Piedmont Church are located about 75 southwest of the site area.

 

Marker Inscriptions:

 

Moses Wade                                        Alexandria Wade                                                 Agnes Turner

Apr. 21, 1878                                         Feb. 14, 1900                                                         Nov. 11, 1876

May 20, 1954                                         Sept. 25, 1925                                                        May 6, 1931

Gone but not forgotten

 

Laura Wade                                          Mary Wilkerson                                                   John H. Turner

Pinkard                                                   Oct. 23, 1884                                                          July 14, 1881

Jan. 5, 1880                                            Aug. 30, 1940                                                        Oct. 7, 1942

Feb. 8, 1937

Wade Cemetery (continued)

 

Sarah M. Wade                                    Benjamin.                                                               Abby G.

Apr. 30, 1859                                         Wade.                                                                    Daughter of

Dec. 24, 1949                                         Born                                                                       Ben & S.M. Wade

She is gone,                                          Feb. 20, 1851                                                         Feb. 1, 1889

but not forgotten                                 Died                                                                        Aug. 15, 1919

May 19, 1924

Not lost but gone

Before

 

George B.                                               Mary

Wade                                                     Bagley

Born                                                       Dec. 16, 1839

May 3, 1919                                           Aug. 29, 1915

Died                                                        She was the

Aug. 19, 1921                                        sunshine of

Budded on earth                                  our home

to bloom in

heaven.

 

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