Wingo Cemetery

 

Locality: Roanoke County                  Temporal Period:                  20th century

Realty Map:          107.00-5-40                            Cultural Affiliation:              Euro-American

USGS Map:           Garden City                           Landform:                              Ridge top

Grid Locus:            D-10                                        Elevation:                              1220 feet

UTM Easting:       591160                                    Aspect:                                  Flat

UTM Northing:    4113810

 

Site Dimensions: 140 by 127 by 165 by 125 feet

 

Survey Description:   Site consists of a small family cemetery with 14 graves.  Five of the graves were marked with granite headstones, one was marked with an uninscribed fieldstone and a metal marker, one was marked with uninscribed cement markers enclosed by iron pipe fencing, and five were marked with uninscribed fieldstones.  Orientation of the graves ranged from 89 degrees northeast through 115 degrees southeast.  The graves have been enclosed on three sides by a wood post and wire mesh fence.  Site size was derived from local realty maps; however, pacing the horizontal extent of the observed graves provided a smaller size estimate of 40 by 52 feet.  Site was covered with tall grasses which suggests it receives periodic maintenance.  Of note, the site contains one grave with an uninscribed headstone and an associated metal marker dated the interment to 1975.  Site was field inspected, photographed, and headstone inscriptions were transcribed and compared to previous site documentation.  Site size was derived from local realty maps.

 

Survey Date:         2/98

 

Field Notes:           _x_Yes   ___No

Photographs:        _x_Yes   ___No

 

Reference(s):         Roanoke Valley Historical Society

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

 

Additional Comments: Assigned temporal period was based on the 1905 through 1975 range of death dates inscribed on observed headstones.  However, the presence of uninscribed fieldstone markers may indicate an earlier or later use of the site.  Site is not marked on the USGS Garden City map sheet, but it is marked on local realty maps and labeled “cemetery.”  The RVHS surveyed the cemetery documented the grave of Luke Wingo (1986:  249).  The following information was transcribed from headstones observed during the 1998 survey.

 

Marker inscriptions:

 

Lillie M. Wingo    George Henry                                       Luke Wi                                                 Terry M. Shepard

May 12, 1897         Oct. 4, 1891                                            ngo waz                                                 1921 - 1975

Feb. 23, 1970         Jan. 15, 1964                                          born May                                              (metal marker beside

Shepard                                                                 the 11, 1869                                           uninscribed field-

Died the 16                                            stone marker)

            1905

(inscribed fieldstone)

 

                                Wingo                                                    Susan Cheatham                                  Uninscribed cement

Thomas Jr.                             Mollie                                     Wingo Born Dec. 18, 1854  head & foot stones

Born Mar. 15, 1857               Born Feb. 14, 1864                Died Sept. 20, 1948                               enclosed by a fence

Died Mar. 8, 1941 Died Feb. 11, 1940                Gone, but not forgotten                      constructed of iron

pipes.

 

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