Locality:
Realty Map: 117.00-1-6 Cultural
Affiliation: Euro-American
USGS Map: Check Landform: Ridge base bench
Grid Locus: H-2 Elevation: 2520 feet
UTM Easting: 573470 Aspect: Flat
UTM Northing: 4107570
Site Dimensions: 18
by 25 feet
Survey Description:
Site consists of a small family cemetery with five graves. All of the observed graves were marked with inscribed
markers and ranged in orientation from 92 degrees northeast through 110 degrees
southeast degrees. The graves have been
enclosed by a modern chain link fence manufactured by Sears. The entire cemetery is covered with a dense
stand of tiger lilies, and other historic plantings include two boxwoods. Site was field inspected, photographed, and
grave marker inscriptions were transcribed and compared to previous
documentation. Site size was estimated
by measuring the horizontal extent of the fence.
Survey Date: 8/98
Field Notes: _x_Yes ___No
Photographs: _x_Yes ___No
References:
1986
Additional Comments: Assigned
temporal period was based on the 1920 through 1954 range of death dates
inscribed on observed headstones.
However, the presence of uninscribed fieldstone markers and unmarked
graves may reflect an earlier or later use of the site. The cemetery is marked on the USGS Check map sheet,
but not marked on local realty maps.
Site is located near the Roanoke, Montgomery, and Floyd county
boundaries on the northwest side of King Brothers Road (Route 865) in a wide
horseshoe curve. The surrounding land is
currently used for corn cultivation.
The RVHS surveyed this cemetery and documented biographical
information from the 1920 headstone of Patrat Woodward (1986: 252).
This headstone and four others were documented during the 1998 survey.
Marker Inscriptions:
Mary Woodward Leonard
Woodward Aaron
H. Son of
Born Born J.L.
Woodward
Feb. 5, 1903 June
8, 1914
Died Died
May 12, 1932 April
26, 1931 God’s
finger touched
him
& he sleeps
Patrat James
Letcher
Wife of Woodward
J.L. Woodward
Born Feb. 18, 1877
Died
We hope we meet again