Locality: Roanoke
County Temporal Period: 2nd half 19th
century
Realty Map: 50.04-3-65 Cultural
Affiliation: Euro-American
USGS Map: Stewartsville Landform: Ridge bench
Grid Locus: C-9 Elevation: 1280 feet
UTM Easting: 601780 Aspect: South
UTM Northing: 4128140
Site Dimensions: 37.38 feet by 25.5 feet
Survey Description:
Site consists of a small family cemetery now situated in a residential
development. One marble obelisk contains
inscriptions for four individuals. The
marker is obviously a modern replacement for earlier headstones. Four small marble stones, similar to
footstones in size and shape, were observed on the ground surface at the base
of the obelisk. These stones probably
once marked the locations of the individual graves but have been displaced from
their original location. The cemetery is
marked as a rectangular plot on the realty maps, but no fence or landscape
features reflect the size, shape or orientation of the cemetery as it is marked
on the map. The cemetery is now located
along the boundary between two properties and is in the front yards of two
houses. Site area is now used as a lawn. Site was field inspected, photographed, and
headstone inscriptions were transcribed and compared to previous site
documentation. Site size was taken from
the local realty map.
Surveyed By: T.
Klatka & D. Richardson
Survey Date: 7/97
Field Notes: _x_Yes ___No
Photographs: _x_Yes ___No
Reference(s)
1986
Additional Comments:
Assigned temporal period was based on the dates inscribed on the
obelisk. These dates ranged from 1862
through 1888. Cemetery was not marked
on the USGS Stewartsville map sheet, but is marked on local realty maps. Property assessment records refer to this
property as the Ruth Ward Estate. A
local informant who hunted this land prior to the residential development
reported the cemetery contained more than four graves surrounded by a stone
enclosure.
This cemetery was surveyed by the RVHS soon after the area
was developed into a residential neighborhood.
The RVHS documented biographical information for four individuals that was
inscribed on an obelisk (1986:
253). The following information
was transcribed from the obelisk during the 1997 survey.
Marker inscriptions:
In memory of our father In
memory of our mother In
memory of In memory of
S.W. Wright M.J.
Wright N.H.
Wright W.S. Wright
Born
Died
Died
Died