Site consists of a small family cemetery with 30 graves. Observed graves included 1 marked with marble or granite markers, 15 marked with uninscribed field stone markers, two marked with uninscribed cement markers, and one marked with an uninscribed field stone marker and a metal marker.

Additionally, the cemetery contains at least one unmarked grave visible as a ground surface depression. Other graves may be present. The observed graves ranged in orientation from 90 degrees due east thru 109 degrees southeast. Three sides of the cemetery were surrounded by a wood post and wire mesh fence, and ten of the graves inside the cemetery were enclosed by a chain link fence that measured 24.5 by 37.4 by 28 by 35.7 feet Historic plantings included yucca, periwinkle, and maple trees. 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 observed graves.

Assigned temporal period was based on the 1898 thru 1970 range of death dates inscribed on observed headstones. However, the presence of uninscribed fieldstone markes and unmarked graves may reflect an earlier or later use of the site. Additionally, one local family history suggests the cemetery was in use by 1877. The cemetery is marked on the USGS Bent Mountain map sheet and identified as "cem'. The cemetery is not marked on local realty maps.

The Roanoke Valley Historical Society surveyed this cemetery and documented biographical information derived from inscriptions on four headstones that predated 1921 (18986: 159 - 160) The RVHS also reported additional information from the Meador and Metz families that identifies interment marked by uninscribed markers. Additionally , Charles Abe reported that his ancestor Hattie Alice Light (deceased August 17, 1877, at the age of one year, four months and 20 days) was also buried in the cemetery.





Roanoke County, VA GIS Tax Parcel ID 096.03-01-23.00-0000