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Atkins Cemetery

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Roanoke County
99.00-01-32.02
Garden City
J-7
597250
4117310

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20 th century
Euro-American
Ridge bench
1180 feet
Flat

Site Dimensions: 60 by 60 feet

Survey Description: Site consists of a small family cemetery with four graves. Two graves are marked with an inscribed, granite double headstone and two graves are marked with metal markers and cement blocks. One of the graves is also covered with a strip of green indoor/outdoor carpet. All of the graves contain plastic flowers and each is oriented due east. Site area is covered with a young, sparse growth of deciduous trees and historic plantings include periwinkle. Site was field inspected, photographed, and grave marker inscriptions were transcribed and compared to previous documentation. Site size was derived from local realty maps.

Survey Date: 9/99

Field Notes: _x_Yes ___No
Photographs: _x_Yes ___No

References: None

Additional Comments: Assigned temporal period was based on the 1949 through 1989 range of death dates inscribed on observed headstones. The cemetery is not marked on the USGS Garden City map sheet, but it is marked on local realty maps and labeled as the “Atkins Cemetery.”

Marker Inscriptions:


Neveda Atkins Mann
1918 1989
(metal marker with
cement block)


Atkins
Joseph
Father
Nov 20, 1871
Feb. 20, 1950
Lucy Settle
Mother
Oct. 17, 1875
Aug. 30,1949

Duke Harris Atkins
1920 1988
(metal marker with cement
block and carpet cover)


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