Site Dimensions: 190 by 156.5 by 201 by 128 feet

Survey Description: Site consists of an active cemetery initially established for the needs of an extended family but now serving the local community. A minimum of 339 interments were present at the time of survey. Majority (290) are marked with marble and granite markers while a few were marked with cast cement markers. Thirteen were marked with uninscribed fieldstone markers, 10 were marked with inscribed fieldstone markers, and a minimum of 26 graves were unmarked. All graves face south by southeast. Additional unmarked graves are probably present. Cement cylinders may represent head and footstones for one grave and a single cylinder may mark another grave. Except for a few broken and fallen stones, the cemetery is well maintained. Historic and modern plantings include oak, holly, cedar trees, yucca, and boxwoods. Site is surrounded by a single lane access road. Site was field inspected, photographed, and headstone inscriptions were compared to previous site documentation. Site size was derived from realty maps.

Survey Date: 1/98

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.

Works Progress Administration of Virginia, Historical Inventory, Roanoke County, Virginia, Document #141.

Additional Comments: Assigned temporal period was based on death dates inscribed on headstones. These dates range from 1858 through 1998. The presence of uninscribed fieldstone markers may indicate an earlier use of the site. Site is marked on the USGS Garden City map sheet as well as realty maps.

This cemetery was initially surveyed by the Works Progress Administration and recorded as the Richardson-Bandy Cemetery. The WPA inventory file provided a review of late 18th through late 19th-century deed records and listed biographical information transcribed from three graves. The cemetery was resurveyed by the RVHS and was documented in their report as the Bandy Cemetery II (1986: 5-7). Their report provided biographical information derived from 40 headstones that predated 1921. During the 1998 survey no attempt was made to transcribed biographical information from all headstones present in the cemetery. However, headstone transcriptions were made from the fragile and weathering fieldstone markers as well as the weathering marble grave markers. Any of the following information that diverges from the record of the RVHS is printed in bold italics. Dashed lines indicate illegible text on a marker.

Bandy Cemetery (continued)

Marker Inscriptions:

Ronald R. Nichols infant son Nov. 26, 1946 (cement marker) Nannie A. Wife of J.B. Leonard Born Apr. 25, 1848 Died Jan. 1, 1908 Remember they Creator in the days of they youth dear and take your rest, God called you home, He thought it best. Mrs. E. Mays Aged 67 Y 3 M 17 D (fieldstone) Henry Kelley (fieldstone) Lucy : O Kelley Born Nov. 31 (fieldstone)

Three small headstones and footstones of cement / headstones inscribed "Kesler" L. W. Richardson Died. Jan. 10, 1879 Age. 60. Y (fieldstone) John W. Mays Born. Dec. 21 1812 Died. May. 19th 1885 (fieldstone) N. H. B. ----D. O. May. 16. ----18. 18. (fieldstone)

Infant of J.A. & C.S. Leonard Born & Died April 19, 1908 Nancy Richardson Born Oct. 6, 1827 Died Dec. 5, 1901 (fieldstone) Sarah J Kell y Bor ---ov 8. 1818 Died. Jan 6. 1888 (fieldstone) HOAL 18 86 18 86 G E G M (fieldstone)

J.B. Leonard Born Oct. 10, 1848 Died Oct. 28, 1915 John Infant son of Lewis F. & Nannie A. Mays Born Mar. 1, 1871 Died Apr. 10, 1871 Sleep brother Mary Kelley DI.18.DE 1858 (fieldstone) W.B. Stanley 1 P 13 (Cement marker)