Site Dimensions: 40 by 66 feet

Survey Description: Site consists of a small family cemetery with at least 30 graves. Identified graves included 11 with inscribed markers, nine with uninscribed fieldstone markers, and at least 10 graves were identified on the basis of ground surface depressions. This unenclosed cemetery has not been maintained for some time and is in poor condition. Many of the grave markers have fallen and others have been broken. The site is covered with a growth of saplings and scrub brush. Historic plantings include periwinkle ground cover. 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. Given the poor condition of this cemetery, the assigned site size should be considered a minimum size. Local realty maps record an erroneous site size of 25 by 35 by 40 by 45 feet.

Survey Date: 10/98

Field Notes: _x_Yes ___No
Photographs: _x_Yes ___No

References: Roanoke Valley Historical Society
1986 Roanoke County Graveyards Through 1920. Privately printed, RVHS, Roanoke.

Additional Comments: Assigned temporal period was based on the1873 through 1928 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 not marked on the USGS Elliston map sheet or on local realty maps.

This cemetery was initially surveyed by the RVHS and recorded as the “Bandy Cemetery I” (1986: 4). The survey report documented biographical information derived from inscriptions on nine headstones that predated 1921. Some of the headstones recorded by the RVHS were not observed during the 1998 survey and text on some of the observed markers was illegible due to erosion, fragmentation of the stones, or partial burial of the stones. Information recorded by the RVHS but not observed during the 1998 survey is reprinted below in bold font.

Marker Inscriptions:

To a heavenly home Amanda N. Harper July 23, 1843 Dec. 20, 1928 Gone home. Harper (footstone: AMH)

John M. Goodwin 1831 – 1873 (uninscribed footstone)

Mary J. Goodwin Sept. 9, 1873 - 1888 (uninscribed footstone)

Bandy-Goodwin Cemetery (continued)

Cora L. Goodwin May 12, 1868 Feb. 21, 1917 Meet me in heaven. (footstone: CLG; the only observed part of this broken headstone was a basal section with the inscription "heaven.") footstone: LMH, headstone not observed Mother Base (fragmented stone) William D. Womack Co. E. 54 th Virginia Infantry C.S.A. On Wings of love To a heavenly home.

Everette Moses (footstone: EMM) Mathew Bandy Born Sept. 3, 1818 Died Sept. 9, 1894 Aged 76 years. (obelisk has fallen; footstone – MB) support for unobserved headstone. Judith Bandy Born Dec. 5, 1816 The pains of Death are past. Labor and sorrow cease And Life’s long war Are closed at last His soul is Found in peace.

Cynthia Florentine Bandy Wife of Rev. Enos Vaughn Goodwin July 7, 1840 Jan. 7, 1898 A tender mother and a faithful friend. (stone has fallen) Base for obelisk that was not observed. W.B. Stanley