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Bohon Brothers

Bohon Brothers

 

Locality: Roanoke County                  Temporal Period:                  4th quarter 20th century

Realty Map:          104-1-8                                   Cultural Affiliation:              Euro-American

USGS Map:           Bent Mountain                     Landform:                              Ridge bench

Grid Locus:            E-10                                        Elevation:                              2480 feet

UTM Easting:       581010                                    Aspect:                                  Flat

UTM Northing:    4113820

 

Site Dimensions:  12 by 15 feet

 

Survey Description:  Site consists of a small cemetery with the graves of three brothers.  Each grave was marked with an inscribed memorial tablet issued by the military.  One grave with death date of 1990 was also marked with an uninscribed fieldstone marker.  The graves are aligned in a single row and each is oriented to 125 degrees.  Site is surrounded by mowed grass and is located in the southwest yard of a frame I-house.  No historic plantings were observed.  Site was field inspected and headstone inscriptions were transcribed .  Site size was estimated by pacing the horizontal extent of observed graves.

 

Survey Date:         9/98

 

Field Notes:           _x_Yes ___No

Photographs:        ___Yes _x_No

 

Reference(s):         None

 

Additional Comments:  Assigned temporal period was based on the 1990 through 1997 range of death dates inscribed on observed headstones. The cemetery is not marked on the USGS Glenvar map sheet or on local realty maps.

 

Marker Inscriptions:

 

Herbert Hoover Bohon                                       Raymond L. Bohon                              Edward Oscar Bohon

AIC Air Force                                                       AMML US Navy                                 US Navy

Korea                                                                     World War II                                        World War II

Nov 1  1928    Sept 16  1990                                Mar 9  1920    Nov 18  1984 Jul 29  1915    Feb 16  1997


 

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