Conner Cemetery

Locality: Roanoke County                  Temporal Period:                  Indeterminate

Realty Map:          111.00-1-56.4                         Cultural Affiliation:              Indeterminate

USGS Map:           Bent Mountain                     Landform:                              Ridge top

Grid Locus:            A-13                                       Elevation:                              2640 feet

UTM Easting:       577840                                    Aspect:                                  Flat

UTM Northing:    4110420

Site Dimensions:  100.35 by 185.47 by 126.35 by 185.75 feet

Survey Description:  Site consists of an unenclosed cemetery covered with pine and deciduous trees and surrounded by a cultivated field.  Eight uninscribed fieldstone markers and a number of unmarked graves were observed but an estimate of the number of graves in the cemetery was not possible because cattle have caused pronounced disturbance to the site surface.  Realty map marks cemetery as a large polygon that abuts the northwest side of Rt. 221.  As observed in the field, identified graves were covered in a wood lot about 85 by 125 feet in size and separated from Rt. 221 by a strip of vegetation about 15 feet wide and part of the cultivated field about 65 feet wide.  No historic plantings were observed on the site.  Site was field inspected, and site size was derived from the local real estate maps.

Survey Date:         8/98

Field Notes:           _x_Yes   ___No

Photographs:        ___Yes  _x_No

References:           None

Additional Comments:  Collection of oral histories and documentary research may provide social and temporal information regarding this cemetery.  The name of the cemetery was derived from local real estate maps that label the cemetery as the “Conner Cemetery.”  The Conner family owns and cultivates the surrounding parcel of land but they reported that none of their family members were buried in the cemetery. They reported the cemetery contains numerous unmarked graves, but they were not aware of who was interned in the cemetery.  The cemetery is not marked on the USGS Bent Mountain map sheet, but it is marked on local realty maps and labeled as the “Conner Cemetery.”