Delaney Court Cemetery

Locality: Roanoke County Temporal Period: 20th century

Realty Map: 80.00-1-5.1 Cultural Affiliation: African-American

USGS Map: Garden City Landform: Ridge top

Grid Locus: K-1 Elevation: 1100 feet

UTM Easting: 598550 Aspect: Flat

UTM Northing: 4122130

Site Dimensions: 225 by 90 by 225 by 117 feet

Survey Description: Site consists of a community cemetery with at least 129 interments. Observed graves include: 65 marked with formal stone markers, metal alloy markers, brass plaques, hand-painted metal markers, and wood cross markers; 11 marked with uninscribed fieldstones; and 53 unmarked graves visible as ground surface depressions. Local informants indicated that the cemetery contains numerous other unmarked graves. Cemetery is bounded by Rt. 658 to the northeast, the Angel Cemetery to the northwest, and wooded lots to the southwest and southeast. Much of the site contains very little vegetation; consequently, parts of the site experience substantial erosion from sheet runoff. Graves are oriented to the southeast. Site was field inspected and headstone inscriptions were transcribed and compared to previous site documentation. Site size for northeast and southwest sides was estimated by pacing the horizontal extent of observed graves while sizes for the northwest and southeast boundaries were derived from local realty maps.

Survey Date: 11/97

Field Notes: x Yes No

Photographs: Yes X No

Reference(s): Roanoke Valley Historical Society

1986 Roanoke County Graveyards Through 1920. Privately printed, RVHS, Roanoke.

Additional Comments: Assigned temporal period based on death dates observed on grave markers. These dates range from 1907 through 1997. However, the presence of uninscribed fieldstone markers and numerous unmarked graves may indicate an earlier use of the site. Site is marked on the USGS Garden City map sheet but is mislabeled as the “Bandy Cem.” On local realty/tax assessment maps, the Delaney Court Cemetery and adjacent Angel Cemetery have been incorrectly merged into a single cemetery.

This cemetery was initially surveyed by the RVHS and their report recorded biographical information derived from two headstones in the cemetery which predated 1920 (1986: 200). The following information provides biographical information derived from all headstones in the cemetery observed during the 1997 survey.

Marker Inscriptions:

Sarah Collier B Mc G Baby Erica

( metal marker with (marble footstone Starkey

painted letters) probably associated 1892 1983

with the Boyd (metal marker)

McGeorge grave)

Delaney Court Cemetery (continued)

Boyd Rosa Edward McGeorge

McGeorge McGeorge 1899 1951

Born Born (metal marker)

June 13, 1913 Jan. 1, 1890

Died Died

Apr. 12, 1914 July 19, 1917

Mrs Florence Mr. James E. Mr. Harry

Casey Kasey Holland

1913 1918 1875 1964 ______

(metal marker) (metal marker) (metal marker)

Mr. Jordan Mrs. Amanda Mrs. Mary

Holland J Holland Annie Holland

________ ________ 1___ _941

(metal marker) (metal marker) (metal marker)

Louis B. Vera C. Holland Mrs. Emily B.

Holland 1892 1977 Hawkins

1898 1973 (metal marker) 1907 1980

(metal marker) (metal marker)

Mr. Pleas F Sallie E. Casey Uninscribed cement

Casey 1887 1963 headstone & footstone

1916 1972

(metal marker)

Rutherford Mrs. Bessie L. Mr. Vernon

W. Casey Sr. McGeorge McGeorge

1912 1977 _________ 1923 1982

( painted metal (metal marker)

marker)

Mr. Jermiah A. Sam Henry Charles Russell Holland

McGeorge Langard Holland Died October 2, 1970

1921 1987 Born Eva Cannaday Holland

Nov. 20, 1883(?) (metal marker at foot of grave:

Died Mr. Charles R. Holland

May 13, 1907 1887-1970)

Eva St. John Holland Mrs. Ardelle Mr. Herman

1895 1981 H. Jerman Holland

(metal marker) 1923 1981 1918 1990

(metal marker) (metal marker)

Adle Davis Mrs. Gertrude Mr. Wilbert J.

Turner Bush Hardy

1905 1974 1905 1970 1910 1968

(metal marker) (metal marker) (metal marker)

Delaney Court Cemetery (continued)

PM Mr. Dazell L. Thomas H.

(marble footstone Poindexter Preston

with no headstone) 1949 1996 1922 1975

(metal marker) (broken metal marker)

Mr. Lewis T. Mr. Alexander Eugene W. Poindexter

Poindexter Casey PVT US Army

1957 1996 1912 1979 Vietnam

(metal marker) (metal marker) 1944 1984

(brass plaque & metal marker)

Kasey Dazelle Poindexter Mrs. JoAnn H.

Francis SJ STM 1 US Navy Casey

1913 1994 World War II 1937 1989

(metal marker) 1923 1979 (metal marker)

(brass plaque & metal marker)

Jonathan Woods Floyd H. Mrs. Annie D.

Virginia Lockett Irvin

TEC 5 3441 Truck CO TC 1934 1975 (no dates; metal

World War II (metal marker) marker)

July 8, 1927 March 8, 1958

(brass plaque)

Leonard E. Mr. Leo Mr. Isaiah H.

Richardson Davis Davis Sr.

1952 1978 1926 1987 1930 1966

(metal marker) (metal marker) (metal marker)

Henry Jackson Davis Jeroline Miss Roline

US Marine Corps Poindexter Poindexter

Korea 1905 1964 1927 1964

Nov. 7, 1933 Jan. 11, 1991 (metal marker) (metal marker)

(brass plaque with metal

marker at foot of grave)

Mr. Salis Malon Mr. John T. Mrs. Julia E.

Poindexter Poindexter Cain

1882 1958 1905 1964 1889 1970

(metal marker) (metal marker) (metal marker)

Mrs. Nannie B. Mr. Nick Lewis Mrs. Mary M.

Cain Cain Dickerson

1903 1962 1884 1960 1894 1961

(metal marker) (metal marker) (metal marker)

Delaney Court Cemetery (continued)

Lewis Bertha V. Mr. Jonathan

Casey Stanley Wood

Virginia 1900 1977 1926 1958

PVT 1 CL (metal marker) (metal marker at

320 SEPM BN OMC foot of grave)

January 28, 1934

_______ Flemen H. Mr. Larry D.

Combs Dillon Baxter

1904 1959 1877 1978 1949 1995

(metal marker) (metal marker) (metal marker)

Cliffe L. Mr. Albert James Haley

Watson Kasey 1927 1955

1907 1975 1910 1972 (marble headstone)

(metal marker) (metal marker)

Douglas Romain uninscribed wooden cross

Baxter Lewis (at head of grave)

Virginia 1948 1957

PVT 31 Infantry (marble headstone)

7 Infantry Div

Korea

January 19, 1929

September 21, 1951

(marble headstone)

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