Search billions of records on Ancestry.com
   

Eddington Cemetery

 

Locality: Roanoke County                  Temporal Period:                  Indeterminate

Realty Map:          79.01-3-10                              Cultural Affiliation:              Indeterminate

USGS Map:           Garden City                           Landform:                              Ridge top

Grid Locus:            I-1                                           Elevation:                              1040 feet

UTM Easting:       596120                                    Aspect:                                  Flat

UTM Northing:    4122030

 

Site Dimensions:    28 by 50 feet

 

Survey Description:  Site consists of a small cemetery with at least 17 graves.  Identified graves included 13 with uninscribed fieldstone markers and four unmarked graves identified on the basis of ground surface depressions.  Other graves may be present.  All of the observed graves were oriented to the east and southeast.  A wood post and wire mesh fence once surrounded site; however, only two deteriorated posts remain.  Site is located is a stand of trees surrounded by mowed grass.  Historic plantings include one cedar tree, one massive oak tree, and periwinkle ground cover.  Site was field inspected, and site size was estimated by pacing the horizontal extent of the observed graves.

 

Survey Date:         4/98

 

Field Notes:           _x_Yes   ___No

Photographs:        ___Yes  _x__No

 

References:           Roanoke Valley Historical Society

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

 

Additional Comments:  Collection of oral histories and documentary research may provide social and temporal information regarding this cemetery.  Landowner reported the cemetery was not maintained when her father purchased the property earlier this century.  As a young girl, she saw one descendant visit the cemetery, but she is not aware of the person’s name.  The cemetery is not marked on the USGS Garden City map sheet, or on local realty maps.  The cemetery was initially surveyed by the RVHS and the labeled the “Eddington Cemetery.  The surveyor noted “about fifteen stones”…but “there were no legible inscriptions” (1986:  115).


 

Back to Cemetery Link Page



Back to HomePage