Not only have I been busy finding cemeteries, but I've also been creating spreadsheets of the cemeteries I photograph and of cemeteries I would like to find. This makes it easier for me to find which stones are missing and what typos Holdcraft may have made. Having a list also helps me figure out hard to read stones since it's usually possible to read at least some of the carvings.
Before Holdcraft wrote Names in Stone, he published multiple, smaller books on the cemeteries he visited. Volume 5, which can be found on this webpage, lists many of the family cemeteries. This is one of the easier ways for me to create individual sheets for cemeteries, far easier then trying to go through each page of Names in Stone looking for individual names to fill out each cemetery.
Here is a link to all of the spreadsheets I have made in the past few months. Some are in PDF form while others are in spreadsheet form, though they can be viewed in Google Docs without downloading them. I'm slowly trying to get all of them to look the same so I can have one standard. They should be similar, but there are some minor differences, such as not putting ages and such in the last block.
Dates are all done, month/day/year. Stones I was not able to find are italicized, while stones Holdcraft didn't find are in bold. If I have found the cemetery then I've usually given coordinates and an address.
17 December 2015
16 December 2015
A new list of missing cemeteries
Wow time flies when you're having fun. I've been quite lucky the last couple of months in locating some of the smaller family cemeteries in the county. This past weekend I found the Brown Family Cemetery #1, which is just over the Washington County line. The land owner was quite nice and lead me directly to the cemetery. Since I was in the area, and Holdcraft had documented it, I also photographed the Mount Zion United Methodist Church cemetery.
Following those two cemetery finds I went looking for other cemeteries in the Sabillasville area. I now know where the Harbaugh family cemetery is, but the property owners were not home and I wasn't able to document it. Hopefully the next time I stop by they will be home.
I've also discovered a few cemeteries where the stones have been moved. The Kline family, [9A], was moved to Saint Marks cemetery in Wolfsville, while the Maugans family cemetery, [12A], was moved to the nearby Salem cemetery in Wolfsville. When Holdcraft wrote his book he knew a few cemeteries were being moved and said where they had been moved to. The Kemp family cemetery, [202], stones were moved to Mount Olivet, though either one of the stones wasn't moved or the Mount Olivet database does have it listed as I wasn't able to find it.
Part of the reason I've been doing this project it to see what stones are still around, which ones have been lost, and at times find new stones. Below is a new list of cemeteries I have not yet located. Some I've been given coordinates for but I haven't yet been to. Others I know most likely no longer exist, while others may have been moved to a new cemetery. If you happen to know of any of these cemeteries please let me know.
Name | Holdcraft | Address | Lat | Lon | Notes |
Toms Family Cemetery | 3B | west of Quirauk School Road 1/2 mile north of MD77 | |||
Brown Cemetery 3 | 4A | north of MD77 1/2 west of Foxville | |||
Ridenour Family Cemetery | 4B | south of MD77, 1/4 west of Stottlemeyer Road | |||
Wolf Family Cemetery | 7A | south of Smithsburg road at Garfield crossroads | |||
Draper Family Cemetery | 8 | ||||
Leatherman Family Cemetery | 20A | 1.25 miles north of Ellerton | |||
Harshman Family Cemetery | 20B | east of Harp Hill Road, 3/4 mile from Grossnickle's Church | |||
Harbaugh Family Cemetery | 29 | Sabillasville Rd | |||
Friends Creek Church of God | 34 | Friends Creek Road | 39.7156 | -77.4044 | |
old Mount Saint Mary's Catholic Cemetery | 36 | 39.68041 | -77.35786 | ||
Whitmore Family Cemetery [Dern Farm] | 45 | Dern Road | 39.65569 | -77.29042 | possibly moved to Mountain View cemetery |
Hoover Family Cemetery | 46 | off US 15 north of fish hatchery | |||
Henge (Hankey) Family Cemetery | 51 | south of Moser Road | |||
Valentine Family Cemetery | 55 | North of 77 west of bridge, near RR | |||
Pittenger Family Cemetery | 57 | Hiney Road | |||
Methodist Protestant Cemetery | 58 | ||||
Lichlider Family Cemetery | 63A | west of Hessong Bridge Road south of Blacks Mill Road | |||
Mountaindale Brethren Church | 66 | Bethel & Mountaindale Roads | 39.51971 | -77.43679 | |
Saint John's Reformed Church | 71 | 39.5353 | -77.3136 | GPs end up in house | |
Link-Creager Family Cemetery | 75 | south of Daysville Road | 39.49271 | -77.32452 | GPs would be in stream |
Shepherd-Webb Family Cemetery | 110 | Good Intent Road | |||
German Baptist Church | 111 | Houck Road | |||
Saylor Family Cemetery | 113 | Bunker Hill Road | |||
Smith Family Cemetery | 116 | across road from Roop cemetery | |||
Methodist Episcopal Church | 119 | 39.53527 | -77.23138 | ||
Grabill Family Cemetery 2 | 121 | Molasses Road | |||
Baker Family Cemetery | 122 | Molasses and Repp Roads | |||
Saum Family Cemetery | 124 | McKinstrys Mill Road | |||
Landis Family Cemetery | 125 | Sams Creek Road and New Windsor Road | |||
Burgess Family Cemetery | 128 | Pine Tree Road | |||
Lover's Rock Cemetery | 130 | Green Valley Road MD 75 | |||
Simpson Family Cemetery 2 | 132 | Fountain School Road near New Windsor Road; 9608 B Fountain School Road | |||
Dudderar Family Cemetery | 134 | south of New Windsor Road and McKinstrys Mill Road | |||
Ensey Family Cemetery [Rachel Ensey Grave] | 135 | Albaigh Road | |||
Baker Family Cemetery | 136 | Barnes Road | 39.482119 | -77.14826 | |
Lugenbeel-Worman Family Cemetery [Frank Barnes Farm] | 137 | Oak Orchard and Covers Corners, off Barnes Road | |||
Devilbiss Family Cemetery | 138 | north of Oak Orchard Road | |||
[abandoned] Mount Hope Church of God | 142 | 1236 Mountain Church Road | 39.4346 | -77.62698 | |
Young Family Cemetery | 144 | near Marker Road | |||
Ramsburg Family Cemetery | 145 | On Beachley Road near Marker Road | |||
Flook Family Cemetery | 145A | northeast of Biddle and Picnic Woods Roads | |||
Pyke-Coblentz Family Cemetery | 149 | south of [Alt] US 40 | |||
Smith Family Cemetery | 150 | Cherry Lane | |||
House-Phillips Family Cemtery | 151 | Old Middletown Road | |||
Schoolhouse Cemetery | 152 | 2 miles NE of Burkittsville, on Arnoldstown Road | |||
Pleasant Valley Brethren Church | 153 | 6213 Picnic Woods Road | 39.4028 | -77.6089 | Not sure which cemetery this is. |
Slifer Family Cemetery | 155 | 1/2 of Burkittsville, on Ahalt Distilery Road | |||
Hook-McGill Family Cemetery | 156 | west of Catholic Church Road | |||
Shaff Family Cemetery | 158B | 1/4 mile west of Catoctin Creek, south of MD550 | |||
Lamar Family Cemetery | 159A | Carroll Boyer Road | |||
Cost Family Cemtery | 159B | Haine Road | |||
Boteler Family Cemetery | 160A | ||||
Feaster Family Cemetery | 161A | Roy Remsburg Road | |||
Chunn/Ridgley Family Cemetery | 161B | ||||
Hoffman Family Cemetery | 162 | On Elmer Derr Road near Hawker Road | |||
Clagett-Duvall Family Cemetery | 168 | ||||
Stephen Ramsburg Family Cemetery | 178 | no stones remain | |||
Cronise Family Cemetery | 179 | ||||
Lease Family Cemetery | 185 | North of Gas House Pike east of McKaig | |||
Jones Family Cemetery | 186 | west of Old Annapolis Road | |||
Nelson Family Cemetery | 187 | Central Church Road | |||
Price Family Cemetery | 188 | Yeagerstown Road | |||
Hall-Wood Family Cemetery | 190 | cemetery not found in NIS descriptions | |||
[Grace] Trinity Reformed Church | 193 | US 40 | |||
Keller Family Cemetery | 195 | ||||
Crum Family Cemetery | 196 | south of Ray Smith Road | |||
Zimmerman Family Cemetery | 208 | Ballenger Creek Meadows | |||
[Harriet] Simmons Family Cemetery | 213 | off MD 355 north of Urbana | |||
Rine Family Cemetery | 215 | near Cracked Claw | 39.3275 | -77.35083 | stones missing |
Kramer-Jacobs Family Cemetery | 217A | at corner of County roads commission borrow pit | |||
Johnson Family Cemetery | 219A | Dixon Road | |||
Rollins Family Cemetery | 225 | on Slate Quarry Road | |||
McClain Family Cemetery | 226A | ||||
Campbell Family Cemetery | 231 | west of Mapleville Road | |||
Dorsey-Mercer Family Cemetery | 232 | off Woodville Road south of Unionville | |||
Lugenbeel Family Cemetery 1 | 233 | on Woodville Road south of Unionville | |||
Lugenbeel Family Cemetery 2 | 234 | on Liberty Road east of Unionville | |||
Nusbaum Family Cemetery | 234A | 150 feet south of MD26, 0.3 east of intersection of Unionville by-pass | |||
Old Hammond Property | 235 | ||||
Gosnell-Haines Family Cemetery | 236 | on Buffalo Road south of 26 | 39.4933 | -77.1072 | no FAG known/partly moved to Bethel United |
Douty Family Cemetery | 241 | West Falls Road | Carroll County | ||
Harn Family Cemetery | 242 | Peddicord Road | |||
Poole Family Cemtery 2 | 245 | east of Kimmel Road | |||
James-Kimmel Family Cemetery | 246 | Old Annapolis Road | 39.42087 | -77.2211 | |
Devilbiss-Clary Family Cemetery | 247 | Dollyhyde Road south of Unionville | |||
Buckey Family Cemetery | 249 | Lime Plant Road | possibly moved to 112 | ||
Higgins Family Cemetery | 249A | north of Lime Plant Road 1.5 miles east of New London | |||
Dorsey Family Cemetery | 253 | Detrick Road | 39.384718 | -77.23992 | |
Brashear Family Cemetery | 257 | near Old Bohn & Buffalo Roads | |||
Fowler-Rine Family Cemetery | 262 | Bill Moxley Road | |||
Fowler-Rine Family Cemetery | 263 | Route 80 and Bartholows Road |
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