Missing cemeteries

Below is a list of cemeteries that I still need to locate and document, if they still exist. All of these come from Names in Stone and should have been around in the 1950-60s. I'm sure between then and now some have been moved or destroyed. These are the names and numbers given in NIS. If you know anything about any of the following please let me know. The majority of them are smaller family cemeteries, though there are also a couple of other smaller churches that I either have not been to or have not located personally.

City	Cemetery		Notes
Foxville	[Eulid] Brown Family Cemetery 1	1
Foxville	Mount Pleasant Church of God	3A	south of MD77 at county line
Foxville	Toms Family Cemetery	3B	west of Quirauk School Road 1/2 mile north of MD77
Foxville	Brown Cemetery 3	4A	north of MD77 1/2 west of Foxville
Foxville	Ridenour Family Cemetery	4B	south of MD77, 1/4 west of Stottlemeyer Road
Garfield	Wolf Family Cemetery	7A	south of Smithsburg road at Garfield crossroads
Garfield	Draper Family Cemetery	8
Wolfsville	Kline Family Cemetery	9A	Martin Road northeast of MD153, have been told is gone
Wolfsville	Maugans Family Cemetery	12A	West of Harp Hill Road, 3/4 mile south of Wolfsville, possibly moved
Ellerton	Leatherman Family Cemetery	20A
Ellerton	Harshman Family Cemetery	20B	east of Harp Hill Road, 3/4 mile from Grossnickle's Church
Highland	Miller Family Cemetery	22	Harmony-Ellerton Road and Wistman
Sabillasville	Harbaugh Family Cemetery	29
Toms Creek	Whitmore Family Cemetery [Dern Farm]	45	10720 Dern Road
Thurmont	Hoover Family Cemetery	46	off US 15 north of fish hatchery
Thurmont	Henge (Hankey) Family Cemetery	51	south of Moser Road
Millers Bridge	Valentine Family Cemetery	55	North of 77 west of bridge, near RR
Lewistown	Lichlider Family Cemetery	63A	west of Hessong Bridge Road south of Blacks Mill Road
	Mountaindale Brethren Church	66	Bethel & Mountaindale Roads
Daysville	Link-Creager Family Cemetery	75	south of Daysville Road
Union Bridge	Shepherd-Webb Family Cemetery	110	Good Intent Road
Johnsville	German Baptist Church	111	Houck Road
Johnsville	Saylor Family Cemetery	113	Bunker Hill Road
Good Intent Road	Bethel Cemetery	114	Good Intent Road
Good Intent Road	Smith Family Cemetery	116	Likely gone
Johnsville	Stoner-Bucher Family Cemetery	117	Simpsons Mill Road and Buffington Road
Johnsville	Methodist Episcopal Church	119
Johnsville	Grabill Family Cemetery 1	120	Molasses Road
Johnsville	Grabill Family Cemetery 2	121	Molasses Road
Johnsville	Baker Family Cemetery	122	Molasses and Repp Roads
McKinstrys Mill	Saum Family Cemetery	124	McKinstrys Mill Road
Englars Mill	Landis Family Cemetery	125	Sams Creek Road and New Windsor Road
Clemsonville	Clemson [Eisenberg] Family Cemetery	126	10120 Clemsonville Road, Union Bridge
Libertytown	Simpson Family Cemetery 1	127	Fountain School and Coppermine Road
Libertytown	Norris Family Cemetery	127A	NE of of Coppermine Road 1/2 mile south east of Fountain School Road
Libertytown	Burgess Family Cemetery	128	Pine Tree Road
Libertytown	Lover's Rock Cemetery	130	Green Valley Road MD 75
Libertytown	Simpson Family Cemetery 2	132	Fountain School Rd near New Windsor Road; 9608 B Fountain School Rd
Oak Orchard	Dudderar Family Cemetery	134	south of New Windsor Road and McKinstrys Mill Road, possbily gone
Oak Orchard	Ensey Family Cemetery [Rachel Ensey Grave]	135	Albaigh Road
Oak Orchard	Baker Family Cemetery	136	Barnes Road
Weldon	Lugenbeel-Worman Family [Frank Barnes Farm]	137	Oak Orchard and Covers Corners, off Barnes Road
Sams Creek	Devilbiss Family Cemetery	138	north of Oak Orchard Road
Locust Valley	[abandoned] Mount Hope Church of God	142	1236 Mountain Church Road
Locust Valley	Young Family Cemetery	144	near Marker Road
Locust Valley	Ramsburg Family Cemetery	145	On Beachley Road near Marker Road
Middletown	Flook Family Cemetery	145A	northeast of Biddle and Picnic Woods Roads
Braddock Heights	Pyke-Coblentz Family Cemetery	149	south of [Alt] US 40
Braddock Heights	Smith Family Cemetery	150	Cherry Lane
Braddock Heights	House-Phillips Family Cemtery	151	Old Middletown Road
Burkittsville	Schoolhouse Cemetery	152	2 miles NE of Burkittsville, on Arnoldstown Road
Burkittsville	Slifer Family Cemetery	155	1/2 of Burkittsville, on Ahalt Distilery Road
Petersville	Hook-McGill Family Cemetery	156	west of Catholic Church Road
Jefferson	Catoctin Creek site	158A
Jefferson	Shaff Family Cemetery	158B	1/4 mile west of Catoctin Creek, south of MD550
Jefferson	Lamar Family Cemetery	159A	Carroll Boyer Road
Jefferson	Cost Family Cemtery	159B	Haine Road
Jefferson	Boteler Family Cemetery	160A
Jefferson	Culler Family Cemetery	161	5255 Holter Road
Jefferson	Feaster Family Cemetery	161A	Roy Remsburg Road
Jefferson	Chunn/Ridgley Family Cemetery	161B
Mountville	Hoffman Family Cemetery	162	On Elmer Derr Road near Hawker Road
Doubs	Johnson Family Cemetery	164	2518 Ballenger Creek Pike
Jefferson	Lakin Family Cemetery	167	on Fry Road
Catoctin Creek	Clagett-Duvall Family Cemetery	168
Knoxville	Garrott Family Cemetery	171	Mountain Road
Indian Springs	Angleberger Family Cemetery	176	Walter Martz Road and Yellow Springs Road
Harmony Grove	Stephen Ramsburg Family Cemetery	178	possbily gone
Harmony Grove	Cronise Family Cemetery	179
McKaig	Lease Family Cemetery	185	North of Gas House Pike east of McKaig
New London	Jones Family Cemetery	186	west of Old Annapolis Road
New London	Nelson Family Cemetery	187	Central Church Road
New Market	Price Family Cemetery	188	Yeagerstown Road
New Market	Hammond Family Cemetery	189	west of Boyers Mill Road
New Market	Hall-Wood Family Cemetery	190
Monrovia	Friends Cemetery	191	near B&O tracks
Ijamsville	Ijamsville Methodist Church	192	4010 Ijamsville Road
Reichs Ford Road	Keller Family Cemetery	195
Reichs Ford Road	Crum Family Cemetery	196	south of Ray Smith Road
Rocky Springs	Kemp Family Cemetery	202	possibly moved to Mt Olivet
Ballenger Creek Pike	Zimmerman Family Cemetery	208	Ballenger Creek Meadows
Buckeystown	Methodist Church Site	211	3521 Buckeystown Pike
Buckeystown	Davis Family Cemetery	212	southeast of brickyard near Monocacy
Urbana	[Harriet] Simmons Family Cemetery	213	off MD 355 north of Urbana
Urbana	Rine Family Cemetery	215	most likely gone
Park Mills	Simmons Family Marker	219
Urbana	Johnson Family Cemetery	219A	Dixon Road
Dickerson	Methodist Church	221A
Hyattstown	Rollins Family Cemetery	225	on Slate Quarry Road
Hyattstown	McClain Family Cemetery	226A
Browningsville	Lawson Family Cemetery	228	2748 Loch Haven Drive
Unionville	Campbell Family Cemetery	231	west of Mapleville Road
Unionville	Dorsey-Mercer Family Cemetery	232	off Woodville Road south of Unionville
Unionville	Lugenbeel Family Cemetery 1	233	on Woodville Road south of Unionville
Unionville	Lugenbeel Family Cemetery 2	234	on Liberty Road east of Unionville
Unionville	Nusbaum Family Cemetery	234A	150 feet south of MD26, 0.3 east of intersection of Unionville by-pass
Covers Corner	Old Hammond Property	235
Covers Corner	Gosnell-Haines Family Cemetery	236	on Buffalo Road south of 26, some stones possibly moved
Harrisville	Douty Family Cemetery	241	West Falls Road
Harrisville	Harn Family Cemetery	242	Peddicord Road
Linganore	Poole Family Cemtery 2	245
Linganore	James-Kimmel Family Cemetery	246	Old Annapolis Road and Kimmel Road
Linganore	Devilbiss-Clary Family Cemetery	247	Dollyhyde Road south of Unionville
New London	Buckey Family Cemetery	249	Lime Plant Road, possibly moved
New London	Higgins Family Cemetery	249A	north of Lime Plant Road 1.5 miles east of New London
New Market	Dorsey Family Cemetery	253	Detrick Road
Kemptown	Fowler-Rine Family Cemetery	262	Bill Moxley Road
Kemptown	Fowler-Rine Family Cemetery	263	Route 80 and Bartholows Road

Weekend of cemeteries part 2

On Sunday I went and picked up my helper Bob. He knows many of the cemeteries and he likes helping find the old cemeteries. During my Titus work I noticed a cemetery on a now defunct road. Looking through Names in Stone I was able to determine that it was most likely the Stull Family Cemetery, [060].

When looking for the cemetery I looked up L. Stull in Names and found a Lewis Stull (1811-1881), which worked out well for being the land owner and the Stull cemetery. Looking on Google Earth I was able to find what looked to be a cemetery still standing in the proper place.

Driving up to the farm it was located on we found no one around so we drove to the next farm and found someone who knew where the graveyard was, he also said that it wouldn't be a problem for us to go there to take photos.

I entered the coordinates that Google Earth gave me in to the GPS and we stopped where it told us to. Either the GPS will not leave the road or I entered the coordinates a bit wrong as we had to cross the fields to find it. Bob went one way and I went another, Bob found it just over the rise. There were still a handful of stones left standing, but a few originally listed by Holdcraft were missing. Unfortunately many of the stones are from the mid 1800s and are badly worn, though by piecing together some bits of information I could figure out what stones were left.

Stull Family Cemetery

I next had planned on going to Millers Bridge to find a few cemeteries there. When we came to Good Intent Road Bob asked if there were some down there and I said there are. He suggested that we try and find those. There are two cemeteries listed near Good Intent Road and Simpsons Mill Road, the Roop family cemetery, [115] and the Smith family cemetery, [116].

We stopped at the first house and the woman that answered knew nothing of either cemetery. We stopped at the next couple of houses but no one was home. Then we got lucky and the next house knew right where the Roop cemetery was.It was on the farm of one of the houses we had visited but no one was home. He said his deer stand was there and it wouldn't be a problem for us to go there. The cemetery was over grown and a few of the stones are missing, though it's possible that they are still there but covered.

Roop Family cemetery

Holdcraft describes the Smith cemetery as being right across the street from the Roop cemetery, we had to drive around the entire street until we were able to figure out which driveway we needed. The woman that lived there said she knew nothing of the cemetery and he family had owned it since the 70s. She did say that this was the old Bernard Keefer farm so we had the proper place. I plan to go back in the spring and look some more, she did say there was one place it could have been but it was covered in snow.

Our next stop was the Millers bridge area, which contains three cemeteries: Ott family cemetery, [056], Valentine family cemetery, [055], and the Pittenger family cemetery, [057]. At the first house we stopped at we were informed that she knew nothing of any family cemeteries in the area and that all of the homes right there are rented. We stopped across the street and the man who answered showed us right where the Ott cemetery was. We needed to go next door to photograph the cemetery but it was no problem for the owner to let us in. She knew were the Pittenger cemetery was but not the Valentine. As with most family cemeteries this one was missing a few stones and a few were broken and on the ground. They do keep care of what's left however.

Ott Family cemetery

Lastly we went to find the Pittenger cemetery since we had a good idea as to where it was. The land owner however, didn't want people on his property. We stopped at his neighbor's home and he confirmed that the cemetery was on his land. I left my contact information with the neighbor and hopefully will be able to go back and photo graph the cemetery at a later date.

Over all it was a good weekend for cemeteries. Finding nine cemeteries goes a long way in trying to find all of the known family cemeteries in the county.

Weekend of cemeteries part 1

This past weekend was a productive one, I was able to locate seven cemeteries, four family and three church, in my efforts to catalog all of the cemeteries that Holdcraft found. Two of the church cemeteries, Mount Pleasant Methodist [181] and Mount Pleasant Reformed [182] are almost right next to each other. Both of those cemeteries are fairly small, as only 10 and 20 names respectively were found by Holdcraft.

Another cemetery I found was the old Methodist church [229] on Green Valley Road, MD 75, about 1/2 mile from the Pleasant Grove Methodist church [230]. This cemetery falls on the Titus atlas and taking a chance to find it on Tuesday after  a dental appointment I drove down 75 and spotted it along the side of the road. I didn't have my camera equipment with me, but I did take a quick shot with my phone to confirm I had the right cemetery.

Cemetery on Urbana page of Titus Atlas.

Saturday morning I went back and tried to see if there were more then the two stones that can be seen from the road. I wasn't able to find any more as it's overgrown with thorns. But I was able to get some ok shots of the memorials. Jacob Holdcraft found twelve names, I was only able to find four.

After volunteering at the Historical Society I went to Find the two cemeteries in Mount Pleasant. I wanted to confirm the location I had was accurate and to photograph the stones. It was pretty straightforward and I was able to get photos of most of the stones, though some were covered in snow and ice so I didn't get those.

My next stop was the Hammond family cemetery [250], also along Green Valley Road. This cemetery is on a horse farm and enclosed in a stone fence. The owners were quite happy to allow me access to take photos and document the graves. There were a couple of really nice stones here.

Note on personal nomenclature

When keeping my own notebooks I have a way to make the cemetery numbers that Jacob Holdcraft gave the cemeteries in Names in Stone. I write them as [001], [015], [110], so that I can keep my numbers and coordinates separated. I will give the cemetery name and number, Mount Olivet cemetery [200], in future posts to make it easier to look up the cemeteries I'm documenting. I will also link to Find a Grave for any cemeteries that they have.