This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: brucesgirl Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.maryland.counties.baltimorecity/7780.3.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My great great grandmother was confined there from 1885 until her death in 1913 and I've hunted without any success at all to locate anything that would tell me where she was buried. Her husband died in 1904 and her confinement shortly after the birth of her last child was a huge dark family secret. If anybody has any luck in locating anywhere that additional information could be found and could post it, it would be greatly appreciated. I've even contacted the church order that ran Mount Hope Retreat at the time and they actually do not acknowledge it even existed. My father remembers as a very young child that there was a cemetery connected with it, but it has disappeared and is probably located underneath one of the neighborhoods that was built in the 1940s-1950s and I've been unable to locate any record of the bodies ever being re-interred elsewhere Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Being curious as to what happened I checked out a lot of info. Mount Hope Retreat was also a home for the elderly and the insane. There were a lot of women confined there after childbirth. And I imagine it was post-pardum depression, which was unknown at that time. Also they sent priest who were accused of molesting children there to be "cured" so they would be arrested. I found two cemeteries there on Reistertown Road German Hills and Bowley' Lane both at 7020 Reistertown Road. But there is a Mt Hope Drive which leads to the Seton Business Center. I could find no cemetery ever listed at Mt Hope, they could have called it by another name tho. Hope this helps.