This is the text, without the actual lists of removals, from the booklet Record of the old Methodist Burial Ground. FIRST PRESENTLY KNOWN CEMETERY OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN BALTIMORE CITY, MARYLAND, FOUNDED BY BISHOP FRANCIS ASBURY IN 1784. BALTIMORE, BEING CENTRALLY LOCATED IN REFERENCE TO THE SPREAD OF METHODISM WAS SOON RECOGNIZED AS ITS CHIEF PLACE. THE METHODIST PEOPLE OF THE CITY WERE INTELLIGENT, ENTERPRISING, AND DEEPLY DEVOTED AND MANY OF THEM WERE IN VERY COMFORTABLE CIRCUMSTANCES. On the 12th of August, 1916, a Bill of Complaint was filed in the Circuit Court of Baltimore City for the condemnation and sale of the Methodist Burial Ground, then located on the Philadelphia Road (now Pulaski Highway) and Potomac Street, in the then extreme end of Baltimore City. Prior to 1850 this was just over the border of Baltimore County and City. Trustees were appointed by the Court. After eighteen years had elapsed, on September 9, 1935, a Decree of the court was granted against the Trustees, namely; C. L. and F. M. Merriken, and William Deale Roycroft, in the condemnation proceedings and the sale of the cemetery property to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and ratifying the sale of the cemetery property to Baltimore City for the purpose of widening the thoroughfare which was to become Pulaski Highway. (This proceeding is contained in Equity Docket 56-A Circuit Court of Baltimore City, January 1, 1916 to December 31, 1916 - Miscellaneous - pgs. 353, 54,55,56,57,58,59. pgs. 679,80,81,82,83,84 and 685. And page 598. The Oaklawn Cemetery of Baltimore was designated to receive and re-inter the bodies remaining in the cemetery. From 1916 to 1935 it is assumed that near relatives and descendants were located in some instances and that some bodies were removed and interred in other cemeteries. Checking with the Oaklawn Cemetery during this research it was determined that these bodies were buried there but no record can be found of any names or the number re-interred. The Superintendent "thought" that there was close to three thousand. A subsequent lengthy search at the Lovely Lane Methodist Church Museum (St. Paul & Twenty-First Sts., Baltimore) located a plat executed by the Atlas Engineering Company in 1935, preparatory to the removal of the bodies. This plat contained the numbers of the lots and the location, [ad] the names on the remaining 410 stones. There were also found in the vault of the Museum two small Minster’s books containing the names of some of the lot holders, together with a few tattered original deeds. These books were un-names and undated. When the plat was studied and the numbers computed it was found the 2,777 bodies had been removed to Oaklawn. In the years which had elapsed between 1916 and 1935, the cemetery was in a state of abandonment. Wholesale destructive vandalism occurred, vaults were caved in and entered and name markers were destroyed or removed, thus obliterating identity. A recapitulation of the names is as follows; Circuit Court Proceedings 640 Minister’s Lot Books 148 Engineer’s Plat 230 Original Deeds 6 Total accounted for: 1024 Total number removed: 2777 Unidentified... 1793 The list of those accounted for will be found on the following pages. This research executed, complied and edited by LAURA CATHERINE AULD LAFOE 1960 Genealogical Chairman Janet Montgomery Chapter Maryland State Society. Thirteen pages of names follow this introduction. Enoch Pratt listing: Record of the old Methodist Burial Ground once located on the Old Philadelphia Road and Potomac Street. [Baltimore], LaFoe, Laura Catherine Auld, F189.9.M4L2Q, 1960, 1 copy available at Maryland Department in Noncirculating