The cemetery was read by Samuel Webster Piper before 1935-36 and is in Vol. II of Washington County Maryland Cemetery Records by Morrow and Morrow. P. 91 SHANG Graveyard, Boonsboro, MD. First Church located here, Called Adam or George Kealhofer Farm. There is a Dorothea SCHUPP buried there in 1805 as well as Peter, Sophia and Daniel SHANG. There are also SCHOUPE/SCHUP burials - no SHUNK in the listing. At that point in time, there were quite a few graves with descriptions like: one grave plain stone, four graves plain stones, 2 graves no markers or twelve graves plain markers. There isn't a Baltzer listed in volume 2. You might ask the list for a lookup in the other 6 volumes (there are 7 total). It would be interesting to compare that list with what you find today. The pictures are a great idea too. We have some family stones that weathered away between the 1980's when photos were taken to 2005 when I visited the graveyard at Trinity Reformed in Boonsboro. Some stones just didn't weather very well. It is important to capture the photos and make them available. Other names are Petre, Beeler, Weast, Hofman, Evey, Schlecter, Spilmenin, Bomberger, Knochelsingibo, Abel, Nicodemus, Thomson, Stinger, Blecher, Wolf, Nikirk, Neukerch, Schindel, Stinger, Haynes, Netz, Beard, Easterday and Dagenhart. Petre graves were moved to the Dunkard Church at Beaver Creek. Earliest burials in that list are Knochelsingibos - Frederick died in 1788 and Elizabeth in 1779. Peter SHANG's stone is in German - June 4, 1726 - 24 September 1801. I don't know if this church site was a predeceser of the Trinity church in Boonsboro. I looked at it because I thought my husband's ancestor Andreas Brandner might be buried there. I still can't find his burial. Lauren Brantner --- On Sat, 8/13/11, Marilee Cunningham <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Marilee Cunningham <[email protected]> > Subject: [MDWashin] Lydia Shunks Cemetery > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, August 13, 2011, 8:00 PM > I found out recently from the > gentleman at the Boonsboro Museum that there > is an old cemetery, the Lydia Shunks Cemetery, outside of > Boonsboro in a > field of a farm.  I went there last week but it has > electric fences around > because of the cows on the farm.  I spoke to the > owner, who said he will > help me to get through the fences some evening. He said > there are about 50 > old graves in it.  I plan to go to see it and hope > there might be some of my > ancestors there who I have not found to date (especially > Anthony Baltzer, a > Revolutionary War veteran who died in 1842).  I > wondered if anyone else has > been there or knows anything about it or would like me to > look for anyone > when I visit it.  > > Marilee Cunningham    > > > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/MDWASHIN > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the > subject and the body of the message >