> 2. Lydia Shunks Cemetery (Marilee Cunningham) > 3. Re: Lydia Shunks Cemetery ([email protected]) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- That's a good idea - I'll try to do that. I do live fairly close to Boonsboro so can go there more than once if I need to to get as many as possible. The owner did tell me many are worn off and unreadable. Marilee > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 22:00:11 -0400 > From: Marilee Cunningham <[email protected]> > Subject: [MDWashin] Lydia Shunks Cemetery > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <CA6CA46B.1176F%[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > 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 > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 22:46:36 -0400 (EDT) > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MDWashin] Lydia Shunks Cemetery > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > If there are just the 50, you might get atleast one person to go with you > and record all of them that are legible That way there is a record of > them. You could donate the list to the Western Maryland Room at the library or > the Historical Society. > > > In a message dated 8/13/2011 9:00:36 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the MDWASHIN list administrator, send an email to > [email protected] > > To post a message to the MDWASHIN mailing list, send an email to > [email protected] > > __________________________________________________________ > 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 > email with no additional text. > > > End of MDWASHIN Digest, Vol 6, Issue 79 > ***************************************