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
Marilee: Be sure to take a camera and record the cemetery and try and get the names etc from the stones. There may abnd may not be a record of these and its important to record them. I have personally done this many times. Gordon Crooks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marilee Cunningham" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 10:00 PM Subject: [MDWashin] Lydia Shunks Cemetery >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