Gordon, a few questions need answering so that others can come forth with suggestions about your research problem. 1. What kind of burial records are in existence? Did the church keep accurate records for the cemetery? Have you looked at them? 2. Are there unmarked graves for which there are no records? Is there ground still there without stones that could be gravesites? 3. If the burials are from that time period and the stones still exist, they were very good quality. Are any stones unreadable? 4. Because the church reunited in 1825, I don't know what effect the schism had. I don't know of any burial taboos other than suicides not being able to be buried in hallowed ground. I would guess that family would have buried in their burial plots regardless of a church split if they wanted to. Is there something in the dogma of the church that would prevent burial there? Did the husbands outlive their wives? I can tell you from my own research that it happens that wives and husbands are not buried in the same place. Sometimes wives are buried with their families. Sometimes husbands are buried with second wives. I have one relative who is buried between her two husbands @:>) and another living relative who is planning to do just that herself. Sometimes the sheer cost of transporting bodies made other arrangements more practical. I have a GGUncle who came to Colorado in a last ditch effort to stop TB in the 1890's. He is buried in Boulder with a Civil War marker and his whole family is back in Iowa. I think she couldn't afford to bring his body home, he'd been ill for a long time. I have other relatives who outlived their wives and were buried in another place because they had moved. I have a Great Uncle and Aunt who had no children and they each were buried in their respective family plots in different cities. Have you checked their family of origin burial plots for the missing wives? I've also found husbands buried next to wives and there is no marker because there was no family left to put up a marker. Cemetery records helped me solve that question. When you look through burial records it is not uncommon for a wife or children to be buried in a cemetery and the parents or husband is not there. Many women died in childbirth and childhood disease killed a lot of young children. That husband usually went on to marry again, especially if he had other children to raise. I am unfamiliar with the area of PA that you are working on. Hopefully some others on the list will have suggestions to add. Lauren Brantner gordon crooks wrote: >Lauren: Good sleuthing would be more like it! Let me try you as a sounding >board on something else. The Crooks were strict Presbyterian Convenators as >I mentioned. I am missing four graves sites in Greencastle, Pa. Everyone of >them is listed in my family bible, the burials occurred between 1800-1842 >which is rather late. The family plot is in Moss Spring Cemetery, >Greencastle which is a original Convenator Cemetery holds 10 members of the >family including the imingrant, it even includes the wife of my ggggg >grandfather BUT not him, it includes some of his children and some of his >grandchildren, his first son is there BUT neither of his two wives, the same >applies to another son he is there but his wife isn't. I know for a fact >that the SCHISM of the Presbyterian Church effected them, as some of the >family left the original "White Church" and established the "Red Church" >They were united in 1825 as to what is the present day Presbyterian Church >of Greencastle.SO what do you think could have happened to these four >burials. I can find absolutely no record of their graves, Kittchotinny Hist. >Soc. has no records, Franklin County has no records. James my gggg >grandfather had substantial holdings and it took several years to probate >his will (which I have), the same applies to his son Robert (whose 2 wives >are missing) he was very prominent in Franklin County, a newspaper owner and >a State legislator among other things. > > A mis-placed detective in need! > > Gordon >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Lauren Brantner" <lrbrant@concentric.net> >To: <MDWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 5:30 PM >Subject: Re: [MDWASHIN] Leitersburg Cemeteries > > > > >>Gordon, >> >> From Morrow and Morrow's marriage index are these spelling variations: >>MAYHEW, MAHUGH, and MAYHU >> >>Grooms: >>John Viney Bell 12/2/1801 >>Jm./Reb. Jackson 4/1/1816 >>Benj. F./Jane E. Bridgement 7/26/1839 >>Jm. F./Han. Deitrick 8/17/1859 >>Brides: >>MAYHEW, Maria./Arch. Ziegler 6/17/1837 >>MAHUGH, Maria F./Wm. Onderdonk 10/29/1850 >> >>There is nothing in estate distributions 1778-1835 and nothing in F. >>Edward Wright's newspaper extractions from 1820-1830. The two cemetery >>volumes I own are II and III. II is Clearspring district 4 and Hancock >>dist. 5 and vol. III is Cavetown district 7, Rohrersville, dist. 8 and >>Conococheague dist. 13. Perhaps someone else who has the rest of the >>volumes can do a lookup for you. >> From George Russell Ely's guide to research in the county is a list of >>available church records. There is a Presbyterian Church in Hagerstown >>but records available appear to start in 1858 and those are in the >>Washington County Historical Society. There are only two church records >>listed at Leitersburg - Jacob's Lutheran Church - 1791-1854 compiled by >>Matilda Detrich in 1970 and Jacob's Church 1791-1854 - Rachael S. >>Schwartz, handwritten transcript 1951 also in the historical society. >>The first Jacob's Church mentioned is available on microfilm from Family >>History Centers. If you want those numbers, let me know. Note: there >>may be other church records not listed here - not all records appear to >>be available. Another sourcebook is Edna Kanely's, Directory of >>Maryland Church Records. >> >>Good hunting! >> >>Lauren Brantner >> >> >>gordon crooks wrote: >> >> >> >>>Lauren: Another thing strikes me. The Crooks family were Presbyterian >>>Convenators, however by 1842 they were branching out to other religions, >>>especially thru marriages, so are there any Lutheran or Seceder burial >>>grounds in Leitersburg for this period of time. Also do you have any >>> >>> >other > > >>>info on the Mayhugh family? Most of what I have I am picking up from the >>>family bible which covers 267 years, but runs from first son to first >>> >>> >son, > > >>>so there isn't a lot about cousins and other relatives >>> >>> Gordon >>>----- Original Message ----- >>>From: "Lauren Brantner" <lrbrant@concentric.net> >>>To: <MDWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com> >>>Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 12:28 PM >>>Subject: Re: [MDWASHIN] Leitersburg Cemeteries >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Gordon, there are some Mayhugh burials in the Church of United >>>>Bretheren Graveyard at State Line PA, near the MD line. Rebecca, wife of >>>>George and at least one of their children. They are of a later time >>>>period - her dates are 1846-1889 and the child died in 1867. Two others >>>>are buried there - Samuel who died at 14 months in 1869 and John who >>>>died at age 11 in 1888. If you want detailed info, let me know - these >>>>are from Vol. III. Hopefully Rebecca's gravestone lasted long enough to >>>>make the readings in the 1930's and someone else will turn it up in >>>>another volume. >>>> >>>>Lauren Brantner >>>> >>>>gordon crooks wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>Does anyone know how many cemeteries existed in Leitersburg, Md. in >>>>> >>>>> >1842. > > >>>>> >>>>> >>>I am trying to locate the grave of Rebecca Crooks Mayhugh, wife of James >>> >>> >P. > > >>>Mayhugh who died June 21, 1842. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>> Gordon crooks >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>==== MDWASHIN Mailing List ==== >>>>>Are your ancestors Pennsylvania Dutch?? Check out the Pennsylvania >>>>> >>>>> >Dutch > > >>>>> >>>>> >>>Family History site at: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>>http://midatlantic.rootsweb.com/padutch/ >>>>> >>>>>============================== >>>>>Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >>>>>Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. 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