This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Adams, Biddle, Boqua, Clark, Cole, Hannah, Hutcheson, Hutchinson, Layton, Leap, Lloyd, Peterson, Sack, Simkins, Sivel, Stremple, Summerill, Thompson, Van Zandt, Walker, Yard Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oRB.2ACI/711 Message Board Post: Hi list, Visited many cemteries this week with my cousin Barb McCormick, on our semi-annual "Dead Tour", which included Emmanuel Methodist yesterday. Much work is being done there by the present pastor, Rev. Mr. Truitt C. Andross, who is personally fixing broken stones, and has already erected many that had been knocked over by vandals. I had visited this cemetery many times before, and had been so saddened by the continued deterioration, so it was a thrill to see my 3rd great grandfather's stone ( Stacy D. Layton b. Dec 20, 1803, d. Jan 14, 1887) finally repaired and standing where it belongs. If anyone wants to help continue this work, please contact me off list for more details. It's wonderful how much they've already accomplished there, and I hope it continues until all are restored. As if that weren't enough, we were further helped in our ancestor hunting by a trustee, Mr. Fred Raine, who told us about the graves under the present church. Emmanuel started back in 1845, and has been enlarged or rebuilt twice in it's history, the last time in 1907. Apparently they could not get permission to move some graves at that time, so they built over part of the cemetery, but made a bronze plaque which hangs inside the church to honor those who were there. Mr. Raine then allowed us entrance and I copied all those names and dates from a plaque in the church vestibule. Neither I nor any one else I have talked to at this point, had any idea this had happened. So, an extreme bit of genealogical good luck, that we want to share with our list cousins. Hope one of these is yours. Val Ebenezer Adams -1858 Abel Biddle 1810-1854 Annie E. Biddle 1842-1872 Caroline Biddle 1842-1874 Ann Boqua - 1817 Daniel Boqua- 1822 Hannah Boqua -1812 Rev. John Boqua - 1811 Martha Boqua - 1809 Mary Boqua 1863 Wm. Boqua 1821 Amy Clark 1851 Eliz. Clark 1898 Jos. H. Clark 1893 Eliz. Cole 1813 Jos. Diver - 1893 Sarah Diver 1851 - 1903 Jonathan Hannah - 1848 Mary Hutcheson 1853 Capt. W. S. Hutchinson Eunice Leap 1801-1944 George Leap 1810-1812 Hannahett Leap 1838-1839 James H. Leap 1821-1829 John P. Leap 1800-1849 John P. Leap, Jr. 1828-1850 Laurence Lloyd 1828 Rachel Lloyd -1887 Charles Peterson - 1888 Dorothea A. Peterson - 1880 Maria Peterson - 1862 Wm. Peterson- 1852 Rebecca Sack - 1890 Wm. Sack - 1871 Charlotte Simkins - 1890 Ezekiel Simkins -1899 Jonathan Simkins 1852-1853 Jonathan Simkins - 1851 Jonathan Simkins - 1852 Mary E. H. Simkins- 1852 Rachel Simkins - 1871 Anna E. Simkins John H. Simkins Maria J. Simkins Mary Sivel Nathan Sivel Anna M. Stremple - 1855 Martin V. Stremple - 1851 Garnett Summerill 1809-1896 James B. Summerill Mary M. Summerill 1818-1879 Samuel Thompson Nicholas Van Zandt - 1901 Wm Walker Edmund J. Yard - 1861