I will be making a trip home to Portsmouth in a month or so and I really could use some help finding the Old Bloom Church Cemetery. I spent the good part of a day trying to locate it during my last trip and for the life of me I can't find it! I even stopped to ask directions from a local resident and they said they'd never heard of it. These are the directions I had: Old Bloom Church Cemetery is located 3/10 mile off the east side of Burton Road and appx 9/10 mile north of the intersection of Burton Road and Laurel Lick Road. With these directions I pulled down a map from Mapquest and though I was certain I was in the exact spot the cemetery is supposed to be, I just couldn't locate it. Can anyone help me out here? Are there any landmarks I should look for? Is the cemetery visible from the road? This is very frustrating. Caryn Shoemaker compiled an index of the burials there and I wanted to take some photos for some Canter & Burton descendants who live across country. Thanks for any help! -- Kate Maynard