Jane there is another Church going toward grindstone which has a red metal fence around it, the church has the name on it, This is a small Redstone cem. and it really is there. I have found there are atleast three or four Redstone Cem Redstone Cem., Brownsville Pa Redstone Batpist Cem , Smock Pa Reg Redstone Cem. and church near Grindstone Redstone Regular Baptist Cem the one that Della Reagan has in her book. and this isnt the one located in Smock. The reason I know that this Redstone Reg Baptist Cem by Della Reagan isn't the one in Smock is because there is a large plot which the Hill family has many family members buried there, and there is no way that Della could have over look this plot since its near the middle of the cem. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane McCann Walsh" <jmwalsh@icubed.com> To: <PAFAYETT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 9:47 PM Subject: Re: [PAFAY] Re: Quaker Cem. > At 07:53 PM 1/14/2004 -0600, Mike Miller wrote: > >So my hypothesis is there are indeed two cemeteries. Ken has surveyed the > >Centre Monthly Meeting Quaker cemetery which is actually in Redstone Twp > >and Della's book lists the Redstone Baptist Church in Franklin Twp. > > Hi, Mike, > Thanks for your comments. I've been puzzled, too. This area is not my > main area of research yet I do have some ancestors in Redstone Baptist, > Franklin Twp. I've been puzzled in the past by Yanik's and Yaniga's > listing of what they called "Reg. Redstone" in "Cemeteries of Fayette > County PA Voume # 1" "between Grindstone and Smock" and shown as Redstone > Twp. Some of the folks listed by Y & Y as having stones in this "Reg. > Redstone" are: > Dorcas Sharpless d. 1862 age 2 dau. J & M., > David W Colvin d. 9/11/1845 age 7 > Mary Ann Britt D. 6/4/1852 w/o John age 53 > > Many of us need some clarity on this one! > Thanks, Ken, for jousting with the local windmills! > Best regards, > Jane > > > ==== PAFAYETT Mailing List ==== > "There is no better exercise for the heart > than reaching down and lifting people up." > >

I do not know if this helps anyone but my ancestor John Hamilton was listed as one of the elders who helped form the " Redstone Presbytey". in Washington County. The others listed as elders are Joseph Thorn, John Gwinn, John Guthrie, William Guthrie, William Hill, David Carnahan, Samuel Paul. This is dated around 1792, in Westmoreland Trisha Fitz Randolph