The Many Cemeteries of Sharpsburg, Maryland Part 1

in #history7 years ago (edited)

First Methodist Cemetery
circa 1819
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This is a mysterious headstone which I noticed at the First Methodist Cemetery. As you can see, there is no information about this person other than them being someone's father. Strange, right?

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"The First Methodist Church acquired this property in 1819 and built a small brick church here. The first burial was in 1828. This church was torn down when the congregation built a new church at 125 West Main Street, Sharpsburg in 1857." This is a pre Civil War cemetery.
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This is the case with many of the headstones in this area, they have been weathered to the point of being blank slates. The ground has shifted a lot at most of the graveyards. The ground is very bumpy, it feels like you are walking on bones.
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Tread lightly on the dead.

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Maybe some poor dead soldier's ghost is moving the ground. Spooky!