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Lower Marsh Creek Cemetery, Adams County

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Oct 20, 2008

Lower Marsh Creek Cemetery This transcribed from the History of Adams County [1886]:

Lower Marsh Creek or “Sanders'” burying ground, is located near the junction of Big and Little Marsh Creeks, in Highland Twp. The first burials date back to 1749, and the names of the aged people whose remains lie in the Lower Marsh Creek, or “Sanders’ Cemetery,” together with the dates of death, are given as follows:

John CUNNINGHAM  - 1776         Elizabeth CUNNINGHAM - 1783

David W. CUNNINGHAM - 1809 Robert CUNNINGHAM - 1825

Martha CUNNINGHAM - 1833 Hugh KYGN - 1767

David BLYTHE - 1849 David BLYTHE - 1831

Michael FINLEY - 1785 Margaret MOORE - 1786

Andrew HART - 1792 Mary HART - 1785

Mary CRUGHTON - 1772 Barbara HOOVER - 1843

Frances ALEXANDER - 1760 Mrs. Frances ALEXANDER - 1771

John LEARD - 1766 John CRAWFORD - 1771

James REED - 1793 Mary REED - 1784

Samuel KNOX - 1808 Dr. Samuel KNOX - 1821

Mrs. Dr. Samuel KNOX - 1843 Alexander McKESSON - 1771

Sarah McKESSON - 1821 Ebenezer P. McCONNELL - 1772

William McKESSON - 1826 James HILL - 1824

John NcELNAY - 1841 Mary BROWN (his wife)

John KERR - 1749 John KERR - 1837

John KERR - 1772 Mary KERR - 1855

Mary CLARK - 1770 Joseph KERR - 1790

William KERR - 1791 George KERR - 1815

John PORTER - 1771 Hugh SCOTT - 1849

Jane SCOTT - 1813 James McCLAIN - 1813

M. S. [rough head stone] - 1771 William Johnston - 1858

Robert SLEMONS - 1823 Rachel (his wife) - 1801

Robert SLEMONS, Jr. - 1863 Rachel SLEMONS - 1860

Rev. John SLEMONS - 1773 James RULFION - 1769

Hugh SCOTT - 1844 Margaret McCLEARY SCOTT - 1789

Jane McCLEAN - 1785 William McCLEAN - 1787

Archibald MURPHY - 1751 Elizabeth WITHROW - 1774

Jeremiah LOHRY - 1749 Capt. David WILSON - 1846

Thomas REED - 1840 Mrs. Grizzle PEDEN - 1843

James MARSHALL - 1805 Andrew MARSHSALL - 1853

Capt. Samuel WHITE - 1869 Rev. Alexander DOBBIN - 1809

Andrew WECKERT - 1871 Samuel PARDEN - 1802

Robert LINN - 1772 Isaac ROBINSON - 1796

Robert McGINSKY - 1799 James AGNEW - 1825

David AGNEW - 1797 James WILSON - 1776

James AGNEW - 1770 Rebecca AGNEW - 1759

Abram AGNEW - 1753 William LAWDEN - 1851

David WAUGH - 1816 Dr. William PATTERSON - 1806

Francis McGLAUGHLIN - 1798

(see below)

     

Abram SCOTT - 1834

Capt. James SCOTT - 1806 Andrew HART - 1775

Agnes QUIETT - 1774 Edward HALL - 1775

James MAGINLEY - 1762 Murzant MAGINLEY - 1770

Jean McGAUGHEY - 1773 Jane WAUGH - 1770

Matt DILL - 1812 Martin HALL - 1852

Mary HALL - 1867 Amy CHAMBERLIN - 1813

Lewis CHAMBERLIN - 1825 Hannah COSHM - 1833

James BIGHAM - 1854 Rev. William PAXTON - 1845

James WATSON - 1870 Dr. John PAXTON - 1840

William McCULLOUGH - 1880 John McCULLOUGH - 1875

James THOMPSON - 1801 Sam McCULLOUGH - 1778

Greggery McCULLOUGH - 1749 Margaret McCULLOUGH - 1752

Eliza - 1821 Jean STEEL - 1769

Arch BOYD - 1825 James WILSON - 1845

Abram WILSON - 1870 Elijah SEABROOK - 1848

Sam WITHEROW - 1832 Hugh CULBERTON - 1876

Benjamin REED - 1828 Israel IRWIN - 1871

John IRWIN - 1822 Rev. David PFOUTZ - 1849

Christian SHULLEY - 1858 Mrs. Christian STONER - 1846

Barbara BENNET - 1866 George DOUGHERTY - 1861

David STEWART - 1741 Jane STEWART - 1857

James DOUGLASS - 1818 John MORROW - 1811

Jeremiah MORROW - 1758 Margaret MORROW - 1837

Anne MURHPHY - 1815 James CUNNINGHAM - 1857

* I visited the grave January 1983 and it read Francis McGlaughlin Born 1773 and died August 10,1798, the son of : James and Mary McGlaughlin. — John M Hahn

Contributed by Donna HELLER ZINN of Newville, Cumberland Co., PA., 6 July 2001:

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