Israel's Creek Meeting House Cemetery

Walkersville, Frederick Co., MD
Woodsboro Pike (Rt. 194) at Devilbiss Bridge Road

Interments Dating From 1817

NAME DATE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH INSCRIPTION/NOTES/SHARES STONE
GASSAWAY, Ellen Rebecca
18 Mar 1826 Age 3Y-7M-21D / In memory of … Departed this life …
GASSAWAY, Margaret S.
14 Jun 1842 Age 13Y-6M-14D / In memory of … Daughter of George & Elizabeth / Departed this life with a full hope of immortality
GIST, Lucretia Darius 04 Jun 1822 18 Sep 1823 Age 1Y-3M-8D / In memory of … Daughter of Thomas S. & Harriet
GROFF, Susan Elizabeth
10 Feb 1856 Age 3Y-2M-18D / Daughter of Joseph & Susan / Departed this life …
HAYS, Matilda
21 Dec 1826 Nee BAKER: Daughter of Henry S. / Age 25Y-5M-18D / In memory of … departed this life … / Wife of Joseph G. Hayes
HEBBARD, Christianna
21 Apr 1843 Age 46Y-7M-4D / Wife of Dr. E.B. / Asleep in Jesus’ beloved sleep
HULL, Mary
07 Mar 1853 Age 43Y-3M-3D / In memory of … Wife of Joel / Her mouldering dust yet lingers here amongst the silent dead, Her happy soul from toil & care to bliss in Heaven is fled
HWF

Footstone only / Fitch?
J.R.M.

Footstone only / John R Murphy?
KING, Children

Children of Joseph I. & Annie E.
KING, Erver C. 13 Dec 1894 12 Sep 1895 Age 9 months
KING, John W. 09 May 1887 21 Mar 1892
KING, Mary E. 01 Jul 1882 16 Nov 1892 Age 10Y-3M
LANDIS, Eugenia
29 Jun 1847 Age 13M-4D / Daughter of Jesse & Juliet
LANDIS, Jesse
06 May 1856 Age 44Y-0M-11D / In memory of … consort of Juliet / Departed this life … / He is not dead but sleepeth
LANDIS, Juliet
21 Nov 1866 Our Mother, who departed this life in the 43rd year of her age / Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection & the life, he that believeth in me though he were dead, yet shall live, and whosoever liveth & believeth in me shall have everlasting life
MURPHY, Anna M. 26 Jul 1859 29 Jan 1924
MURPHY, John R. 10 May 1832 27 Sep 1911 Age 79Y-4M-17D
MURPHY, Mary A.
26 Mar 1897 Age 73Y-0M-18D / Wife of Richard / She was a tender mother
NASH Family Stone

Father & Mother / By his son W.T. Nash
NASH, John E. 09 Nov 1848 04 Nov 1864 Age 15Y-11M-25D / Son of Thomas & Susan
NASH, Susan C.
20 Aug 1868 Age 45Y-2M-2D / Wife of Thomas
NASH, Thomas
01 Jun 1902 Age 82Y-7M-6D
NEIDIG, Abraham
19 Jul 1853 Age 60Y-4M-9D / Sacred to the memory of … / Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord / Signed by tombstone carver J.M. McDermott
NEIDIG, Catharine
06 Feb 1847 Age 41Y-1M-14D / In memory of … Wife of Benjamin
NEIDIG, John Albert
05 Dec 1846 Age 16Y-11M-9D / In memory of … Son of Benjamin & Catharine
NEIDIG, Nancy
12 Dec 1827 Age 31Y-9M-14D / In memory of … Wife of Abraham / Departed this life …
NEIDIG, Samuel
22 Sep 1843 Age 19Y-7M-27D / In memory of …
NICODEMUS, Helen E. 20 Mar 1842 10 Aug 1861 Age 19Y-4M-20D / In memory of … / Daughter of Henry & Margaret
OGLE, Mary, Mrs.
1820 In memory of …
OVELMAN, George
26 Jul 1841 Departed this life in the 83rd year of his age
OVELMAN, Prudence
04 Dec 1850 Age 6Y6-4M-1D / Wife of George / Rest in peace
PARTTEUS, John
25 Aug 1821 Age 31 / In memory of … departed this life
POE, Bridget Kennedy 10 Jun 1775 25 Dec 1844 Born Ireland & died Frederick Co. / Beneath this slab repose the remains of …
POE, George 31 Jul 1744 23 Aug 1823 Son of John Poe & Jane McBride / In memory of … departed this life at residence of his son in this county at the venerable age of 85 years / In remembrance of his many virtues his children have erected this marble / Brother of Edgar Allen Poe’s grandfather
POE, Jacob 10 Oct 1775 25 Jul 1860 Sacred to the memory of / Born & died in Baltimore / Son of George
PORTER, Sophia Ellen
14 Feb 1832 Age 4Y-8M-9D / In memory of …only child of John W. & Margaret / Departed this life …
RIPPEON, Elmer
05 Nov 1907 Age 1Y-2M-16D / Son of Howard C. & Daisy O. / Meet me in Heaven
SIM, Harriet Elizabeth 1835 1876 Daughter of Dr. Thomas & Harriet E.
SIM, Lucy A. 23 Sep 1820 26 Nov 1897 In memory of … beloved wife of Rev. Dr. Thomas
SIM, Lucy Ann 1860 1860 Samuel A.
SIM, Mary
1835 Age 3Y-3M-10D / Daughter of Thomas & Harriet / Thou were… a dream of Heaven for earthly love to …in thee
SIM, Mary E.
19 Apr 1842 Departed this life in the 26th year of her age / In memory of … Wife of Dr. Thomas / Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord
SIM, Samuel Aubrey 1856 1858 Children of Dr. Thomas & Lucy A. / Lucy Ann
SIM, Thomas, Rev. Dr.
02 Apr 1870 In the 69th year of his age / A …of esteem from his friends of Liberty District, Patient as a physician, faithful as a minister, he labored for soul as well as body
SIMPSON, Infant
16 Dec 1838
SIMPSON, Sarah C.
21 Dec 1838 Age 21Y-8M-5D / Sacred to the memory of … Wife of Dr. Thomas / Departed this life … / May our hopes here bloom like the flowers…and revolve like a golden…. There is a land …
SOPER, Lucy
29 May 1819 Age 53 / In memory of … departed this life / Heaven dominated her soul to God, She lifted her eyes to Heaven & closed them entirely, breathed softly & without a struggle of such, sweetly slept in years, Deep on the palms of both his hands he has engraved the …his hands shall build
SOUDER, Anna
15 Mar 1817 Age 56Y-7M-9D / In memory of … departed this life … / Wife of Benjamin
SOUDER, Benjamin
05 Aug 1818 Age 62Y-5M-7D / In memory of … departed this life …
SOUDER, Jacob
18 Aug 1820 Age 55Y-4M-12D / In memory of … departed this life …
SOUDER, Sarah
21 Aug 1834 Age 45Y-6M-3D / In memory of …/ Wife of David
STAUFFER, Barbara Krebil
25 May 1843 Age 84 / In memory of … relict of Daniel
STAUFFER, Catharine 19 Jun 1780 25 Mar 1868 Age 87Y-9M-16D / In memory of … / Daughter of John Cronise & Anna Maria Fey / In Memory of ... Wife of Joseph
STAUFFER, Daniel 1755 25 Dec 1799 In memory of … departed this life …
STAUFFER, Daniel 08 Oct 1806 09 May 1831 Age 24Y-7M / In memory of … departed this life … / Son of Simon J. & Catharine / In the midst of life we are in death
STAUFFER, Infant
05 Aug 1892 Age 4M-5D / Infant daughter of Lewis C. & Mary / Sleep on sweet babe & take thy rest, God called thee home, he thought it best
STAUFFER, Otto

Age 0Y-7M-13D / In memory of Little Otto / No dates
STAUFFER, Simon Joseph 15 Feb 1779 24 Jul 1858 Age 79Y-5M-9D / In memory of … / Husband of Catherine / My flesh shall rest in hope / Signed by tombstone carver Anderson Lyeth, Frederick MD
STINCHCOMB, Elizabeth
25 Feb 1818 Sacred to the memory of … departed this life in the 25th year of her age / Well done good & faithful servant, Thou hast been faithful
STONER, John
08 Jun 1845 Age 33Y-7M-27D / In memory of … who departed this life … / He has gone to inherit the crown of the blest, and mingle with angels in Heavenly joy, His spirit no longer to earth is compressed, nor subject to sorrow, nor pain, nor.., O tell me a virtue peculiar to earth, that did not inhabit his generous breast, Oh tell me an excellent, ethical worth, peculiar to mortals he did not attest, .. charity, friendship & truth encompassed his bosom & modeled his face, while ..& affection ..from youth
UNKNOWN

Age 7Y-?M-9D
UNKNOWN

Age 5 years
UNKNOWN
02 May 1835 Age 11M-13D
UNKNOWN, Benjamin

In memory of … departed this life
UNKNOWN, Edward

Age 29 days / Young son of ?
WALKER, John
18 Jul 1841 In memory of … who closed his usefull life the … in the 73rd year of his age, giving evidence that he has exchanged the sorrows of earth for the joys of Heaven; Mark, the perfect man & behold the upright.. end of that man
WALKER, Mary
20 Nov 1846 In memory of … wife of John, in the 70th year of her age / Let me die the death of the righteous & let my last
WALTZ, Elizabeth
26 May 1895 Age 62Y-2M-20D / In memory of Mother / Rest mother, rest in quiet sleep
WALTZ, Isaac S.
11 May 1879 Age 82Y-8M-26D / Weep not, he is at rest
WALTZ, Maranda
21 May 1873 Age 76Y-11M-27D / Wife of Isaac / Resting in hope of a glorious resurrection
WARFIELD, Margaret 27 Dec 1809 15 May 1842
WARFIELD, Mary
06 Jul 1844 Age 61Y-2M-1D / In memory of … / Prepare for death while life you have, There is no repentance in the grave
WARFIELD, Thomas H.
11 Feb 1832 Age 16Y-11M-0D / Departed this life … / Son of Alexander & M
WICKHAM, Anna Elizabeth 17 Nov 1831 10 May 1846 Age 14Y-5M-23D
WICKHAM, John B.
12 Feb 1875 Age 78Y-1M-14D / In memory of … / Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord / Erected by his wife S.W.
WICKHAM, Lucy Shivens
11 Jan 1862 Age 57 / Wife of John / Erected by her son-in-law T. Geesy
WILLIS, Catherine Sarah
28 Nov 1827 This stone erected in memory of, consort of Henry Willis, who died … in the 34th year of her age, to whose virtue as a wife & mother, as well as undeviating piety, none will more readily, as none can more justly subscribe, than her surviving husband
WILSON, Edward M. 19 May 1842 28 Oct 1846 Age 4Y-5M-9D / Son of Adam & Mary
WILSON, Infant
08 May 1849 Son of Adam & Mary
WILSON, Infant 06 Apr 1850 11 Oct 1850 Son of Adam & Mary
WILSON, Philip 08 May 1849 31 Mar 1850 Age 9M-23D / Son of Adam & Mary
WOODS, Maria
29 Dec 1853 Age 37Y-3M-21D / Sacred to the memory of … Consort of James
WOODS, William W.
12 Aug 1841 Age 3Y-8M-12D / Son of James & Marie / Departed this life / In hope we give back what was given, yielding up the beautiful to memory
WOOLE, M. Jane
24 Jan 1826 Age 71-0-24 / Sacred to the memory of … departed this life on …

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