Find A Grave - Washington County

Adenhart, Nick b. August 24, 1986 d. April 9, 2009
Professional Baseball Player. Born Nicholas James Adenhart, he was in his rookie season with the Los Angeles Angels when he was tragically killed in a hit and run auto accident. He had just pitched six innings of shut out baseball for the Angels and seemed destined to have a position in the starting rotation. Adenhart played high school baseball at Williamsport High in Maryland and was one of the nation's top prospects entering his senior year. He pitched four years in the minor leagues and...[Read More] (Bio by: Ron Moody)
Greenlawn Cemetery, Williamsport, Washington County, Maryland, USA
Avery, Col. Isaac Erwin d. July 2, 1863
Civil War Confederate Army Officer. Served during the Civil War as Colonel and comander of the 6th North Carolina Infantry. At the Battle of Gettysburg, on the evening of July 2, 1863, he led his Brigade as he stormed East Cemetery Hill trying to dislodge the Union forces. Halfway up the hill he was killed. His final words were "Tell my father I died with my face to the enemy." His body was borne to the rear and later buried at or near Ball's Bluff National Cemetery near Leesburg, but was later...[Read More] (Bio by: Ethan)
Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, USA
Bell, George b. March 12, 1828 d. January 2, 1907
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. Graduated from the USMA in 1853. Held the rank of 1st Lieutenant in the United States Regular Army Artillery at the start of the Civil War. However, he spent most of the War in a staff position in the United States Army Commissary of Subsistence. Promoted up to Lieutenant Colonel, and served first as Chief Commissary of Subsistence for the Alexandria (Virginia) Army Depot, then as the Chief of the Washington, DC Depot. In that position he was...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, USA
Plot: Section K, Lot 78
Blumberg, Dr. Baruch b. July 28, 1925 d. April 5, 2011
Nobel Prize-Winning Physician. He was honored in 1976 for his discovery of the virus which causes Hepatitis B. The child of an attorney, he attended a local Yeshiva prior to graduating from Far Rocakway High School. Blumberg joined the US Navy in 1943, served as a deck officer aboard landing craft, and in 1945 earned a degree in physics from Union College of Schenectady, New York; maintaining his interest in the sea after leaving the Navy in 1946 he worked as a merchant seaman and in later...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Antietam Meadows Farms Cemetery , Sharpsburg, Washington County, Maryland, USA
Byron, Goodloe Edgar b. June 22, 1929 d. October 11, 1978
US Congressman. Elected to represent Maryland's 6th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1971 until his death in 1978. Also served as a Member of the Maryland State House of Delegates from 1963 to 1966, and Member of the Maryland State Senate from 1967 to 1970. (Bio by: K)
Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, Washington County, Maryland, USA
Byron, Katharine b. October 25, 1903 d. December 28, 1976
US Congresswoman. Democrat Representative from Maryland. She was elected to the House of Representatives upon the death of her husband, William D. Bryan in 1941 and served until 1943. She was the mother of Representative Goodloe Edgar Bryan and the granddaughter of Senator Louis Emory McComas. (Bio by: Tim Crutchfield)
River View Cemetery, Williamsport, Washington County, Maryland, USA
Byron II., William Devereux b. May 15, 1895 d. February 27, 1941
US Congressman. Elected to represent Maryland in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1938 until his death in 1941. He also served in the Maryland State senate from 1930 to 1934 and as mayor of Williamsport from 192 to -1930 as had his grandfather for whom he was named. Born in Danville, Virginia he moved to Williamsport, Maryland with his parents in 1899 where he continued his education in the...[Read More] (Bio by: D C McJonathan-Swarm)
River View Cemetery, Williamsport, Washington County, Maryland, USA
Duryee, Jacob Eugene b. March 7, 1839 d. May 25, 1918
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. The son of Union Brigadier General Abram Duryee, he served at the start of the Civil War as a Private in the 7th New York State Miliitia. He then was commissioned as a Captain in his fathers regiment, the 5th New York Volunteer Infantry (known as the "Duryee Zouaves"). Finally, he was transferred to the 2nd Maryland (Union) Volunteer Infantry, and led it as its Lieutenant Colonel. He was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers on March 13, 1865 for "...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, Washington County, Maryland, USA
Plot: Section 23, Row 3, Grave 4256
Hamilton, William Thomas b. September 8, 1820 d. October 26, 1888
Democrat politician from Maryland. He served in the House Of Representatives (1849-1855), US Senate (1869-1875) and as Governor of Maryland (1879-1883). (Bio by: Tim Crutchfield)
Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, USA
Hiester, Daniel b. June 25, 1747 d. March 7, 1804
US Congressman and Revolutionary War General. He was a member of the Hiester Family political dynasty. He was a brother John and Gabriel, uncle of William and Daniel, and cousin of Joseph. After completing his education at local schools he entered the mercantile business in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He first served during the Revolutionary War as a colonel and was later commissioned a brigadier general in the Pennsylvania Militia. Upon entering politics he was a member of Pennsylvania's...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
Zion Reformed United Church of Christ Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, USA
Irish Brigade Monument
In four years of fighting in the American Civil War, the Irish Brigade lost over 4,000 men killed, wounded and missing. At the Battle of Antietam, the four regiments then comprising the brigade (63rd NY, 69th NY, 88th NY, 29th Mass) lost a total of 422 wounded and 113 killed. This monument was dedicated at the south end of Bloody Lane, Antietam Battlefield, in October of 1997. It commemorates the dead and wounded of that battle who fell scant yards away, as well memorializes Thomas Francis...[Read More] (Bio by: Albert Ledoux)
Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, Maryland, USA
Plot: Bloody Lane
Lane Jr., William Preston b. May 12, 1892 d. February 7, 1967
Maryland Governor. A native of Hagerstown, Maryland, he served in the United States Army during the First World War. He served as the Maryland State Attorney General from 1930 to 1934, Presidential Elector from Maryland in 1936, Member of the Democratic National Committee from Maryland from 1940 to 1950, Delegate to the Democratic National Convention from Maryland in 1944, and as the Governor of Maryland from 1947 to 1951. As Governor he introduced the first sales tax, and also was Chairman of...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, USA
Mason Jr., John Thomson b. May 9, 1815 d. March 28, 1873
US Congressman. Ater graduating from Princeton College in 1836, he studied law, was admitted to the bar, and established a practice in Hagerstown, Maryland. Elected to Congress as a Democrat from Maryland in 1840, he served a single term, from 1841 to 1843. He was collector of customs in Baltimore from 1857 to 1861, before retiring to Annapolis, where he died. (Bio by: Garver Graver)
Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, USA
Maxim, Hiram Percy b. September 2, 1869 d. February 17, 1936
"The Old Man" Hiram Percy Maxim was the Father of organized amateur (HAM) radio. In 1914 the American Radio Relay League was organized and launched by the famous inventor and "ham operator" Hiram Percy Maxim whose amateur radio call-sign was W1AW. He was also the inventor of the Maxim silencer which was the first mass produced firearms silencer, the automobile muffler, and was a pioneer in air compressor technology.
Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, USA
McComas, Louis Emory b. October 28, 1846 d. November 11, 1907
US Congressman, US Senator. He was elected to represent Maryland in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1883 to 1891. He was then elected as a Senator from Maryland to the United States Senate, serving from 1899 to 1905.
Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, USA
Meagher, Thomas Francis [memorial] b. August 3, 1823 d. July 1, 1867
Civil War Union Brigadier General. He is most famous for commanding the "Irish Brigade". General Meagher was born in Waterford, Ireland. He was active in the Irish Independence movement and had to come to America to escape British Authorities. During the Civil War, he organized the famous "Irish Brigade" from Irish immigrants in New York. The Irish Brigade took part in all of the major engagements in Virginia from The First Battle of Bull Run to Chancellorsville. In the futile charge during the...[Read More]
Cause of death: drowned
Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, Maryland, USA
Plot: Irish Brigade Monument at Bloody Land
Ringgold, Samuel b. January 15, 1770 d. October 18, 1829
US Congressman. He was a successful agricultural businessman when appointed a member of the Maryland House of Delegates in 1795. He served in the Maryland State Senate from 1801 to 1806 and as judge of the levy court of Washington County, 1806 to 1810 and 1822 to 1826. In 1810, he was elected as a Republican to the Eleventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Roger Nelson and was reelected to the Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses. He was also appointed a Brigadier General...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Fountain Rock Cemetery, Saint James (Washington County), Washington County, Maryland, USA
Roman, James Dixon b. August 11, 1809 d. January 19, 1867
US Congressman. After studying law, he was admitted to the bar in 1834 and established a practice in Hagerstown, Maryland. Elected as a Whig to Congress in 1846, he served a single term, from 1847 to 1849. He returned to Hagerstown and was president of the Old Hagerstown Bank from 1851 until his death in 1867. He was a member of the peace convention held in Washington, D. C., in 1861 in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war. (Bio by: Garver Graver)
Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, USA
Rose, Robert Lawson b. 1804 d. 1877
US Congressman. Elected to represent New York's 29th District in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1847 to 1851. (Bio by: K)
Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, USA
Washington Confederate Cemetery Monument
This monument honors the unknown Confederate Dead from the Battles of South Mountain and Antietam that lie in the Washington Confederate Cemetery, which is located within the confines of Rose Hill Cemetery in Hagerstown, Maryland (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, USA

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