ABOUT ME: I grew up in Sang Run, Garrett County, Maryland near "Friend's Delight," the homestead settled in 1796 by my 3X great-grandfather John Friend, Jr. That property is now the Sang Run State Park and the Historic Friend Store located on the property was built and operated by my grandfather Smith McClelland Friend (1862-1953). Our Frände/Friend heritage in America traces back to Nils (Nicholas) Larsson Frände who settled in the mid-1600s at New Sweden - Colonial America (now, Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania,).

Other early settlers of Sang Run and nearby areas of Virginia/West Virginia and Pennsylvania include Hoye, Casteel, DeWitt, Savage, and Browning who intermarried with the Friend descendants. often resulting in the crossing of family lines. Descendants of all of these families were among the early settlers of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois.

Among my maternal relatives I have been researching for over 30 years are (1) Wunderlich/Wonderly - early setters of Cumberland, Lebanon, Dauphin, and Lancaster Counties, Pennsylvania, Preston County Virginia/West Virginia, and Colonial America; and (2) Arnold, Durr, Hauser, Yantz, Waltz and Whorton families – early settlers of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia Colonies.

Like most Find-A-Grave subscribers, I have a keen interest in my own family burials and am less interested in collecting memorials of people who are unrelated to me.

NOTE 1: I encourage "verifiable" contributions to memorials I manage. I always record the name of contributors.

NOTE 2: Any photos of obituaries posted to memorials I manage must be legible, easy to read, are upright, meet copyright rules, and captioned with source information. My preference is to add the link to the obituary or to transcribe the obituary and add it as an edit to the biographical information, rather than adding the obituary as a "photo" to the memorial.

NOTE 3: If photographs in my Find-A-Grave memorials are used in other Web sites (e.g., Ancestry.com), I request a note of attribution as a comment/caption/description to the photo.

NOTE 4: I transfer memorials to others almost every time when I am politely asked unless I happen to be more closely related to the person. On January 11, 2022, Find-A-Grave expanded relationships required under a transfer to include: "child, spouse/partner, sibling, parent, grandchild, great-grandchild, grandparent, great-grandparent, niece/nephew, great-niece/nephew, aunt/uncle, great-aunt/uncle, or first cousin. This would include adoptive, step and in-law versions of these relationships." I am very flexible about transferring memorials.

Per Find-a-Grave guidelines, burial locations or dispositions should be verified information. As such, Find-A-Grave is all about finding and verifying a grave.

I encourage members to sponsor memorials for close relatives and/or to post flowers in remembrances of loved ones. Enjoy your Find-A-Grave adventures. Stay committed to the task.

ABOUT ME: I grew up in Sang Run, Garrett County, Maryland near "Friend's Delight," the homestead settled in 1796 by my 3X great-grandfather John Friend, Jr. That property is now the Sang Run State Park and the Historic Friend Store located on the property was built and operated by my grandfather Smith McClelland Friend (1862-1953). Our Frände/Friend heritage in America traces back to Nils (Nicholas) Larsson Frände who settled in the mid-1600s at New Sweden - Colonial America (now, Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania,).

Other early settlers of Sang Run and nearby areas of Virginia/West Virginia and Pennsylvania include Hoye, Casteel, DeWitt, Savage, and Browning who intermarried with the Friend descendants. often resulting in the crossing of family lines. Descendants of all of these families were among the early settlers of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois.

Among my maternal relatives I have been researching for over 30 years are (1) Wunderlich/Wonderly - early setters of Cumberland, Lebanon, Dauphin, and Lancaster Counties, Pennsylvania, Preston County Virginia/West Virginia, and Colonial America; and (2) Arnold, Durr, Hauser, Yantz, Waltz and Whorton families – early settlers of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia Colonies.

Like most Find-A-Grave subscribers, I have a keen interest in my own family burials and am less interested in collecting memorials of people who are unrelated to me.

NOTE 1: I encourage "verifiable" contributions to memorials I manage. I always record the name of contributors.

NOTE 2: Any photos of obituaries posted to memorials I manage must be legible, easy to read, are upright, meet copyright rules, and captioned with source information. My preference is to add the link to the obituary or to transcribe the obituary and add it as an edit to the biographical information, rather than adding the obituary as a "photo" to the memorial.

NOTE 3: If photographs in my Find-A-Grave memorials are used in other Web sites (e.g., Ancestry.com), I request a note of attribution as a comment/caption/description to the photo.

NOTE 4: I transfer memorials to others almost every time when I am politely asked unless I happen to be more closely related to the person. On January 11, 2022, Find-A-Grave expanded relationships required under a transfer to include: "child, spouse/partner, sibling, parent, grandchild, great-grandchild, grandparent, great-grandparent, niece/nephew, great-niece/nephew, aunt/uncle, great-aunt/uncle, or first cousin. This would include adoptive, step and in-law versions of these relationships." I am very flexible about transferring memorials.

Per Find-a-Grave guidelines, burial locations or dispositions should be verified information. As such, Find-A-Grave is all about finding and verifying a grave.

I encourage members to sponsor memorials for close relatives and/or to post flowers in remembrances of loved ones. Enjoy your Find-A-Grave adventures. Stay committed to the task.