Joseph "...continued to live in Frostburg till his death, April 5, 1884, in the 85tyear of his age and was laid to rest in a local burying place alongside his first wife Debby Ann Palmer,... Apparently the place they were buried was not incorporated in the cemetery proper, and after all of his descendants had moved away from Frostburg, and no one was left to interpose an objection, their tombstones were removed, their graves leveled off, and the ground turned into a Pasteur." ["The Ancestors and Descendants of Joseph Mason and Debby Ann Palmer, Kirk Bentley Barb, 1932, New Jersey: Self published]
The author believes the mystery gravesite is located near Midlothian, Maryland, because conversations with residents (past and present) suggest a cemetery not listed or researched in this area. ["Journal of the Alleghenies," Vol. XXXVII, 2001, "Stories of the Mason Family," page 70, Dana B. George in a speech to the Percy Cemetery Commission.
The author believes the mystery gravesite is located near Midlothian, Maryland, because conversations with residents (past and present) suggest a cemetery not listed or researched in this area. ["Journal of the Alleghenies," Vol. XXXVII, 2001, "Stories of the Mason Family," page 70, Dana B. George in a speech to the Percy Cemetery Commission.
Joseph "...continued to live in Frostburg till his death, April 5, 1884, in the 85tyear of his age and was laid to rest in a local burying place alongside his first wife Debby Ann Palmer,... Apparently the place they were buried was not incorporated in the cemetery proper, and after all of his descendants had moved away from Frostburg, and no one was left to interpose an objection, their tombstones were removed, their graves leveled off, and the ground turned into a Pasteur." ["The Ancestors and Descendants of Joseph Mason and Debby Ann Palmer, Kirk Bentley Barb, 1932, New Jersey: Self published]
The author believes the mystery gravesite is located near Midlothian, Maryland, because conversations with residents (past and present) suggest a cemetery not listed or researched in this area. ["Journal of the Alleghenies," Vol. XXXVII, 2001, "Stories of the Mason Family," page 70, Dana B. George in a speech to the Percy Cemetery Commission.
The author believes the mystery gravesite is located near Midlothian, Maryland, because conversations with residents (past and present) suggest a cemetery not listed or researched in this area. ["Journal of the Alleghenies," Vol. XXXVII, 2001, "Stories of the Mason Family," page 70, Dana B. George in a speech to the Percy Cemetery Commission.
