Tag: headstone
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Rachel Urven
Mrs. Rachel Urven was born in Maryland in about 1840. We have yet to find her birth family or her maiden name. The first time we find here in the records, she’s living with her husband in 1870 near New Windsor. Two young children are with them. The older child had been born before the…
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Daniel W. Myers
Mr. Daniel W. Myers was born in the spring of 1834. He may have been enslaved by Mr. Solomon Zepp. In 1850, Mr. Myers is enumerated with the Zepp household, as a free young man working on the farm. He married Ms. Emeine Dorothy King in 1855. They had 10 children together, although only four…
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Charlotte (Walker) Toop
Mrs. Charlotte (Walker) Toop is buried in Western Chapel Cemetery in Carroll County, Maryland. She was born about 1785 in Maryland. She was likely enslaved, as were 95% of the African Americans in Maryland at the time. By 1830, Mrs. Toop was enumerated as free in the Census, with two young children under 10 years…