This ancient cemetery is located on private property sitting close to King's Creek and is accessible by either Revell's Neck Rd or Stewart Neck Rd. It is located adjacent to the Widdowson farm.
It is very near the Maryland Eastern Correctional Institution.
From Ancestry.com:
Colonel Abraham Barnes was born about 1715 in either Richmond County or Westmoreland County, Virginia. According to a deed filed in Westmoreland Co., VA in 1744, he was the "son and heir of Thomas Barnes, deceased". He married first, about 1735, Mary King, daughter of Robert and Priscilla (Covington) King of "Kingsland", Somerset County, Maryland. Mary (King) Barnes died October 25, 1739 and is buried at "Kingsland". Her tombstone reads "Mary, wife of Abraham Barnes, Merchant, died 25th October, 1739 in the 25th year of her age." There was one child born to this marriage, Mary King Barnes (1737-1771). Mary King Barnes married Thomson Mason (1732-1785), son of George Mason and his wife, Ann Thomson of Stafford County, Virginia. .
This ancient cemetery is located on private property sitting close to King's Creek and is accessible by either Revell's Neck Rd or Stewart Neck Rd. It is located adjacent to the Widdowson farm.
It is very near the Maryland Eastern Correctional Institution.
From Ancestry.com:
Colonel Abraham Barnes was born about 1715 in either Richmond County or Westmoreland County, Virginia. According to a deed filed in Westmoreland Co., VA in 1744, he was the "son and heir of Thomas Barnes, deceased". He married first, about 1735, Mary King, daughter of Robert and Priscilla (Covington) King of "Kingsland", Somerset County, Maryland. Mary (King) Barnes died October 25, 1739 and is buried at "Kingsland". Her tombstone reads "Mary, wife of Abraham Barnes, Merchant, died 25th October, 1739 in the 25th year of her age." There was one child born to this marriage, Mary King Barnes (1737-1771). Mary King Barnes married Thomson Mason (1732-1785), son of George Mason and his wife, Ann Thomson of Stafford County, Virginia. .
Inscription
Here _________ the remains of
MARY
The wife of Abraham Barnes, Mercht
The sweetnefs of whose Temper
Was only equaled
BY
Her good __________ & Discretion
_______ _________ __________
In which __________ placed her
_______ ________ ________
Friend, Loving Wife,
A good Christian
VIRT___
That mig___
Had not yet supreme (?)
Determined in otherwise
Long have _________
________ her Person
________ the ________ _______
Veneration__________
All _________ __________ Her
Life ye 25th day of October
1739 in the 25th year of her Age.
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