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From: "Richard America" <>
Subject: RE: [LDR] Littleton Tilghman Graveyard
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 14:32:54 -0500


Is there a comparable Worcester Cemeteries project?

Where in Worcetser and Sussex would Free African Americans likely have
been buried 1790-1810? Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks

RFAmerica



>>> 2/7/2005 2:12:50 PM >>>
Hi Barbara,

If you'd be willing to type up the info, I'd be happy to place the
gravestone info online with the Wicomico Cemeteries Project. Are you
familiar with the WCP? If not, take a look at
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdwicomi/wcp/ .

Thanks,

Shari Handley

*-----Original Message-----
*From: Barbara Renshaw [mailto:]
*Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 7:18 PM
*To:
*Subject: Re: [LDR] Littleton Tilghman Graveyard
*
*
*Hello!
*
*You will be happy to know that I have located the Littleton P.
Tilghman
*graveyard. Since Sunday was a sunny day; but a bit breezy, I decided
to
*check out the graveyard I see everytime I travel Rt. 50, east
*of Salisbury,
*MD. I knew that the land it was on was once part of a larger
*tract of land
*owned by the Tilghman family and that Merrit Mill Rd. ran behind the
*graveyard.
*It is visible from Rt. 50, East, just before you approach the
*bypass, to the
*left. Located between the DMV and the Microtel Motel, it is
*surrounded by
*some trees, but clearly visible from the highway year round.
*Wendy's and
*Denny's Restaurants are across Rt. 50, as well as K Mart. The
*road at the
*traffic light there, at McDonald's, that crosses Rt. 50 is Tilghman
Rd.
* I have often wondered if any Tilghmans were buried there, so
*your inquiry
*encouraged me to check it out. (Years before the land was sold that
the
*Microtel is situated on, there was an old farm house that was
*a Tilghman
*home. My husband and I visited friends there who were renting
*it when they
*were first married. The house was torn down when the land was sold.)
*I counted 8 gravesites: some of which were those of children. The
three
*family names represented on the tombstones were Riggin, Littleton,
and
*Tilghman. All of the inscriptions were not readable, but I
*did my best at
*writing down what I could see. Dates ranged from 1826 to 1933
*on the various
*tombstones. It was difficult to read some of the inscriptions,
*due to the
*aging process. I wrote down the names and dates that I could
*read; some of
*which I am not certain. If you are interested in more
*information, you can
*contact me off list.
*
*Barbara
*
*
*
*----- Original Message -----
*From: "George F. Riggin" <>
*To: <>
*Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 10:10 PM
*Subject: [LDR] Littleton Tilghman Graveyard
*
*
*> Speaking of Littletons, does anyone know the location of the
*Littleton P.
*Tilghman
*> family graveyard mentioned in John E. Jacob's book "Graveyards and
*Gravestones of
*> Wicomico"? Mr. Jacob's gives the location as being on the
*southwest side
*of Merritt
*> Mill Rd., 1/4 mile south of Salisbury-Parsonsburg Rd. I
*have searched
*this area
*> several times without success using these directions, and feel that
*perhaps they
*> were misprinted.
*>
*>
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