Family Cemetery

Once again, a family cemetery is standing in the way of development in Baltimore County -- this time for a proposed restaurant-office complex in Cockeysville.In a twist for preservation, though, the property owners want to create a nearby history park and relocate the remains of the Cockey family -- founding members of Cockeysville -- there. The reinterment would pave the way for a Bob Evans restaurant, Romano's Macaroni Grill and an office building on the north side of Padonia Road, just east of Interstate 83.Yesterday, a zoning official endorsed the plan to relocate the 200-year-old graveyard to another site -- as long as family members agreed.

Suddenly, on Oct. 10, 2007, Robert Martin Bopst A funeral liturgy will be held at 9am Monday at Holy Family Catholic Church, Randallstown. Interment will follow in Holy Family Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the Haight Funeral Home & Chapel (6416 Sykesville Rd) Sykesville from 7 to 9pm Saturday and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9pm Sunday. Those desiring may make memorial donations to Crohn's Disease or Colitis Research. Online condolences may be made to www.haightfuneralhome.com

Descendants of Christian and Barbara Geiman have succeeded in saving a family cemetery threatened by development.With help from the county, the genealogical society and the property owner, the family has preserved a small plot at Bachmans Valley and Hoover Mill roads.The plot, north of Westminster, is less than a tenth of an acre and was to be part of a six-lot subdivision called Danlyn Section 3 owned by Carol Bare of Westminster, said Franklin G. Schaeffer, chief of the Bureau of Development Review.

Edwin B. "Ed" Sinclair, 75, of Princess Anne, formerly of Baltimore, died March 1, 2007. A funeral service will be held Sunday at 2pm at Hinman Funeral Home in Princess Anne, MD, where friends may call Saturday from 6 to 8pm and on Sunday one hour prior to the service. Interment will be held in the family cemetery in Princess Anne.

In 1871, a free black man named London Pinkney purchased 89 acres on a secluded peninsula along the quiet waters of Back Creek in Annapolis. During the past century, the land Pinkney farmed has been sold and developed into suburban communities -- except for a small waterfront lot at 391 Georgetown Road that was sold out of the family in 1957 and remained vacant. But a plan to build a house on this lot has ignited a fight over what some see as a slight to the prominent role the family played in the city's history because descendants believe the land might be the family's cemetery.

The Carroll County Sheriff's Office is investigating the theft of five footstones and the vandalism of eight tombstones at a private family cemetery in Westminster, authorities said yesterday. A resident reported the damage to Deputy Gary Jenkins, who found the tombstones pushed over and broken at the Gist family cemetery on the 100 block of Federal Ann Court. The theft of the footstones also was discovered. "I am still in shock," said Harriet Zurl, 55, who said about six generations of her family are buried in the gated cemetery, which sits on a half-acre south of Hook Road.

The Maryland Historical Trust is asking the Arundel Corp. to look again for a family cemetery and expand its search for artifacts on a Carroll County farm that played an important role in the history of the American Methodist Church.The Arundel Corp., which wants to open a limestone quarry on the site, has been working with church representatives, preservationists and the historical trust for about nine months to find ways for its planned mining operation to coexist with the site's historic features.

On June 24, 2005, PAULINE A. ODINKEMELU, loving mother of two sons, and six daughters. Also survived by 11 grandchildren. The Funeral Service will be held at the Family Cemetery, Awo-Idemili, Nigeria on July 8, 2005.

This is a story about an old family cemetery and new construction -- with a happy ending.There are no angry descendants, no backhoes digging up bones. Just a 75-year-old man in a wheelchair who can still travel along a path lined with forsythia and white pine to spend time with his ancestors in western Howard County.His name is William B. Welling Jr. and his family has lived in Howard County since at least the late 1700s. A cemetery containing his great-great-great-grandfather and as many as 18 other family members sits off Trotter Road near Clarksville.

Edwin B. "Ed" Sinclair, 75, of Princess Anne, formerly of Baltimore, died March 1, 2007. A funeral service will be held Sunday at 2pm at Hinman Funeral Home in Princess Anne, MD, where friends may call Saturday from 6 to 8pm and on Sunday one hour prior to the service. Interment will be held in the family cemetery in Princess Anne.

On June 24, 2005, PAULINE A. ODINKEMELU, loving mother of two sons, and six daughters. Also survived by 11 grandchildren. The Funeral Service will be held at the Family Cemetery, Awo-Idemili, Nigeria on July 8, 2005.

The Carroll County Sheriff's Office is investigating the theft of five footstones and the vandalism of eight tombstones at a private family cemetery in Westminster, authorities said yesterday. A resident reported the damage to Deputy Gary Jenkins, who found the tombstones pushed over and broken at the Gist family cemetery on the 100 block of Federal Ann Court. The theft of the footstones also was discovered. "I am still in shock," said Harriet Zurl, 55, who said about six generations of her family are buried in the gated cemetery, which sits on a half-acre south of Hook Road.

When Johnetta Miller and Robert LeRoy Mann learned this year of plans to build a house on a vacant lot on Cedarhurst Road in Finksburg, they wondered about the old family burial plot that used to be on the site. Miller, who lives next to the property, recalled seeing two markers by her fence about 10 years ago. Mann, a former neighbor, also recalled seeing gravestones there decades ago. Calls by Miller and Mann to a member of the local historical society prompted an investigation by the Carroll County state's attorney's office into what happened to the cemetery - whether anyone illegally moved tombstones or remains.

On October 12, 2003, MARY RUTH (nee Steiner), beloved wife of the late Alfred J. Cyganowski; devoted mother of Patricia Slygh and Jean Chiveral; sister of Joseph Steiner and the late James Steiner; also survived by three grandchildren. Relatives and friends are invited to call at LORING BYERS FUNERAL DIRECTORS INC., 8728 Liberty Rd (2 mi W. of Beltway exit 18-B) on Wednesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. A Wake Service will be held at 7:30 P.M. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated in Holy Family Church, on Thursday, October 16 at 9 A.M. Interment Holy Family Cemetery.

MONTPELIER, Va. - James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, never liked the limelight. He was a quiet man who loved books more than crowds, a man with a soft voice and a modest signature, one of the smallest on the U.S. Constitution. His home, Montpelier, was always his beloved refuge. When Madison became president in 1809, he left his estate in the rolling hills of Virginia's Piedmont reluctantly. Today's visitors to the historic home can see why. The house is as grand as ever, and along with its lovely gardens and surrounding forest, it is becoming more and more popular as a museum.

Tucked between an asphalt plant and a construction company on Guilford Road in Howard County is the burial site of Kings. They are the Kings who married into the Whites, one of the oldest - and, as surprised county officials now know, proudest - families in all of Maryland. From far and wide, descendants of the Whites and Kings swarmed the county this week - not for a wedding, not for a funeral, but to protect the honor of their family. Their common foe: a road project. As part of a planned widening of Guilford Road between Interstate 95 and the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, county officials have tentatively decided to cut about 30 feet into an open lot across from the Dorsey Run Business Center.

A Hanover site that may be an old family cemetery that dates to the 1800s lies in the path of the $1.3 billion expansion of Baltimore-Washington International Airport, and airport officials are making plans to move any graves. The Maryland Aviation Administration is planning to relocate any human remains from a site believed to be the Plummer Cemetery to a nearby graveyard. But the MAA does not know if the site, which has no headstones or markers, is a cemetery. An archaeological study of the area revealed that the 1,740-square-foot wooded plot east of Valley Road looks as if it were once a graveyard.

Suddenly, on Oct. 10, 2007, Robert Martin Bopst A funeral liturgy will be held at 9am Monday at Holy Family Catholic Church, Randallstown. Interment will follow in Holy Family Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the Haight Funeral Home & Chapel (6416 Sykesville Rd) Sykesville from 7 to 9pm Saturday and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9pm Sunday. Those desiring may make memorial donations to Crohn's Disease or Colitis Research. Online condolences may be made to www.haightfuneralhome.com