Galloway Estate Cemeteries

Tulip Hill

At Tulip Hill, a Galloway estate, the two oldest stones are to the memory of:

Virgil Maxey Born in Attleborough Mass. Killed by the bursting of a gun on board the Princeton 28th Feb. 1844 in his 60th year.
Mary Maxey Born 1787 At Chestertown Md. Died 16th July 1849 in her 62nd year.
Mrs. Maxey was Mary Galloway, granddaughter of Samuel Galloway who built " Tulip Hill." There is a family  vault at Tulip Hill which was sealed after the burial of
Mrs. James Cheston in 1838; Mrs. Cheston was the grandmother of Mrs. H. M. Murray.

 

Cedar Park

At "Cedar Park," another Galloway estate, is an old family graveyard, inaccessible on account venture but with failing health, of tall weeds, briers, etc.

 

Source:
Helen W. Ridgely;  Historic Graves of Maryland and the District of Columbia; Edited under the Auspices of the Maryland Society of the Colonial Dames of America; Grafton Press, New York; 1908
Submitted by: Candi Horton - 2007 © Genealogy Trails
Note: [transcribers notes] (original authors notes)

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