Lower Marsh Creek Cemetery This transcribed from the History of Adams County [1886]:
Lower Marsh Creek or “Sanders'” burying ground, is located near the junction of Big and Little Marsh Creeks, in Highland Twp. The first burials date back to 1749, and the names of the aged people whose remains lie in the Lower Marsh Creek, or “Sanders’ Cemetery,” together with the dates of death, are given as follows:
John CUNNINGHAM - 1776 Elizabeth CUNNINGHAM - 1783
David W. CUNNINGHAM - 1809 Robert CUNNINGHAM - 1825
Martha CUNNINGHAM - 1833 Hugh KYGN - 1767
David BLYTHE - 1849 David BLYTHE - 1831
Michael FINLEY - 1785 Margaret MOORE - 1786
Andrew HART - 1792 Mary HART - 1785
Mary CRUGHTON - 1772 Barbara HOOVER - 1843
Frances ALEXANDER - 1760 Mrs. Frances ALEXANDER - 1771
John LEARD - 1766 John CRAWFORD - 1771
James REED - 1793 Mary REED - 1784
Samuel KNOX - 1808 Dr. Samuel KNOX - 1821
Mrs. Dr. Samuel KNOX - 1843 Alexander McKESSON - 1771
Sarah McKESSON - 1821 Ebenezer P. McCONNELL - 1772
William McKESSON - 1826 James HILL - 1824
John NcELNAY - 1841 Mary BROWN (his wife)
John KERR - 1749 John KERR - 1837
John KERR - 1772 Mary KERR - 1855
Mary CLARK - 1770 Joseph KERR - 1790
William KERR - 1791 George KERR - 1815
John PORTER - 1771 Hugh SCOTT - 1849
Jane SCOTT - 1813 James McCLAIN - 1813
M. S. [rough head stone] - 1771 William Johnston - 1858
Robert SLEMONS - 1823 Rachel (his wife) - 1801
Robert SLEMONS, Jr. - 1863 Rachel SLEMONS - 1860
Rev. John SLEMONS - 1773 James RULFION - 1769
Hugh SCOTT - 1844 Margaret McCLEARY SCOTT - 1789
Jane McCLEAN - 1785 William McCLEAN - 1787
Archibald MURPHY - 1751 Elizabeth WITHROW - 1774
Jeremiah LOHRY - 1749 Capt. David WILSON - 1846
Thomas REED - 1840 Mrs. Grizzle PEDEN - 1843
James MARSHALL - 1805 Andrew MARSHSALL - 1853
Capt. Samuel WHITE - 1869 Rev. Alexander DOBBIN - 1809
Andrew WECKERT - 1871 Samuel PARDEN - 1802
Robert LINN - 1772 Isaac ROBINSON - 1796
Robert McGINSKY - 1799 James AGNEW - 1825
David AGNEW - 1797 James WILSON - 1776
James AGNEW - 1770 Rebecca AGNEW - 1759
Abram AGNEW - 1753 William LAWDEN - 1851
David WAUGH - 1816 Dr. William PATTERSON - 1806
Francis McGLAUGHLIN - 1798
(see below)
Abram SCOTT - 1834
Capt. James SCOTT - 1806 Andrew HART - 1775
Agnes QUIETT - 1774 Edward HALL - 1775
James MAGINLEY - 1762 Murzant MAGINLEY - 1770
Jean McGAUGHEY - 1773 Jane WAUGH - 1770
Matt DILL - 1812 Martin HALL - 1852
Mary HALL - 1867 Amy CHAMBERLIN - 1813
Lewis CHAMBERLIN - 1825 Hannah COSHM - 1833
James BIGHAM - 1854 Rev. William PAXTON - 1845
James WATSON - 1870 Dr. John PAXTON - 1840
William McCULLOUGH - 1880 John McCULLOUGH - 1875
James THOMPSON - 1801 Sam McCULLOUGH - 1778
Greggery McCULLOUGH - 1749 Margaret McCULLOUGH - 1752
Eliza - 1821 Jean STEEL - 1769
Arch BOYD - 1825 James WILSON - 1845
Abram WILSON - 1870 Elijah SEABROOK - 1848
Sam WITHEROW - 1832 Hugh CULBERTON - 1876
Benjamin REED - 1828 Israel IRWIN - 1871
John IRWIN - 1822 Rev. David PFOUTZ - 1849
Christian SHULLEY - 1858 Mrs. Christian STONER - 1846
Barbara BENNET - 1866 George DOUGHERTY - 1861
David STEWART - 1741 Jane STEWART - 1857
James DOUGLASS - 1818 John MORROW - 1811
Jeremiah MORROW - 1758 Margaret MORROW - 1837
Anne MURHPHY - 1815 James CUNNINGHAM - 1857
* I visited the grave January 1983 and it read Francis McGlaughlin Born 1773 and died August 10,1798, the son of : James and Mary McGlaughlin. — John M Hahn
Contributed by Donna HELLER ZINN of Newville, Cumberland Co., PA., 6 July 2001:
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