Entrances to Green Mount and Baltimore Cemeteries

E. Sachse & Co, L. (1863) Illustrated album of Baltimore City. Baltimore Druid Hill Park Maryland, 1863. [Baltimore, Md.: Lithographed by E. Sachse & Co. 104 South Charles St] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2017650412/.

Southern Burial Ground

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.–The Trustee’s of Baltimore City Station give notice that Mr. JOSEPH SHANE has been appointed Superintendent of the Southern Burial Ground of the Methodist E Church. Persons removing their dead from said ground to Mount Olivet Cemetery prior to February 28th next, can exchange their lots with Mr. THOS. FRANCE, Agent for the Cemetery. Office adjoining Light street Church.

SOURCE: The Sun (Baltimore) 9 October 1854, p. 3 (ProQuest)

Vandalism – Glendy Cemetery (1873)

Vandalism — It is discovered that within the past few nights several of the old family vaults in the burial ground at the head of Broadway of the old Glendy congregation, known as the Second Presbyterian church, have had their locks and doors wrested off and the coffins broken, and the bones scattered around in the vaults. Among other vaults, thus mutilated were those of the family of the late John Gregg, and the vault of the late Capt. John M. Kane. It is a disgrace that such things should occur in the city. The object of the vandals is supposed to be plunder of the coffins of any valuables that might possibly have been buried with the corpses. The city is being built up rapidly in the vicinity of this old burial place, and hence it is the more necessary to use vigilance in guarding it from intrusion.

SOURCE: The Sun (Baltimore) 17 September 1873, p. 1

 

The Old Southern Burial Ground

The Old Southern Burial Ground.– By the action of the City Council condemning and ordering the opening of Fort and Hanover streets as public highways, the quiet of the dead reposing in this burial ground, fronting on Light street, will be disturbed, as the beds of the streets lay directly through a portion of it. The trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the city and precincts have accordingly notified all lot holders to have the remains of their relatives or friends interred there removed, or a disinterment will be made under the authority of the city. The remaining portion of the burial ground not condemned by the opening of the above streets will also be subjected to similar interruptions by the opening of other avenues as that portion of the city continues to grow.

SOURCE: The Sun (Baltimore) 22 May 1858: p. 1

Baptist Burying Ground (DEFUNCT)

Location: Fayette and Front Streets, Baltimore, Md.

Description: Located at the site of a mission built in 1773 by the Harford Baptist Church, near the current site of the Shot Tower. The mission was organized in 1785 as the First Baptist Church of Baltimore. In 1818, the church moved to the corner of Lombard and Sharp streets.  The cemetery is mentioned in the records of the Special Commissioners of the City of Baltimore, 1782-1797 and the location of the church — identified as Baptist M.H. — can be seen on the Warner & Hanna map of the city dated 1801. Scharf noted that “the remains of many of the dead were afterwards removed to a piece of ground in southwest Baltimore, which is at present occupied by buildings.” [History of Baltimore City and County, p. 554]

The cemetery is identified in Joseph Legg’s The Burying Grounds of Baltimore available at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Md.

Winter Day in Green Mount Cemetery

Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
January 2014.

Loundon Park Cemetery Company Stock Specimen

[Print specimen of stock certificate for Loudon Park Cemetery Company]. Engraved & printed by A. Kollner, Philadelphia, [185-?].
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs, LC-DIG-ppmsca-24846.

Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore (ca. 1848)

Green Mount Cemetery. Drawn from nature by Aug. Köllner. New York & Paris : published by Goupil, Vibert & Co., ca. 1848.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-23596.

Mount Auburn Cemetery Scene

Mount Auburn Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland. September 2013.

Loudon Park National Cemetery

Loudon Park National Cemetery was one of the original fourteen cemeteries established during the Civil War under the National Cemetery Act of 17 July 1862. Initially, most interments came from Baltimore hospital and camps, including some Confederate soldiers who died while imprisoned at Fort McHenry. In 1884, the remains of approximately 299 soldiers from the now defunct Laurel Cemetery were reinterred in this cemetery. Monuments at the cemetery include the Unknown Dead Monument, the Maryland Naval Monument (dedicated 1896), the Confederate Monument, the Rigby Monument, and the GAR Monument.

In 1996, the cemetery was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Historic American Buildings Survey, Loudon Park National Cemetery. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, HABS Reproduction numbers HALS MD-5-3, HALS MD-5-14 and HALS MD-5-15.

Status: Closed to new interments
Address: 3445 Frederick Avenue, Baltimore, Md.
Grounds Supervised By: Baltimore National Cemetery

Architecture & Historic Landscape

• Historic American Buildings Survey, Loudon Park National Cemetery, 3445 Frederick Avenue, Baltimore, Md.

Sources for Burial Information

• Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Nationwide Gravesite Locator.
• A printed grave locator is also available in front of the lodge and at the kiosk located at Baltimore National Cemetery.
• Find A Grave – Loudon Park National Cemetery

Miscellaneous Obituaries

• Emory A. Leasure, The Sun (Baltimore) 26 March 1921, p. 10.
  Died from the effects of being gassed in France.
• Captain Lonzo R. Bice, The Sun (Baltimore) 3 November 1932, p. 12.
• Mrs. Lizzette Krumm Baer (d. 16 May 1935), The Sun (Baltimore) 17 May 1935, p. 22.
  Widow of Nathan Barer, Civil War drummer boy and doorkeeper of the Senate Diplomatic Gallery in Washington.
• Leonard Joseph Smolsky, The Sun (Baltimore) 21 August 1935, p. 17
• Charles G. Black (d. 9 January 1937), The Sun (Baltimore) 12 January 1937, p. 16
  Spanish American War veteran
• Samuel J. Cadell (d. 27 January 1938), The Sun (Baltimore) 29 January 1938, p. 15.

Newspaper Articles

• “To Be Buried by the Grand Army.” The Sun (Baltimore) 19 January 1894, p. 8.
  Regarding burial of Lawrence Fochte, sergeant of Company D, Third Maryland Volunteers.
• “National Cemetery Addition Planned.” The Sun (Baltimore) 25 June 1935, p. 21.
  Request by War Department for funds to enlarge cemetery.
• “Funds to Enlarge Cemetery Await. Five Sites for Extension of Loudon Park Considered by War Department.” The Sun (Baltimore) 7 March 1936, p. 14.
  Selection of site to enlarge cemetery would await specific authorization of funds. 
• “Loudon Park Enlarging Nears.” The Sun (Baltimore) 25 August 1936, p. 12.
  Announcement of purchase of land to enlarge cemetery expected to be announced soon by War Department. Location of property to be purchased would not be made public until after the Secretary of War approves the recommendations of the quartermaster general.
• “Baltimore Stands to Lose Landmark. Cloud Capped, Historic Home, To Be Razed For Creation of Cemetery.” The Sun (Baltimore) 3 February 1937, p. 4.
  “Unless Congress intervenes, Baltimore soon may lose one of its oldest landmarks, the historic home, Cloud Capped. It was from this home that watchers first saw the coming of the British fleet during the War of 1812. The house, soon to be razed, is in the center of the Blanchard Randall estate, on the Frederick road at North Bend….”