Missing Adrian Hegeman Cemetery
May 31, 2004 18:59:27 GMT -5
Post by Ira A. Runyan on May 31, 2004 18:59:27 GMT -5
The following is from Amali Runyon Perkins web site "Lots of Runyon Tidbits" home.satx.rr.com/runyontidbits/
Does anyone know anything about this cemetery, and does it still exist?
Adrian Hegeman (Hagerman), the father-in-law of Isaac Runyon, had purchased land in 1767 in Frederick County, Maryland, from John Logsdon. After Adrian's death in 1774, he left the property to his wife, Mary, and to his daughter Geertje (Charity) who was married to Isaac Runyon. The heirs sold one tract of land back to Logsdon. Evidently, Adrian and Mary lived and farmed on another tract on the next bank on Great Pipe Creek. Adrian was buried on this tract in a family cemetery. Mary Hagerman and Isaac Runyon then sold this other tract to Jacob Stimmelli with one stipulation: "excepting the five Perches of land parted in for a graveyard where Adrian Hagerman lies buried, standing and being on the premises with the Egress and Regress to and from the said graveyard for them, the said Mary Hagerman, Geertje Runyon, Isaac Runyon, and their heirs." By the 1800s, Isaac, Charity and their children had left Maryland and lived in Montgomery County, Virginia. Mary may have died and also may have been buried in that Maryland cemetery. Does that cemetery still exist? Jacob Stimmelli, the owner, wrote in his will that this plantation was to be sold one year after the decease of the testator by his son. The son failed to sell after one year, so the other heirs sold the land to John Whitehill on 21 June 1810. The deed has no mention of the cemetery. Source: Land Record WR-2 and Land Record WR37, Frederick County, Maryland.
Does anyone know anything about this cemetery, and does it still exist?