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Historical Society have been working - on and off - for several years and have now built a thick file of names and dates of birth and death, with cemetery locations and some notes such as “son of...” etc. The Society’s record is a single-spaced file thirty and one-half pages long.
Many of the Society’s volunteers have contributed to building this file, as have visitors who, while stopping by to look into family records, contribute a nugget of information about deaths and burials.
Mr. Kerrick of Lodge #78 has also been trying to make sense of the tangle. He lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia, but makes the drive to Washington once or twice a week on Lodge business - much of it concerning the cemetery.
Two years ago Mr. Kerrick, as he puts it, “had the place rodded”. That is, he arranged for a burial ground specialist come to Washington and drive rods into each doubtful plot to discover whether there was indeed a coffin beneath the grass. There are many plots throughout the four acres that bear no marking at all. Mr. Kerrick counts 59 plots he considers empty, but notes there is no guarantee that the place is vacant.
If approached, he says, by a complete stranger wanting
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