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Mount Olivet Cemetery, located at 2930 Frederick Road, Baltimore, Maryland, was founded in 1845 and dedicated on 16 July 1849. It replaced an earlier cemetery located at Lombard and Paca Streets in downtown Baltimore. No records have survived from the old address, and no information about the original cemetery is known to exist. The records herein are not tombstone inscriptions, but rather the cemetery management records which have been transcribed and indexed by the author. These records give various data, including dates of death, burial, plot owners, dates of disinterment, sometimes dates of birth, parents, cause of death, and other data. A full-name index completes this work.

This volume includes data previously released under the titles, "Pastoral Records of Christ Reformed United Church of Christ, Middletown, Maryland, 1830-1996" and "A Time to Live and a Time to Die: A Census of the Graves and Stones in the Christ Reformed United Church of Christ Cemetery, Middletown, Maryland". It presents baptisms, marriages, death and burial data from the Christ Reformed United Church of Christ and tombstone readings from its old and new cemeteries.

This volume contains abstracts from original records located in the county clerk's office.

Accounts and inventories are included in this volume.

"The grave markers of Wicomico County are more than genealogical records. They are records of custom, fashion, economic conditions, even the twang of Wicomico County speech. "Through them the settlement and movement of families can be traced. Epidemics that swept the area. The storms that blasted it. The wars that plagued it. Through our grave markers is revealed much of the history of two hundred years of Wicomico County living as well as dying." "The earliest death in the county marked by a still readable inscription dates from 1739..." Most entries are from the 1800s. A full name index adds to the value of this work.

York County was established in 1749 from Lancaster County, and in 1800 Adams County was founded from York County. One must consider these dates when looking for the records. These abstracts contain the names of persons mentioned in wills: decedents, heirs, trustees, guardians, witnesses, executors, debtors and relatives. They also provide references to property being devised and dates the wills were written and proved. These wills were abstracted under the auspices of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in the early 1900s. Originally the abstracts were arranged in alphabetical order. In this version the entries have been re-arranged in chronological order.