Hungary Road Baptist Church, located at 1733 Hungary Road, has a small cemetery to one side. That cemetery was part of the old North Run Baptist Church that moved to 2100 Lydell Drive, around 1959. The cemetery was founded circa 1910 and contains a handful of marked burials.I met an older member of Hungary Road Baptist who was tending to the cemetery one evening. His idea of caring for the graves were removing any stone that "fell over." Because of his policy, anyone with a flat tombstone has had their marker piled up beside a tree. The man was not meaning any harm. I think he felt that he was keeping the cemetery presentable.
It has been awhile since I went to the site but I need to go back and document the remaining stones. I think the North Run Baptist folks should take more responsibility for their former congregationalists buried at the cemetery. These folks were members of the church between circa 1910 and 1959 - a lot of parents and grandparents of current members, I am sure of it.The only names I have recorded are:
George H. Waldrop 04/30/1845 - 01/03/1904
Jacintha C. Waldrop 09/04/1845 - 02/08/1914
Martha Brock Waldrop 12/08/1826 - 12/07/1915
I moved this post here from another site I had and it contained the following comments:
I visited this cemetery yesterday and have listed the graves on Find A Grave.
You can check out the graves at the following link:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GScid=2211467
Surnames include Brock, Karns, Matthews, Palmore, Valentine, Wakefield and Waldrop.
Thanks a lot for passing on the information. From the photos here, it seems that someone may have cleaned up the cemetery a bit since I was there last.
Thanks for the great work you're doing. There is a real need to preserve and chronicle small and relatively unknown cemeteries. Often the uniqueness of the grave stones and the history of those burried in these cemeteries seems to be forgotten. At least we can use online blogs and online memorials to recapture and make available the interesting lives of those who came before us.