In October 2009 my husband and I took ten days and drove from Oklahoma to the Eastern Shore of Maryland to visit the state from which my great grandfather Ashby Turpin came. It was an enlightening, enjoyable trip, although very, very wet.
Below is a video I made while visiting the graveyard at St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Quantico, Maryland. Quantico is a beautiful place with lovely old homes. The cemetery at St. Philip's has been well maintained. I was overwhelmed with emotion while visiting the graves of my great great grandparents and related ancestors.
One problem: when uploading my video to YouTube, the captioning failed. Pictures of people I included in the video are those of my great great grandfather, Thomas James Turpin, my great great grandmother, Ellmandia Kennerly Turpin, and scans of their death certificates. There is also a group shot of Ellmandia Kennerly Turpin with some of her children and their spouses included in this video.
The headstones are self-explanatory except for the small markers of the actual burial spots. "Father" is Thomas James Turpin; "Mother" is Ellmandia Kennerly Turpin. "Z. F." is Zenophine Kennerly Farrington; "W. F." is William Farrington.
If you scroll back through my postings on the Cherry Walk blog, there is a lot of information for some of the people buried at St. Philip's.
Also, I took pictures of some headstones because those people or their families were mentioned in letters written my my great grand uncle, Carl Julian Turpin. If you are related to this branch of the Turpins or Kennerlys or the extended family, I will be happy to share information with you.
If you are descended from people who lived on the Eastern Shore of Maryland I urge you to visit at least once in your lifetime. What a lovely place!
