General Jeremiah Crabb

I'm posting for Boogieman who is stuck in meetings all afternoon. Last week he told me that he had found a little cemetary near his office building. He and I share a reverance and love for cemetaries, particularly old ones.

Yesterday, we went to check it out. Boogieman took the "big" camera while I waited in the warm car. I think that it's the best feeling to be alone in a cemetary, and after all, it was his "find."

This little patch of sacred ground has been preserved with a white rail fence, even as residential neighborhoods and office buildings have been built all around it. Truly special.

(all shots f/5.6, 50 mm, ISO-400)









General Jeremiah Crabb
Died 19th February 1800
in the 40th Year
of his Age.

From Wikipedia: Jeremiah Crabb (1760 - 1800) was a United States Representative from Maryland.

He was born in Montgomery County, Maryland, in 1760. He served in the American Revolutionary War as second lieutenant in the First Maryland Regiment. He promoted to the rank of first lieutenant on December 15, 1777 and served as such until April 1, 1778.

He resigned on that day because of ill health occasioned by the winter hardships endured at Valley Forge. He was an extensive landowner in Montgomery County. He served as general with General Harry Lee in Pennsylvania during the Whiskey Rebellion.

Crabb was elected as a Federalist to the Fourth Congress and served from March 4, 1795, until his resignation after June 1, 1796. He returned to his home near Rockville, Maryland, and died there in 1800. He was buried in the family burial site in Derwood.