St. John’s Chapel is on Tilghman Island. A friend and I noticed quite a lot of children’s graves there on a recent visit.
This memorial to the children of one family is especially poignant:
In loving memory of the children of Perry and Ada K. Porter.
Ella J., aged 19 years.
Hattie B., aged 13 years.
Hazel K., aged 1. Infant son, born and died March 2, 1893. Katherine, aged 2.
Unfortunately, there’s no trace of these children on the U.S. census as they were born after 1880 and the 1890 census is unavailable. I didn’t find the family in 1900 or 1910. I think I found a widowed Perry living in Virginia in 1920. I couldn’t find evidence of any surviving children.
This church is noteworthy in one other respect. It was the location of a Kennedy wedding recently (article link may require subscription after the summer of 2011).
