Following are a few sites with connections to our family around the country. The list starts in New England, continues down the eastern seaboard, across to Tennessee and ending in Texas and Utah. You can refer to the other sections of the site to learn more about the people and stories in each area. You can also use the website search function to find out more about the location and ancestor.
If you visit family graves the links to Findagrave website are helpful. There you will get directions to the cemeteries. You can also search for the ancestor by name at each cemetery and bring up an image of the grave marker and sometimes the location within the cemetery.
Massachusetts
William Bradford (Fike ancestor) Mayflower Passenger grave marker at Burial Hill in Plymouth MA.
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/310849/burial-hill
Joseph Rogers (Fike Ancestor) Mayflower Passenger – Buried at Old Cove Burying Ground Eastham, MA.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8633/joseph-rogers
While in Plymouth don’t miss the Pilgrim Hall Museum https://pilgrimhall.org/visit.htm the Plimoth Patuxet Museums https://plimoth.org/ and many other sites around Plymouth Bay
National Monument to the Forefathers, formerly known as the Pilgrim Monument, commemorates the Mayflower Pilgrims. Located on an 11 acre hilltop site on Allerton Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts, this impressive 81-foot-tall granite statue stands to honor those who arrived here nearly 400 years ago in 1620.
https://familypedia.fandom.com/wiki/National_Monument_to_the_Forefathers
Richard Mann farmhouse (Townsend ancestor): The Mann Farmhouse and Historical Museum is a unique historical property in that its construction spans nearly three centuries. It is at 108 Greenfield Lane, Scituate, MA and open to the public. In the cellar may be seen the original foundation of field stones which dates back to the late 1600’s. The main house that now stands was built during the latter 1700’s on the original foundation. It is a typical full Cape with a large central chimney. The wing was added in 1825 and served as a summer kitchen, storage area and workshop.
https://scituatehistoricalsociety.org/historic_property/mann-house/
The Wheeler-Merriam House (or “Elm Brook Farm”) – Thomas Wheeler – Townsend ancestor: is an historic house at 477 Virginia Road in Concord, MA. The house was built in 1692 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler-Merriam_House
The Old Hadley Cemetery in Hadley MA Burial site of Nathaniel Dickenson (Fike ancestor), our distant cousin link to the poet Emily Dickinson.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17951920/nathaniel-dickinson
Just outside the public library in Springfield MA is a bronze stature of our ancestor Deacon Samuel Chapin that was erected in the 19th century by one of his descendants.
Robert Crossman (Fike ancestor) Taunton, Mass. Plain Cemetery
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/166703615/robert-crossman
Connecticut
The old Church Graveyard in downtown Hartford, CT Founders Monument to see the names of several Fike ancestors who were original founders of Hartford: John and Agnes Webster, Thomas and Alice Welles, Matthew and Elizabeth Marvin, John and Rachel Steele, Thomas and Elizabeth Judd, John and Dorothy Tallcott
Rhode Island
Obidiah Holmes Grave – (Townsend – Price ancestor) – Middleton Rhode Island
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19730766/obadiah-holmes
New York
William Salmon (Townsend ancestor) Old Burying Ground of First Presbyterian Church Southold, Suffolk County, New York, Find A Grave Memorial# 7592098
Philipse Manor and Mill (Fike ancestor) – Yonkers, NY
https://parks.ny.gov/historic-sites/37/details.aspx
Pennsylvania
Townsend Family Graves: Samuel (Revolutionary War soldier) and Elizabeth Scott and Jonathan Phillips are all buried in Carnegie, PA just outside of Pittsburgh
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1991295/union-cemetery
Virginia
Gloucester, Virginia:
Reverend James Clack (Townsend – Burford ancestor) church and gravesite Ware Episcopal Church, 7825 John Clayton Memorial Highway, Gloucester, Virginia
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8271012/james-clack
Jamestown:
When visiting Jamestown you can visit some of sites of our early Virginia settlers. The biographies of these ancestors can be found by following the Fike Virginia Ancestors link on this website. If you are coming from the North take Interstate 295 East of Richmond and follow the directions from the link below to visit Malvern Hills Cemetery and the graves of Richard Coke and Temperance Bailey. This is one of the oldest Fike family gravesites in America:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5557280/richard-cocke
From Malvern Hills continue on to Jamestown. While visiting Jamestown look for exhibits that mention the following:
Thomas Wotton (Townsend ancestor) – When you visit look for information on Thomas Wotton, a doctor, was born in England 1585, died in Virginia 1669. Came to Jamestown, VA as physician with Capt. John Smith, 1607 in the first group of colonists.
Cicely Reynolds (Fike ancestor) Came to Jamestown as a child in 1610
When you leave Jamestown drive North and East on the Colonial Parkway to the Archers Hope marker (link below). when you look to the North you will see where Thomas and Lady Jane Sefton Farley (Fike ancestor) had their tobacco plantation.
https://historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMKSN_archers-hope_Williamsburg-VA.html
Next drive back toward Jamestown and take the ferry across to the south side of the James River.
The first stop will be St Luke’s Church and Museum – Burial site of Joseph Bridger (Fike ancestor). His bones were exhumed and are now in the collection of the Smithsonian. This is the oldest church still standing in Virginia. The Bridger monuments are in the chancel.
While on the South side of the river continue on to visit historical markers mentioning Temperance Bailey, Cecily Reynolds, and Abraham Wood
Bailey’s Creek Marker https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=17731
Cecily Reynolds Marker https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=18749
Abraham Wood Marker https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=1994
Nathaniel Basse – Townsend ancestor:
Basse’s Choice Plantation marker. This marker is on Virginia Route 10 just south of the intersection with 1402, on the left when traveling south. On the south side of the James River.
Basse’s Choice Marker https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=2678
Tennessee
John and Rachel Donelson – (Fike ancestor) Pioneers to Central Tennessee – Daughter Rachel married President Andrew Jackson (we’re descended from Rachel’s sister). They are buried in the churchyard on Jackson’s plantation “The Hermitage”.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6639237/john-donelson
John Farley, Jr. (1751-1816) Revolutionary War Patriot Grave:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57413870/john-farley
Texas
Callcott Burial Locations
John Ireland died 1895 in Zorn, Texas and Isabella died 1902 in Gonzales, Texas. They are both buried in the Lockhart Municipal Burial Park on the Northeast side of Lockhart, Texas near US Highway 183.
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1761646/lockhart-municipal-burial-park
George and Mary Callcott are buried in the Rose Hill Memorial Park Cemetery in Corpus Christi, Texas
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/6458/rose-hill-memorial-park
Herbert and Minter McCracken Callcott are buried in the Sabinal Cemetery, Sabinal, Texas; 2 miles east of town on the north side of Hwy 90.
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/6548/sabinal-cemetery
George H. Callcott and Estelle Anne Vann are interred in the mausoleum at the Garden of Memories Cemetery in Kerrville, Texas.
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2743466/garden-of-memories-cemetar
Vann Burial Locations
Alfred and Delila Bishop, the in-laws of Wilson Wade Vann, are buried in Center Point Cemetery, Center Point, Texas.
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2849/center-point-cemetery
Wilson Wade and Margaret Vann are buried in The Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, Texas.
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/5704/oakwood-cemetery
Malachi Weston is buried in the Mountain View Cemetery in Kerrville, Texas and
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/5452/mountain-view-cemetery
John William Vann is buried in the San Jose Burial Park in San Antonio, Texas.
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/6696/san-jose-burial-park
Willliam Walter and Gabrielle Tacquard Vann, Caroline Scott Weston, and Julia Blanche Scott Weston Vann are buried in the Glen Rest Cemetery in Kerrville, Texas
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/3817/glen-rest-cemetery
Jacques and Faustine Tacquard and Faustine’s parents Alexandre and Mary Ann Bouthery are buried in the Hitchcock Cemetery, Hitchcock, Texas
Townsend Family Cemetery Locations
Asa and Rebecca Harper Townsend are in the Borden Cemetery East of Weimar, Texas on Highway 90.
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2307699/borden-cemetery
Moses Townsend Sr. and Anne Hervey Townsend Grace are in the Grace Cemetery with Anne’s mother Rebecca Burford Hervey
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/3871/grace-cemetery
This cemetery is located on private property owned by the Schobel family at 1664 Shaws Bend Road in Columbus, Colorado County, Texas. Please ask permission before exploring this cemetery! The cemetery is located about 50 yards south of Fitzgerald Cemetery (also on Schobel property), on the edge of the woods behind the pole barn nearest to Shaws Bend Road. It is narrowly enclosed by a chain link fence. Only 3 headstones are easily accessible & legible; another 3-4 headstones are buried; and 1 headstone is illegible.
Moses Townsend, Jr. and Mary Fink Townsend McCutchen are in the Hallettsville City Cemetery.
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/641455/hallettsville-city-cemetery
Their graves are in the southeast corner of the cemetery, on your immediate right when you drive in the east entrance.
Augustus and Velma Fisher Townsend and her parents George and Alice Fisher in Section 12 Whispering Pines of the forest Park Cemetery in Houston, Texas
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/156472/forest-park-cemetery
Donald and Beth Townsend are in the Garden of Memories Cemetery in Kerrville, Texas
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/3758/garden-of-memories-cemetery
Johann and Louisa Maria Eilers Fink are in the Old La Grange Cemetery on the north edge of the cemetery in the middle of the block.
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2275411/old-la-grange-city-cemetery?
Earley, Price, and Lawrence Cemetery Locations
Charles and Elizabeth Lawrence and Norman “Lit” Earley
East Sandy Cemetery, New Waverly Texas. The cemetery is 5 miles west of I-45 on FM 1374. This photo shows the locations of the graves.
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/897998/east-sandy-cemetery
Norman’s wife Elizabeth Lawrence Earley is buried in the Conroe Memorial Park cemetery. Link below:
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/3014/conroe-memorial-park?
Moye “Red” Earley and Liz Price Earley are both buried in the Garden of Memories cemetery in Kerrville, Texas
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/3758/garden-of-memories-cemetery?
Edmund and Elizabeth Price and their son George and his wife Margaret are all buried in the Eutaw cemetery in Kosse, Texas.
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/3467/eutaw-cemetery?
Jimmy Price and his wife Mattie are at the Kosse cemetery
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/4674/kosse-cemetery
Utah
If you visit family graves the links to Findagrave website are helpful. You can use the links at the cemetery get and directions to the burial locations. You can also search for the ancestor by name and bring up an image of the grave marker and sometimes the location within the cemetery.
Salt Lake City
- Bust of Emmeline B. Wells – Northwest niche of the state capitol building rotunda
- Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Museum – displays of pioneer artifacts of our ancestors – North Main St by the state capitol
- Elizabeth Andrew Fike house former of Almond and Apricot streets near the DUP museum
- Museum of church history and art on West Temple across from temple square – paintings of ancestors
- The Cannon farm. Several houses are still standing on the west side of 1000 West St., immediately South of California Ave. (1330 South). Refer to the section on Utah Pioneers for photos and more detailed descriptions.
Ogden
- Union Station – Both of my grandfathers worked there. Daniel Lowe worked in the baggage area on the North side of the building
- Daniel and Elaine Lowe house at 1143 Capitol St.
Fike Family Graves
West Weber Cemetery: Daniel McLane, Elizabeth Smith, Charles Hogg, Sr., Ann Stanger, Zedok Lowe, Mary Agnes Hogg
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/77504/west-weber-cemetery
Ogden City Cemetery: William Lowe, Nannie Farley (headstone is not visible)
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/77368/ogden-city-cemetery
South Ogden – Washington Heights Memorial Park Cemetery: Daniel M. Lowe, Elaine Peterson
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/77497/washington-heights-memorial-park
Salt Lake City Cemetery: George Q. Cannon, Elizabeth Hoagland, John Q. Cannon, Annie Wells, Abraham Hoagland, Margaret Hoagland, Daniel H. Wells, Emmeline B. Wells, Frederick Andrew, Elizabeth Whitaker Andrew, Richard S W Andrew, Jonah Croxall, Eliza Orgill Croxall, Mary Croxall Andrew, Richard D. Andrew, Louise Cannon Andrew, Elizabeth Andrew Fike, John Edgar Fike, Patricia Lowe Fike
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/77424/salt-lake-city-cemetery
City View Mortuary, near the Salt Lake City Cemetery: Henrietta Bellen, Ethel May McMonegal
1001 E. 11th Ave., Salt Lake City, Utah, 84103