Mary ZENTMYER ??

Notes:

Mary is an enigma. She does not show up in the early census records as a child of Christopher and Barbara, she is not listed with the known children in Christopher's will, and she is not listed as a descendant in Robert Anderson Zentmyer's hand-written genealogy charts from 1904, although she is cryptically noted in the margin as "Old Aunt Mary Zentmyer? who lived with Jacob at the mountain." Mary was living with Jacob s/o David s/o Christopher in the 1850 census. She is buried in Burns Hill Cemetery in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania near this Jacob Zentmyer and his wife Susan Ditch. There is a small but much later stone near Mary's original stone which reads "Aunt." While this could mean Mary was a daughter of Christopher, it is more likely she was taken in by Jacob and Susan and adopted their surname.



"Gary- Mary Zentmyer on same Lot as Jacob and Susan Ditch Zentmyer. Stone broken and laying down flat. Only a part of the stone left. My earlier record and picture shows, 'in memory of Mary Zentmyer who died Feb. 19th 1851 in the 74th year of her age.' Grass grown over her stone, I had to remove."
Dorothy Zentmyer Jones, 2008