Mount Olivet Cemetery in western

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is a historic

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dating back into the middle 1800s, known as ''"The Resting Place of

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."''Lovely Lane United Methodist Church: ''Mt. Olivet'', http://lovelylane.net/home/mt-olivet/, accessed 22 Dec 2013.

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Bishops

Francis Asbury Francis Asbury (August 20 or 21, 1745 – March 31, 1816) was a British-American Methodist minister who became one of the first two bishop (Methodist), bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. During his 45 years in the col ...

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Beverly Waugh Beverly Waugh (1789–1858) was an American who was a Methodist pastor, book agent, and Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1836. Birth and early years Waugh was born on October 28, 1789, in Fairfax County, Virginia, the son o ...

are all buried here, as well as

leaders Jesse Lee,

Robert Strawbridge Robert Strawbridge (born 1732 - died 1781) was a Methodist preacher born in Drumsna, County Leitrim, Ireland. Early life and ancestral history Information detailing the early life of Robert Strawbridge is somewhat limited. One article, Robe ...

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E. Stanley Jones and Mabel Lossing Jones.Barbara Neel Blizzard, Ron Baublitz, and Donna Weiss: ''Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland, Yesterday and Today'', http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bjblitzen/Rowles/MountOlivet/MtOlivetCemetery.html, accessed 22 Dec 2013. The cemetery has fallen victim to significant

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, with many grave monuments pushed over face-down from their bases, broken, or completely missing.

Notable interments

* Annette Smith Burgess – medical illustrator * Richard Potts * Anna Mullikin (1893–1975), American PhD mathematician and early investigator of point set theory Green, Judy, Jeanne LaDuke: Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD’s. 2009,

References

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