Join Poolesville Seniors and Glenn Wallace to participate in a discussion of the Montgomery County Cemetery Inventory. This ambitious project documented the existence of and the historic, cultural, and artistic value of every cemetery in the county. Glenn will describe the process of coordinating the volunteers who visited and assessed 324 known cemeteries throughout the county. The resulting inventory is vital to the county planners’ ability to track and protect these burial grounds from development for future generations.
Glenn Wallace, a cemetery archivist from Montgomery Village, merged his love of genealogy and history in his 33–year commitment to researching cemeteries and their social significance. His past 14 years were dedicated to archiving the Monocacy Cemetery in Beallsville, Montgomery County. His work includes mapping the burial ground, photographing gravestones, researching the family trees of every person buried there, and creating a complete digital database that will benefit not only the cemetery itself, but also those interested in researching their relatives who came from this area.