Earlier this year, Shawn Ward, vice-president of our foundation and the superintendent of Green Mount Cemetery, wanted to honor a man he had befriended years ago and thought a memorial bench and…
Honoring Wayne R. Schaumburg
Baltimore’s Premier History Tour Guide For nearly forty-years, Wayne Schaumburg, a retired, local Baltimore public school teacher led tours through Baltimore’s historic Green Mount Cemetery from early spring through the fall. The…
Honoring Wayne Schaumburg
Baltimore’s Premier History Tour Guide For nearly forty-years, Wayne Schaumburg, a retired, local Baltimore public school teacher led tours through Baltimore’s historic Green Mount Cemetery from early spring through the fall. The…
Lt. Elizabeth Catherine (Riggs) Isely
U.S. Coast Guard Reserve, Sep 1942 – Jul 1947. Graduate of Trinity College in Washington, DC, the first Catholic liberal arts college for women in the country. Received her MA and PhD…
Pvt. Zadok Martin Shanaman
Co. F, 5th MD Volunteer Infantry Regiment Contracted “Spanish Fever” (Typhoid) while in camp in Tampa, FL and died at home in Baltimore on 25 Jul 1901. Painter and Artist by trade….
PFC Joseph Richard Winters
326th Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne. Operation “Husky” Allied invasion of Sicily, July 1943. Transferred to the 13th Airborne Division then held in reserve. Textile worker with the Celanese Corporation in Allegheny…
Tec 5 Roberts Barnard Wilt
“From the Beach to Bastogne” and beyond, the 24th Armored Engineers Battalion of the 4th Armored Division helped to pave the way to Allied victory in WWII. Enlisted 9 Jun 1942 in…
Brother Against Brother
Richard C. Cushing, Regimental Quartermaster, 11th MD Infantry Regiment, Union Army John Cushing, Jr., 1st Lt., Co. E., 1st MD Infantry Regiment, Confederate Army Sons of prominent Baltimore bookseller and merchant. Why…
The Versatile, Durable, Yet Controversial Straw
Mankind has been using some form of hollow tube, or straw, for nearly 7000 years, possibly longer, to consume beverages. In the beginning, straws were made from carved wood, reeds, and other…
Dr. Thomas Murray Getty (Lt. Col.)
Entered the U.S. Army as an Asst. Surgeon in 1849. Transferred to Fort Inge, Texas in February 1850, he would become the longest serving individual garrisoned at the fort, transferring out in…