Note: This post was originally published in the Stickneys of Texas Newsletter in Fall 2013.

This last visit to Baltimore was primarily for the lovely wedding of Meghan Gordon, daughter of Beverly and Doug Gordon to David Melson of Annapolis, Maryland. They were married just below Federal Hill at the Visual Arts Museum, not far from Fort McHenry. This turned into another emotional journey to Baltimore watching my God-child get married in the same town where her fourth great-grandparents, Henry Stickney and Lydia Wells Fearson married on Sept. 6, 1810, and her fifth great-grandparents, Jesse Fearson and Hannah (Young) Wells, married on May 28, 1791. During this visit several of us went to Old St. Paul’s cemetery and viewed Jesse Fearson’s new grave monument. We were elated to see people from the Sons and Daughters of the Revolution, who along with the University of Maryland plan to inventory, clean up the grounds and restore many markers. I will be submitting Jesse’s story to a gentleman from the Sons of the Revolution who is doing research on those buried in the historic cemetery.