. Book of the Royal blue . west ofWestminster, Carroll county, Md., whichcity is twenty-eight miles northwest of Bal-timore. The homes of many of the earliestMethodists in America are in that region. Strawbridge resided sixteen years at hisdwelling on Sams Creek. He then re-moved to Long Green, Baltimore county,which is nearer Baltimore city, and locatedon a farm given him during his life byCapt. Charles Ridgely. This home is inthe immediate \ icinity of Hampton, thenoted colonial house of the Ridgely 1781, while at the home of Mr. JohnWheeler, Strawbridge died, and RichardOwings, on
. Book of the Royal blue . west ofWestminster, Carroll county, Md., whichcity is twenty-eight miles northwest of Bal-timore. The homes of many of the earliestMethodists in America are in that region. Strawbridge resided sixteen years at hisdwelling on Sams Creek. He then re-moved to Long Green, Baltimore county,which is nearer Baltimore city, and locatedon a farm given him during his life byCapt. Charles Ridgely. This home is inthe immediate \ icinity of Hampton, thenoted colonial house of the Ridgely 1781, while at the home of Mr. JohnWheeler, Strawbridge died, and RichardOwings, one of his first converts, preachedhis funeral sermon under an immense wal-nut tree in the yard of the dwelling. Hisbody was interred in the orchard on thisplace, which is about eight miles north ofBaltimore, but in later years was removedto Mt. 01i\et Cemetery, on the Frederickroad, north of this cit>. There a handsomemonument marks the final resting place ofthis pioneer in Amerjcan Methodism. LANDMARKS OF METHODISM. V?,. NEW COnUT HOUSK, BALTIMORE. The naming of Mt. Olivet Cemeteryleads us at once to the recital of the namesof other notable characters whose bodiesare side by side in this spot. Loominghigh above the many names that shine outin the annals of early Methodism, standsthat of Francis Asbury, the real organizerand founder of the Methodist EpiscopalChurch in America, if this distinction canbe attributed to any one man. Sunday,Maxch ,U, 1816, this truly heroic and loftycharacter died at Fredericksburg, Va., afterforty-five years spent in the work of advanc-ing Methodism in this country. He wasburied by those who were with him, in thefamily burying ground of George weeks later the General Conferencemet in Baltimore, and on the first day anaddress was presented from the male mem-bers of the church in this city, asking theprivilege of removing the remains of BishopAsbury from the place where they had beenburied to Baltimore. Their request wasgranted, and Rev
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