Kent Co., DE. Cemetery: Silver Lake Cemetery (African American) Partial ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Peggy Brooks-Ukpabi 28 August 2001 ************************************************************************ Silver Lake Cemetery (African American) Partial Kent County Delaware Comments: Some transcriptions from the Black cemetary named Silver Lake, located at the end of Washington Street, Dover, Delaware.Note: I only wrote names that were more than likely to be my relatives. There were many others. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- William O. Benson 1896-1962 (66 yrs old) Samuel Benson 1865-1908 (43 yrs old) Wife-Castilla Benson (white) 1873-1935 (62 yrs old) Mary Agnes Benson 5/17/1870-2/16/1928 (58 yrs old) Wife of Joseph Benson Joseph T. Benson 1868-1948 (80 yrs old) Mary B. Bailey 1902-1978 Jacob Crom Died 1922 Augustus Wharton,Jr Delaware Pvt.811, Pioneer Infantry, died July 8, 1931 Charles Turner, Delaware Pvt 63, Pioneer Inf, Died Sept 21, 1943 Elizabeth M. Waters Born 3-25-1886 Died 6-17-1909 Maggie Wade 1864-1922 Selmer Stevenson 1889-1924 George Heath 1864-1924 Maggie Collins 1890-1918 Wife of William Collins Herbert D.Mason Son of C.G and Catherine Mason Born 4-3-1905-Died 7-11-1914 Benjamin Connor Born 5-9-1854 Died 8-14-1917 Elizabeth Coker 3-3-1888