I was checking on records of my relatives interred at Mount Moriah Baptist Cemetery in Smithfield and realized that only the relatives of well-marked headstones were on their records. I am 79 and have visited the Cemetery multiple times over my life, mostly with my mother, and know where all her family members are interred. I currently live in Florida, but grew up in Belle Vernon in Westmoreland Co and return occassionally for high school class reunions.
Last year I took time to visit Mt.Moriah and found the family graves in poor condition with English Ivy or low tree branches covering or brushing the stones. Also, I realized that the older ones that are carved from limestone are so old that they no longer can be read. These are the ones that are not on the Cemetery registry and perhaps among the oldest in the Cemetery. They are just down from the corner at the far north east edge, near the old narrow entrance that is next to Main St. In addition to the tall marker, there are also 2 small individual headstones for each grave, all surrounded by a short cement barrier marking the entire plot.
They are my great great grand parents. William Bosley (originally from Baltimore) was a wagoner who delivered items from Baltimore to Uniontown and this is noted in the Fayette County History Book sold at Amish Stores.
The vertical marker noting both occupants reads on one side:
They owned 2 farms that still exist. One at the north end of Smithfield, later given to a child and is today split by 119/Main Street with the house on the west side and other buildings and land on the east side toward the foothills. Their second farm, as of last year was owned by a beauty shop operator (shop is to the left of the house) and is several miles down Old Frame Rd off 119. This farm later passed to my Great Grand Parents, both also buried at Mt. Moriah. They are on the registery and have a granite joint stone about half way down the hill from the above.
I visited the Cemetery in 2003 with my mother Lena Clarissa (Eckert) Watts, 3 years prior to her death in March 2006.(B: Aug 2, 1910) and she is buried at Rehoboth Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Belle Vernon as is her mother (my grand mother) Blanche E. (Bosley) Eckert. In 2003 I took pictures of all the headstones at Mt Moriah when they were still legible.
Others buried at Mt.Moriah are an infant son of Aaron and Lydia. In 2003 this headstone was only slightly vertically cracked at the base in 2 places but was upright and mostly legible. It faced uphill, had a carved lamb at the top and read:
Last year this stone had disappeared, possibly knocked over and buried under a huge mass of English Ivy at the north edge of the cemetery. An older brother's stone next to it was also half covered in Ivy which I managed to pull away, but has no doubt regrown unless the newly formed Friends of Mt. Moriah have since addressed it. I plan to also contact them and will hopefully be visiting Aug 21-24 later this week.
So that gives you some genealogical history of the Bosley's of Smithfield. I hope this info is helpful but also serves to properly record some of my family's history. Not many are left in the area who have this info.