Exhibits are evidence of the historical significance of
Peter Studebaker
Studebaker-Long Cemetery
The remains of over 100 descendants of the Studebaker family and The Long Family are in this family cemetery, including Peter, Heinrick and Clement Studebecker. We are researching the information to match and add headstones to all family members and others buried here.
"There is a romantic, nostalgic, pleasantly melancholy feeling to old cemeteries that is hard to define but easy to experience. Perhaps it is because we can feel the direct link to our past that no history book, no movie, no historical fantasy can ever convey. These stones and these unkempt grounds are the hard evidence of lives that came before us. Once, these people lived and breathed, loved, worked, fought, hoped and despaired, and experienced their triumphs and failures just as we do today. And although we seldom care to acknowledge it we will enevitably go where they have gone."
The Chesapeake Book of the Dead: Tomestones, Epitaphs, Reflections and Oddments of the Region