Headstones knocked over at historic Episcopal church in Md.
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Version 0 of 1. More than two dozen headstones were knocked over at a historic church in Maryland. The vandalized gravestones were discovered Saturday evening at St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church on St. Thomas Church Road in Croom. “When I came out here Saturday night I was very, very disheartened to see all these tombstones toppled over,” said Steve Kensinger, senior warden of the church. “It’s unfathomable that someone could come in and do this.” “We do pray for the individuals that did this, that they might see the errors of their way and turn themselves in and hopefully learn a very serious life lesson,” Kensinger said. The church, which is a county historic site and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is the second-oldest continuously operating church and cemetery in the county, Prince George’s County police said. Some of the vandalized markers were first erected in the 1800s, according to police. The graves at the church date to the mid-1740s, according to the parish’s website. Some buried in the cemetery include soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, said Prince George’s County Police Chief Hank Stawinski. “This is a matter that the Prince George’s County Police Department is taking very seriously,” Stawinski said. |