Blankenship Cemetery

Off Point Road in Marion, there is a small, old graveyard that Plymouth County records refer to as the "Blankenship Cemetery", despite the fact that the surname found on the tombstones here is "Blankinship".

According to records, this graveyard was consecrated in 1787.
There are so many Blankinship tombstones both here and at the Old Landing cemetery in Marion - and yet, a quick perusal of the local "blue book" (the phone book for the Tri-Town area of Mattapoisett, Marion and Rochester) did not turn up any listed Blankenship or Blankinship families in the area.

If you are ever in Marion, check out this little graveyard - there honestly isn't more than a couple dozen stones, but there is an interesting network of paths behind the cemetery with hewn-log benches and memorial stones. The memorial paths behind the Blankenship Cemetery are part of a memorial project that the Sippican Lands Trust put together.