History & local legend
Baughman Cemetery lies up a hollow past the Tyrone Sportsmen’s Lake in Blair County. Visitors’ stories describe sudden gusts among the graves even when the approach is calm. Under a full moon, people have reported hanging shapes in the trees and a white horse that pursues them through the cemetery.
The burial ground also preserves a local account of a man escaping slavery. Caretaker Jim Daughenbaugh told the Tyrone Area Historical Society that the man became ill while sheltered at a nearby farm and died before he could continue north.
Neighbors buried him beside the little church and left the grave unmarked, fearing that discovery could endanger his family. The cemetery grew behind the church, but after the building moved away, that patch of ground remained open so later burials would not disturb him.
