A joint project of Somerset County MDGenWeb and Shari Handley’s Eastern Shore Genealogy

The Somerset Cemeteries Project

Recording Somerset County cemeteries, graveyards, and family burying grounds before weather, vegetation, development, vandalism, and time erase the information they preserve.

This is a joint project of Somerset County MDGenWeb and Shari Handley’s Eastern Shore Genealogy. Volunteers have walked cemeteries throughout Somerset County and shared inscriptions, locations, photographs, and family information so they remain freely available to researchers.

How to contribute a cemetery transcription · In memory of James Russell Trader

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Find a transcription, protect a fragile burial site, or help expand the project.

Help Record a Cemetery

Many of these pages exist because volunteers took the time to document stones that might otherwise have been lost to deterioration or development.

Cemetery transcription guidelines

Burial Site Stewardship

Old markers can be surprisingly fragile. Learn appropriate conservation and documentation practices before cleaning, rubbing, resetting, or altering a stone.

Read the Coalition’s stewardship guide

Election Districts and Locations

District descriptions used in the cemetery directory follow Somerset County’s historic election-district system as shown in the 1877 Atlas.

View the 1877 outline map

In Memory of James Trader

The project remembers James Russell Trader for his remarkable work documenting and protecting Eastern Shore burial sites.

Read the memorial page

Cemetery Listings

Listings are arranged alphabetically. Some pages are complete transcriptions; others are partial surveys or family-graveyard records contributed by volunteers.