Wicomico County MDGenWeb Genealogy and local history on Maryland’s Lower Eastern Shore

Cemetery transcriptions and preservation

The Paul J. Willing Wicomico Cemeteries Project

Recording Wicomico 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 Wicomico County MDGenWeb and Shari Handley’s Eastern Shore Genealogy Project. Volunteers have walked cemeteries throughout the county and shared thousands of inscriptions so they remain freely available to researchers. A companion project covers Somerset County cemeteries.

In memory of Paul J. Willing · How to contribute a cemetery transcription

The Paul J. Willing Wicomico Cemeteries Project

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Locate cemeteries, protect fragile markers, or help expand the project.

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Wicomico County Map Room

An outstanding interactive cemetery map showing the locations of known cemeteries, graveyards, and burying grounds throughout Wicomico County.

Open the Cemetery Map Room

Protect the stones

Burial Site Stewardship

Please do not put shaving cream, chalk, flour, or other substances on a gravestone. Never clean, scrape, or alter a marker simply to make an inscription easier to read. Rubbings require permission and should never be attempted on fragile or damaged stones.

Read the Coalition’s Stewardship Guide

Volunteer

Help record a cemetery

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

Cemetery transcription guidelines

Hosted by the Wicomico Cemeteries Project

Cemetery Transcriptions

These cemetery pages are maintained within the Wicomico Cemeteries Project. Locations and district information are shown beside each link.

More Wicomico cemetery transcriptions

These valuable transcriptions are hosted on other researchers’ websites. They remain part of this directory so researchers can find the fullest possible coverage.

Cindy’s Delmarva Genealogy — 41 cemetery links

Visit Cindy’s Delmarva Genealogy home page. Cindy has worked extensively to record Wicomico-area graveyards.

David Insley’s cemetery pages — 26 cemetery links

Visit David Insley’s cemetery site, another substantial source of Wicomico cemetery information.

A cemetery is a historic site, not a craft project

Old stone can be surprisingly fragile. The Coalition to Protect Maryland Burial Sites advises against applying foreign substances to markers and specifically warns that chalk and shaving cream can damage stone over time. Before cleaning, resetting, rubbing, or otherwise working on a marker, learn appropriate conservation practices and obtain any required permission.

The Coalition’s Guide to Burial Site Stewardship