Somerset Cemeteries Project
Somerset Cemeteries Project

A joint project of Somerset County MDGenWeb and 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 · Interactive cemetery map

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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 Map & Gazetteer

Browse Ed Smith cemetery waypoints geographically, search by cemetery name, and open detailed SCP records as they are published.

Open the interactive cemetery map

Cemetery Listings

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

A Hill Cemetery New

Rumbley, Fairmount District #6

Lost to erosion; historical records preserved

Barbon Grave New

Mt. Vernon area, Hungary Neck District #5

Single grave; transcription, photograph, and map

Furniss Cemetery New

Mt. Vernon, Hungary Neck District #5

Two marked graves; transcription, photographs, and field notes

Harris - Overton Cemetery Updated

Mt. Vernon, Hungary Neck District #5

One surviving stone; vandalism note, transcription, photographs, and map

Hopkins Cemetery New

Mt. Vernon area, Somerset County, Maryland

Exact location withheld at property owner request; seven burials recorded, four photographs

Daniel Maddux Cemetery New

Upper Fairmount, Fairmount District #6

Transcription, photographs, and family notes

Marsh Cemetery Updated

Mt. Vernon, Hungary Neck District #5

Three marked graves; transcription, photographs, and map

Mt. Vernon Cemetery Updated

Mt. Vernon, Hungary Neck District #5

Original transcription by Joyce Fields Crouch; 2004 update and photographs by Ed Smith and Phil Goldsborough

David Revell Cemetery New

Fairmount, Fairmount District #6

Transcription, site photographs, gravestone photographs, and map