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.

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Find a cemetery, understand its 1877 election district, protect fragile markers, or help expand the project.

Historic map + cemetery locations

Interactive Rectified Lower Shore Map

See Somerset cemetery locations on the 1877 Lower Shore map aligned with modern roads and satellite imagery. The map also shows the historic election districts referenced throughout the cemetery listings, making it much easier to understand where a burial site was located in 1877.

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Burial Site Stewardship

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

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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

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 · 1877 Atlas map: Fairmount District No. 6

Lost to erosion; historical records preserved

Barbon Grave New

Mt. Vernon area · 1877 Atlas map: Hungary Neck District No. 5

Single grave

Berry Cemetery New

Upper Fairmount · 1877 Atlas map: Fairmount District No. 6

Single marked grave

Costen Cemetery New

Costen Station · 1877 Atlas map: Dublin District No. 4

Displaced stones; location estimated

Cottman Stones — Displaced Memorial New

Cokesbury / Costen Station · 1877 Atlas map: Dublin District No. 4

Father-and-son memorial removed from its original location; exact gravesite unknown

George Cullen Home Place New

Peyton / Crisfield · 1877 Atlas map: Lawson’s District No. 8

One marked grave and one unidentified brick grave

Culver Cemetery New

Perryhawkin / Five Bridges Road · 1877 Atlas map: Dublin District No. 4

Davis Cemetery New

Princess Anne · 1877 Atlas map: Princess Anne District No. 1

Located on Cedar Lane Farm

Davy Cemetery New

Fairmount Neck / Upper Fairmount · 1877 Atlas map: Fairmount District No. 6

Three unmarked brick graves

Disharoon-Related Graves

Various Lower Eastern Shore locations · 1877 Atlas map: multiple district maps

Hosted by the Wicomico Cemeteries Project

Dixon Cemetery New

Marion Station · 1877 Atlas map: Brinkley's District No. 3

Dykes Cemetery New

Five Bridges Road / Perryhawkin · 1877 Atlas map: Dublin District No. 4

French Cemetery New

Frenchtown · 1877 Atlas map: Fairmount District No. 6

Includes unmarked vaults

Gale Cemetery New

Pine Pole Road, historic Monie (modern Venton) · 1877 Atlas map: Dames Quarter District No. 2

One known burial site with a footstone

Harrington Farm Cemetery New

Five Farms Road, Mt. Vernon / Widgeon area · 1877 Atlas map: Hungary Neck District No. 5

Single worn grave marker

Harris - Overton Cemetery Updated

Mt. Vernon · 1877 Atlas map: Hungary Neck District No. 5

One surviving stone; vandalism documented

Hopkins Cemetery New

Mt. Vernon · 1877 Atlas map: Hungary Neck District No. 5

Exact location withheld at property owner request

Johnson–Tilghman Cemetery New

Upper Hill / Upper Fairmount · 1877 Atlas map: Fairmount District No. 6

Photographic grave inventory; not a complete transcription

King Cemetery New

Revell's Neck · 1877 Atlas map: Princess Anne District No. 1

One surviving broken slab

Laird Cemetery New

Little Creek, historic Monie (modern Venton) · 1877 Atlas map: Dames Quarter District No. 2

Lankford Cemetery New

West Post Office / East Princess Anne · 1877 Atlas map: Princess Anne District No. 1

Partial listing; two surviving markers, additional burials likely

Leach Cemetery New

Lower Fairmount / Landonville · 1877 Atlas map: Fairmount District No. 6

Zadock Long Cemetery New

Princess Anne · 1877 Atlas map: Princess Anne District No. 1

Includes related will images

Maddux–Miles Cemetery New

Upper Fairmount / Clinton Bozman Road · 1877 Atlas map: Fairmount District No. 6

Some inscriptions damaged or incomplete

Marsh Cemetery Updated

Mt. Vernon · 1877 Atlas map: Hungary Neck District No. 5

Dr. Miles Cemetery New

Fairmount / Clinton Bozman Road · 1877 Atlas map: Fairmount District No. 6

Two marked graves and additional unmarked burials

Newman Cemetery New

Venton (historic Monie) · 1877 Atlas map: Dames Quarter District No. 2

Noble Cemetery New

Historic Monie (modern Venton) · 1877 Atlas map: Dames Quarter District No. 2

Palmetto Cemetery Updated

Palmetto · 1877 Atlas map: Princess Anne District No. 1

Old Manokin Presbyterian Church site

Elias Parks Cemetery New

Hewitt Ford Road, Fairmount area · 1877 Atlas map: Fairmount District No. 6

Unidentified footstone recorded

Patterson Cemetery New

Monie Woods (modern Venton area) · 1877 Atlas map: Dames Quarter District No. 2

Also includes Lawson, Miles, Smith, and Waller burials

Pearson Cemetery New

Upper Fairmount / Nevette Muir Road · 1877 Atlas map: Fairmount District No. 6

Phoebus Cemetery New

Oriole / St. Peter's Creek area · 1877 Atlas map: Dames Quarter District No. 2

Also includes Parks and Ross burials

Porter Cemetery New

Dublin Road / C. Boston Road · 1877 Atlas map: Dublin District No. 4

George R. Revell Cemetery New

Landonville · 1877 Atlas map: Fairmount District No. 6

Includes unmarked vaults; exact private-property location withheld

Somers Cemetery New

Champ / St. Peter's Creek area · 1877 Atlas map: Princess Anne District No. 1

Two marked graves plus unmarked graves and fieldstones

Townsend Cemetery New

West Post Office / Friendship Church · 1877 Atlas map: Princess Anne District No. 1

Trehearn Cemetery New

Perryhawkin / Five Bridges Road · 1877 Atlas map: Dublin District No. 4

Possible additional burials noted in family research

Tull Cemetery New

Quindocqua · 1877 Atlas map: Brinkley's District No. 3

Tyler Cemetery New

Geanquaking Woods, historic Monie (modern Venton) · 1877 Atlas map: Dames Quarter District No. 2

Union Church Cemetery New

Frenchtown / Fairmount–Rumbley Road · 1877 Atlas map: Fairmount District No. 6

Partial listing; twelve recorded graves

Waggaman-Riggin Family Cemetery Updated

Princess Anne / Jason area · 1877 Atlas map: Hungary Neck District No. 5

Formerly listed as Waterloo Country Inn Graveyard

Warwick Cemetery New

Westover / Old Princess Anne–Westover Road · 1877 Atlas map: Princess Anne District No. 1

Richard Ezekiel Waters Cemetery New

Fairmount Wildlife Area / Chambers Cove · 1877 Atlas map: Fairmount District No. 6

Three named burials and two unmarked graves

White Cemetery New

Drawbridge Road, historic Monie (modern Venton) · 1877 Atlas map: Dames Quarter District No. 2

Also includes Patterson and Price burials

Whitney Cemetery on Colebrook New

Champ / Colebrooke tract · 1877 Atlas map: Dames Quarter District No. 2

One inscribed grave plus fieldstone-marked burials

Williams Cemetery New

Upper Fairmount / Fishing Island Road · 1877 Atlas map: Fairmount District No. 6