Cullen Cemetery at Byrdtown

Byrdtown / Crisfield · Crisfield District No. 7 · Somerset County, Maryland

Site reference 911-QQ-23

The Cullen family burial ground is in low woods south of Calvary Road and east of Lloyd Webb Road, near Ware Point Marsh in the Byrdtown area. The January 1994 survey describes a heavily overgrown site with one surviving inscribed headstone, two initialed footstones, a headstone base, and a brick grave.

Phil Goldsborough reported that neighbors remembered additional graves at the site. The original survey associates the ground with the historic Bay Bush Hall tract but does not establish identities for the other burials.

Latitude37° 57′ 25″ N
Longitude75° 50′ 20″ W

Graves Recorded

Josiah S. Cullin

Transcription

[weeping willow]
Josiah S. Cullin
born Oct 19, 1836,
died Dec 31, 1868
Life is uncertain here below
And strange the world to which we go
[broken] and be forgiven

J. L. C. footstone

Footstone initials

J.L.C.

The original survey gives these initials without identifying the burial.

J. S. C. footstone

Footstone initials

J.S.C.

The original survey records these initials separately from the Josiah S. Cullin headstone.

Uninscribed brick grave

Field observation

No inscription recorded.

The survey reports a bricked grave; no name was established.

Cemetery and Research Notes

Local recollections described more burials than the surviving stones could establish. The survey also mentions Woodrow Wilson’s report of a James L. Cullen (1834–1866); this is not treated as a newly identified marker.

Phil and Candy Woodrow Cullen reached the overgrown site on foot on January 9, 1994. The recorded access conditions refer to that visit, not to present-day conditions.

Survey: Philip L. Goldsborough and Candy Woodrow Cullen, January 9, 1994. The source identifies the historic district as Crisfield District No. 7 (and later Asbury District No. 12).

Original Contributor Record

Original cemetery survey
View the original transcription and field notes (PDF)