← Back to the Somerset Cemeteries Project

Somerset Cemeteries Project

Daniel Family Graveyard

Wenona, Deal Island · 1877 Atlas map: Tangier District No. 9

Cemetery No. 911-V-12-Center

Location and Site Information

Daniel Family Graveyard contributor image
97597496_. Click to enlarge.

A small private family burial ground in Wenona, a little west of Deal Island Road and east of Tangier Sound. The 1989 survey recorded the graves of Mary Daniel and Travers Daniel.

  • Latitude 38° 07′ 52″ N (estimated)
  • Longitude 75° 57′ 09″ W (estimated)
  • 1877 Atlas map Tangier District No. 9

Record note: Updated with the Ed Smith collection photographs supplied in this batch.

Transcription note: The grave information below is presented grave by grave from the contributor record. Original spelling, abbreviations, uncertain readings, and historical condition notes have been retained rather than silently standardized.

Graves Recorded

Gravestone photograph for Mary Daniel
Mary Daniel. Click photograph to enlarge.

Mary Daniel

Transcription

In Memory of
Mary Daniel
Wife of Travers Daniel
who departed this life
12th of May 1862
aged 72 years
(inscription not legible)
Listed by Charles Wayne Wallace and Philip

Gravestone photograph for Travers Daniel Gravestone photograph for Travers Daniel
Travers Daniel. Click photograph to enlarge.

Travers Daniel

Transcription

Travers Daniel
who was born 7th January 1780
who departed this life
21 May ----
(stone broken and not legible)
(records indicate 21 May 1861)

Credits

Listed by Charles Wayne Wallace and Philip L. Goldsborough in January 1989; photographed in 1989.

Prepared for the Somerset Cemeteries Project from the donor files supplied by Ed Smith.