Davy Cemetery

Fairmount Neck / Upper Fairmount · Fairmount District No. 6 · Somerset County, Maryland

Cemetery No. 911-BB-26 center

Marshland at the Davy Cemetery site — Davy Cemetery site in the Fairmount Wildlife Management Area. Click photograph to enlarge.

The burial ground is in Fairmount Neck, southwest of Upper Fairmount, within the Fairmount State Wildlife Management Area at the head of Moons Bay on the north side of the Great Annemessex River. The 1877 Atlas identifies this marshland as the Jericho Marshes.

The 2001 survey recorded three unmarked brick graves. The contributors believed the original markers had been moved to the Episcopal churchyard in Upper Fairmount, but the source does not identify the individuals buried here.

Latitude38° 04′ 47.2″ N
Longitude75° 48′ 34.2″ W

Graves Recorded

Three unmarked brick graves

The 2001 survey recorded three unmarked brick graves at the cemetery site. No individual names were given in the transcription.

Site and Location

Remains of the brick chimney at the old Davy homesite, about 350 feet east of the graves.

The survey notes that the 1877 Atlas shows the nearby homestead of Capt. G. Davy. The cemetery was described as lying on land associated with the tract Envy, patented to John Waters in 1752, later incorporated into Addition to Envy. On 3 October 1805, Littleton Waters of Baltimore sold George Davey of Somerset County 242¾ acres of the tract.

Contributor map showing Davy Cemetery and the old Davy homesite in the Fairmount Wildlife Management Area — Contributor map showing the Davy Cemetery, old Davy homesite, and brick chimney.

Documentation History and Source Material

11 March 2001: Surveyed by Rebecca F. Miller and Philip L. Goldsborough.
Sources cited by the contributors: Ruth Dryden land records, the 1877 Atlas, and the Marion Quadrangle 7.5-minute topo orthophotomap.

Original contributor transcription: Davy Cemetery (PDF).