Dixon Cemetery

Charles Cannon Road · Brinkley’s District · near Marion Station, Somerset County, Maryland · 1877 Atlas map: Brinkley's District No. 3

Cemetery No. 911-EE-28-NE

Dixon Cemetery site near Charles Cannon Road in Somerset County, Maryland — Cemetery site. Click the photograph to enlarge.

One and quarter miles North-northwest of Marion Station on Charles Cannon Road. Located near a creek called Ipsenancy creek and on a track of land called Security patented in 1739 for 405 Acres by William Dixon, a resurvey of Dickerson’s Choice . 1783 tax list, equal portions to William Dixon and Ambrose Dixon. Near the home of T.J.Dixon on the Atlas 1877 Atlas of the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

Exact location: North 22 degrees West, 3000 feet from the intersection of Charles Cannon Road and Coulborn Creek Road. 1200 feet west of Charles Cannon Road. From Marion; Traveling west on Charles cannon Road and continuing pass the intersection of Coulborn Creek Road about one half mile to a large white farm house. The burial site is located in a field in the rear of the house. Marion Quad. 7.5 Min.

Cemetery is 40ft. x 40ft. inclosed by a concrete fence with steel points.

Latitude 38.05575 degrees
(38 deg 03' 20.7" North)
Longitude 075.78329 degrees
(075 deg 46' 59.8" West)

Site status: Extant when recorded in 2001, enclosed by a concrete fence with steel points. The donor notes an unmarked bricked, caved-in grave and other evidence of burials. Current status has not been independently verified.

Transcription note: The grave information below is presented as recorded by the contributors. Original spelling, abbreviations, epitaph wording, and transcription notes have been retained.

Graves Recorded

Geo. C. Dixon, M.D.

Transcription

In Memory of
Geo. C. Dixon, M.D.
Died May 22d 1858
aged 35 years & 1 day.

Feeling himself a sinner saved by grace
He died in peace with God and with all mankind.
I know that my redeemer liveth and that he
stand at the Latter day upon the earth:
And though after my skin the worms destroy this body,
yet in my flesh shall I see God;
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold
and not another Job 25-37 Chapter 19

Sarah J. Dixon

Transcription

Sarah J. Dixon,
Beloved wife of
Thomas J. Dixon
Born
Oct 4, 1821
Died
Oct. 10, 1900

“He giveth his beloved rest.”

Eleanor P. Dixon

Transcription

Sacred
to the memory of
Eleanor P. Dixon.
Wife of
William T. Tulll
and daughter of
the late Nathaniel Dixon Sr
Died June 5, 1885:
in the 68th year
of her age.

Asleep in Jesus! Blessed sleep!
From which none ever wakes to weep.
A calm and undisturbed repose,
Unbroken by the last of foes.

Nathaniel Dixon

Transcription

Nathaniel Dixon
Died
Jan. 21, 1873
Aged 52 Ys. 6
Mo. & 10 Ds.

[epitaph]

D. Lang
Monie

Nathaniel Dixon and Ann B. Dixon

Transcription

In Memory of
our departed parents
Nathaniel Dixon,
and
Ann B. Dixon.

“He shall go to them; they cannot
return to us.”

Ambrose W. Dixon

Transcription

In memory of
Ambrose W. Dixon,
Born
October 1st 1813,
Died
May 9th 1863.

Mary A. Dixon

Transcription

Sacred
to the Memory of
Our Beloved Sister
Mary A. Dixon,
Born
March 10, 1811,
Died May 4, 1880.

Gone but her works live after her.

Thomas J. Dixon

Transcription

In Memory of
Thomas J. Dixon
Born Nov. 28, 1821.
Died
July 30, 1903.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.”

Cemetery and Family Notes

An earlier transcription in the donor collection reads Nathaniel Dixon’s death date as Jan. 24, 1873 rather than Jan. 21, 1873, and supplies the epitaph: “He has gone into peace, he has / laid him down / To sleep till the dawn of a brighter day; / And he shall wake on that holy morn, / When sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” The later cemetery record is transcribed above.

The earlier donor transcript also describes an “Unmakred bricked caved in grave.”

Listed by: Ed Smith, Philip Goldsborough and Becky Miller

Date recorded: Sunday, March 3, 2001

Location map for Dixon Cemetery near Charles Cannon Road — Location map from the donor collection. Click the image to enlarge.