Henry Ward Cemetery at Boxiron

Boxiron / Crisfield · Lawson’s District No. 8 · Somerset County, Maryland

1877 map of Henry Ward cemetery area — Excerpt of the 1877 atlas included in the source folder.

This two-marker family cemetery is in the Jacksonville / Boxiron area north of Crisfield. The original report places it near a Ward residence on the 1877 Atlas, on land historically associated with the tract called Cork, patented to Cornelius Ward in 1678.

The contributed folder includes the written transcription, land-research documents, and an atlas illustration. No individual gravestone photographs were supplied with this record, so the two grave cards reproduce the contributed text.

Latitude38° 0.121′ N
Longitude75° 50.385′ W

Graves Recorded

Henry Ward

Transcription

Henry Ward
Died January 24, 1862,
Aged 72 Years 11 months,
And 25 Days

Dearest Father thou hast left us,
Here thy loss we deeply feel;
But ‘tis God that hath bereft us,
He can all our sorrows heal.

Alfred W. Ward

Transcription

In Memory
Of
Alfred W. Ward
Born July 30, 1833,
Departed this Life
October 3, 1852

Cemetery and Research Notes

The source places the cemetery within the old Cork tract and includes a proposed Ward-family lineage. It reports that investigators probed the area but found no additional markers.

Private property: The original survey specifically states that the location may not be visited by the public without the property owner’s permission.

Original survey: Brent Cullen, Edward Smith, and Philip L. Goldsborough, February 25, 2012. Gravestone text and historical details are from the contributed “Henry Ward Cemetery Boxiron” document.