Recording Somerset County cemeteries, graveyards, and family burying grounds before weather, vegetation, development, vandalism, and time erase the information they preserve.
This is a joint project of Somerset County MDGenWeb and Shari Handley’s Eastern Shore Genealogy . Volunteers have walked cemeteries throughout Somerset County and shared inscriptions, locations, photographs, and family information so they remain freely available to researchers.
Find a cemetery, understand its 1877 election district, protect fragile markers, or help expand the project.
Historic map + cemetery locations
See Somerset cemetery locations on the 1877 Lower Shore map aligned with modern roads and satellite imagery. The map also shows the historic election districts referenced throughout the cemetery listings, making it much easier to understand where a burial site was located in 1877.
Protect the stones
Old markers can be surprisingly fragile. Learn appropriate conservation and documentation practices before cleaning, rubbing, resetting, or altering a stone.
Volunteer
Many of these pages exist because volunteers took the time to document stones that might otherwise have been lost to deterioration or development.
Listings are arranged alphabetically. Some pages are complete transcriptions; others are partial surveys or family-graveyard records contributed by volunteers.
Rumbley · 1877 Atlas map: Fairmount District No. 6
Lost to erosion; historical records preservedQuindocqua · 1877 Atlas map: Brinkley's District No. 3
Princess Anne · 1877 Atlas map: Princess Anne District No. 1
Mt. Vernon · 1877 Atlas map: Hungary Neck District No. 5
Five marked graves; transcription, photographs, map, and 1987/1991 field notesMt. Vernon · 1877 Atlas map: Hungary Neck District No. 5
One marked grave; transcription and photographsUpper Fairmount/Manokin · 1877 Atlas map: Fairmount District No. 6
Transcription, photographs, maps, and related historical recordsMt. Vernon area · 1877 Atlas map: Hungary Neck District No. 5
Single grave; transcription, photograph, and mapMarion Station · 1877 Atlas map: Brinkley's District No. 3
Pigeon House Creek / Dames Quarter · 1877 Atlas map: Dames Quarter District No. 2
Expanded 1994 survey, gravestone photographs, map, and Pigeon House historical notesCoulbourne Pointe · 1877 Atlas map: Brinkley's District No. 3
Princess Anne · 1877 Atlas map: Princess Anne District No. 1
Family burial ground; photographs and historical notesByrdtown / Crisfield · 1877 Atlas map: Lawson’s District No. 8
Ten inscription groups; December 1994 survey and selected grave photographsUpper Fairmount · 1877 Atlas map: Fairmount District No. 6
Cokesbury / Courthouse Hill · 1877 Atlas map: Dublin District No. 4
Twelve recorded burials, 2021 photographs, land-patent research, and newly read inscription detailsCosten Station · 1877 Atlas map: Dublin District No. 4
Ten recorded people; gravestone photos, displaced-stone views, and estimated-location mapCokesbury / Costen Station · 1877 Atlas map: Dublin District No. 4
Father-and-son memorial removed from its original location; exact gravesite unknownRehobeth · 1877 Atlas map: Brinkley's District No. 3
Annotated burialsUpper Fairmount · 1877 Atlas map: Fairmount District No. 6
Byrdtown · 1877 Atlas map: Crisfield District No. 7
1994 survey, Josiah S. Cullin gravestone and historic recordHopewell · 1877 Atlas map: Lawson’s District No. 8
Ten-person historical burial listing and two identified stone photographsPeyton / Crisfield · 1877 Atlas map: Lawson’s District No. 8
One marked grave and one unidentified brick grave; 2015 photographsClifton, Revell's Neck · 1877 Atlas map: Princess Anne District No. 1
Single visible grave; photographs, historical clipping, and location notesWenona, Deal Island · 1877 Atlas map: Tangier District No. 9
Partial listing with photographsCrisfield · 1877 Atlas map: Lawson's District No. 8
Princess Anne · 1877 Atlas map: Princess Anne District No. 1
Cedar Lane Farm; transcription, photographs, map, and historical notesOriole / St. Peter's Creek area · 1877 Atlas map: Dames Quarter District No. 2
One marked grave; transcription, map, and photographsVarious Lower Eastern Shore locations · 1877 Atlas map: multiple district maps
Hosted by the Wicomico Cemeteries ProjectBack Creek, Revell's Neck · 1877 Atlas map: Princess Anne District No. 1
Transcription, photographs, field map, and genealogical notesMarion Station · 1877 Atlas map: Brinkley's District No. 3
Mt. Vernon · 1877 Atlas map: Hungary Neck District No. 5
Two marked graves; transcription, photographs, and field notesPine Pole Road, historic Monie (modern Venton) · 1877 Atlas map: Dames Quarter District No. 2
One known burial site; footstone and site photographsUpper Fairmount · 1877 Atlas map: Fairmount District No. 6
Costen Station · 1877 Atlas map: Dublin District No. 4
Five Farms Road, Mt. Vernon / Widgeon area · 1877 Atlas map: Hungary Neck District No. 5
Single worn grave; photographs, location image, and 1993 field recordMt. Vernon · 1877 Atlas map: Hungary Neck District No. 5
One surviving stone; vandalism note, transcription, photographs, and mapMt. Vernon · 1877 Atlas map: Hungary Neck District No. 5
Exact location withheld at property owner request; seven burials recorded, four photographsMarion Station · 1877 Atlas map: Lawson's District No. 8
Fairmount WMA · 1877 Atlas map: Fairmount District No. 6
Jerusalem Road, Monie / Oriole area · 1877 Atlas map: Dames Quarter District No. 2
Four recorded graves; transcription and location mapQuindocqua · 1877 Atlas map: Brinkley's District No. 3
Revell's Neck · 1877 Atlas map: Princess Anne District No. 1
One surviving broken slab; land-patent history, photograph, and field mapLittle Creek, historic Monie (modern Venton) · 1877 Atlas map: Dames Quarter District No. 2
Four marked graves; photographs and 1877 Atlas location imageLandonville · 1877 Atlas map: Fairmount District No. 6
Byrdtown · 1877 Atlas map: Lawson’s District No. 8
Four transcribed gravestones and historic photographsLower Trappe · 1877 Atlas map: Princess Anne District No. 1
Transcription, map, and historical notesPrincess Anne · 1877 Atlas map: Princess Anne District No. 1
Transcription, map, and historical notesRevell's Neck · 1877 Atlas map: Princess Anne District No. 1
Expanded transcription and photographs; Capt. Jesse B. Fitzgerald Cemetery consolidated herePrincess Anne · 1877 Atlas map: Princess Anne District No. 1
Transcription, photographs, map, family notes, and related will imagesUpper Fairmount · 1877 Atlas map: Fairmount District No. 6
Transcription, photographs, and family notesPrincess Anne · 1877 Atlas map: Princess Anne District No. 1
Partial listing; now includes the Grace A. and James Sibert Morris graves with photographsMt. Vernon · 1877 Atlas map: Hungary Neck District No. 5
Three marked graves; transcription, photographs, and mapUpper Fairmount · 1877 Atlas map: Fairmount District No. 6
Hopewell · 1877 Atlas map: Lawson’s District No. 8
Twenty named memorials; eight additional infant grave markers, 1992 transcription and site viewsLower Trappe · 1877 Atlas map: Princess Anne District No. 1
Transcription, map, and historical notesRevell's Neck · 1877 Atlas map: Princess Anne District No. 1
Expanded transcription, photographs, field map, and contributor notesRevell's Neck · 1877 Atlas map: Princess Anne District No. 1
Expanded transcription and 2008 field photographsMt. Vernon · 1877 Atlas map: Hungary Neck District No. 5
Original transcription by Joyce Fields Crouch; 2004 update and photographs by Ed Smith and Phil GoldsboroughVenton (historic Monie) · 1877 Atlas map: Dames Quarter District No. 2
Family cemetery; transcription and gravestone photographsHistoric Monie (modern Venton) · 1877 Atlas map: Dames Quarter District No. 2
Two recorded graves; transcription and photographsWest Post Office · 1877 Atlas map: Princess Anne District No. 1
Palmetto · 1877 Atlas map: Princess Anne District No. 1
Old Manokin Presbyterian Church site; transcription and historical notesMonie Woods (modern Venton area) · 1877 Atlas map: Dames Quarter District No. 2
Patterson, Lawson, Miles, Smith, and Waller graves; transcription and mapsOriole / St. Peter's Creek area · 1877 Atlas map: Dames Quarter District No. 2
Phoebus, Parks, and Ross burials; transcription, photographs, and aerial/location imagesCokesbury · 1877 Atlas map: Dublin District No. 4
Palmetto · 1877 Atlas map: Princess Anne District No. 1
Transcription, photographs, and location notesCosten Station · 1877 Atlas map: Dublin District No. 4
Partial grave transcription; John F. Powell photographs and churchyard viewRehobeth · 1877 Atlas map: Brinkley's District No. 3
Annotated burialsFairmount · 1877 Atlas map: Fairmount District No. 6
Transcription, site photographs, gravestone photographs, and mapRehoboth · 1877 Atlas map: Brinkley's District No. 3
Hopewell · 1877 Atlas map: Lawson’s District No. 8
Ten recorded people; relocated grave markers, 1992 transcript and photographsChance · 1877 Atlas map: Tangier District No. 9
Partial listingLower Mt. Vernon · 1877 Atlas map: Hungary Neck District No. 5
Two graves recorded in 1986Mt. Vernon · 1877 Atlas map: Hungary Neck District No. 5
Expanded with 2004 transcription, gravestone photographs, fieldstone map, and site notesSt. Peter's Creek, Oriole / Monie area · 1877 Atlas map: Dames Quarter District No. 2
Smith family cemetery; transcription, photographs, scans, and location mapKingston · 1877 Atlas map: Brinkley's District No. 3
Kingston · 1877 Atlas map: Brinkley's District No. 3
Champ / St. Peter's Creek area · 1877 Atlas map: Princess Anne District No. 1
Two marked graves plus unmarked graves/fieldstones; transcription and mapDames Quarter · 1877 Atlas map: Dames Quarter District No. 2
Deal Island · 1877 Atlas map: Tangier District No. 9
Partial listingKingston · 1877 Atlas map: Brinkley's District No. 3
Outside Oriole · 1877 Atlas map: Dames Quarter District No. 2
Hopewell · 1877 Atlas map: Lawson’s District No. 8
Twelve named burials, ten photographs; Mary J. Stevenson birth-date correctionQuindocqua · 1877 Atlas map: Brinkley's District No. 3
Geanquaking Woods, historic Monie (modern Venton) · 1877 Atlas map: Dames Quarter District No. 2
Three marked Tyler graves; photographs, aerial image, and location mapHopewell · 1877 Atlas map: Lawson’s District No. 8
2014 survey, photographed stones and research notesPrincess Anne / Jason area · 1877 Atlas map: Hungary Neck District No. 5
Formerly listed as Waterloo Country Inn Graveyard; 1995 transcription, gravestone photographs, 2014 site photographs, and field notesVenton / Monie Neck · 1877 Atlas map: Dames Quarter District No. 2
Waller and Reed family cemetery; transcription, photographs, and historic mapsBoxiron / Crisfield · 1877 Atlas map: Lawson’s District No. 8
Two recorded graves; transcription and atlas illustrationMt. Vernon area · 1877 Atlas map: Hungary Neck District No. 5
Mt. Vernon · 1877 Atlas map: Hungary Neck District No. 5
Extensive cemetery listing recorded July 30, 1989Deal Island · 1877 Atlas map: Tangier District No. 9
Completed/expanded listing; original partial survey by Shirl Jones Tarbox, additional data contributed by Ed SmithManokin · 1877 Atlas map: Fairmount District No. 6
Dames Quarter · 1877 Atlas map: Dames Quarter District No. 2
Drawbridge Road, historic Monie (modern Venton) · 1877 Atlas map: Dames Quarter District No. 2
White, Patterson, and Price graves; transcription and photographsChamp / Colebrooke tract · 1877 Atlas map: Dames Quarter District No. 2
One inscribed grave plus fieldstone-marked burials; transcription, map, and photograph