Lower Fairmount / Landonville · Fairmount District No. 6 · Somerset County, Maryland
Cemetery No. 911-Z-25 center
landonville. Select the image for a larger view.
The family burial plot was described near Landonville Road in Lower Fairmount. It measured approximately 30 by 30 feet. On the 1877 atlas, the site was near the residences of John H. Ford, D. J. Revel, and J. H. Revel.
The May 1999 field transcription includes a Ford family obelisk and individual markers.
Latitude38° 05′ 43″ N
Longitude75° 48′ 57″ W
Graves Recorded
Photograph: Sarah E Ford.
Sarah E. Ford
Transcription / field record
Sarah E. Ford
wife of
John H. Ford
born
May 9, 1837
died
July 13, 1903.
“Missed at home”
Field note: An obelisk also records John H. Ford.
John H. Ford
Transcription / field record
John H. Ford
Born
Feb. 9, 1825
Died
June 2, 1906
Field note: His information appears on two sides of the family obelisk.
Photograph: Edmond Ford.
Edmond W. Ford
Transcription / field record
FORD
Edmond W. Ford
1857-1924
Photograph: Eva L Ford.
Eva L. Ford
Transcription / field record
Eva L.
Daughter of John H. &
Sarah E. Ford
Born Nov. 4, 1866
Died April 1, 1894
Photograph: Williamana.
Williamana Ford
Transcription / field record
[rose]
In Memory of
Williamana
daughter of
John H. & Sarah E.
Ford.
Born Oct. 6, 1863,
Died Jan. 17, 1888
Aged
24 Yrs. 3 Mo’s & 11 Ds.
Friends in Jesus, why these tears
O’er my dull and lifeless day
Would ye see my present bliss
Tears to joy would pass away
Photograph: Elizabeth A Ford.
Elizabeth A. Ford
Transcription / field record
[table stone]
In Memory of
Elizabeth A. Ford
Wife of John H. Ford
Born Oct. 11th 1831,
Died Oct. 5th 1856.
She is gone and her friends have marked her tomb,
To drop the term of their sorrow,
She has gone to the land where her beauty will bloom,
Through our everlasting tomorrow.
She dwells in the land where the rose never fades,
Where no tears of affection is stealing.
Where the sun never sets and the night never shades
What the spirit of love is reveling.
Additional Field Photographs
These are images in Ed’s source folder that cannot be confidently assigned to a specific transcribed marker, or are supplemental field and research photographs. Select a thumbnail to view its full-sized original.
W A Ford
Documentation and Sources
Transcription date: 2 May 1999. Contributors: Philip L. Goldsborough, Ed Smith, and Rebecca F. Miller.
