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Landonville Road / Fairmount · Fairmount District No. 6 · Somerset County, Maryland
Cemetery No. 911-Z-25-NEThe source places this burial ground in woods northeast of Landonville Road, across from the separate Landon Cemetery. These two burial grounds should not be conflated.
The March 2002 survey records four named burials, footstones, and inscriptions.
Transcription / field record
Howard
Son of
John T. & S.E. Landon
Born Jan. 20 1878
Died Sept. 1st 1881.
[scrolling marks]
Gone but not forgotten
Field note: A small matching footstone marked H.L. was recorded.
Transcription / field record
Sarah E.
Wife of W.H. Parks
Born Feb. 24, 1858.
Died June 7, 1898.
At Rest
[Dove]
A precious one from us has gone.
A voice we loved is stilled;
A place is vacant in our hourse,
Which never can be filled.
Field note: A matching footstone marked S.E.P. was recorded. The spelling “hourse” is retained from the source transcription.
Transcription / field record
John T. Landon.
Born
June 22, 1833.
Died
May 18, 1893.
Dearest husband thou hast left us,
We thy loss so deeply feel;
But ‘tis God who hast bereft us,
He will all our sorrows heal.
Transcription / field record
W.H. Parks
Born
Aug. 12, 1856
Died
Jan. 28, 1911
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.
Transcription date: 10 March 2002. Contributors: Ed Smith, Philip Goldsborough, and Becky Miller.
Original cemetery survey and transcription (PDF)
The source PDF documents four named burials; other photographs in the folder are retained separately because the original PDF does not assign them to individual transcriptions.