Layfield Cemetery

Layfield Farm · south of Princess Anne, Somerset County, Maryland

Cemetery No. 911-P-37-Southeast

Map showing the Layfield Cemetery location — Layfield Cemetery location map. Click the photograph to enlarge.

Just south of Princess Anne in the Princess Anne Election District, on a tenant farm historically known as Layfield Farm and shown as the home of J. Layfield on the 1877 Atlas of the Eastern Shore.

The burial ground lies on a hill about 200 feet north of Jones Creek, approximately 450 feet east of the former Penn Central Railroad track and about 2,000 feet south of Washington High School, between Old Princess Anne Road and U.S. Route 13. The source places it probably on the southern portion of Davis’s Choice, patented by James Davis for 600 acres on March 14, 1663.

Latitude38° 10′ 30" N
Longitude75° 41′ 17" W

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

Emma F. Layfield

Transcription

In Memory of
Emma F.
daughter of
James and Elizabeth J. Layfield
born June 22, 1853
died July 18, 1890

Winnie W. Layfield

Transcription

Winnie W.
daughter of James & Elizabeth Layfield
born April 26, 1863
died April 24, 1876

A rose of April how’er too soon faded

James Layfield

Transcription

James Layfield
born April 7 1813
died March 9, 1880 [?]

I have fought a good fight
I have finished my ___ [stone cut]
I have kept the ___
Although he sleeps his memory [cut] lives
Cheering comforts to his memories giving
He followed virtue and his trust wide
Lived a __ __ Christian died

The source notes that the stone had been cut by a plow.

Elizabeth J. Blaine Layfield

Transcription

Mother
Elizabeth J. Blaine
wife of James Layfield
born Oct 17, 1820
died Feb 5, 1898

Mary E. Layfield

Transcription

Mary E. Layfield
daughter of
James Layfield
born Sept 11, 1841
died Feb 26, 1898

Cemetery and Family Notes

A footstone marked J.L. was also recorded.

Listed Sunday, March 2, 1992 by Philip L. Goldsborough, Tudy (Miller) Schermerhorn, and Rebecca F. Miller.

Family notes in the source record the marriage of James Layfield and Elizabeth Blain on February 6, 1838, and include household entries from the 1850, 1870, and 1880 censuses.