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Lower Fairmount / Landonville · Fairmount District No. 6 · Somerset County, Maryland
Cemetery No. 911-Z-25-SE
The 1997 description locates the fenced burial site in Lower Fairmount, near Fairmount Academy and the nineteenth-century E. Parks home site on the atlas. The contributors described a pole fence enclosing an area of about 60 by 60 feet.
Transcription / field record
Rosie J. Richardson
born July 1, 1870
died Feb. 12, 1932
wife of
Henry H. Richardson
Transcription / field record
H.H.R.
Oct. 12, 1863
Aug. 21, 1940
Field note: The initials appear opposite Rosie J. Richardson in the two-column source; the identity is not expanded in the original text.
Transcription / field record
[flower in bas-relief, then shield]
Mary E.
Dau. of
George E. & Mary J.
Leach
born June 1, 1847
died Jany 3, 1882
She has gone to God; Angels greet her,
Gone to join the seraphs band.
Who are springing now to meet her
In the glorious spiritland.
Transcription / field record
John A.
Son of
George E. & Mary J.
Leach
born June 13, 1857
died April 25, 1882.
Death has been here and borne away
A brother from our side.
Just in the morning of his day
In youth and love he died.
Transcription / field record
In
Memory
of
Nettie
Beloved Daughter of
F.W. & Virginia U.
Beauchamp
died
Sept. 28th 1889
aged 23 yrs. 10 days
A Precious one from us has gone
A voice we loved is stilled;
A place is vacant in our home,
Which never can be filled.
Transcription / field record
In
Memory
of
Emma S.
Beloved wife of
F. E. Cox
died March 23rd 1887
aged 22 yrs.
A Precious one from us has gone
A voice we loved is stilled;
A place is vacant in our home,
Which never can be filled.
God in his wisdom has recalled
the boon His love has given
And though the body moulders here
the soul is save in Heaven.
Transcription / field record
Ralph
beloved
son of M.A. & J.A.
Brewington,
born Nov. 12, 1896
died March 16,
1900.
This lovely bud was given,
Called hence by early doom
to show how fair a flower,
to paradise would bloom.
Transcription / field record
Emily J. Haynie
1851-1932
Transcription / field record
Lyda Haynie
Parks
July 30, 1881
May 14, 1968
Transcription / field record
Amelia “Milly”
Parks
May 20, 1907
March 27, 1989
Transcription / field record
Unmarked vault.
[tape messed up-recording but unintelligible]
[last two lines of somebody’s inscription:]
[Leach obelisk]
in love she lived
in peace she died
her life was asked
but God denied
by her children
Impression of another grave by this obelisk
Field note: This entry groups field observations without assigning these fragments to a named burial.
Supporting cemetery images and historical documentation. Select a thumbnail to view the original.
Transcription date: 2 March 1997. Contributors: Philip L. Goldsborough and Rebecca F. Miller.