Hopewell · Lawson's District No. 8 · Somerset County, Maryland
Cemetery No. 911-II-25-South
Old Miles burial plot at Sunny Ridge Memorial Park; photograph from Ed’s shared collection.
This older family burial ground lies within what is now Sunny Ridge Memorial Park, in the Hopewell area near the head of Jones (Hart’s) Creek and Old St. Peter’s Church. The survey identifies memorials for Miles relatives and members of the Davis, Coulbourn, and Nelson families.
Philip L. Goldsborough recorded twenty named memorials and reported eight additional infant gravestones for children of John H. and Lovey Miles. Only two wide cemetery photographs accompanied the supplied file; they are not presumed to show every named marker.
Latitude38° 01′ 04.5″ N
Longitude75° 49′ 01.4″ W
Transcription note: Readings from the original contributed record are retained with unusual spellings and uncertain wording noted. Where the survey photograph supports a correction or clarification, that reading is identified separately. Photographs are not proof of grave locations other than the cemetery identified in the source.
Graves Recorded
John H. Miles
Transcription
John H. Miles
Husband of Lovey W. Miles
born Feb. 24, 1827
died May 18, 1905
Lovey W. Miles
Transcription
Lovey W. Miles
Wife of John H. Miles
Born June 10, 1831
Died Oct’r 23, 1874
Dearest Lovey, thou hast left us;
Here thy loss we deeply feel;
But 'tis God that hath bereft us;
He can all our sorrows heal.
Elizabeth Miles
Transcription
Elizabeth Miles
1793 – 1875
Samuel Miles
Transcription
Samuel Miles
1822 – 1848
William Miles
Transcription
William Miles
1781 – 1852
George D. Miles
Transcription
Geo. D. Miles
1820 – 1843
John W. Davis
Transcription
John W. Davis
Born Otr. 3rd 1828
Died Nov’ 23rd 1869
For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth, And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God
Lottie A. Davis
Transcription
Lottie A. Beloved wife of
John W. Davis and dau of Wm. & Elizabeth Miles
Died Dec’r 14, 1868
Aged 32 yrs. & 5 days
Dearest Lottie thou has left me
I thy loss I deeply feel
But it was God who hath
Bereft me, he can all my sorrows
Heal
Elizabeth Miles
Transcription
Elizabeth Miles
1833 – 1852
Adams C. Miles
Transcription
Adams C. Miles
1831 – 1887
John W. Coulbourn
Transcription
John W. son of
William Coulbourn of John
Jan. 2nd, 1852
Father of Rupert, William,
John & Nelson
Cornellia A. Coulbourn
Transcription
Cornellia A.
dau. of John H. & Lovey Miles
Oct. 31, 1853
Nov. 15 1919
Mother of Rupert, William,
John & Nelson coulbourn
Roger A. Miles
Transcription
Roger A. Miles
1886 – 1958
John W. Miles
Transcription
John W. Miles
1856 – 1932
Arintha M. Miles
Transcription
Arintha M. Miles
1886 – 1953
Adam C. Miles
Transcription
Adam C. Miles
1906 – 1982
Dorthy P. Miles
Transcription
Dorthy P. Miles
1910 – 1988
Adam C. Miles Jr.
Transcription
Adam C. Miles Jr.
1934 – 1986
Lottie H. Miles
Transcription
Lottie H. Miles
1864 – 1938
Lizzie Nelson
Transcription
Lizzie wife of David M. Nelson
born Jan. 5, 1852
died April 11, 1886
Cemetery and Research Notes
In addition to the twenty named memorials listed here, Goldsborough recorded eight gravestones of children of John H. and Lovey Miles, all under one year old. Their names and individual readings were not included in the supplied transcription.
The original survey describes the plot within the modern Sunny Ridge Memorial Park, near the head of Jones (also called Hart’s) Creek. It associates the older site with the tract Hearts Ease, patented to Robert Hart in 1663 for 200 acres and resurveyed to 400 acres in 1728 by Henry Miles. The 1877 Atlas places the nearby home of J. H. Miles and the Old St. Peter’s M.E. Church in this area.
Second donor photograph of the Old Miles plot. The individual stones have not been matched to named transcriptions.
Original survey and transcription: Philip L. Goldsborough, recorded April 14, 1992; original “Old Miles Family Cemetery” field transcription and accompanying donor photographs.
