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William Tilghman Cemetery on Back Creek

Back Creek / Westover · Somerset County, Maryland

1998 aerial image marking the Back Creek burial site
1998 aerial image marking the Back Creek burial site

The original account records two graves on a small raised remnant of land surrounded by former borrow-pit workings. The researchers warned that the site could be lost. Their typed report does not identify the individual burials or supply inscriptions.

Graves Recorded

No named grave transcriptions were provided in the original field record.

Additional Site Photographs

Documentation and Sources

Research and field records from Ed Smith’s cemetery collection, prepared for the Somerset Cemeteries Project. Where the original transcription is incomplete or difficult to interpret, consult the source document.