Keenan Road / Westover · Somerset County, Maryland
Cemetery site during documentation work
An early family burial ground on the Great Hope tract, with monuments dating to 1765. Ed Smith and fellow researchers documented difficult inscriptions through photographs and earlier transcriptions, assisted by the Keenan family.
The 1765 Peggy Wilson stone was difficult to decipher; the transcription combines multiple photographs with earlier readings.
Graves Recorded
Elizabeth Wilson (wife of John C. Wilson Jr.)
Transcription / field record
SCARED
to the memory of
ELIZABETH, wife of
John C. Wilson Jr.
And daughter of Col. Peregrine Tilghman
of Hope Talbot County
who departed this life
on the 13th of December 1815, in her
29th year
Bright be the place of the soul
No lovelier spirit than thine
E’er broke from its mortal control
In the orb’s of the blessed to shine
On earth thou –er’t all but divine
the soul shall immortally be;
And our sorrows may cease to repine,
When we know that thy God is with thee
Affections tribute to departed worth.
Peggy C. Wilson (1763–1825)
Transcription / field record
A Sisters Tribute
to
the memory of
PEGGY C. WILSON
Consort of
the late John C. Wilson Sen’r.
She was born Oct. 8th, 1763:
and died Sept. 17th 1825:
In her 62th year
or her age.
Grace Arabella Risley
Transcription / field record
GRACE ARABELLA.
daughter of
J H & Mary E. Risley.
Aged 4 mos. & 7 days.
John Custis Wilson
Transcription / field record
To
the memory of
JOHN CUSTIS WILSON
Born
March 19, 1784,
Died
Nov’r 23, 1832.
_____
H. Caddess,Peril, Bal
Peggy Wilson (wife of Samuel Wilson; died 1765)
Transcription / field record
Here lies inteerd the Remains
of PEGGY the wife of
SAMUEL WILSON
An Daughter of
JOHN CUSTIS and ANNE his wife
of Hungary in Virginia
Whose affability and good sense
Greatly Adorned the life
in which providence has placed her;
who beside her real veneration for religion
was a dutifull child, a lovin wife,
a tender parent, a sincere friend
and kind —-----
virtue which highly recommended her
to the — and regard
of all that knew her.
She departed this life
the 14th day of October 1765
in the 26 yr. of her life ?(line hard to read)
Her affectionate husband
who survives to Mourn her loss
expects agreeable to her request
to be buried by her.
Mary Ann Wilson and infant William Gilmor
Transcription / field record
SCARED
to the memory of
MARY ANN the second wife of
JOHN C. WILSON Jun r. and daughter of
William burton Savage ESQ r
of Cherry Grove Northampton Co.
Virginia, where she was born June 10th
1796 and departed this life at Arlington
in Somerset Co. Md. Sept r. 27th, 1820.
In here 25th year.
Thy gentle spirit now is fled
Thy body in its earthly bed
Is laid in peaceful sleep;
A spirit good and pure as thine
Best in immortal scenes can shine,
Though friends are left to weep.
An infant son the perfect image of his mother
baptized William Gilmor; and aged 2 months
5 days repoeses with her beneath this Tomb
This flower that droop’d in one cold clime
Transplanted from the soil of time
To immortality
In full perfection there shall bloom
And those who now lament his doom
Must bow to GOD’S deeree.
The bereaved and afflicted husband
and father offers this tribute.
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.
