Cemetery transcriptions and preservation
Recording Wicomico County cemeteries, graveyards, and family burying grounds before weather, vegetation, development, vandalism, and time erase the information they preserve.
This is a joint project of Wicomico County MDGenWeb and Shari Handley’s Eastern Shore Genealogy Project. Volunteers have walked cemeteries throughout the county and shared thousands of inscriptions so they remain freely available to researchers. A companion project covers Somerset County cemeteries.
Find a cemetery, understand its 1877 election district, protect fragile markers, or help expand the project.
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See Wicomico cemetery locations on the 1877 Lower Shore map aligned with modern roads and satellite imagery. The historic overlay shows the election districts referenced throughout this cemetery list, so you can place a burial site in its 1877 geographic context.
Open the map with Wicomico cemeteriesProtect the stones
Please do not put shaving cream, chalk, flour, or other substances on a gravestone. Learn safe documentation and preservation practices before cleaning, rubbing, resetting, or altering a marker.
Read the Coalition’s Stewardship GuideVolunteer
Many of these transcriptions exist because volunteers took the time to document stones that might otherwise have been lost to deterioration or development.
Cemetery transcription guidelinesIn memory
The Wicomico Cemeteries Project honors Paul J. Willing and the years of fieldwork, documentation, and preservation work he contributed to Lower Shore cemeteries.
Read the memorial pageThe Wicomico Cemeteries Project
Locations
These valuable transcriptions are hosted on other researchers’ websites. They remain part of this directory so researchers can find the fullest possible coverage.
Visit Cindy’s Delmarva Genealogy home page. Cindy has worked extensively to record Wicomico-area graveyards.
Visit David Insley’s cemetery site, another substantial source of Wicomico cemetery information.
Old stone can be surprisingly fragile. The Coalition to Protect Maryland Burial Sites advises against applying foreign substances to markers and specifically warns that chalk and shaving cream can damage stone over time. Before cleaning, resetting, rubbing, or otherwise working on a marker, learn appropriate conservation practices and obtain any required permission.