Henry Dryden
Born Feb. 1, 1820
Died Jan. 12, 1899
Private family cemetery
Dryden Cemetery
A small private cemetery east of Fleming Mill Road containing Dryden, Ross, and Ewell burials, recorded in 1990.
Location
The 1990 survey places the cemetery about 800 feet east of Fleming Mill Road, approximately seven-tenths of a mile south of Butler Cemetery. From the road, the route followed a private dirt road east along the north side of a field for about 800 feet, then north into woods for roughly 100 feet to the small private cemetery.
- Recorded coordinates38° 08′ 20″ N
75° 33′ 04″ W - Survey dateDecember 2, 1990
Worcester County, Maryland
Survey credit: Listed by Philip L. Goldsborough, Linda L. Goldsborough, Grace A. Morris, and Becky Miller. Notes were supplied by Becky Miller. The surveyors reported substantial distance between the Dryden, Ross, and Ewell graves, and probing did not reveal additional stones.
Recorded burials
Ann Dryden
Beloved wife of Henry Dryden
Born April 17, 1822
Died Feb. 12, 1890
Samuel McMaster Dryden
An unmarked vault near Henry and Ann Dryden was speculated by the recorders to be that of their son Samuel McMaster Dryden, who owned the property at the time of his death.
July 10, 1861 - Feb. 16, 1939
Georgie E. Ross
Daughter of William J. and Susan F. Ross
Born Aug. 4, 1896
Died Jan. 30, 1899
A little bud of love / To bloom with God above
Sidney T. Ross
Son of William J. and Susan F. Ross
Born Feb. 8, 1895
Died Jan. 13, 1899
We can safely leave our boy / Our darling in Thy trust
Thomas James, Susanna, and William Sidney Ewell
Died Feb. 20, 1858
Research notes from the 1990 record
The accompanying notes identify Henry Dryden as a son of Thomas Dryden and Susan Ann Bell, and place the line through an earlier Thomas Dryden to Jonathan Dryden and Rachel Weatherly. The record also notes Henry Dryden's Worcester County marriage to Ann Ross on March 28, 1843.
The Ross children were tentatively identified by the recorder as children of William James Ross and Susan Frances Beauchamp, both buried at Butler Cemetery on Fleming Mill Road. That identification was presented as a research hypothesis, not a confirmed conclusion.
No separate gravestone photographs were supplied with this cemetery record, so this page publishes the transcription and survey notes without adding uncertain images.