Montgomery County Cemeteries: Beckwith Family Cemetery (ID: 251)

Montgomery County Cemeteries
Name: Beckwith Family Cemetery ID: 251

Alternate Name:
Address: SE corner of Randolph Rd/Old Columbia Pike intersection
Town: Silver Spring
ADC Map: 31 Grid: K-10
Cemetery Association: Family
Setting: Urban Condition: Lost
Negative Impacts: No longer extant
Burials: unknown Date range of burials: unknown
Description: This cemetery was mentioned in the deed for property called "Covenant of Peace."
Cemetery is no longer extant, there are condominiums here now.
Comments:
Survey date: 11/7/2004
Historic Status:
Additional Sources:
Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Dunlop Family Cemetery ID: 252

Alternate Name: Hayes Manor
Address: 4101 Manor Road/4000 Jones Bridge Road
Town: Chevy Chase
ADC Map: 36 Grid: C-9
Setting: Suburban Condition: Good
Negative Impacts:
Description: On property of the Howard Hughes Medical Insititute, which would not permit
access to site. Hayes Manor was part of a 700-acre estate built c. 1767. It was owned by the
Dunlop-Laird family from 1792 on.
Comments: According to Farquhar, the remains of Dunlop family members were moved to this
location c. 1891 to keep them with the house, which was still owned by descendants. An obelisk
was inscribed, In Memory of James & Elizabeth Dunlop & their descendents.
Historic Status: MP 35/10 Hayes Manor
Additional Sources: Cavicchi, p. 246, Farquhar, HABS Survey
Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Crawford Family Cemetery ID: 253

Alternate Name: Waring-Crawford Farm
Address: 19212 Forest Brook Road
Town: Germantown
ADC Map: 18 Grid: G/H-4
Setting: Suburban Condition: Lost
Negative Impacts: Location unknown
Description: Descendant of Crawford family heard family rumor that there was graveyard
associated with house. No cemetery found. Farm is now a housing development but the old house
remains.
Comments:
Historic Status: MP 19/11 Waring-Crawford Farm
Additional Sources: Cavicchi p. 194
Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Bowie Family Cemetery ID: 254

Alternate Name: Oatland
Address: Next to 18621 Olney Mill Road
Town: Olney
ADC Map: 21 Grid: A-5
Setting: Suburban Condition: Excellent
Negative Impacts: None
Burials: 12 Date range of burials: 1824-1899
Description: Surrounded by 4' tall stone wall. Entrance has been filled in w/matching stone. Four
box tombs & seven upright markers with footstones. Two large boxwoods remaining, but have
been cut back. All stones upright. Evidence of prior repairs.
Comments: Stone pillar at street has plaque with historical info on Oatland. House still remains,
but separated from graves by new houses.
Historic Status: MP 22/14 Oatland
Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Waters (Basil) Family Cemetery ID: 255

Alternate Name: Pleasant Fields Cemetery
Address: Beside 12509 Hawks Nest Lane
Town: Germantown
ADC Map: 9 Grid: G-10
Negative Impacts: Some stones overturned
Burials: 8-12 Date range of burials: 1871-1945
Description: In middle of suburban residential development, and now separated from Pleasant
Fields, home of the Waters. Surrounded by locked metal picket fence. Stones in good condition,
1 repaired, 2 overturned. Grass is mowed, no plantings inside fence.
Comments: Associated with Basil Waters House/Pleasant Fields, which is owned by M-NCPPC.
Historic Status: MP 19/1 Pleasant Fields
Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Day Family Cemetery ID: 256

Alternate Name: Parson Day Farm
Address: Bethesda Church Road
Town: Browningsville
ADC Map: 0 Grid: 0
Setting: Unknown Condition: Unknown
Negative Impacts:
Burials: Unknown Date range of burials: Unknown
Description: Farm was on north side of Bethesda Church Rd directly opposite intersection with
Purdum Rd, later the Edward Burdette farm. Parson James Day and others buried in family plot
on farm. Cemetery was plowed over in 1960s.
Comments: In 1975, 2 Boyer stones were found at edge of cornfield along fence, along with
other broken stones.
Historic Status:
Additional Sources: "James Day of Browningsville and his Descendants" by Jackson H. Day
Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Glaze Family Cemetery ID: 257

Alternate Name:
Address: Bethesda Church Road
Town: Browningsville
ADC Map: 0 Grid: 0
Setting: Rural Condition: Lost
Negative Impacts: All markers removed
Description: This cemtery was located off Bethesda Church Road. According to Dona Cuttler,
the 7 or 8 fieldstones that were here were removed in the 1940s. The Glaze family house site is
marked each spring by daffodils around the foundation.
Comments:
Historic Status:
Additional Sources: Cuttler, Dona. The Genealogical Companion to Rural Montgomery

Cemeteries, p. 5.
Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Carmack Family Cemetery ID: 258

Alternate Name:
Address: 2021 or 2115 University Boulevard
Town: Wheaton
ADC Map: 36 Grid: H-1 vic
Setting: Urban Condition: Lost
Negative Impacts: All markers removed.
Description: This cemetery was behind the WTOP Transmitter Station, but no evidence of a
cemetery is visibile today.
Comments:
Historic Status:
Additional Sources:
Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Anderson Family Cemetery ID: 259

Alternate Name:
Address: College Gardens subdivision, formerly the Anderson farm
Town: Rockville
ADC Map: 0 Grid: 0
Setting: Suburban Condition: Relocated
Negative Impacts: Graves moved
Burials: 6-10 Date range of burials: Late 19th-early 20th
Description: Burials were moved to Rockville Cemetery sometime in the mid-20th century.
Records of Christ Episcopal Church list 4 Andersons buried in the family cemetery.
Comments: Hopkins 1879 Atlas shows Jas. Anderson in vicinity. Graves were close to Rte 355
on 400+ acre farm
Historic Status:
Additional Sources: Recollections of Anderson family members - George and Tom, Jr. Records
of Christ Episcopal Church & Rockville Cemetery Assn. Anderson family files at Peerless &
MCHS.
Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Magruder(?) Slave Cemetery ID: 260

Alternate Name: Button Farm Cemetery
Address: 16820 Black Rock Road
Town: Germantown
ADC Map: 17 Grid: H-11
Cemetery Association: Enslaved, Family
Setting: Forested Condition: Fair
Negative Impacts: Neglect
Burials: 10-15 Date range of burials: Unknown
Description: Cemetery is at edge of field near hiker/biker trail in Seneca Creek State Park. It is
located across Seneca Creek from Black Rock Mill. Also accessible from Button Farm on Black
Rock Rd. All fieldstones, one with cross carved into it. See file for more information.
Comments: Located in Seneca Creek State Park. Jim Sorensen (county archaeologist) calls this
a slave cemetery.
Historic Status:
Additional Sources:
Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Case-Kemp Family Cemetery ID: 261

Alternate Name: Fraley Cemetery
Address: North side of Muncaster Mill Road between Millcrest and Shady Grove Road
Town: Redland
Negative Impacts:
Burials: 4+ Date range of burials: 1898-1908
Description: Cemetery was between old house (east) and Central Baptist church (west). Stones
and iron fence remnant were found under collapsed shed. Archaeology did not find bodies, only
3 headstones, 1 footstone, and 1 base. See file for transcription.
Comments: Fraley Townhouses currently being built here. Gravestones were located on NW
edge of stormwater pond. They have been removed. No bodies located.
Historic Status:
Additional Sources:
Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Darnestown Cemetery ID: 262

Alternate Name: Darne Family Cemetery
Address: Next to 14101 Darnestown Road (Food Lion)
Town: Darnestown
ADC Map: 27 Grid: B-3
Cemetery Association: Family, Community
Setting: Suburban Condition: Poor
Negative Impacts: All stones removed
Burials: 20-50 Date range of burials: mid-1800s-1920s
Description: The cemetery is located in Darnestown Square Park just east of the intersection with
Seneca Rd. Archaeology found 16 graves, but residents say it may have been closer to 50.
Burials occurred through WWI.
Comments: Believed to originally belong to Darne family and possibly has burials of
Darnestown's founding family.
Historic Status:
Additional Sources: Articles in file
Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Slave Cemetery ID: 263

Alternate Name: Gartrell Slave Cemtery
Address: End of Denit Estates Drive
Town: Sunshine
ADC Map: 12 Grid: K-9?
Cemetery Association: Enslaved
Negative Impacts: No evidence of burials
Description: Ann Gartrell Stabler of 21201 New Hampshire Ave recalls that a slave cemetery is
located on the slope towards Triadelphia Lake on lands formerly owned by the Gartrell family.
More recently was Helen Denit's property and now is a subdivision.
Comments:
Historic Status:
Additional Sources:
Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Scotland AMEZ Church Cemetery ID: 264

Alternate Name:
Address: 10902 Seven Locks Road
Town: Rockville
ADC Map: 35 Grid: A-2
Cemetery Association: Free Black, Methodist
Setting: Suburban Condition: Fair
Negative Impacts: Some neglect
Description: Several trees in center. No fencing. All visible markers are uncarved fieldstones.
Some headstone/footstone arrangements. Many unmarked graves. Stones piled at base of tree &
utility pole.
Comments: Located behind church on triangular lot formed by Seven Locks Rd & church drive.
Church founded in 1906, built in 1915 with 1967 addition to front.
Historic Status: MP 29/15 Scotland AME Zion Church
Additional Sources: Cavicchi, p. 229, WPA survey file at State Archives.
Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Unknown Family Cemetery ID: 265

Alternate Name:
Address: Behind 18524 Viburnum Way
Town: Olney
ADC Map: 21 Grid: F-5
Cemetery Association: Free Black, Family
Setting: Suburban Condition: Fair
Negative Impacts:
Description: Located off Hollow Crest Drive in new community currently under construction.
Recently fenced. Old cedars around edge. No markers. Baby buried here a few years ago.
Comments:
Historic Status:
Additional Sources:
Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Moxley Family Cemetery ID: 266

Alternate Name:
Address: 28110 Kemptown Road
Town: Damascus
ADC Map: 4 Grid: E-3
Setting: Rural Condition: Poor
Negative Impacts: Gravestones and fence gone
Burials: 12 Date range of burials: unknown
Description: Cemetery is about 250 yards NW of house - in field under power line. No
gravestones, but current owner put up white metal cross in vicinity of graves. Tenant farmer
dragged out a slate marker, now propped against tree by house.
Comments: Moxley family has owned property since 1795. Slave burials also on property (see
ID 267).
Historic Status:
Additional Sources:
Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Moxley Slave Cemetery ID: 267

Alternate Name:
Address: 28110 Kemptown Road
Town: Damascus
ADC Map: 4 Grid: E-3
Negative Impacts:
Description: Location of cemetery is unknown, but owner indicated it is to SW of house in

wooded area. Family records show slave ownership.
Comments: Moxley family has owned property since 1795. Moxleys buried on property in
different location (see ID 266).
Historic Status:
Additional Sources:
Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Ward Family Cemetery ID: 268

Alternate Name: George H.M. Bennett Cemetery
Address: Across from 15601 Kruhm Road
Town: Burtonsville
Negative Impacts:
Description: No markers or fencing. It is on land that was owned by Samuel and Rachel Ward in
the 1880s. Their son William Ward is supposed to have been buried here.
Comments: Located in proposed ICC route. Location identified through archaeology done by
the Berger Group and John Milner & Associates in 2005. See info & maps in file.
Historic Status:
Additional Sources:
Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Shelton-Smith Family Cemetery ID: 269

Alternate Name: Smith-Shelton Family Cemetery
Address: 305 Frederick Avenue
Town: Rockville
Negative Impacts:
Burials: 1+ Date range of burials: c. 1907-08
Description: City required Lucinda Shelton to remove burial(s) to get a building permit.
Sheltons believe Maggie & Henry Shelton's first child (d. 1907-8) was buried here - prior to
opening of Lincoln Park Cemetery.
Comments: Burial(s) relocated to Lincoln Park Cemtery in late 1960s. Cemetery was located at
rear of lot. In late 1960s, only 1 marker was visible.
Historic Status:
Additional Sources: See file for more information.
Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Saffell Family Cemetery ID: 270

Alternate Name:
Address: 651 Saybrooke Oaks Boulevard
Town: Gaithersburg
ADC Map: 19 Grid: H-7 vic
Negative Impacts: Moved from original location
Burials: 2 Date range of burials: c. 1900-1920
Description: Remains of 2 male caucasians found during construction of Forest Oak Middle
School. They were reinterred on school grounds after construction completed. Location is on file
with Land Records office.
Comments: Located on Forest Oak Middle School grounds. See information in file.
Historic Status:
Additional Sources:
Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Clipper Family Cemetery ID: 271

Alternate Name: Stonecutters' Cemetery
Address: Between River Road and the C&O Canal, just west of Partnership Road
Town: Seneca
ADC Map: 26 Grid: A-9 vic.
Setting: Forested Condition: Good
Negative Impacts:
Burials: 30+ Date range of burials: ?-1905
Description: Located in forest about 1 mile west of Riley's Lock and 1/5 mile north of C&O
Canal towpath at mile 24. 5 headstones with hardcarved inscriptions, 4 are propped against trees.
About 25 fieldstones, some with footstones. Mostly seneca sandstone.
Comments: John Clipper worked as a stonecutter at Seneca Quarry Mill. He built a house
adjacent to canal for himself, his wife, and 10 children. Transcriptions and article in file.
Historic Status:
Additional Sources:
Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Magruder? Family Cemetery ID: 272

Alternate Name:
Address: 22529 Wildcat Road
Town: Goshen (vic)
ADC Map: 10 Grid: D-6 vic.
Setting: Suburban Condition: Lost
Negative Impacts:
Description: A cemetery is mentioned in deeds for the property, but the owners don't know
where it is located. They think they are Magruder family burials. No trace of graves.
Comments:
Historic Status:
Additional Sources:
Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Robinson-Duley Family Cemetery ID: 273

Alternate Name:
Address: 5908 Wild Flower Court
Town: Derwood
ADC Map: 20 Grid: G-2
Cemetery Association: Free Black, Enslaved, Family
Negative Impacts: No remnants of cemetery
Description: Graves located in front yard about 20' from large tree. No markers present. Duley
farm was sold to developer in 1957. Duley house & cemetery held out and land used for grazing
cows. Cows knocked over stones.
Comments: Son of former owner remembers several Robinson childrens' stones and some
fieldstones, which he thought might be slave burials. See notes in file from interview with Robert
Duley
Historic Status:
Additional Sources:
Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Layton Family Cemetery ID: 274

Alternate Name:
Address: 7000 Brink Road
Town: Laytonsville
ADC Map: 11 Grid: D-9
Setting: Urban (town) Condition: Lost
Negative Impacts:
Description: No evidence of cemetery. Location on property unknown. It is supposed to be

"behind" the house, but owner does not know where. Markers had disappeared by 1962 (see
Farquhar).
Comments: A developer has bought the property directly behind the house and is planning to
build.
Historic Status:
Additional Sources:
Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Edgehill Slave Cemetery ID: 275

Alternate Name: Griffith Slave Cemetery, Edgehill
Address: 4920 Griffith Road
Town: Laytonsville
ADC Map: 11 Grid: K-7
Setting: Rural Condition: Poor
Negative Impacts:
Description: Specific location of burials is unknown. Owner pointed out approximate location in
wooded area near swimming pool and log cabin, SW of the house. See map in file. Not located
near Griffith family cemetery, which is on the north side of the house.
Comments: Former slave quarter still exists on property.
Historic Status: MP 23/17 Edgehill
Additional Sources:
Run date: 8/30/2007

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Name: Beckwith Family Cemetery ID: 251

ADC Map: 31 Grid: K-10

Cemetery Association: Family

Setting: Urban Condition: Lost

Negative Impacts: No longer extant

Burials: unknown Date range of burials: unknown

Survey date: 11/7/2004

Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Dunlop Family Cemetery ID: 252

ADC Map: 36 Grid: C-9

Cemetery Association: Family

Setting: Suburban Condition: Good

Burials: unknown Date range of burials: unknown

Survey date: 11/1/2004

Historic Status: MP 35/10 Hayes Manor

Additional Sources: Cavicchi, p. 246, Farquhar, HABS Survey

Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Crawford Family Cemetery ID: 253

ADC Map: 18 Grid: G/H-4

Cemetery Association: Family

Setting: Suburban Condition: Lost

Negative Impacts: Location unknown

Burials: unknown Date range of burials: unknown

Survey date: 11/1/2004

Historic Status: MP 19/11 Waring-Crawford Farm

Additional Sources: Cavicchi p. 194

Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Bowie Family Cemetery ID: 254

ADC Map: 21 Grid: A-5

Cemetery Association: Family

Setting: Suburban Condition: Excellent

Negative Impacts: None

Burials: 12 Date range of burials: 1824-1899

Survey date: 11/14/2004

Historic Status: MP 22/14 Oatland

Additional Sources: Cavicchi p. 198

Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Waters (Basil) Family Cemetery ID: 255

ADC Map: 9 Grid: G-10

Cemetery Association: Family

Setting: Suburban Condition: Good

Negative Impacts: Some stones overturned

Burials: 8-12 Date range of burials: 1871-1945

Survey date: 7/2/2004

Historic Status: MP 19/1 Pleasant Fields

Additional Sources: Cavicchi p. 191

Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Day Family Cemetery ID: 256

ADC Map: 0 Grid: 0

Cemetery Association: Family

Setting: Unknown Condition: Unknown

Burials: Unknown Date range of burials: Unknown

Survey date: 1/20/2007

Run date: 8/30/2007

Name: Glaze Family Cemetery ID: 257

ADC Map: 0 Grid: 0

Cemetery Association: Family

Setting: Rural Condition: Lost

Negative Impacts: All markers removed

Burials: Unknown Date range of burials: Unknown

Survey date: 7/2/2004

Additional Sources: Cuttler, Dona. The Genealogical Companion to Rural Montgomery