Holy Family Catholic Church Cemetery (historic) on FindAGrave

 

Maryland Historical Trust. AA-097.

Tombstones ranged from 1896-1920
At least 24 known burials
One military stone noted
In 1890 two sisters donated the Dodon farm of 300 acres to the Congregation of Marist Fathers of the Catholic Church, forcing their brother and his family to leave the farm. A mission was set up on the property that became Holy Family Church. The priests held a Dodon Fair each year, and held mass each Sunday for local residents, but they considered the place too remote and the old house possibly haunted, so they decided to sell it. A railroad scheduled to be cut through the property never materialized and the order abandoned the property to the Redemptorists, then the Archdiocese of Baltimore who then gave it to the Redemptorists in Annapolis. Mr. Steuart Pittman Sr.’s grandmother, Annette Steuart Wise, bought the land back in 1929. Most of the bodies were removed to an unknown location at that time.  According to the D.A.R., there was also a “potter’s field” outside the border of the cemetery for those who required burial in unconsecrated ground.  

Anne Arundel’s Legacy by Donna M. Ware, 1990, p. 141
Tombstone Inscriptions of Southern Anne Arundel County by the Marlborough Towne Chapter, N.S.D.A.R., 1971, p. 380
Annapolis newspaper article in The Capital on March 29, 2008 entitled “Hunt races returning to Roedown next week” tells of the history of the cemetery.