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Quaker Burying Grounds
(Anne Arundel)
Intersection of Rt. 368 (Muddy Creek Rd.) and Rt. 255 (Galesville Rd.)
Galesville, Maryland 20765
Quaker Burying Grounds on FindAGrave

Also known as West River Quaker Burying Grounds

Tombstones range from 1812-1966
Over 490 known burials
Tombstones include Civil War, WWI, and WWII veterans
The majority of burials here are of former residents of Galesville.
Quakers initially started the cemetery and are buried here but without headstones.
Slave burials here are noted in The Andersons, From the Great Fork of the Patuxent by Cora Anderson DuLaney, p. 24.  
Tombstone Inscriptions of Southern Anne Arundel County by the Marlborough Towne Chapter, N.S.D.A.R., 1971, pp. 201-238
Directory of Maryland Burial Grounds Genealogical Council of Maryland, 1996, p. 74.