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Ebenezer A.M.E. St. Paul's Cemetery (Shady Side) (Anne Arundel) next to 6275 Shady Side Rdoad Shady Side, Maryland 20764 Ebenezer A.M.E. St. Paul’s Cemetery on FindAGrave
African-American cemetery
Tombstones range from 1912-1993
Approximately 24 graves
Tombstones include WWI veteran
The stones are quite a distance apart and in small groupings.
The St. Paul’s A.M.E. Chapel, built in 1883, was demolished in 1980. It was built by ex-slaves and freemen less than twenty years after the Civil War.
It was one of the original three African Methodist Episcopal congregations in southern Anne Arundel Co. (Galilee on Wayson Road, Ebenezer in Galesville, and St. Paul’s).
St. Paul’s was founded by the McKail family in Shady Side.
Passing Through Shady Side by Ann Widdifield
Grave Matters: African-American and Slave Cemeteries, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, 2004, Anne Arundel Genealogical Society, p. 230
Directory of Maryland Burial Grounds, by the Genealogical Council of Maryland, 1996, p. 57.
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