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St. John's Church Cemetery (historic)
(Anne Arundel)
1427 Snug Harbor Road
Shady Side, Maryland 20764
Old St. John’s Church Cemetery on FindAGrave

Now known as St. John’s Episcopal Church Cemetery, House of Prayer Cemetery, Judah Temple Ministries Cemetery

Tombstones range from 1896-1977
Approximately 36 burials
Military veterans buried here

In 2011 quite a bit of the cemetery had been destroyed (stones broken, knocked off bases, and sunken) due to a tree having fallen on the cemetery.
Land to be set aside for a mission chapel or church and burial grounds is included in 1891 and 1897 deeds.
The cemetery is referenced in two Anne Arundel County deeds: Liber GW6, folio 192 (1897) and Liber 39 folio 318 (1891).
Southern Anne Arundel County Tombstone Inscriptions by the Marlborough Towne chapter of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), 1971, p. 192
Directory of Maryland Burial Grounds, the Genealogical Council of Maryland, 1996, p. 70.