Three known graves

One known veteran

Tombstones range from 1852-1853

There were possible 10-12 stones there around 1940. Around 1945 Thomas Dorsey and the child’s tombstone were still erect. In 1999, only a tombstone base was found. In 2013 a partial third stone was uncovered.

Inscribed by Will Mumford, date unknown, circa 1940’s.

The cemetery is listed in Anne Arundel Land Records GW 17 p. 0448-0449 in 1900. Supposedly there is an article in the Annapolis Capital newspaper from July 1952 about the cemetery.

The cemetery is located in the Rolling Knolls community, on a hillside in the woods between the Seventh Day Adventist Church and the field at the Rolling Knolls Elementary School . 

Possibly a slave cemetery

An August 1968 plat layout for the Rolling Knolls development cemetery shows a 15-foot right-of-way and a triangular wedge approximately one-half acre containing the cemetery..  The Seventh Day Adventist Church bought three acres in the 1960’s.    The land was originally part of the Dorsey plantation known as “Hockley-in-the-Hole”.  “Old Mrs. Dorsey” who lived at Hockley indicated that Major Dorsey was buried in the old slave cemetery. He supposedly married a widow whose children disliked him and when he died they buried him in the slave cemetery. There were possible 10-12 stones there around 1940.

 

The cemetery is listed in Anne Arundel Land Records GW 17 p. 0448-0449 in 1900.

There is believed to be an article in the Annapolis Capital newspaper from July 1952 about the cemetery.