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Old Wright Cemetery (Brooklyn) (historic)
(Anne Arundel)
Former cemetery location
Brooklyn [Now Baltimore City], MD 21225
The cemetery was located on a triangle of land fronted by Hanover Street with Frankfurst Avenue on the left side and Chesapeake Avenue on the right side,
Tombstones range from 1819-1832
Two known burials
No known veterans

Formerly located on triangle of land fronted by Hanover Street with Frankfurt Avenue on the left side and Chesapeake Avenue on the right side.  Land was formerly owned by the John H. Geis Lumber Company.Mr. Geis bought an acre of land from Mr. Mewshaw in the late 1800’s to build his business. Mr. Geis added to this land making four acres of land by the 1930’s.  It is believed that in acquiring the land, Mr. Geis probably found the small cemetery.  He had the remains and gravestones removed to Cedar Hill Cemetery, Section K, Lot 223, grave 4 on May 30, 1907. 

Cedar Hill Cemetery Brooklyn Park, Maryland, Gravestone Inscriptions, Vol. I, by Audrey M. Bagby and Betty L. deKeyser for the Anne Arundel Genealogical Society, published 1999, p. 7.