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Dennis Family Cemetery (Shady Side)
(Anne Arundel)
South side of Columbia Beach Road. in the woods
Shady Side, MD 20764
Tombstones range from 1873-1894
8 known individuals,four others with footstones only
No known veterans
An archeological survey has been performed at this site
African-American cemetery
Many unmarked wooden posts, crosses and sunken graves
.Information  is published in “Sedonia Dennis Memoirs” believed held by the Sharp Street Church archives in Baltimore.
The cemetery appears in the deed books (Liber 1875/66 and plat Book 10:29#570.
A reference is made to Elizabeth Dennis’ tombstone being one of the earliest in the area in Spirit of Shady Side, Pensinsula Life, 1664-1984 by Virginia White Fitz, p. 61