St. Margaret's Episcopal Church website

St. Margaret's Episcopal Church Cemetery on Find A Grave

 

ADC Map Reference 21-D/2

 

Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties:   AA-318

Anne Arundel Genealogical Society’s Cemetery Inscriptions, Vol. 2, Anne Arundel Genealogical Society, copyright 1987, p. 137.

Tombstones date from 1837-present
Burials include WWI and WWII veterans
Approximately 250 burials
There is a newly added columbarium
This church was one of 4 parishes, (Broad Neck’s St. Margaret’s in Westminster Towne (now Cape St. Claire).  The first parishioners shared a meeting hall on the south banks of the Magothy River near Deep Creek.  
The first church building was erected in 1695 in what is now Cape St. Claire, perhaps on the Magothy River near Persimmon Point.
The church expanded and built a brick church in 1734 on the north side of the Severn River near what is now Winchester. It remained there during the French and Indian War and the American Revolution.  
When Maryland’s Gov. Robert Eden, a staunch British loyalist, died in Annapolis in 1784, St. Anne’s Church refused him burial.  His body was buried at midnight, without a service, beneath the chancel of St. Margaret’s Church.  His body was later exhumed and buried at St. Anne’s in 1923.  
The current church was built in 1827.
 

Photo by Beverly Davis Valcovic

St. Margaret's Episcopal Church