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Bryan-Smith Graves
(Anne Arundel)
Edgewater, MD 21037 USA
The cemetery is located on private property owned by John Colhoun Center (2022). It is located on the west side of Cheston Creek.
African-American cemetery.  
Tombstones range from 1855-1869
Two known burials
Apparently this cemetery was originally enclosed within a wrought iron fence.
This is a black slave cemetery with several graves according to former property owner John Colhoun; however, 1860 census records show James Bryan as a free black farmhand. His household included Mary Dean (25), London Steuart (75), Rachel Neal (70), Moses Smith (60), Jerry Smith (50), James Smith (27), and Sophia Smith (25)-all black and all farmhands and all born in Maryland.
Mention of the cemetery appears in the Letters from Lost Towns newsletter, Summer 2010, p. 5.