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Sulpher/Sulfer Springs M.E. Church Cemetery/Ft. Meade #4 (Anne Arundel) Fox Lane Fort George G. Meade, MD 20755 aka Tank Cemetery
Located by taking Reece Road to Fox Lane to the end. It is behind BLDG 1912. It is on a hill up an asphalt drive.
Tombstones range from 1860-2000
42 graves, 30 names listed, 25 tombstones many of the stones are broken or only have the base present.
Military notations-
1. Grave 5/1 Co F 1st MD Infantry
2. Grave 1/3 PVT US Army WWII (bronze plaque)
3. Grave 2/4a Military stone
The church and cemetery were purchased by the U. S. government during World War I for camp Meade. The congregation merged with the Prospect M.E. Church in Severn and became Severn United Methodist Church.
Cemetery Inscriptions of Anne Arundel County, Vol. 2, by the anne Arundel Genealogical Society, copyright 1987, p. 73
Directory of Maryland Burial Grounds by the Genealogical Council of Maryland, published in 1996, p. 46
Census of Cemeteries Located on Fort George G. Meade Military Reservation, July 1, 1977, by the Boy Scouts of America
Census of Cemeteries Located on Fort George G, Meade Military Reservation, July 1 1988, by the Boy Scouts of America, p. 35.
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