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Dotson/Dodson Family Cemetery
(Anne Arundel)
Anon Lane
Glen Burnie, MD
1906-1996
African-American Cemetery
28 graves, 29 names listed
Veterans- U. S. Air Force, US-CID INF Civil War, U. S. Army Vietnam
The cemetery was begun three months after the end of the Civil War in July 1865 by William Clarence Dodson, Sr. who was born a slave in the Mount Tabor community, ran away from his owners in 1861, changed his last name from Dodson, and joined the Union Army as a private in Co. H, 29th U. S. C.T..  The cemetery is still in use in 2005.  An additional grave was found when a chain link fence around the cemetery was installed. 
The pension document of William Dodson from the Civil War and photograph are on file. 
African-American and Slave Cemeteries in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, 2004, Anne Arundel Genealogical Society, 2004, p. 112.