John Wesley Waterbury United Methodist Church Cemetery on Find A Grave

 

Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties:  AA-232

 

African-American cemetery

84 known individuals, at least 124 graves
Tombstones range from 1881-1984
Tombstones include Civil War, WWI, WWII, and Korean veterans

The church was organized in 1849 and rebuilt in 1944.  The original church was erected in 1901.  Before the church was built, these African-American people worshiped in a balcony in the white church known as Cross Roads Church (now Baldwin Memorial United Methodist Church). Several buildings were lost to fire or weather in the 1800’s according to newspaper article of July 21, 1993 (Annapolis, The Capital.)  This article also indicates that at least two slaves were buried in the cemetery

Anne Arundel Cemetery Inscriptions of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Vol. 2, by the Anne Arundel Genealogical Society, 1987, p. 1
Directory of Maryland Burial Grounds by the Genealogical Council of Maryland, 1996, p. 60
Crownsville Cemeteries by Emily Holland Peake, by Longview Cottage Publications, 2002, p. 16. 

Maryland Historic Trust AA-738
African-American and Slave Cemeteries in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, by the Anne Arundel Genealogical Society, 2004, p. 72
 

Photo bt Beverly Davis Valcovic

John Wesley Waterbury UMC Cemetery