Dorchester Graves is the fruit of a lifelong interest in cemeteries, graveyards, family plots, and church yards.
With an interest in genealogy learned from my grandmother and a lifelong interest in photographing these beautiful, serene places of rest and remembrance, sharing this passion was the next logical step. After researching the family tree and coming up with some missing branches in a family that never ventured outside of the county until the 1940’s I thought locating the missing members would be a simple task.
Simple until you find out that if the stones weren’t washed away by rising tides that they were moved, damaged, destroyed, overgrown, lost to marshland, or tilled under for agriculture. So this website will chronicle my attempts to plot these resting places on a map for posterity.
Dorchester Graves 
What a wonderful site! Your photographs capture well the sense of family history and remembrance eroding with time. I have researched Dorchester County Genealogy and my own family history for decades. One thing I have learned is that any grave that appears old, might be gone entirely in the span of a decade. I have been desperately trying to zoom in on many of the photographs on this site to record names and birth and death information as these stones are often the last surviving records of these people’s lives. Is there a way through collaboration we can record even some of the data on the stones from your photographic endeavors? Time is quickly eroding each and every stone and these cemeteries you have found are not often not documented in other places.
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Many of these stones are documented in the Dorchester County Tombstone Compendium. A copy of this can be viewed at the Dorchester County Historical Society. My project is concerned with WHERE these sites are, the compendium is focused on WHAT information is carved on the stones.
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I dont know if you came across my book while doing your research ‘Grave Memories’ but it might be helpful with some of the cemeteries. It was a passion of mine back in 2000 as I see it is of yours now
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Thank you so much! I will definitely be looking into it!!! I found out over the course of this project that there are so many people interested, that want to help. They just need a way to contribute.
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I don’t know if you have this or not. I have GPS coordinates for a Slacum family graveyards. These people are related to my mother-in-law, Beverly Sarah Slacum (b. 1923, daughter of Raymond J Slacum and Lottie M Lord) of Cambridge. The family graveyard is back in a field, about 400 feet from Andrews Rd, east of the intersection with Maple Dam Rd. in Dorchester County. The GPS coordinates are 38.354935 N Lat., 76.0974871 W Long (38.354935, -76.0974871)
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Thank you Lawrence! We are actually heading down south for a field collection day tomorrow so I will make sure we stop at your family site!
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Thank you for this blog! I have been researching the North line for about 3 years and cemeteries seem to be the key to the missing branches.
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Colleen, Thank you for your interest and support! Did you see our post about the three brothers in the War of 1812 on the Heroes and History blog? They were North’s!
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