Oak
Chapel United Methodist Church
Our Cemetery
Supposedly, the plot of land for the cemetery had been dedicated by the Mullican (Mulligan ? ,)family to be used "for the poor. " Little else is known about the origins of the church’s cemetery. There is no known record of all of the grave sites. The oldest grave marker gives the year of 1820, (birth.) The earliest burial on record is 1879.
In 1938, the church was given complete control over the cemetery, according to Quarterly Methodist Conference records. And in the 1950’s it was officially closed.
In the late 1980's Layhill Road was expanded from a 2 lane to a 4 lane road right in front of Oak Chapel. During this construction, several unmarked graves were disturbed and had to be moved. Also a number of headstones fell over or were broken as a result of the construction process.
An above ground inventory of gravestones was completed in 1961 and has served as the basis for our latest project of refurbishing the cemetery. In 2004, we received a grant from the Maryland History Foundation to assist us in identifying the graves in our cemetery. The process began with testing the ground for underground sonar images. Each sonar hit has been marked (flagged,) to create a grid map of these locations and we are attempting to match the names in our records with the unmarked locations.
As we make progress in our research we will post the results here for those researching family history.
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