"This volume contains over 130 burial sites in Harford County, Maryland. Additional burial information has been gleaned from extant newspapers, death certificate, some church records, family histories and local histories. Annotations have also been inserted [in brackets] within the text in an effort to further identify those buried here. Cemeteries and gravesite entries vary in length and may contain the site's location (if known), description, or interesting tidbits about the site's history or genealogy. This revised edition has been prepared with private gravesites found since the original edition was published in 2016. A full-name and location index adds to the value of the work."--Page 4 of cover.

The author has included information from over 120 family cemeteries and grave sites located in Harford County, Maryland. Some of these sites no longer exist, but the information contained within them was preserved for genealogists and historians. Other sites are now located on private property and cannot be viewed any longer. This volume should prove to be invaluable for those researching in Harford County, Maryland.

There are twenty-three African American cemeteries in Harford County, Maryland. Some of the tombstones and grave markers were copied by various people at times since the 1960s and the information was filed with the Historical Society of Harford County; however, the author realized that these lists were incomplete and an update was needed. In 2018 the author visited these African American cemeteries and copied every tombstone and grave marker he could find. Interestingly, some of the markers copied previously were not found and others had been overlooked. Many of those interred did not have a tombstone and while some had temporary funeral home markers, others had handmade wooden crosses and even a few were handwritten on flat cement slabs. Many inscriptions included nicknames, Biblical quotes, poetic verses, photographs, images, and family relationships. Thousands were buried without any markers of any kind being placed on their graves. To compensate for this lack of information, the author conducted additional research and found more burials in some death certificates, some obituaries, some extant funeral home records, namely J. A. Pennington in Havre de Grace and E. G. Kurtz in Jarrettsville, and a few monuments made by the J. C. Taylor Marble Co. His efforts resulted in 6,854 burials being identified and collected for this book, which by no means contains all of the burials in the African American cemeteries in Harford County, Maryland, but it goes a long way in helping to identify many of the people who are buried here. This work has been compiled as a research tool to be used in assisting family history researchers in locating the graves and learning more about their departed ancestors. It is more than a listing of names and dates since most contain family relationships and biographical information, including civic and military service in many cases. It is arranged alphabetically, which precludes the need for a separate index, and at the end of each entry the name of the cemetery is indicated in brackets. Names that appear on the same tombstone or obelisk are noted within the text. Descriptions of the cemeteries are included in the Introduction. 2022, 81/2x11, paper, alphabetical, 442 pp

This reference includes church, public and private Charles County, Maryland cemeteries and burial sites. It includes names, dates and other inscriptions found on the headstones, markers and other resources.