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.

"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.

Typescript extract of genealogical data from tombstone inscriptions in the following cemeteries: Presbyterian Church at Churchville, Calvary Methodist Church, Watters Meeting House at Thomas Run, Deer Creek Harmony Presbyterian Church, Mount Carmel Methodist Church at Emmorton, Episcopal Church at Churchville, Smith - Coale Private Cemetery, Smith's Chappel Methodist Church, and Cokesbury Methodist Church at Abington. Includes a black and white photograph of historic marker for Old Post Road established 1666 and Cokesbury College.

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

These records were taken from the microfilm copies of the original records found in the Maryland State Archives Special Collections and from cemetery records maintained by the Harford County Historical Society. "While there is a gap in the registers from 1800 to 1834, the later records do contain some information for that time period, mainly birth dates and/or ages. To help fill this gap, I [the author] decided to include all the data for the hundred year period from 1820 to 1920 that pertained to births, baptisms (including sponsors), marriages, confirmations, communicants (received and removed), deaths and burials. From cemetery records maintained at the Historical Society of Harford County, plus several visits I made to the Old Spesutia Church Cemetery in Perryman, I supplemented the aforementioned data with information copied from tombstone inscriptions." "Essentially, the information found in the registers and cemetery records has been gleaned, alphabetized by the person's last name, and in many cases combined when they pertain to a specific individual. In other words, instead of having several entries scattered throughout the book for one person's baptism, confirmation, marriage, and burial, this information has been pulled together into one paragraph about that individual." Every entry is followed by the source and/or page number.