Family Burial Plots
Family internment plots in Prince George’s County were a result of need. For families living on confined estates or ranches during the province’s initial settlement in the eighteenth century, it was regularly unfeasible to move the dead to the closest town or churchyard; thusly, the expired were entombed on the grower’s property. At whatever point conceivable, family entombment plots were put on the edge of a field or at the most noteworthy purpose of the property. Few Headstones shows the history of the person. At first, little wooden markers were utilized to signify the graves. Afterward, tombstones cut from sandstone, marble, or rock supplanted the wooden markers. Regularly, the cemetery would be encircled by a wood fence or stone divider. Overhanging trees were frequently planted close by, what’s more, other fancy plantings made a nursery like setting. Family internments on ranches and homesteads stayed regular through the Civil War as …
