Please do not rest on or touch any tilting grave markers or monuments. Over time, they have begun to lean and can topple which could cause severe injury or death.
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The Monocacy Cemetery is located in the rural crossroads community of Beallsville in western Montgomery County, Maryland. The site is associated with Montgomery County’s early religious history, Civil War activity in the area, and the commemoration of the Civil War. The cemetery reflects a broad spectrum of American funerary customs, with a wide variety of grave styles; from the simple graves of Revolutionary War patriots to the ornate burial plots of the Victorian era to the standardized markers of the twentieth century. The overall design of the cemetery reflects a transition from a small church burial ground, to a picturesque landscape influenced by the “rural” cemetery movement, to an early twentieth-century perpetual care lawn cemetery. The thirteen-acre cemetery continues to be used as an active burial ground.
Our Vision & Mission
The Monocacy Cemetery Company strives to provide a peaceful environment in which persons may grieve and reflect upon their departed loved ones, as well as a staff that provides high-quality cemetery services.
Since 2006, Monocacy Cemetery has been meticulously researched and documented, providing fully-digitized burial records, complete photographic resources for every burial location, entire family trees for each person buried, and a gallery of over 3,500 portraits of those buried here.
On November 5, 2016, we dedicated a Veterans Memorial to honor all of our service members buried throughout Monocacy Cemetery.
We have been kindly gifted with a sculpture by a local artist, Brendan O’Neill, who created the piece for his father-in-law who was once buried at Monocacy Cemetery. (He was relocated to another cemetery that didn’t allow standing grave markers). Mr. O’Neill was asked if his sculpture could be repurposed as a veteran memorial and he accepted our request.
On November 9, 2024, we dedicated the America250 Memorial Garden to honor the eight Revolutionary War Patriots buried at Monocacy Cemetery.
We are grateful to the Goshen Mills NSDAR Chapter and the Pleasant Plains of Damascus NSDAR Chapter for coordinating the installation of the bronze plaque.
The ceremony presentation may be viewed here.
Quick Links
- Monocacy Cemetery Map of all the burial lots
- Each burial posted on FindaGrave.com
- Military Veterans List
- C&O Canal Workers
- Monocacy Cemetery group on Facebook