Location Details
- Leidy RoadWestminster, MD 21157
The Ellsworth Cemetery was one of the main burial sites for African-Americans in Carroll County.
The Ellsworth Cemetery Company was incorporated in 1876 in order to “purchase and hold a Lot of Land in the vicinity of Westminster for a Cemetery for Burying therein of the Dead of the Colored People.” Several of the founders were Civil War veterans, and several veterans are buried there, including Daniel P. Warfield of the 29th Regiment United States Colored Troops (USCT), and Stephen H. Lytle of the 4th Regiment USCT. The one-acre site was not officially purchased by the Company until 1894, when it was sold for one dollar by the last will and testament of Elias Yingling, though it was used as an African-American cemetery before the official incorporation. The last burial in the cemetery was made in the early 1980s.
For Additional information
- Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties: http://www.mdihp.net/ (Select “Search by Property” tab, and enter CARR-767 in search box to right of “Site No.”) (Note: entry may not yet be up on Maryland Inventory website)
