"A long unused Dorsey Family burial ground is located in Valley Mede, north of Rt #40, in the second District of Howard County on what was once the estate 'Arcadia'. The plot, enclosed by a sturdy stone wall, a century ago contained four generations of Dorseys in elaborate table-top tombs. Today [1959] the graveyard is neglected and overgrown, the wall tumbling down, and the tombs to badly vandalized that scarcely a stone is unbroken. In the late 1700's Caleb Dorsey, a surveyor, who signed himself 'of Thomas' built the original frame house at 'Arcadia', which stood (in recent years covered with asbestos shingle) until a short time ago when it was demolished to make way for a housing development. Still standing slightly to the south of the burial ground is the well preserved 'Brick House on the Pike', built by a son of Caleb Dorsey of Thomas, and presently the home of Mr and Mrs Eric Lassotavitch."

TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS
FROM A FEW
CEMETERIES IN HOWARD COUNTY, MARYLAND

recorded 1959 by the Gen.Rec.Com.,Col.Thos.Dorsey Chap.D.A.R.

reprinted 1991 by the Howard County Genealogical Society

"A long unused Dorsey Family burial ground is located in Valley Mede, north of Rt #40, in the second District of Howard County on what was once the estate 'Arcadia'. The plot, enclosed by a sturdy stone wall, a century ago contained four generations of Dorseys in elaborate table-top tombs. Today [1959] the graveyard is neglected and overgrown, the wall tumbling down, and the tombs to badly vandalized that scarcely a stone is unbroken. In the late 1700's Caleb Dorsey, a surveyor, who signed himself 'of Thomas' built the original frame house at 'Arcadia', which stood (in recent years covered with asbestos shingle) until a short time ago when it was demolished to make way for a housing development. Still standing slightly to the south of the burial ground is the well preserved 'Brick House on the Pike', built by a son of Caleb Dorsey of Thomas, and presently the home of Mr and Mrs Eric Lassotavitch."

TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS
FROM A FEW
CEMETERIES IN HOWARD COUNTY, MARYLAND

recorded 1959 by the Gen.Rec.Com.,Col.Thos.Dorsey Chap.D.A.R.

reprinted 1991 by the Howard County Genealogical Society