Skip to the content

The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission

Parks
Planning
Planning Board

News Events

Things To Do
- Activities & Events
- Additional Links
Parks, Trails & Facilities
- Parks, Trails & Facilities Directory
- Additional Links
Permits & Rentals
- Permits & Rentals
- Additional Links
Preservation & Sustainability
- Preservation & Sustainability
- Additional Links
Park Planning & Projects
- Park Planning & Projects
- Additional Links
Support Parks
- Support the Parks
- Additional Links
About
- About the Parks
- Additional Links

Lee (Sarah) Family Cemetery

Program Highlights Menu

Program Highlights

History in the Parks
Archaeology Program
Archaeology Program – Volunteer Opportunities and Camps
Historic Sites Group Tours & School Fieldtrips
Cemetery Program
Bready Family Cemetery
Browning Family Cemetery
Cooke Family Cemetery
Darne Family Cemetery
Dwyer Family Cemetery
Gott Family Cemetery
Green Farm Cemetery
Harding Family Cemetery
Howes Family Cemetery
Jerusalem-Mt. Pleasant Methodist Church Cemetery
Lee (Sarah) Family Cemetery
Littlefield-Soper Family Cemetery
Montgomery Chapel Cemetery
Prather Family Cemetery
River Road Moses/White’s Tabernacle Cemetery
Young Family Cemetery
Remarkable Montgomery: Untold Stories

Granite marker for Lee Family Cemetery. Sarah Lee and her family received their freedom and 137 acres of land by the will of Evan Shaw 1987. located in the center of burial mount

Lee (Sarah) Family Cemetery

RESEARCH: The following information was recorded as part of the Montgomery County Cemetery Inventory Revisited Project in 2018. Documentation from this effort is provided below, and generated from the original record currently managed by the Historic Preservation Office in the M-NCPPC Planning Department.

Inventory ID: 199
Alternate Name: none provided.
Address: 3039 Fairland Road, Silver Spring

Google Maps GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 39.063869 Longitude: -76.949194
Montgomery Parks Dynamic Map App
Find a grave Cemetery 2658977

Burial Site Type: Family, African American

Evaluation

Setting/Location description: Suburban, Montgomery County Park
General Condition: Excellent
Is there a formal entrance? Yes
Accessibility: By Foot
Is cemetery active? No
Is there a cemetery sign? Yes
Is cemetery being maintained? Yes
Are there visible markers? Yes
Approximate Number of burials/visible markers: 1
Date Ranges: 1857

Description

Located in open field, accessible along paved pathway from parking lot.
Surrounded by black aluminum fence.
Two benches outside gate.
Granite sign with minimal information located in center of burial mound.

Sources

Cite sources used and resources available: None provided amended 5/8/2023.

Please consult with the Montgomery County Planning Department, Historic Preservation Office

Comments

Suggestions for Follow-Up:
Reported damaged areas of fence to Montgomery Parks
Safety issues, invasive vegetation removal, fence removal/restoration, signage, trash, erosion, vandalism: Very well kept
Significance of this cemetery:
Cemetery located on land given to a former slave, Sarah Lee, and her family.
A new cemetery sign was added at the entrance gate by Ella LaGrange (age 12) in December 2018 because people were allowing their dogs to use it as a dog park! Ella.lagrange@icloud.com

Burial Site Contact

Burial Stewart: Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission
Relationship to Burial Site: Custodian
Advocacy Contact: jamie.kuhns@montgomeryparks.org

(amended 5.8.2024 Jamie L. Ferguson)
Address: Parkside Headquarters, 9500 Brunett Avenue

(amended 5.8.2023, 6700 Needwood Rd.)
Phone: 301.650.4362 (amended 5.8.2023, 301.495.2595)
City: Silver Spring (amended 5.8.2023, Derwood)
State: Maryland
Zip Code: 20901 (amended 5.8.2023, 20855)
Burial Site Supervisor Name: Vivian Eicke
Survey Date: May 21, 2018
Time Spent: 15 minutes.
Address: not provided
Email: not provided
Photographer: Vivian Eicke

2425 Reedie Drive, 12th Floor
Wheaton, MD 20902

Call Montgomery Parks Customer Service: (301) 495-2595

Contact Us
Employment Opportunities
ADA Accessibility
Terms & Privacy
Park Police
Rules & Regulations
Volunteer Services Office (VSO)
Permits & Rentals
Integrated Pest Management Program & Pesticide Use
Newsletter Sign Up
Weather Alerts

F
T
I
Y
R