Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery is an historic

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church and cemetery located at

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, United States.

History

Christ Church is the parish church of Great Choptank Parish, founded in 1692 as one of the List of original 30 Anglican parishes in the Province of Maryland. The church structure, designed by noted Baltimore architect Charles E. Cassell and built between 1883 and 1884, is a large

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plan. The adjoining cemetery is enclosed on three sides by a brick wall, and burials therein date from 1674 to the present. Church parishioners included five governors of Maryland, a state Attorney General, an Ambassador to the Netherlands, local judges and lawyers and several U.S. Congressmen, where most are buried. Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery was listed on the

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in 1984.

Notable interments

Maryland governors

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(1797–98) * Charles Goldsborough (1819) * Henry Lloyd (1885–88) *

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(1912–16) * Emerson C. Harrington (1916–20).

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– delegate to the

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. * William A. Sulivane – State Boundary Commissioner for Dorchester County (appointed 1865). Grandson of James Sulivane. * Congressman Daniel Maynadier Henry

References

External links

* , including undated photo, at Maryland Historical Trust
Christ Episcopal Church website
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