Mezick Family Graveyard, Capitola, Tyaskin District #3, Wicomico Co., MD

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MEZICK FAMILY GRAVEYARD

This transcription was done in November of 1987 by my late Uncle Eugene Mezick. He said at 
that time that these were the graves he could see "through the briars and two feet of ivy". 
Since that time, the conditions have declined even further, to the point that an attempt to 
access the graves to do a complete transcription of the stones was impossible to accomplish 
in August, 1997. The list has been supplemented by Hobart Hughes, who supplied a more complete 
listing in April, 1995, but it still may not be complete, due to the overgrown conditions. 
This little cemetery lies back some distance from the south side of Capitola Road, 0.8 miles 
west of Whitehaven Road.



    "God keep his soul! his bones were long since laid
    Among the sunken gravestones in the shade
    Of those dark-lichened rocks, that wall around
    The family burying-ground with cedars crowned:
    Where bristling teasel and the brier combine
    With clambering wood-rose and the wildgrape-vine
    To hide the stone whereon his name and dates
    Neglect, with mossy hand, obliterates." 

        from "The Old Water Mill" by Madison Cawein




    Francis Mezick 1805 - 1863 (Francis was the son of Elihu Jr. and Leah [Dougherty] Mezick.)

    Ann Mezick 1812 - 1883 (I believe this is Sarah Anne Denson Mezick, wife of Francis.) 

    John C. D. Mezick 1846 - 1903 (This was John Cadmus D. Mezick, son of Francis and Sarah 
Anne [Denson] Mezick.)

    Easter L. Mezick b. Oct. 28, 1857, d. May 3, 1907 (Wife of John C. D., her name is shown 
in some records as "Hester". Her maiden name was Esther L. Davis.)

    Albert E. Mezick 1842 - 1917 (Albert Emery Mezick, son of Francis and Sarah Anne [Denson] 
Mezick.)

    Julia Mezick 1859 - 1942 (Julia Elizabeth Dickerson Mezick, wife of Albert.)

    Sarah Mezick 1836 - 1905 (my Uncle Gene wrote this as "Sarah Mezick + old maid". Does this 
mean that her headstone identified her as an old maid? She was daughter of Francis and Sarah 
Anne [Denson] Mezick.)

    Ruby Mezick 1881 - 1883 

    Ira B. Mezick, b. May 10, 1879, d. Jan. 2, 1954 (Ira Mezick was a nationally-known 
antiques expert who lived next door to the farm upon which this graveyard is located. He was 
the son of John C. D. and Esther L. [Davis] Mezick.)

    Lester L. Mezick, b. Oct. 28, 1857, d. May 3, 1907

    Thomas L. Mezick, b. Sep. 10, 1844 - (no death date?)

    Annie Mezick, wife of Thomas L., b. Apr. 2, 1853, d. Dec. 3, 1907

    Vaughn Mezick, son of Thomas L. & Annie Mezick, b. Dec. 21, 1890, d. Jul. 23 (or 28?), 1893

    William Wainwright, b. Aug. 23, 1858, d. Jul. 29, 1938 (Could be William Henry Wainwright, 
a son of John Cannon and Rose [Mathews] Wainwright) 

    J. Denson, b. Mar. 21, 1850, d. Jun. 21, 1914

    S. J. Denson, b. Nov. 1, 1850, d. Jan. 31, 1930

    J. Eldridge Denson, b. Feb. 9, 1876, d. Jul. 12, 1958 (Eldridge Denson was known as 
"Bud El")


The only children of Francis and Sarah Anne (Denson) Mezick who are not buried here are:

    Isaac Francis Mezick, 1839 - 1923, who married Elizabeth Jane White and is buried at St. 
Johns Methodist Church in Fruitland
    Martha A. Mezick, b. 1834, d. ??. I've never come across information on who she married, 
when she died, or where she is buried. 

© 1999 Shari Handley