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Rogers Cemetery (also called Antioch Cemetery), Duette, Manatee County, Florida
Rogers Cemetery is a private family cemetery among citrus groves in Duette, east of Parrish and north of Myakka City. (It is not open to the public.)
From SR 62, it's 1.4 miles north on Saffold Road to Rogers Road, then eastward from Rogers Road -- a winding shell road. At the end, the citrus groves give way to an untouched paradise of huge, old sand pines and scrub oaks. The cemetery is in a clearing of pure white sugar sand. A sign "Antioch Cemetery" is mounted on a covered shelter nearby. The cemetery is approx. 108' x 108' and surrounded by field fencing with metal posts.
Some grave sites are marked with metal posts, or pieces of stone, or illegible markers. Each has a carefully-sculpted mound of white sand. The legible markers are listed below:
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| Name |
Dates |
Inscription |
Remarks |
| Addie | 11/10/1875 - 9/5/1904 | "In Memory of Addie" | |
| Babington, Hazel J. | 4/9/1938/7/6/1979 | | |
| Babington, John W. | 8/18/1937 - 4/9/1996 | | |
| Groston, David B. | 8/27/1972 - 8/30/1971 | | |
| Harrell, Green B. | 2/2/1819 - 12/21/1888 | "He is not dead, but sleepeth" | |
| Harrell, Mary | 12/3/1827 - 10/5/1902 | | |
| Matilda | 2/19/1845 - 4/19/1906 | "wife of --" | |
| Muterspaugh, Myrtle | 1914 - 1990 | | |
| Muterspaugh, Tony | 1912 - 1973 | | |
| Peters, James | 3/24/1888 - 11/4/1894 | | |
| Peters, Leroy | 1/8/1892 - 10/28/1892 | | |
| Rogers, Infants | | "Infants of Mrs. & Mrs. J.M. Rogers" | |
| Rogers, Alison | 6/9/1924 - 5/16/1925 | | |
| Rogers, Benjamin Franklin | 7/7/1928 - 11/25/1995 | "Red" | |
| Rogers, Charles Mandus | 10/27/1881 - 6/28/1958 | | |
| Rogers, Charles Murry | 1913 - 1935 | | |
| Rogers, Ella Lee | 2/5/1898 - 11/11/1940 | | |
| Rogers, Ethel | 10/9/1903 - June, 1901 | | |
| Rogers, James Harris | 8/4/1921 - 5/10/2001 | "Pvt. US Army WWII" | |
| Rogers, James Henry | 10/16/1905 - 4/6/1975 | | |
Rogers, James M. | 5/8/1825 - 10/3/1900 | "Pvt. Co. K, 10 Fla. Infantry, Confederate States Army" | |
| Rogers, John K. | 8/19/1907 - 10/5/1908 | | |
| Rogers, John M. | 2/18/1875 - 6/17/1941 | | |
| Rogers, Josiah H. | 10/8/1868 - 8/20/1939 | | |
| Rogers, Kyleen Mary Clyatt | 1/26/1933 - 12/10/1998 | | |
| Rogers, Mary | 8/25/1877 - 5/29/1909 | | |
| Rogers, Nanama | 2/26/1908 - 9/28/1924 | | |
| Rogers, Nancy | 7/10/1837 - 11/15/1920 | "A Tender Mother and Faithful Friend" | |
| Rogers, R.A. | 10/5/1877 - 10/27/1918 | | |
| Rogers, Randolph A. | 1950 - 1996 | | |
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Rogers, Sarah Jane | 6/11/1859 - 10/26/1900 | | w/o E.G. Rogers |
| Rogers, Eli Greenberry | 10/1/1855 - 9/18/1915 | At Rest in the New Zion Cemetery, Ona, Florida" | h/o Sarah Jane Keen Rogers |
| Rogers, Wash Anna | 11/13/1887 - 3/25/1935 | | |
| Shaw, Charley Paul | 7/27/1925 - 2/14/1926 | | |
| Thomas, F. Christine | 10/28/1941 - 11/11/1941 | | |
| Thomas, Frank R. | 1/28/1900 - 9/11/1958 | | |
| Thomas, Vera C. | 6/13/1920 - 3/23/1998 | | |
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