Old Manatee Burying Ground |
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Manatee Burying Ground is at 15th Street East and 6th Avenue, Bradenton. The cemetery gate is locked; the key may be obtained from personnel at Manatee Village Historical Park across the street.
Old cedars and sprawling oaks cover the cemetery grounds.A wrought iron arch at the entry way says, “1850 Manatee Burying Ground.” This message is etched in the concrete pillar supporting the archway:
This memorial arch, erected on this historic spot through the efforts of the Judah P. Benjamin Chapter No. 1545, United Daughters of the Confederacy of Bradenton, Florida in honor of the many soldiers and civilians connected with the development of this section and the State of Florida who are buried here.
Erected December 1958 - Dedicated January 1959
An historical marker on the cemetery grounds has this message:
This is one of the oldest organized burying grounds on the Gulf Coast of Florida.The property was deeded on May 30 1850, and since 1892 only immediate members of families already interred here can be buried in the cemetery.The property is now owned by the City of Bradenton.
Buried in this cemetery are members of Florida pioneer families, soldiers of the Seminole Indian Wars and of the Confederate and Union forces.Numbered among these are three members of the Florida Secession Convention –
Ezekiel Glazier, James G. Cooper, and Dr. John C. Pelot, temporary Chairman of the Convention – and Brig. Gen. John Riggin, aide to General Ulysses S. Grant.
Some graves are unmarked; others have been vandalized in years past. Cathy Slusser, Supervisor, Manatee County Clerk of Circuit Court, Department of Historical Resources, provided some of the data from which this list of graves was compiled:
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| Name |
Dates |
Inscription |
Remarks |
| Bartholomew, Paul | 1864 - 1889 | | |
| Carter, Sgt. B.F. | | | “Co. L. 1st M.E. Cav.” |
| Clark, Henry A. | | | “Co. A. Munnerlyns Brig. C.S.A.” |
| Clark, Henry S. | D/ July 27, 1850 | | “of Canton, N.Y.,""on his 42nd Yr.” |
| Cooper, Pharaba Jane Vaughn | 9/27/1812 - 1/9/1899 | | “Daughter of a Revolutionary Soldier” |
| Cooper, James Gignilliat | 9/8/1801 - 6/20/1879 | | Footstone: “Mem. Fla. Secession Con., C.S.A.” |
| Crews, --- | | | |
| Crowder, J.R., Rev. | 8/5/1845 - 11/1/1887 | | “Born in Paris, Tenn.” |
| Cunliffe, Nancy J. | d/ 4/5/1888 | | “Aged 68 yrs., 4 mos. and 26 days” |
| Curry, Mr. Ben S. | | | |
| Curry, John | 1/25/1811 - 11/29/1882 | | “Born Green Turtle Key” |
| Curry, Julia | d/ 1924 | | |
| Curry, Mary Ward | 12/12/1814 - 9/5/1883 | | “Born at Harbor Island, Bahamas, Departed Life Manatee, Wife of John Curry” |
| Gates, Christianna R. | 9/14/1850 - 1/6/1892 | | |
| Gates, Edward F., Rev. | 9/8/1836 - 7/26/1923 | | |
| Gates, Euphemia T. | 1/11/1839 - 12/20/1922 | | “Wife of Rev. Edward F. Gates” |
| Gates, Eva May | 1875 - 1967 | | |
| Gates, John W. | 7/20/1887 - 6/11/1899 | | “Son of J. and C.R. Gates, The Idol of His Family” |
| Gates, Josiah | 11/15/1802 - 10/3/1871 | | |
| Gates, Josiah | 1/13/1848 - 11/29/1924 | | “He Lived For Others” |
| Gates, Mary M. | 10/6/1816 - 10/10/1896 | | “Wife of Josiah Gates” |
| Glazier, Ezekiel | d/ 2/14/1888 | “Aged 73 Years” | Footstone: “Ezekiel Glazier, Mem. Fla. Succession Con. CSA” |
| Glazier, Margaret S. | 12/2/1858 - 9/18/1896 “Wife of Henry T. Glazier” |
| Greer, Sgt. Rob’t. | | | “Co. K 8th MO., S.M. Cav.” |
| Griffin, Permelia | d/ 4/18/1857 | “Aged 62 Years" | "Wife of Apollos Griffin” |
| Harllee, Annie Ward | 8/28/1872 - 2/22/1874 | | “Daughter of J.W. and M.E. Harllee” |
| Harllee, J.W. | 8/12/1837 - 12/20/1887 | “Capt. John” | “Born in S.C.” Footstone: “Haygood Brigadier C.S.A.” |
| Harllee, Mary | 11/7/1852 - 9/15/1879 | | “Born in Key West” |
| Harllee, Mary Elizabeth | 4/2/1875 - 5/8/1875 | | “Daughter of J.W. and M.E. Harllee” |
| Harllee, Robert | 7/5/1876 - 7/11/1876 | | “Son of J.W. and M.E. Harllee” |
| Harllee, Welton Stewart | 12/21/1880 - 2/22/1881 | | “Son of P.S. and A.N. Harllee” |
| Hedgcoxe, Oliver | d/ 1/6/1876 | “Aged 19 Years” | |
| Helveston, James H. | | | “Spencer Co., C.S.A., How Strange It Seems, With So Much Gone of Life and Love to Still Live On” |
| Helveston, Lula | 1833 - 1923 | | “Wife” |
| Johnson, Enos E. | 5/25/1837 - 11/9/1887 “Our Father, Born at Erie, Indiana” |
| Johnson, James Albert | 10/6/1881 - 10/16/1896 “Son of Mary A. and Enos E. Johnson” |
| Johnson, Mary A. Wood | 7/24/1841 - 5/15/1905 “Wife of Enos Emory Johnson” |
| Jones, Rosa M. | 11/11/1873 - 7/24/1892 | | |
| Jones, W.A. | 11/18/1867 - 9/19/1890 “Born in Iowa City, died in Manatee” |
| Lloyd, Daniel | 8/6/1837 - 6/15/1904 “Born at York, England, died at Manatee” |
| Lloyd, Hannah A. | 2/28/1857 - 4/1/1945 “Mother” |
| Lloyd, Little Hannah | | | |
| Lloyd, Maria Belle Cal. | | | |
| Mitchell, Samuel | 8/18/1880 - 8/4/1883 “Son of S. and J.C. Mitchell, Little Samuel Has Gone to Rest” |
| Mitchell, Thomas Francis | 10/28/1865 - 4/24/1895 | | “Age 29 Years, 5 mo. and 25 ds. Son of Samuel and Jane C. Mitchell” |
| Pelot, John C. M.D. | | | |
| Pelot, John Cooper | d/ 2/27/1879 | | Footstone: “Pres. Fla. Secession Con. C.S.A.” |
| Pettigrew, Mary | d/ 8/4/1881 | | “Our Mary, Daughter of A.J. and Christine Pettigrew, Aged 4 Months and 25 Days” |
| Riggin, John | 1835 - 1886 | | Footstone: “John Riggin, Jr. Brig. Gen. U.S. Army ,Additional Aide De-Camp to Maj. Gen. U.S. Grant” |
| Robinson, A. A., Rev. | 10/29/1815 - 10/29/1892 | | |
| Robinson, Lucy Daniels | d/ 6/4/1908 | | “Wife of A.A. Robinson of Fla. Conference” |
| Robinson, Rebecca A. | 4/12/1819 - 8/28/1879 | | “Born Washington, Wilkes Co., Ga., Wife of A.A. Robinson” |
| Rupert, Benjm. F. | 2/1827 - 2/1849 | | |
| Saunders, Sid. P. | 7/23/1857 - 2/19/1879 | | |
| Sawyer, Mary E. | 4/9/1860 - 4/9/1862 | | |
| Sawyer, Theodore L. | 10/23/1858 - 4/11/1888 | | |
| Stanton, Curtis Henderson | 4/9/1865 - 8/20/1982 | | |
| Steel, Neal | | | “Son of James O. Steel and Mary E. Steel, Born in Robinson Ill.” |
| Tresca, Eugenia F. | 9/23/1862 - 7/5/1881 | | |
| Tresca, Mrs. Louisa Ellen | 1/1/1828 - 12/23/1906 | | |
| Vanderipe, Frankie | 8/7/1878 - 8/1/1883 | | “Son of J.C. and S.L. Vanderipe” |
| Vanderipe, James W. | 10/31/1870 - 1/2/1885 | | |
| Vanderipe, Lewis H. | 12/5/1878 - 10/4/1882 | | “Son of W.H. and Eliza Vanderipe” |
| Vanderipe, William A. | 10/5/1868 - 11/7/1881 | | “Son of J.C. and Ellen F.” |
| Watson, Rebecca U. | 10/7/?? - 3/3/1883 | | |
| Wenman, Henry James | d/ 2/27/1874 | | “Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Wenman of Goswell Wood, London, Who Departed This Life Feb. 27, 1874 in the 22nd Year of His Age” |
| Williams, Eliza A. | 6/6/1822 - 1/9/1853 | | “Wife of Peter T. Williams” |
| Wilson, Arthur Hunter | 6/9/1873 - 11/19/1888 | | “Son of C.V.S. and Harriet Wilson, Born Morgan County, Ga., died at Manatee, Fla.” |
| Wilson, Harriet Angelia | 9/19/1844 - 11/11/1887 | | “Wife of C.V.S. Wilson, Born at Malta, Saratoga County NY, Died at Manatee, Fla.” |
| Wilson, J.C. | d/1/17/1853 | "Aged 32 Years” | “Late of Cleveland, Ohio " |
| Wyatt, Elizabeth A.W. | 8/9/1837 - 2/27/1854 | | “Born in Chelsea, Mass., Wife of William H. Wyatt” |
| Wyatt, John Curry | 7/2/1867 - 8/10/1876 | | |
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