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The logo of Find a Grave used from 1995 to 2018 [2] Find a Grave was created in 1995 by Salt Lake City, Utah, resident Jim Tipton to support his hobby of visiting the burial sites of famous celebrities. [3] Tipton classified his early childhood as being a nerdy kid who had somewhat of a fascination with graves and some love for learning HTML. [4]
This list of cemeteries in Florida includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
In 1999, federal officials asked the Florida Cabinet to grant land for the expansion of the Florida National Cemetery, providing 65,000 to 100,000 grave sites for veterans in the state. Environmentalists argued that Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Forestry Division officials did not state whether the 179 acres of land ...
Sarasota National Cemetery is a 295-acre (119 ha) United States National Cemetery located in Sarasota County, Florida. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it is the sixth national cemetery developed in Florida.
South Florida National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery, located in western Lake Worth, Florida. [1] It is maintained by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs , and it is also one of the newest national cemeteries in the United States, when it opened to the public on April 16, 2007, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] although the official ...
FL Rep. Edna Giles Fuller, first woman to serve in the Florida State Legislature. [12] Francis W. Eppes,grandson of President Thomas Jefferson, intendant (mayor) of Tallahassee from 1841–44 & 1856–57. He was also instrumental in founding Florida State University. [13] Mayor Cassius Aurelius Boone [14] Mayor Willis Lucullus Palmer [15]
Cape Canaveral National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located near the Census designated place of Mims, Florida in Brevard County. It encompasses 318 acres (129 ha), and began interments on January 12, 2016. [1]
Francis P. Fleming (1841–1908), 15th Governor of Florida; John Claudius “Claude” L'Engle (1868–1919), Democratic Representative from Florida to the Sixty-third Congress; Dr. Alexander H. Darnes (1846–1894), the first African-American physician in Jacksonville and the second in the state