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Tolomato Cemetery (Spanish: Cementerio de Tolomato) is a Catholic cemetery located on Cordova Street in St. Augustine, Florida. The cemetery was the former site of " Tolomato ", a village of Guale Indian converts to Christianity and the Franciscan friars who ministered to them.
The cemetery until title to the cemetery property was acquired by the Rev. Thomas Alexander, who then turned over it to the Presbyterian Church in 1832, burials continued until 1884 when both Huguenot and Tolomato cemeteries were closed. The cemetery is believed to hold at least 436 burials according to city records.
Tolomato can refer to: Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Tolomato, also called Mission Tolomato, a Spanish Christian mission in Georgia, in Spanish Florida, in the colonial era. Tolomato Cemetery, a cemetery established in the Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Tolomato. Tolomato River, part of the Intracoastal Waterway in Florida.
The Tolomato mission became one of the centers of the Guale chiefdom in Georgia. Although the Guale Indians had had regular contact with the Franciscans since 1573, the mission was not founded, according to Lanning, until 1595 by the Spanish friar Pedro Ruiz, but more recent scholarship indicates that Friar Pedro Corpa was the founder of the mission, having arrived at the village of Tolomato ...
They were assigned to the recently organized Third Florida Infantry as its Company B. More than a dozen former members of the St. Augustine Blues are buried in a row at the city's Tolomato Cemetery. Men from the unit were most likely part of the force that originally occupied the fort on January 7, 1861. [46]
He visited Biassou's home, fort and cemetery, and placed a wreath in front of the chapel in Tolomato Cemetery in honour of Biassou. [4] In 1798, Biassou also appeared as a fictional character in Jean-Baptiste Picquenard's novel, ' Adonis, ou le bon nègre, anecdote coloniale' (English: Adonis, or the good negro, colonial anecdote), in which he ...
Thomas Clarke had obtained by grant or purchase four tracts of land and three houses with their lots in St. Augustine. In 1770, Governor James Grant gave him title to 300 acres on the west side of the Matanzas River, four miles northwest of the Spanish fort at Matanzas Inlet, and about ten miles south of St. Augustine. In honor of his native ...
Enrique (Henry) White was born in Dublin, Ireland.He later immigrated to Spain, where he served the Spanish Crown from age 22 until his death. The young man joined the Spanish Royal Army, eventually rising to the rank of colonel. [3]