GETHSEMANE BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY Parcel #12-09-27-0000-0100-0010. This cemetery may also have been known as Dowling River Cemetery. This cemetery is located in a field belonging to the Barnes Farm. It is probably best reached by taking SR 207 east, just past the Putnam-St. Johns County line, and turn left onto the old Palatka-Hastings Road at Bulls-Hit Ranch. Proceed west to County Line Road on your right. Turn right and follow the road to a 90^o right angle turn. At this turn, you will see two dirt, field lanes, one bearing left, and the other centrally located between the left lane and the pavement of the County Line Road. Take this center lane and carefully follow it through the field about ¾ of a mile to a pretty, little hammock with trees and grass on your right. This is the cemetery. This is a very old black cemetery with many more unmarked gravesites than marked ones as evidenced by all the depressions and mounds there. What appears to be an attractive lawn lying alongside the area with markers, in reality contains dozens and dozens of unmarked graves. These souls are known but to God. There is also a strong possibility that many more graves lie in the wooded areas surrounding the clearing, than the three that we found. Researchers interested in this cemetery will be interested also in Hastings-Masonic Cemetery, which is located just east of the Putnam/St. Johns County line on SR 207. The neighbors do watch this area carefully, and will question any suspicious looking activity—which I was pleased to see when I ventured out there January 3, 2004. The light at that time was wrong for photography so my husband and I went and photographed on Saturday, January 17. MEM-H. HASTINGS QUAD. N 29^o 43’ 48.9” W 81^o 31’ 98.0”. (Neglected). HOME
LAST NAME	FIRST NAME	BIRTH	DEATH	COMMENTS(sic)	MARKER
????LMAN	UNKNOWN			PLASTIC PLAQUE BREAKING UP. THIS GRAVE IS ABOUT 100 YDS WEST OF THE MAIN CEMETERY AND ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD IN DENSE UNDERBRUSH	MARKER
ANDERSON	MARIE "PINKEY"	1915	11/19/2002	PDN OBITUARY	MARKER
BAKER	ARDEN "SUGAR MAN"	7/14/1959	9/5/2003	PDN OBITUARY. COLEMAN TMP FH MKR	MARKER
BRANT	WILLIAM	5/11/1881	5/24/1960	GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN	MARKER
BRITTON	LUEVORNNIA			GONE BACK TO GOD	MARKER
BRITTON	MRS. M A	1906	1959		MARKER
BRITTON JR	REV M. B.	1898	1972	PASTOR GETHSEMANE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH*	MARKER
BRYANT	IDA F	1898	1988	TMP FH MKR	MARKER
CHESTNUT	RANDALL J “BRUTE”	3/13/1957	12/22/2001	YOU WILL ALWAYS BE IN OUR HEART!	MARKER
DAVIS	CHARLES	1887	1928		MARKER
DAVIS	INEZ	1910	1993		MARKER
DAVIS	JOSEPH	12/8/1925	10/5/1997	US ARMY WW II	MARKER
DAVIS	ORA S	1887	1923	THIS GRAVE IS JUST WEST OF THE CLEARING IN DENSE UNDERBRUSH AND ENCROACHED UPON BY A TREE.	MARKER
DIXON	GEORGE E	8/7/1928	4/5/1996	US ARMY	MARKER
DURANT	HATTIE	3/31/1885	10/31/1956		MARKER
EVANS	TESSIE C	1917	1975		MARKER
FLOYD	OLLIE BELL			WE LOVE YOU	MARKER
FOXX	FLORITA			TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
GOODEN	RECHAEL M.	1942	1988	COMPOSITE PLAQUE BREAKING UP. THIS GRAVE IS ABOUT 100 YDS WEST OF THE MAIN CEMETERY AND ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD IN DENSE UNDERBRUSH	MARKER
GREEN	ELOISE	1951	1/16/1999	PDN OBITUARY. COLEMAN TMP FH MKR	MARKER
HARRIS	ROBERTA				MARKER
HARRISON	LEFTUS	1917	1997	COLEMAN TMP FH MKR	MARKER
HENTION	WILLIE PASSMORE “ETHEL”	1885	1977		MARKER
HIRES	MILDRED HENTION	1931	1991		MARKER
JACKSON	MARIE	1865	1968	TMP FH MKR. PERMANENT MARKER IS THERE BUT CANNOT BE READ	MARKER MARKER
JOHNSON	NATHANIEL	2/1/1910	1/11/1973	DATES VERIFIED VIA STATE DEATH INDEX	MARKER
KELLY	WILLIE JAMES “JUNE”	9/23/1943	5/18/1994	PDN OBITUARY LISTS HIM BEING BURIED IN “DOWLING RIVER CEMETERY IN HASTINGS”.	MARKER
KELLY	WORTHY “SISTER”	1915	1995	BELOVED MOTHER AND GRANDMOTHER	MARKER
KILLION	BENJAMIN	6/8/1919	4/16/2001	PDN OBITUARY	MARKER
MARSHALL	NORMAN	1921	1995	TMP FH MKR ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO READ	MARKER
MERKERSON	RAPHAEL	1916	1994	COMPOSITE FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP	MARKER
MIDDLEBROOK	BENNETT	1/1/1901	5/18/1983	PVT US ARMY WW I. SURNAME SPELLED CORRECTLY VIA STATE DEATH INDEX	MARKER
MIDDLEBROOKS	DELLA B	2/5/1905	4/20/1979	IN MEMORY OF OUR BELOVED MOTHER. SURNAME SPELLED CORRECTLY VIA STATE DEATH INDEX	MARKER
QUE	REV. LARRY	1894	1994	TMP FH MKR ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO READ	MARKER
ROWE	V A			TMP FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP. INFO FROM SURVEY DONE 1999	MARKER
SESSION	MAGGIE E	4/9/1884	4/22/1966		MARKER
TOLBERT	MICHAELS C	1/4/1954	8/2/1981	SP4 US ARMY	MARKER
UNKNOWN	VAULT			COMPOSITE PLAQUE NO INFO	PICTURE
UNKNOWN	VAULT			COMPOSITE PLAQUE NO INFO	PICTURE
UNKNOWN	VAULT			COMPOSITE PLAQUE NO INFO	PICTURE
UNKNOWN	VAULT			SLAB IN FRONT OF OLLIE BELL FLOYED	PICTURE
UNKNOWN	VAULT			SLAB NEXT TO REV. BRITTON	PICTURE
UNKNOWN	VAULT			SLAB NEXT TO WILLIE PASSMORE HENTION	PICTURE
UNKNOWN	VAULT			UNMARKED	PICTURE
UNKNOWN	VAULT			SLAB IS BURIED AT BASE OF TREE	PICTURE
UNKNOWN	VAULT			UNMARKED	PICTURE
UNKNOWN	VAULT			UNMARKED	PICTURE
UNKNOWN	VAULT			UNMARKED	PICTURE
UNKNOWN	VAULT			UNMARKED	PICTURE
VARNES	R S CORINED	1897	1983	HOMEMADE MARKER THAT LETTERS ARE FALLING OFF OF. INFO FROM A SURVEY DONE IN 1999	MARKER
WARE	ALEXANDER	19??	1977	CHASE TMP FH MKR	MARKER
WARE	EMMER HOLLOWAY	2/17/1895	11/12/1985		MARKER
WARE	JAMES	19??	1977	CHASE TMP FH MKR	MARKER
WARE	JOE N		1982	COMPOSITE PLAQUE BREAKING UP	MARKER
WARE	JULIUS	192?	1994	COMPOSITE PLAQUE BREAKING UP	MARKER
WARE JR	SILAS	8/11/1935	10/1/2003	PDN OBITUARY. COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
WATKINS	BEN	5/6/1975	5/25/2003	PDN OBITUARY. NO MARKER
WILLIAMS	AGNES	19??	1983	WE LOVE YOU	MARKER
WILLIAMS	GENEVA I	12/7/1936	5/20/2002	OUR MOTHER MY SISTER “A VIRTUOUS WOMAN”	MARKER
WILLIAMS	JAMES F “BONE”	7/29/1929	2/22/2002	MAY THE WORK I’VE DONE SPEAK FOR ME!	MARKER
*ON THE MONUMENT MEMORIALIZING REVERAND BRITTON IS THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION: St. James Baptist Church Rebuilt May 1930 Clerk: William Benford Trustees: H. C. Young, W. Green, J. Jenkins, M. Richardson, M. Goldin, R. Fennell, G. Wilson, T. Gillard, T. Griffin, L. L. Zine Rev. M. B. Britton Jr. MARKER

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