GUM CREEK CEMETERY aka KING-STRICKLAND-WALKER CEMETERY

 

Located on lands owned by A.  E. Nienow, on Parcel #35-10-24-0000-0040-0000.  This cemetery lies within a fenced area adjoining OAK RIDGE CEMETERY.  At the traffic light in Interlachen, Florida, turn south on County Road 315.  Go approximately 3.2 miles to a yellow brick entrance gate, turn left and go through a pasture and subdivision.  Go .6 miles east.  Cemetery is on the hill just across Gum Creek.

Census Date: April, 1995.

This is one of Putnam County’s pioneer cemeteries.  The earliest marked burial is that of John W. Strickland, who was born November 24, 1813 and died November 18, 1885.  This was the burial ground of the Walker, Strickland, and King families who settled in this area after the Civil War.

For many years this little cemetery was unfenced and completely abandoned.  Access was from the town of Interlachen by way of a winding sand road that crossed Gum Creek about half a mile north of the cemetery.  The creek crossing was a pole bridge or ford and could not be negotiated for a funeral procession except by mule and wagon.

When the cemetery was first surveyed by Putnam County Genealogical Society volunteers on April 21, 1983, it was still unfenced and abandoned.  At that time there were 26 marked burial sites, two identifiable sites with no markers, and, according to some descendants of those buried there, possibly ten to fifteen additional burial sites in the old section that have completely disappeared from view.

In the 1970s and later years, a new community has grown up near the cemetery, and in 1990 it was reactivated by some of the new inhabitants of the area.  It has now been surveyed and the land cleared.  The new section is approximately three times the size of, and now encloses, the old section.  It is a beautiful cemetery, now with grass growing, and is enclosed by a new chain-link fence.  RODMAN QUAD.  N 29o 34.874 W 81o 52.490.  (Maintained).

 

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LAST NAME

FIRST NAME

BIRTH

DEATH

COMMENTS(SIC)

CHADWICK

IRENE

8/16/1932

NO DATE

DOUBLE MARKER

CHADWICK

JOHN W

11/20/1928

1/27/1993

 

GRASS

ASHLEY NICOLE

4/15/1990

4/15/1990

INFANT DAUGHTER

HOTTINGER

HELEN F

10/31/1928

NO DATE

MARRIED AUG 21, 1944

HOTTINGER

WILLIAM DONOVAN

1/3/1924

6/6/1991

MASTERS F H MARKER [U S ARMY WW II]

KING

CHARLES H

4/1/1885

5/29/1963

FLA S2 USNR

KING

HATTIE

3/10/1879

1/13/1886

 

KING

HENRY T

1850

7/9/1898

 

KING

JAMES V

1845

5/27/1914

 

KING

LIZZIE

3/27/1883

7/16/1892

 

KING

MARY ELIZABETH [GLIESEON?]

1857

7/1942

DAVIS & SON MARKER.  (MIDDLE NAME AND DATES VIA ABSTRACTED OBITUARY DATED JULY 1942.)

KING

N A

5/4/1850

6/24/1908

MRS

KING

NANNIE

5/21/1886

2/8/1888

 

KING

WILLIAM

1882

1956

MASTERS F H MARKER

PACK

DENNIS DEWEY

10/24/1941

4/22/1990

VETERAN USMC, VIETNAM

PARAMORE

COLON

2/21/1891

12/16/1891

 

QUEEN

SARAH

3/26/1918

1/23/1992

DOUBLE ABOVE GROUND CRYPT

RORRER

DASSA (CHESSIE)

12/25/1915

1/9/1984

 

RORRER

GARLETTE H

4/15/1912

3/20/1989

 

STRICKLAND

CHERITY

4/4/1822

8/16/1896

MRS

STRICKLAND

FRANCES

12/5/1852

8/27/1928

 

STRICKLAND

J J

12/10/1853

9/11/1925

OUR FATHER

STRICKLAND

JOHN W

11/24/1813

11/18/1885

 

STRICKLAND

LARA

6/20/1866

11/24/1887

OUR MOTHER

STRICKLAND

LOUIS

3/25/1850

11/8/1898

OUR FATHER

STRICKLAND

SUSAN V

1/5/1882

1/13/1886

 

STRICKLAND

WILLIAM S

1881

1941

 

UNKNOWN

 

 

 

[BARELY VISIBLE GRAVE MOUND]

UNKNOWN

 

 

 

[SMALL CONCRETE MARKER WITH NO NAME OR DATES ]

WALKER

E D

12/20/1836

7/18/1915

OUR FATHER/MASONIC EMBLEM

WALKER

L J

2/4/1904

7/20/1910

 

WALKER

MARTHA

2/1844

11/30/1924

 

WALKER

MATTIE J

1/13/1887

12/27/1888

 

WALKER

MRS W H

9/11/1880

2/27/1940

 

WALKER

W H

4/23/1875

6/19/1927

 

WALKER

W L

9/22/1899

12/8/1922

 

WALKER

WILLIAM RANDALL

11/2/1912

12/31/1982

U S ARMY WWII

WILLIAMSON

PAUL

12/23/1919

2/3/1984

S/SGT U S ARMY, WWII

 

 

Last updated 1/8/2007

 

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