HASTINGS MASONIC CEMETERY The Hastings Masonic Cemetery is a small Black cemetery located just west of Hastings, at the junction of SR 207 and the Hasting-Palatka Road. Though it lies in St. Johns County, it is so close to the Putnam County/St. Johns County line—being less than a third of a mile east of the line, that it is included here on this site for the convenience of the family researcher. Also some of the people interred here are related to folks buried in the Gethsemane Cemetery nearby. It is in a relatively neglected condition, although a fence was erected along side of it during the four-laneing of SR 207 in 2002. This is still an active cemetery and is owned by the Sturwell Lodge #348. They may be contacted for more information at P. O. Box 810, Hastings, Florida 32145. The coordinates are: N 29^o42.875 W 081^o 31.094. On Saturday, January 3, and Sunday January 4, 2004, I took the digital camera and did the photographic survey. This cemetery has so many unmarked gravesites, including vaults, depressions, and mounds, that I gave up trying to photograph all of those. That, and the fact that the graves are so close to each other, makes this a mowing nightmare. The only way to clean this cemetery, for the most part, is to utilize a fleet of weed-eaters. It also appears that as this cemetery is filling up, only single gravesites are being utilized, rather than family plots. Therefore, people buried next to each other may not necessarily be related to each other. The original survey that this list was taken from was done in April 1991. With the inclusion of the 2004 photographs, it has been brought up to date as much as is reasonably possible. If there are notations of “MARKER” with no links to photographs on them, that means that the graves were marked in some fashion in 1991, but now are not. Mary E. Murphy-Hoffmann, Putnam County Archivist, Ret. HOME
LAST NAME	FIRST NAME	BIRTH	DEATH	COMMENTS (sic)	MARKER
?ERNANDEZ	?P?P?		1990/9?	COMPOSTE TMP FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP	MARKER
ALEXANDER	WILLIE	1942	1985	BOYD TMP FH MKR	MARKER
ALEXANDER SR	WILLIE J				MARKER
BAKER	MARTHIA	1956	1968		MARKER
BALDWIN	PATTIE S.			COMPOSTE TMP FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP	MARKER
BASSA	JAMES N.	1906	1960	HUSBAND	MARKER
BLUE	BETTY SUE	1936	1938		MARKER
BLUE	RICKY A “SLICK RICK”	1/6/1958	5/29/1993		MARKER MARKER
BLUE	WILBUR	1/3/1922	6/26/1994		MARKER
BOLES	JOHN W.	1891	1964	UNCLE	MARKER
BOYNTON	JAMES E.	1926	1984		MARKER
BOYNTON	LEON	9/2/1918	12/9/1996	US MC WW II	MARKER
BROWN	BELL	1916	1998	CHASE TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
BROWN	MARION	1911	1994	COMPOSITE TMP FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP	MARKER
BRYANT	MERCEDES JONES	6/25/1939	5/8/1987	BELOVED MOTHER	MARKER
BRYANT	MRS. ROSA WILLIAMS	1901	1987		MARKER
BRYANT JR	EDWARD	7/28/1897	10/26/1979		MARKER
BRYANT JR	HERMAN	12/3/1958	5/8/1987	BELOVED SON	MARKER
CALLOWAY SR	CHARLES	1954	1997	COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
CAMPBELL	WILLIAM	3/16/1936	1/3/2001	AGE 54. TMP FH PAPER MKR—DETERIORATING.	MARKER
CARTER	AGNES	1927	1998	COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
CARTER	DEACONESS ESTHER D “MOTHER”	1910	6/23/2005	PDN OBITUARY. AGE 95. COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
CARTER	JOHN M	5/19/1863/5?	11/24/1924		MARKER
CARTER	LUCY F.	9/30/1904	1/13/1981	BELOVED WIFE AND DARLING AUNT	MARKER
CARTER	NATHA L	7/26/1903	6/22/1993?	HOMEMADE CONCRETE. HARD TO READ	MARKER
CARTER?	LOUISE?			HOMEMADE CONCRETE. HARD TO READ	MARKER
CHESTNUT	IDA MAE	1935	1994		MARKER
CHILDS SR.	LONDAS RAY				MARKER
COBBS	WILLIS			PLASTC TMP FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP	MARKER
COHEN	ESSIE W.	1908	1987		MARKER
COHENS	MILES	1920	1985	PVT US ARMY WW II	MARKER
COLEMAN	FELIX	4/9/1933	10/31/1980		MARKER
COLLIER	MARGARET DONALDSON	10/7/1927	5/7/1997	AN USHER OF SERVICE	MARKER
DALLAS	NELLIE		1975		MARKER
DAVENPORT	RICHARD	1960	1997		MARKER
DAVIS	EVA MAE	1914	2005	COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
DAVIS	FRED	1932	2002	PDN OBITUARY	MARKER
DAVIS	GLADYS	1913	2000	COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
DAVIS	HATTIE	12/13/1910	5/9/1992	MOTHER	MARKER
DAVIS	JESSIE MAE	5/15/1926	12/25/2002		MARKER
DAVIS	OSCAR	6/2/1895	7/7/1958	FLA PVT 44 REC. CO. OMC WW I	MARKER
DAVIS	THEODORE R	1904	1963	HUSBAND	MARKER
DAVIS SR	HAROLD	3/6/1921		WIDOWER OF JESSIE MAE	MARKER
DAWSEY	ELDER ROBERT	1904	1988	COMPOSTE TMP FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP	MARKER
DEAN	MRS. EMILY	12/24/1894	8/10/1981		MARKER
DENNIS	JIMMIE L	1919	6/2/2005	PDN OBITUARY	MARKER
DENNIS	SANDRA J	1948	1996	COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
DENNIS	TERRENCE	1970	1988	COMPOSTE TMP FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP	MARKER
DONALDSON	FANNIE	2/24/1903	11/29/1977		MARKER
DORSEY JR	SAMUEL	8/6/1926	12/5/1994	HOMEMADE CONCRETE. HARD TO READ.	MARKER
EDWARDS	SHELLY	1952	2002	COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
EVANS	ALBIRTHA	7/19/1927	7/14/1989		MARKER
EVANS	GIERA	1989	1989		MARKER
FARNES SR	WILLIE	1927	1985		MARKER
FIELDS	GRACITA	1946	1994	COMPOSTE TMP FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP	MARKER
FIELDS	IDA M.	1897	1977		MARKER
FIELDS	ROBERT A.	1922	1962	HUSBAND AND SON	MARKER
FLOYD	CAROLE M. JONES	4/10/1942	5/16/2000		MARKER
FLOYD	HENRIETTA		1986		MARKER
FLOYD	LILLIAN	1938	1997	COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
FLOYD SR	JOHNNY	1928	1984	THANKS GO TO ROBERT CARTER FOR DECIPHERING THIS FOR ME.	MARKER
FORD	CLIFFORD	1920	1989		MARKER
FORD JR	JOHN HENRY	1920	1982	CPL US ARMY	MARKER
FRANCIS	EDDIE	1902		PVT US ARMY WW I	MARKER
FREEMAN	EMMA J.	1900	1984	COMPOSTE TMP FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP	MARKER
FREEMAN	NATHANIEL	5/25/1938	11/24/1991	COMPOSTE TMP FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP. NAME AND DATES VERIFIED VIA SSDI	MARKER
GOODWIN	LEMUEL	1900	1977		MARKER
GREEN	ALMA	1908	1973		MARKER
GREEN	JASPER	4/19/1897	12/3/1970	GEORGIA PVT US ARMY WW I	MARKER
GREEN	JOSEPH “JOE”	1933	12/18/2002	COLEMAN TMP FH PLASTIC PLAQUE. SOME INFO VIA PDN OBITUARY.	MARKER
HALL	ELIJAH	1964	8/19/2005	PDN OBITUARY. AGE 41	MARKER
HALL	RONNIE	1965	1999	COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
HARVEY	VIOLA	1904	1986		MARKER
HARVEY	VIOLA	1909	3/19/2005	PDN OBITUARY	MARKER
HATTEN	GEORGE	1887	1986	BOYD TMP FH MKR	MARKER
HATTEN	OZZIE	10/13/1913	1/1/1988	TEC. 5 US ARMY WW II	MARKER
HAYWARD	ANNIE L	7/25/1941	12/14/1999	WE LOVE YOU MOM	MARKER
HAYWARD	VALERIE	9/9/1903	2/8/1982		MARKER
HENSE	JERKCO		12/1915	BORN LAKE CITY FL. AGE 66	MARKER
HOLMES	JAMES	12/30/1920	6/27/1991	US NAVY WW II	MARKER
HUMPHREY	REV. ULYSSES	12/25/1881	9/17/1973		MARKER
ISAAC	GEORGE E “THE DUKE”	1962	2000	COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP	MARKER
JACKSON	THADDEUS T.	5/4/1954	6/13/1970		MARKER
JACKSON	WILLIE MAE	8/2/1954	4/1/2001		MARKER
JACKSON JR.	JOHNNY	10/19/1926	2/8/1970	NC PVT CO F WW II	MARKER
JOHNS	BONNIE	1957	1982	COMPOSTE TMP FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP. HAD AN EARLIER SURVEY NOT RECORDED THIS INFORMATION, IT WOULD BE LOST.	MARKER
JOHNS	CHARLIE H.	11/29/1870	8/3/1956		MARKER
JOHNS	EUNICE		1990		MARKER
JOHNSON	JANIE BELL	1920	2001	CHASE TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
JOHNSON	JAVELL “JV”	1989	1998	COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP	MARKER
JOHNSON	JESSIE O	6/25/1951	1/25/1997		MARKER
JONES	ALMA	1921	1990	COMPOSTE TMP FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP	MARKER
JONES	CATHERINE	9/22/1934	4/12/1991		MARKER
JONES	CLAUDE	12/22/1905	12/20/1984	DADDY AND GRANDDADDY	MARKER
JONES	DRUNELLA E	7/29/1920	10/2/2001		MARKER
JONES	ETHEL CARTER	1/12/1908	2/8/1969	BELOVED WIFE AND MOTHER	MARKER
JONES	FRANCES F.	1927	1982	COMPOSTE TMP FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP	MARKER
JONES JR	MOSES	1/25/1945	4/3/2002		MARKER
JONES JR.	WILEY	1929	1984	COMPOSTE TMP FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP	MARKER
JONES SR.	HOSEA	1916	1989	COMPOSTE TMP FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP	MARKER
JONES SR.	MOSES	4/18/1919	7/30/1993		MARKER
KELLY	JAMES JOSEPH	1923	5/22/1994	PDN OBITUARY. US ARMY	MARKER
LEWIS	BETTY L			PLASTIC PLAQUE BREAKING UP	MARKER
LOCKETT	FRED L.	1926	1979	PVT US ARMY WW II	MARKER
MAJOR	LARRY	11/12/1951	7/7/1979		MARKER
MAJOR	SHAYANNA	1997	1998	“A YEAR OF JOY” COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
MARSHALL	JOHN “JOHNNIE”	1926	1998	COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
MARSHALL	MOZELLA W	1/18/1938	12/7/2002	PDN OBITUARY	MARKER BACK
McCALVIN	LILLIE	1923	2001	COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
McCLAVIN	LILLIE	5/19/1919	6/27/2001		MARKER
McCLOUD	KEVIN LA’NARD	5/1/992	11/5/2003	PDN OBITUARY. AGE 11. INFO VIA OBITUARY AND SSDI	MARKER
McCORMICK	ROSA L	4/26/1918	2/25/2001	IN MEMORY YOUR LOVING DAUGHTERS	MARKER
MERRITT	MOSES	5/27/1922	11/04/1983	PFC US ARMY WW II	MARKER
MERRITT	RETHA	1920	2000	WATTS TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
MOORE	GEORGE “CHICKEN”		9/27/2006	PDN OBITUARY. AGE 72	MARKER
MOORE	LORETTA	1962	2005	COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
MOORE	R B “ANTIQUE”	3/7/1944	2/6/2000	PDN OBITUARY. COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
O’NEAL	WILLIE	12/23/1934	2/8/1997	US MARINE CORPS	MARKER
PARNELL	CORA	1912	1977	CORRECTED B AND D DATES COURTESY MRS. PARNELL’S DAUGHTER. CHASE TMP FH MKR	MARKER
PETTIS	CLENTINE “TEEN”	12/9/1915	7/24/1989		MARKER
PINKNEY	CORA H.	2/10/1875	5/8/1969	GRAVE SUNKEN	MARKER
PITT	JAMES	1931	2000	COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
POOLE	TAKINA S	1995	1996	COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
RAGGINS	PERNELL	1917	1981	PVT US ARMY WW II	MARKER
RAMSEY	REBECCA	1904	2/19/2005	OBITUARY POSTED BY CAROL BROWN ON www.findagrave.com	MARKER
RAPLEY	SONJA	1977	1996	CHASE TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
RHOAD	CORINE	1931	1989	COMPOSTE TMP FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP	MARKER
RHOAD	JULIA	1902	1988		MARKER
RHOAD	WILLIAM	1896	1964	COMPOSTE TMP FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP	MARKER
ROBINSON	ROBIN C	1959	1997	COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
ROBINSON	WANDA FAYE	2/24/1963	11/22/1993		MARKER
ROBINSON JR	WESLEY “BUCK SHOT”	6/20/1953	5/13/2001	PDN OBITUARY	MARKER
SESSION	OBEDIAH			TMP PLASTIC FH PLAQUE. NO INFO.	MARKER
SESSION?				BEST GUESS. TMP FH HOME PLAQUE ALMOST GONE	MARKER
SIMPSON	ESTELLA R	8/17/1911	7/28/2003	OUR QUEEN	MARKER
SINGLETON	ANNIE B	1/16/1908	10/11/2003	NO INFO ON TMP FH PLAQUE. INFO VIA SSDI	MARKER
SIOAW	CORRINE	8/1886	4/11/1962		MARKER
SIPPIO JR	ROBERT	1944	1989	SP4 US ARMY VIETNAM	MARKER
SLOAN	JAMES O.		6/24/1965		MARKER
SLOAN	SUSIE	7/1895	9/1965		MARKER
SLOAN	WILL	1886	1988	COMPOSTE TMP FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP	MARKER
SMITH	BENNIE	1913	1991		MARKER
SMITH	MILTON “CRICKET”	2/4/1947	11/30/2004	COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE. PLAQUES NOW LOOK METALLIC, IN FACT ARE PLASTIC. INFO VIA PDN OBITUARY AND SSDI	MARKER
SOMMERALL	LAWRENCE	1965	1997	COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
SPAULDING	ALBERT	ND	ND	TMP FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP	MARKER
SPAULDING	ANNIE BELL	10/3/1939	6/14/2000	PDN OBITUARY	MARKER
SPAULDING	CORNELIUS	8/4/1894	2/22/1975		MARKER
SPAULDING	MARILYN	1926	1999	BOYD TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
STALLSWORTH	CARRIE	1940	1997	COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
STRICKLAND	ELLA	6/16/1916	1/6/2001	HOMEMADE CONCRETE MARKER	MARKER
TANNER	PRUDENCE	1866	1952	MOTHER	MARKER
THOMAS	ANNIE MAE	1910	1995	COMPOSITE TMP FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP	MARKER
THOMPKINS	LEWIS		4/8/2000	PDN OBITUARY. AGE 78	MARKER
TOLBERT	DWALLA		1971		MARKER
TROWELL	EVELEAN	1937	1995	COMPOSITE TMP FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP	MARKER
TROWELL	JOHN HENRY	1925	1999	COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
TUCKER	FRANKIE L	1946	1991	COMPOSTE TMP FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP	MARKER
TUCKER	RAYMOND	1959	1992	COMPOSTE TMP FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP	MARKER
UNKNOWN		1904	1986?	COMPOSTE TMP FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP. NO INFO. TYPICAL OF THE UNKNOWNS HERE.	PHOTO
UNKNOWN				PLASTIC PLAQUE BROKEN UP. NO INFO. TYPICAL OF THE UNKNOWNS HERE.	PHOTO
UNKNOWN				PLASTIC PLAQUE BROKEN UP. NO INFO. TYPICAL OF THE UNKNOWNS HERE.	PHOTO
UNKNOWN				SIGNS OF DISTURBED EARTH—POSSIBLE GRAVE NEXT TO BYRON WOODS. TYPICAL OF THE UNKNOWNS HERE.	PHOTO
UNKNOWN	MOUND			NEXT TO MILTON SMITH.	PHOTO
VARNES	ANNIE M	1949	1994	COMPOSITE TMP FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP	MARKER
VARNES	CLAUDE	1920	1997	COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
VARNES	GEORGE RILEY	4/16/1946	6/2/1973	FLA SP 4 US ARMY	MARKER
VARNES	JAMES	1917	1998	COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
VARNES	WILLIE MAE WILLIAMS	12/10/1916	11/14/1977	A DEVOTED CHRISTIAN	MARKER
VARNES JR	CLAUDEAN	9/15/1970	7/22/1993		MARKER PHOTO
VARNES SR	WILLIE S “JUG”	1927	1985	PLASTIC TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
WALKER	ALBERTA CARTER	3/21/1903	4/27/1973	BELOVED AUNT	MARKER
WALKER SR	WILLIE	11/12/1924	1/8/1980	PVT US ARMY WW II	MARKER
WIGGINS	NOBIE LEE	5/6/1933	3/11/1980		MARKER
WILLIAM	KATE C.	8/18/1906	2/5/1973		MARKER
WILLIAMS	IRENE	4/25/1925	11/25/1975	NAME AND DATES VERIFIED VIA STATE DEATH INDEX	MARKER Assigning this picture to this site is a ‘best guess’ effort as this plaque is about gone. Had an earlier survey not recorded this name and year of death I wouldn’t have been able to do it. MEM-H
WILLIAMS	LEROY	1924	1986	STM3 US NAVY WW II	MARKER
WILLIAMS	WILLIE WATKINS		5/7/2006	ST. AUGUSTINE RECORD OBITUARY. AGE 47	MARKER
WILLMON	GRAYLANIE “SLIM”	1970	1998	COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
WILLMON	IZELL “IKE”	1973	1998	COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
WILSON	FRED	1926	1989	COMPOSTE TMP FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP	MARKER
WILSON	JOHN POPE	1923	1999	COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
WILSON	MAMIE	1904	2000	COLEMAN TMP FH PLAQUE	MARKER
WOODS	BYRON	2/6/1970	5/13/2004		MARKER
WOODS	THOMAS	10/3/1907	3/11/1991		MARKER
WOODS JR	TOMMIE	1/19/2001	7/12/2001		MARKER
WRIGHT	RESSIE	1900	1989	COMPOSTE TMP FH PLAQUE BREAKING UP	MARKER

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