Evergreen Cemetery

[Metro Jacksonville]

Evergreen Cemetery



Evergreen Cemetery is the oldest fully operating cemetery in Jacksonville, with the first burial occurring in 1881. The Evergreen Cemetery Association was organized in 1910 as a non-profit corporation by a number of people who had family or friends buried there.

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[soxfan]

Very nice pictures. Thank You!! Along with some friends we took our kids on the cemetery tour this past weekend. It was great. I noticed that you have alot of pics of headstones that were not on the tour. Is there a list somewhere of other notables that are buried there? My daughters and I would like to go looking for them. That is a great cemetery with an enormous amount of history. There are alot of beautiful markers there as seen through your pics.

[Driven1]

very cool!

[fsujax]

I thought Klutho would have had a better headstone than that. neat pictures.

[David]

I have two generations of my family buried there. It's a pretty nice cemetery, very scenic. Watch out for the locals though, they're a buncha stiffs, heyooooo!!!!

Old city cemetery by downtown dates back to the 1850's I believe but it's been out of operation for quite a while.

[thelakelander]

Klutho was not popular when he died.  I've heard in the past that less than 10 people attended his funeral.

[Jason]

Any relation Ock?

[Driven1]

Klutho was not popular when he died.  I've heard in the past that less than 10 people attended his funeral.

why?

[fsujax]

what timing.....there has been a shooting at the cemetary according to Firstcoastnews.com

[Coolyfett]

I thought Klutho would have had a better headstone than that. neat pictures.

Klutho died broke. Ive read that he was also divorced from the wife in the other picture.

Cool to know who the Mathews Bridge is named after.

Cora Crane was a Madam, she had plenty of hoes!!

Would have been cool to see Ike Hart's grave...no flicks on that?

[Lunican]

Evergreen is Jacksonville's densest neighborhood. 70,000 bodies in a quarter square mile.

[BridgeTroll]

And not a high rise in sight...

[Wrangler of Space]

No knocking UrbanJacksonville, but I could not believe that this site was not mentioned in the latest edition of Folio's BoJ.

Thank you so much for this website.  It is truly one of the highlights of my work day.  The articles are very interesting and the pictures are very well done.  Keep it up!

[Ocklawaha]

Captain J.J. Dickison's funeral was the largest in the history of the State of Florida. If I have my numbers straight, it was attended by 80,000+ citizens. I don't know if that record still holds but he was certainly respected by a great majority of Floridians.

As far as I can find, the largest ever in the South, perhaps the nation, was President JEFFERSON DAVIS of the Confederate States of America. He was laid to rest at New Orleans and the funeral procession extended all the way to Richmond, Virginia, and took days and days to make it's way to the Crescent City.

OCKLAWAHA
DEO VINDICE!

[Doctor_K]

Evergreen is Jacksonville's densest neighborhood. 70,000 bodies in a quarter square mile.

And not a high rise in sight...

Underground Arcology, Sim-City style.  Giggity-giggity.   

On a more serious note, this is yet another piece of beautimous that needs to find a larger audience.  Jacksonville desperately needs to embrace its history.