A Stroll Through Evergreen Cemetery
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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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Excellent story and pictures. My grandparents are interred at Evergreen. Its always pleasant and peaceful to visit their grave. Interesting to learn how many historic people are buried at Evergreen alongside ordinary citizens.
Thanks for posting this, and Merry Christmas, "Gramma" & "Pop".
Gramma taught me to appreciate and enjoy cooking, among other things. Pop taught me the value of working, saving and investing take home pay, and living within my means.
Great pictures! One slight correction, though: Cora and Stephen Crane were never legally wed. They were together for nearly five years, she took his last name, and after his death she received the bulk of his estate (not much), but they weren't married. At the time her legal name was actually Cora Stewart, but in 1895 she was going by Cora Taylor -- after the man she left her husband for, I believe.
there is a Jewish section that can be accessed from Gate 5...both the Jacksonville Jewish Center and Congregation Ahavath Chesed operate areas that are considered sacred and "blessed"...many of the community's early business and poltical leaders are buried there
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Great pictures! One slight correction, though: Cora and Stephen Crane were never legally wed. They were together for nearly five years, she took his last name, and after his death she received the bulk of his estate (not much), but they weren't married. At the time her legal name was actually Cora Stewart, but in 1895 she was going by Cora Taylor -- after the man she left her husband for, I believe.
Just to be a stickler here, but common law marriages were still legally accepted at the time (and fairly common)
Lord Stewart refused to grant her a divorce until a dustup with Cora over a scandal in England concerning the mistress of Harold Frederic.
After she widowed Crane, she married the nephew of Anna McNeill Whistler, Hammond McNeil. When they divorced, she was forbidden from using his last name and ended her life as Cora Crane, for the only man that shed really loved.
Well, technically speaking, you can't be involved in a legally-recognized common law marriage if you're already married, which Cora certainly was. Any way, it's just a small correction.
Did we miss someone? Robert J. Bateman is buried in Evergreen. Rev. Bateman was a passenger on the Titanic. His body was recovered and is buried here. There is also a cenotaph dedicated to him in another part of the cemetery. I have photographed both several times.