Evergreen Cemetery

[GatorShane]

I also took the tour this past weekend. Very cool!

[RiversideGator]

Great photos.  Thanks for the tour.  I have many relatives who are buried in Evergreen so I frequently visit.  It is obviously open to the public and is a very peaceful and relaxing place.  I would recommend everyone to go for a drive/walk through the cemetery.

[blizz01]

OOOH - the nasty irony of today's story/post(s) - considering it was the first time I'd heard of this place:

Jacksonville police investigating Wednesday’s double domestic killing shot a suspect armed with an assault rifle at Evergreen Cemetery on North Main Street.

http://news.jacksonville.com/justin/2008/10/23/jacksonville-police-shoot-suspect-22nd-of-the-year/

[Ocklawaha]

Any relation Ock?

Would be of course, but the line probably crosses in 1600's in England. I have the genealogy back to 1206 and two major migrations got the family here. The Northern Family comes across on the Mayflower as a bond-servant. Within a couple of years he was free (paid his bond) and had become County Recorder etc... During the War of Yankee Aggression, Col. William Ambrose Mann, was an engineer in the Yankee army. At the end of the war he moved to Mobile, Alabama, designed the first rail car compartments and operated a large empire of sleeping cars that would become the PULLMAN Company. His family is scattered across Florida and the Deep South.

My part of the family were small plantation owners which migrated into Virginia. once owned 10,000 acres in what is now West Virginia when it was still VIRGINIA. In fact the home was near the Morgantown Airport (today) they migrated westward to Clarksville, Tennessee, then on to northeast Arkansas before the War of Yankee Aggression. When war broke out my Great Grandfather joined the regular Confederate Army of Tennessee, while my uncle Sanford joined with Quantrail. This branch of the family is throughout the Midwest, Oklahoma, and Southwest as far as California. It's the tree this monkey swings from!

OCKLAWAHA

[RiversideGator]

OOOH - the nasty irony of today's story/post(s) - considering it was the first time I'd heard of this place:

Jacksonville police investigating Wednesday’s double domestic killing shot a suspect armed with an assault rifle at Evergreen Cemetery on North Main Street.

http://news.jacksonville.com/justin/2008/10/23/jacksonville-police-shoot-suspect-22nd-of-the-year/

It doesnt sound like this was within Evergreen or had anything to do with the cemetery.  There is Main Street running outside the Cemetery and various residential neighborhoods surrounding it.  And of course the Cemetery is physically closed at nights and the gates locked.

[blizz01]

So is Evergreen Cemetery more of an "area" of town?  (just to clarify)

[Driven1]

Any relation Ock?

Would be of course, but the line probably crosses in 1600's in England. I have the genealogy back to 1206 and two major migrations got the family here. The Northern Family comes across on the Mayflower as a bond-servant. Within a couple of years he was free (paid his bond) and had become County Recorder etc... During the War of Yankee Aggression, Col. William Ambrose Mann, was an engineer in the Yankee army. At the end of the war he moved to Mobile, Alabama, designed the first rail car compartments and operated a large empire of sleeping cars that would become the PULLMAN Company. His family is scattered across Florida and the Deep South.

My part of the family were small plantation owners which migrated into Virginia. once owned 10,000 acres in what is now West Virginia when it was still VIRGINIA. In fact the home was near the Morgantown Airport (today) they migrated westward to Clarksville, Tennessee, then on to northeast Arkansas before the War of Yankee Aggression. When war broke out my Great Grandfather joined the regular Confederate Army of Tennessee, while my uncle Sanford joined with Quantrail. This branch of the family is throughout the Midwest, Oklahoma, and Southwest as far as California. It's the tree this monkey swings from!

OCKLAWAHA

very cool!  wish i could go back that far with my family.  can anyone do this?  how did u find it all out?

[Ocklawaha]

Sometime I'll get to meet up with you and I'll give you some starting points. First and very important, get every relation to give you dates, names, DOB, locations, towns, states, countys. Call on every Aunt - Uncle - Parents - Grand Parents or beyond if available. Anyone wanting to do this, just write me here and I'll tell you what to do. Usually the department of vital records will send you the official birth, marriage, death certificates.  Once you drive it back into the mid 1800's, it really becomes easier, as the family tends to become so compact, there are often complete records available for the reading.

It's fun too, on my mothers side, I'm directly decended from Robert Bruce and Wallace of Scotland. How cool is that, (not that it means a thing to us here in Florida) but I was asked to join something called "THE ROYAL BRUCE SOCIETY," sounded impressive, but never did it.

OCKLAWAHA

[second_pancake]

Guess what, Ock?  You and I are related!  I too am a descendent of Robert Bruce on my mother's side.  Weird.

[RiversideGator]

So is Evergreen Cemetery more of an "area" of town?  (just to clarify)

There are neighborhood to the south, east and north of the cemetery and there is an Evergreen Avenue.  I dont know what the exact names of the neighborhood are though.  This area might be considered Dinsmore (?).

[thelakelander]

The overall area is known as Metro North.  The historic neighborhood of Panama Park is to the north and Brentwood is to the west.

[RiversideGator]

Brentwood is the right name for most of the area.  Dinsmore is a totally different area.  The Metro North area is a new designation designed to improve the image of the area.

[Ocklawaha]

Guess what, Ock?  You and I are related!  I too am a descendent of Robert Bruce on my mother's side.  Weird.

You'd be amazed at how many people we both are probably related to. I love it, it's just too cool. So shall we meet at one of the Tuesday Meetings and have a couple of cold ones - To Cousins of course!

OCKLAWAHA

[second_pancake]

Wish I could, but alas, I'm in Texas these days.  Quite a difference from Jacksonville.  There are definitely things Jax could learn from some of the cities here, but then there are things about Jax that I really miss.

[thelakelander]

Care to name a few?  What do you like about Texas and miss about Jax?