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This blog was created to promote the historical importance of cemeteries, grave markers, and the family history to be learned from a study of burial customs, burying grounds, and tombstones of Central Florida.
Some hoppin' graveyards:
Apopka: Greenbrier, Greenwood, Highland Memory Garden, Old Church
Geneva: Geneva, Stewart Memorial
Kenansville: Bull Creek, Evergreen.
Kissimmee: Barber, East Lake, Finney Point, Howard, Osceola Memory Gardens, Partin, Shingle Creek.
Lake Mary: Lake Mary, Oaklawn
Ocoee: Memorial Garden, Ocoee
Orange County: Bay Ridge, Beulah, Boggy Creek, Chapel Hill, Conquest, Doctor Phillips, Drawdy-Rouse, Eatonville, Fort Christmas, Lake Hill, Locke, Magnolia, Maitland, Oak Ridge, Oakland, Ohev Shalom, Taft, Tangerine, West Orange, Woodlawn.
Orlando: Conway, Greenwood, Mizell, Powell, Washington Park.
Osceola County: Aftergate, Brown, Illahaw, Narcoossee, Oak Hill, Pleasant Hill, Sandhill, Willis, Wolf Creek, Yates.
St. Cloud: Barber, Mt. Peace
Sanford: Evergreen, Lakeview.
Seminole County: Boston Hill, Catholic Clergy, Longwood, New Uppsala, Paola, Slavia, Slovak, St. Luke's, Woodbridge.
Winter Park: Glen Haven, Palm, Pinewood.
Geneva: Geneva, Stewart Memorial
Kenansville: Bull Creek, Evergreen.
Kissimmee: Barber, East Lake, Finney Point, Howard, Osceola Memory Gardens, Partin, Shingle Creek.
Lake Mary: Lake Mary, Oaklawn
Ocoee: Memorial Garden, Ocoee
Orange County: Bay Ridge, Beulah, Boggy Creek, Chapel Hill, Conquest, Doctor Phillips, Drawdy-Rouse, Eatonville, Fort Christmas, Lake Hill, Locke, Magnolia, Maitland, Oak Ridge, Oakland, Ohev Shalom, Taft, Tangerine, West Orange, Woodlawn.
Orlando: Conway, Greenwood, Mizell, Powell, Washington Park.
Osceola County: Aftergate, Brown, Illahaw, Narcoossee, Oak Hill, Pleasant Hill, Sandhill, Willis, Wolf Creek, Yates.
St. Cloud: Barber, Mt. Peace
Sanford: Evergreen, Lakeview.
Seminole County: Boston Hill, Catholic Clergy, Longwood, New Uppsala, Paola, Slavia, Slovak, St. Luke's, Woodbridge.
Winter Park: Glen Haven, Palm, Pinewood.
Blog Archive
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2008
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December
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- Pilgrim's of the Night
- Backyard burials
- Non-traditional source reveals citrus pioneer
- Dangerous trees?
- Graveyard wildlife
- An accusation carved in stone
- Old newspapers add stories to the stones
- Who is this blogger?!
- Why did she get the nicer stone?!
- Bone Mizell's odd sense of post-mortem justice
- Not-so-final resting place
- An early account of a haunting at Greenwood Cemetery
- In the long, long ago . . .
- Mark your calendars, local rabbits!
- Victorian Cemetery Design
- Was Orlando named for a grave?!
- Pioneer undertakers
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December
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The Graveyard Rabbit
by Frank Lebby Stanton
In the white moonlight, where the willow waves,
He halfway gallops among the graves---
A tiny ghost in the gloom and gleam,
Content to dwell where the dead men dream,
But wary still:
For they plot him ill;
For the graveyard rabbit hath a charm
(May God defend us!) to shield from harm!
Over the shimmering slabs he goes---
Every grave in the dark he knows;
But his nest is hidden from human eye
Where headstones broken on old graves lie.
Wary still!
For they plot him ill:
For the graveyard rabbit, though skeptics scoff,
Charmeth the witch and the wizard off!
The black man creeps, when the night is dim,
Fearful, still, on the track of him;
Or fleety follows the way he runs,
For he heals the hurts of the conjured ones.
Wary still!
For they plot him ill;
The soul's bewitched that would find release,
To the graveyard rabbit go for peace!
He holds their secret---he brings a boon
Where winds moan wild in the dark o' the moon;
And gold shall glitter and love smile sweet
To whoever shall sever his furry feet!
Wary still!
For they plot him ill:
For the graveyard rabbit hath a charm
(May God defend us!) to shield from harm.
In the white moonlight, where the willow waves,
He halfway gallops among the graves---
A tiny ghost in the gloom and gleam,
Content to dwell where the dead men dream,
But wary still:
For they plot him ill;
For the graveyard rabbit hath a charm
(May God defend us!) to shield from harm!
Over the shimmering slabs he goes---
Every grave in the dark he knows;
But his nest is hidden from human eye
Where headstones broken on old graves lie.
Wary still!
For they plot him ill:
For the graveyard rabbit, though skeptics scoff,
Charmeth the witch and the wizard off!
The black man creeps, when the night is dim,
Fearful, still, on the track of him;
Or fleety follows the way he runs,
For he heals the hurts of the conjured ones.
Wary still!
For they plot him ill;
The soul's bewitched that would find release,
To the graveyard rabbit go for peace!
He holds their secret---he brings a boon
Where winds moan wild in the dark o' the moon;
And gold shall glitter and love smile sweet
To whoever shall sever his furry feet!
Wary still!
For they plot him ill:
For the graveyard rabbit hath a charm
(May God defend us!) to shield from harm.
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