CARLETON CEMETERY

 

Owned by Putnam County under Parcel #02-10-23-5740-0020-0000.  Lying between Lots 19 and 20 of Block B of Melrose Landing MB 6 P 26 and marked as “NOT A PART” of S/D.  Transferred from Melrose Landing to Putnam County via OR 482 P 724 in March 1986. 

 

Take SR 20 west to Baden Powell Road, approximately 6.2 miles west of CR 315 in Interlachen.  Turn right and go approximately 3.1 miles to Melrose Landing Boulevard.   Turn right and go to 129 Heritage Way.  Turn right and go approximately 1/3 mile.  Cemetery is on the left. 

 

This is an old Veterans cemetery with Union soldiers from the Civil War and one Spanish American War veteran buried here.  Also the family of one Union Civil War soldier is buried here.  According to an article in the 2006 edition of the Putnam Historical  Society, Carleton was a planned community for Union Veterans, and pensioned widows of Union Veterans.  To read the article, click here.  PUTNAM HALL QUAD.  N 29o 39.380 W 81o 58.516.  (Neglected).

 

UPDATE:  On Saturday afternoon, October 28, 2017, my husband and I visited the cemetery.  It is actually easy to find, and I can’t believe I didn’t go before.  Oh well.  We took pictures of every grave we found.  The cemetery is enclosed in a chain linked fence.  Parts of it look older than other parts—particularly the southerly back fence has been damaged by falling trees, although none of those remain now.  The northerly fence with two gates looks far newer than the rest. 

 

Most of the graves are located in a row along the edge of the southerly fence.  The orientation, particularly of the two graves within the wrought iron fence suggest that the graves are oriented to the North, yet the markers with the information face South. 

 

The two exceptions are John Reed, grave enclosed within a wrought iron fence, and a new interment, relatively speaking, that of John P. Abbey, a World War II, and Korean Veteran, buried in 2011.  These graves are side by side and face west.  Perhaps this cemetery will be reactivated.

 

There are some trees down—one in the middle of that southerly row of graves that looks like it came down during Hurricane Irma.  I didn’t see any markers in that mess, but didn’t have pruning equipment.  At the eastern most corner of that line, are two graves within a wrought iron fence, with at least one tree, if not two, down across that plot.  This looks older, possibly having come down during Hurricane Matthew.  We will go again, and clean what we can, and see what we have.

 

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LAST NAME

FIRST NAME

BIRTH

DEATH

COMMENTS (sic)

VOCATION/TRADE

MARKER

ABBEY

JOHN P

11/23/1927

10/5/2011

WW II  KOREA

 

MARKER

ACKERMAN

RICHARD H.

 

 

CO A 15 IA INF

 

MARKER

BAKER

ALMOND HARVEY

 

 

CO B. 3 PA INF

 

MARKER

COFFEY

JOHN JOSEPH

 

 

CO 49 NY INF SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR

 

MARKER

COLE

ALBERT W

 

 

CO C 3 WISC CAV

 

MARKER

FIELDS

JAMES A

12/10/1840

9/4/1922

CO A 3 IOWA INF [THE VETERANS GRAVES REGISTRATION OF PUTNAM COUNTY LIST HIM AS BURIED HERE ALTHOUGH THERE IS NO STONE]

 

MARKER

REED

HERBERT H.

 

 

CO K 20 ME INF

 

MARKER

REED

HERBERT MONROE

6/1/1841

5/12/1912

 

 

MARKER

REED

JOHN B

UN

10/14/1910

CO I 18 PA INF

 

MARKER

RUSSE

CHARLES F

1840

11/25/1912

CO F 46 NY INF

 

MARKER

SAXON

WILLIAM

1828

2/18/1915

CO D 6 OHIO INF

 

MARKER

SAXON

MRS  D

UN

4/5/1909

BELOVED WIFE OF WILLIAM SAXON

 

MARKER

SCHMEITSER

HENRY M.

1847

UN

'VETENARY' CO F 51 OHIO INF [THE VETERANS GRAVES REGISTRATION OF PUTNAM COUNTY LIST HIM AS BURIED HERE ALTHOUGH THERE IS NO STONE]

 

MARKER

SMITH

GRANVILLE  C.

10/15/1842

8/15/1919

CO E 5 MASS INF

REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER.

MARKER

TWEEDY

SGT. JAMES A

12/6/1835

4/23/1911

CO K 21 KY INF

 

MARKER

UNKNOWN

 

 

 

CHARRED WOODEN MARKER

 

MARKER

UNKNOWN

 

 

 

WROUGHT IRON GRAVE ENCLOSURE. NO MARKER

 

MARKER

UNKNOWN

 

 

 

STONE MARKED 'MOTHER' NO HEADSTONE.

 

MARKER

WILLARD

ELI A

10/20/1844

9/15/1920

 

 

MARKER

 

Putnam County Directory 1919

Carleton

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES

(*Denotes Colored.)

 

 *

LAST NAME

FIRST NAME

SPOUSE

OCCUPATION

 

COLE

ALBERT

 

RETIRED

 

CROSBY

M B

 

RETIRED

*

CUE

ELLIS

 

FARMER

*

CUE

SUSIE

 

DOMESTIC

 

FIELDS

JAMES A

 

RETIRED

 

FINKFROCK

DANIEL H

 

RETIRED

 

GLOSSON

BENJAMIN

LOTTIE

 

 

KISTLER

W B

 

RETIRED

 

POST OFFICE--MRS MINNIE SMITH P M

 

 

 

 

RHODES

CHARLES J

 

RETIRED

 

SMITH

GRANT C

MINNIE

RETIRED

 

WILLARD

ELI

 

 

 

WILLARD

MISS MARY

 

 

This list is provided as a courtesy to researchers.  It's inclusion in no way implies that the people listed as living in the Carleton area in 1919, were in fact buried in the cemetery.  They may have moved elsewhere since the publication of the directory. 

Because the Federal Census for 1910 has been mentioned in the article above, and on the FindAGrave.com site, I have included that page here.  The yellow shaded area encompasses everyone in the Carleton area living on ‘Easy Street’ at the time of the Census.

You will notice that almost everyone in this shaded area are widows or widowers and are single Head of Households.  Granville C. Smith’s name has been misspelled.

 

Last updated: 9/2/2019

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