Owned
by Take
SR 20 west to 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 |
|
|
ACKERMAN |
RICHARD H. |
|
|
CO A 15 IA INF |
|
|
BAKER |
ALMOND HARVEY |
|
|
CO B. 3 PA INF |
|
|
COFFEY |
JOHN JOSEPH |
|
|
CO 49 NY INF SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR |
|
|
COLE |
ALBERT W |
|
|
CO C 3 WISC CAV |
|
|
FIELDS |
JAMES A |
12/10/1840 |
9/4/1922 |
CO A 3 |
|
MARKER |
REED |
HERBERT H. |
|
|
CO K 20 ME INF |
|
|
REED |
HERBERT MONROE |
6/1/1841 |
5/12/1912 |
|
|
MARKER |
REED |
JOHN B |
UN |
10/14/1910 |
CO I 18 PA INF |
|
|
RUSSE |
CHARLES F |
1840 |
11/25/1912 |
CO F 46 NY INF |
|
|
SAXON |
WILLIAM |
1828 |
2/18/1915 |
CO D 6 |
|
MARKER |
SAXON |
MRS D |
UN |
4/5/1909 |
BELOVED WIFE OF WILLIAM SAXON |
|
MARKER |
SCHMEITSER |
HENRY M. |
1847 |
UN |
'VETENARY' CO
F 51 |
|
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 |
|
|
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
Carleton
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES
(*Denotes Colored.)
* |
LAST NAME |
FIRST NAME |
SPOUSE |
OCCUPATION |
|
COLE |
ALBERT |
|
RETIRED |
|
|
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 |
|
|
|
|
|
CHARLES J |
|
RETIRED |
|
SMITH |
GRANT C |
MINNIE |
RETIRED |
|
WILLARD |
ELI |
|
|
|
WILLARD |
MISS MARY |
|
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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