NORWALK CEMETERY Owned by Putnam County. Parcel #30-12-26-0000-0310-0000 (MB 1 P 84). Located at 145 Cemetery Road. Take SR 19 approximately 4 miles south of the Barge Canal Bridge to Cemetery Road on the left. Turn left and go approximately ½ mile. Cemetery is on the right. It has been vandalized in the past. The County has erected a chain link fence around the perimeter. Here is a picture of the gate. The old Norwalk community was settled by people from Maine and New York in 1876. At one time more than 250 people lived in the district. It was situated near the St. Johns River upstream from Palatka, with which there was twice daily communication by steamer. Within Norwalk were two churches, a good public school, two sawmills, a tannery, wagon shop, harness shop, two blacksmiths and a post office. This community was established as a farming community (citrus groves and pine timberland). The groves were frozen out in the great freezes of 1894-95 and the depletion of the virgin reserve stands of yellow pine timber more than anything contributed to the demise of the community.  By 1919 only a handful of people remained.  WELAKA QUAD N 29^o 25.334 W 81^o 43.774. (Maintained/Neglected). Photographed April 25, 2010 by Mary E. Murphy HOME
LAST NAME	FIRST NAME	BIRTH	DEATH	COMMENTS (SIC)	MARKER
ANDREWS	J. K.		6/6/1886	AGE 58 YEARS.  SINGLE STONE WITH BOTH J K ANDREWS AND EMILY ANDREWS CROUCH ON STONE.  ENCLOSED IN IRON FENCE WITH GATE MARKED 'CROUCH'.	MARKER
ANDREWS	EMILY A.		11/16/1881	WIFE OF GEORGE COUCH.  SINGLE STONE WITH BOTH J K ANDREWS AND EMILY ANDREWS CROUCH ON STONE.  ENCLOSED IN IRON FENCE WITH GATE MARKED 'CROUCH'.	MARKER
BANCROFT	WILLARD A.	1822	1890	B. MONTAGUE, MASS	MARKER
BANCROFT ?				WOODEN-POST HEAD MARKER BESIDE WILLARD A BANCROFT.  (I found no sign of this wooden marker, 4/25/2010.)	MARKER
BARD	BLANCHE	1/29/1861	9/24/1906	WIFE OF HENRY H BARD.    INFORMATION FROM EARLIER SURVEY.  STONE NOW MISSING.  (That information came from the 1999 visit by the Cemetery Task Force.  On my visit, 4/25/2010, I found a small footstone marked 'B. B'--possibly standing for Blanche Bard?)	MARKER
BARD	CHARLIE	1877	1898		MARKER
BARD	COL. R. W.	1836	1902		MARKER
BARD JR	ROBERT W	1876	1880		MARKER
BAXTER	MARY A.	1/3/1832	1/22/1881		MARKER MARKER
BEASLEY	M. J.	9/18/1847	5/17/1897	WIFE OF J H BEASLEY (FENCED AT ONE TIME)	MARKER
CHASE	LILLIAN MAY		4/5/1884	AGE 4 YEARS ONLY DAUGHTER OF J S AND M A CHASE.  ENCLOSED IN AN IRON FENCE.	MARKER
CARRILL	MARY A.	2/8/1853	6/19/1883	WIFE OF ED CARRILL	MARKER
COUCH	GEORGE?			WIFE IS HERE.  COULD HE BE?	MARKER MARKER
HARSHMAN	LOUIS F.	5/17/1884	6/1/1884	DEATH DATE IS A 'BEST GUESS'.	MARKER
HARSHMAN	LUCY A.	4/22/1862	6/2/1884		MARKER
JONES	FREDERICK C.	3/14/1915	12/10/1915		MARKER
MORGAN	D. L.	?	?	NO STONE; INFORMATION FROM EARLIER SURVEY.  D L MORGAN ONCE NORWALK POSTMASTER.  PHOTOGRAPH IS OF THE FENCE ENCLOSING THE PLOT.  NAME IS ON THE GATE.	MARKER
RODGERS	GEORGE MOORE		11/30/1881	GRAVE FACES NORTH	MARKER
VARN	MRS SARAH J.	11/22/1875	9/18/1890		MARKER
WELLS	MRS MARY E.	1/28/1877	4/22/1898	MONUMENT IS BROKEN.  DEATH DATE ALMOST UNREADABLE.  STONE CURRENTLY PROPPED NEXT TO BASE STONE.	MARKER
WILMOT	MARGARET W.		1909	AGE 3 WEEKS	MARKER

Putnam County Directory 1919

Norwalk

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES

(*Denotes Colored.)

*	LAST NAME	FIRST NAME	SPOUSE	OCCUPATION
*	BLAKELY	JOSHUA		LABORER
*	COLONIUS	JOHN		LABORER
	JONES	GABLE	BERTHA	FARMER
	JOYNER	JOSEPH		FARMER
	McCOY	ARTHUR		LABORER
*	McMILLAN	GRANT	NELLIE	LABORER
*	NELSON	GEORGE		LABORER
*	NELSON	JOHN T	IDA	FRUIT GROWER
	RAUGH	JOSEPH	MARY	FARMER
	RYLES	HUGH		LABORER
	RYLES	J V		FARMER

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

Last updated: 7/24/2017

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