WALL FAMILY CEMETERY

 

The Wall Family Cemetery is located on the Ordway-Swisher Biological Station property (full name:  Kathryn B. Ordway—Carl S. Swisher) owned by the University of Florida.  The property in question has changed hands several times and expanded since the Cemetery Task Force Survey was conducted in 1999.  It is complicated, and a more complete history may be had by examining website of the Ordway-Swisher Biological Station (OSBS). 

 

Parcel #11-09-23-0000-0020-0000.  Located on a high sandy knoll in the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section II. 

 

From Palatka take SR 100 west 23 miles.  Turn left on SR 26 and go to Mason Road.  Turn left.  Go approximately 1.75 miles to entrance.  The Ordway-Swisher Biological Station property is closed to the general public due to the delicate nature of the studies being carried out there, and permission must be granted before entrance is made through a locked gate.  If you wish to visit, you will need to make an application.  The information for that can be located here.

 

The Cemetery has not been used as an active burial ground for over 100 years.  This was the burial site of the Wall family.  There are also two of their servants buried here, their graves marked by uncut and unmarked stones. 

 

The history of the area, the Wall Family and other founding Families of the area, are covered in the ‘Cultural Resources’ page of the OSBS.  PUTNAM HALL QUAD.  N 29o 43’55.1” W 81o 58’ 67.4”.   (Maintained).

 

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LAST NAME

FIRST NAME

BIRTH

DEATH

COMMENTS (sic)

POWELL

A. U.

5/11/1835

105/1855

ANGELINE URSULA WALL B. BARNWELL DIST. SC, DAU. OF ELIJAH AND M.A.E. WALL. WIFE OF B. W. POWELL. AGE 20 YRS 4 MOS 24 DAYS.

UNKNOWN

 

 

 

ROUGH GRANITE MARKER NO INFO. POSSIBLE FORMER SLAVE BROUGHT FROM SC.

UNKNOWN

 

 

 

ROUGH GRANITE MARKER NO INFO. POSSIBLE FORMER SLAVE BROUGHT FROM SC.

WALL

ELIJAH

7/4/1797

8/30/1890

BORN IN SOUTH CAROLINA. SON OF HERDY/HARDY WALL

WALL

ELIZABETH A.

7/16/1832

1/27/1854

DAU. OF ELIJAH AND M.A.E. WALL B. BARNWELL DIST, SC.

WALL

G. R.

12/25/1840

9/28/1851

GEORGE ROBERS WALL BORN BARNWELL DIST. SC; SON OF ELIJAH AND M.A.E. WALL.

WALL

M. A. E.

7/3/1809

10/8/1858

MARY ANGELINE ELIZABETH ROBERTS B. BARNWELL DIST., SC, WIFE OF ELIJAH WALL DAU. OF STEPHEN AND MARY ROBERTS

WALL

R(IENZI) J.

11/15/1841

9/11/1861

B. BARNWELL DIST, SC SON OF ELIJAH AND M.A.E. WALL

 

Last updated 6/3/2017

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