Roseland Cemetery

Roseland Cemetery is in Monticello, Florida.[1][2] It was established in 1845 and is one of three city owned cemeteries. Old City Cemetery was established in 1827 and Oakfield Cemetery in 1986.[3] African Americans were buried at Old Union Cemetery.

The Florida archives include a photo of the Groom family's stone marker.[4]

In 2022 a moonlight cemetery walk was held.[5]

Burials

• William Capers Bird, lawyer, planter, Confederate officer, and state legislator[6]
• William Scott Dilworth, attorney, state legislator, delegate to Florida's secession convention, Confederate Army officer[6] (commander of the 3rd Florida Infantry Regiment)
• Dannite Hill Mays, served in the Florida legislature and United States House of Representatives[7]
• Samuel Pasco, Confederate soldier in the Civil War, president of Florida's 1885 Constitutional Convention, and U.S. Senator[7]
• Ernest Ivy Thomas Jr., World War II soldier who helped raise the American flag at Iwo Jima[8]

References

1. "If Stones Could Speak: A walk through Roseland Cemetery, Part 1". August 19, 2021.
2. "If Stones Could Speak: A Walk Through Roseland Cemetery, Part 2". September 9, 2021.
3. "Cemeteries | City of Monticello".
4. https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/4771#!
5. "025 Historic Monticello's Moonlight Cemetery Walk".
6. Allardice, Bruce S. (March 2, 2008). Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-6648-4 – via Google Books.
7. Spencer, Thomas E. (March 2, 1998). Where They're Buried: A Directory Containing More Than Twenty Thousand Names of Notable Persons Buried in American Cemeteries, with Listings of Many Prominent People who Were Cremated. Genealogical Publishing Com. ISBN 978-0-8063-4823-0 – via Google Books.
8. "Local Hero Remembered in Monticello Memorial". WTXL ABC 27 Tallahassee News. June 23, 2016.

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