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Profiles are placed in this category with this text [[Category:Glenwood African American Cemetery, Glenwood, Florida]] .
Attempts were made to identify and create profiles for the following people buried in this cemetery without success:
- Marie Smith unknown – 18 Jul 1954
- Williams Birth and death dates unknown.
- The Daytona Beach News-Journal. Glenwood Graveyard for African Americans, Monday September 21, 2015. News-Journal.com. by Austin Fuller
- For further information contact: Benjamin Smith, retired pastor, African Methodist Episcopal Church. 386-738-6944.
- His interest is in restoring the Glenwood cemetery.
- The Glenwood African American Cemetery was established in 1885 and is the only one of about 75 Volusia County cemeteries that is completely abandoned, according to Volusia County spokesman Dave Byron. News-Journal/Jim Tiller.
- There are an unknown number of graves, 32 intact grave markers noted in 2012. However there are many more unmarked graves in the cemetery,
- Glenwood is a community just west of Deland, Volusia County, Florida. It was once home to a large percentage of African-Americans following the railroad's construction in the 1880s to around 1936, according to a January 1986 article in the Deland Sun News, and provided by the West Volusia Historical Society. Family members of a person buried in the cemetery about three months before the 1986 article told the newspaper a sawmill had drawn residents there to work and harvest wood.