Ethel Cemetery

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Orange, Florida, United States
Surnames/tags: Moore, Griffin, Gammon, Glass, Thompson, Gray, Autman, Delk, White, Palleo, Pattilo, Boyd, Rush, Moore, Bresow, Fillmon, Bateman, Lee, Goines, Reconstruction, Black Cemetery, Slaves, Enslaved, Freedmen,

Contents 1 Ethel Cemetery Origins 1.1 Cemetery 1.2 Souls 2 Sources

Ethel Cemetery Origins

William and Charlotte Moore and their three sons settled Ethel, Orange County, Florida, USA in the late 1860s before the area became Lake County. Newton remained in Ethel. They bought 360 acres before amassing more land.

Cemetery

Ethel Cemetery is located in the current Rock Springs Run Wildlife Management Area near Sorrento, Florida.

Ethel, Florida, USA
Coordinates: 28.80001, -81.44689
Cemetery ID: 2263242^[1]

Souls

• First soul buried: William Moore (1800-1882)--Founder
• Second Soul: Charlotte B Newton (1813-)--Founder

• Most Recent: Earl Goins Goines 1920-11 Feb 1936

Listing of the Souls of Ethel Cemetery in Wikitree

Twenty-eight established souls are listed in Findagrave for the approximately one acre grave site, assuredly there were many more. It only has a handful of headstones remaining with a few names etched upon them.

Ethel, freedwoman the town was named for, and several other souls in the cemetery were former members and/or children of William P Delk (abt.1841-1862).^[2]
See: Orange County, Florida, Slaves

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #2263242
2. ↑ Delk Plantation, Orange County, Florida