Roseland Cemetery Explained

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
• 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
• 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

30.5497°N -83.8675°W

Notes and References

1. Web site: If Stones Could Speak: A walk through Roseland Cemetery, Part 1. August 19, 2021.
2. Web site: If Stones Could Speak: A Walk Through Roseland Cemetery, Part 2. September 9, 2021.
3. Web site: Cemeteries | City of Monticello .
4. https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/4771#!
5. Web site: 025 Historic Monticello's Moonlight Cemetery Walk.
6. Book: Allardice, Bruce S.. Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register. March 2, 2008. University of Missouri Press. 978-0-8262-6648-4 . Google Books.
7. Book: Spencer, Thomas E.. 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. March 2, 1998. Genealogical Publishing Com. 978-0-8063-4823-0 . Google Books.
8. Web site: Local Hero Remembered in Monticello Memorial. June 23, 2016. WTXL ABC 27 Tallahassee News.