Most of our resources on the history of Ferry Pass, Olive, and Flat Iron (the area around the UWF campus, sometimes called Delta in early articles) were studied for the history of Olive Baptist Church. Mr. Whitmire came here and built his home sometime in 1866 or 1867 along the Olive-Ferry Pass road, and the Eliott's Florida Encyclopdia of 1889 noted the existence of Ferry Pass but also Olive for which it said it was on the L&N Railroad, 8 miles north of Pensacola, population 100, and Lewis Boley was the Postmaster. I really have great doubts about place called "Olive" in 1823. There are many religious churches, etc. that use the term "Olivet" as a relaxing garden spot but often to denote a cemetery spot. A family could have called a burial plot on their farm "Olivet." And it would have been easy over time for a transcription error to creep in between "olivet" and Olive, Florida. What many don't know is that Escambia was a citrus county for Florida up until about 1926 with orange, grapefruit, and other exports, and probably olives, too. Dean On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Jerry Merritt <jerrym151@mchsi.com> wrote: > Henry Shepard died of Yellow Fever in Mar 1823 and was buried in Olive - > I assume in the Olive Cemetery. I doubt you will find a tombstone for > him though since he left four orphans. His wife had died earlier. > > There is no mention of an Olive Cemetery in Escambia in Chronicling > America from 1905-1910 in the Pensacola Journal. > > And it may be that there never was an Olive Cemetery. Back then the > front yard was close at hand and the Funeral Parlor Lobby hadn't yet > formed. Those listed in the early papers as buried in Olive may have > just been buried on their family's property. > > Bonnie is right though. It would make a great Footprints article to > document trying to find the Olive Cemetery. > > Jerry > > On 5/2/2011 1:42 PM, Bruce and Connie Rova wrote: > > Michael C. Boley (26 Sep 1880-21 May 1947) is buried in Clopton Cemetery > > behind the East Brent Baptist Church. I noted there are Merritt's buried > > there too...could one of them be the one Jerry referred to? There are > three > > burials from 1920 shown there, but not an infant Boley... Perhaps > someone > > associated with that cemetery would know if it had been known by another > > name previously? > > Bruce > > > > I just got Jacki Wilson's note about Michael's wife dying in 1920 and > being > > buried in Whitmire Cemetery. Perhaps her death in 1920 and the child's > > death in 1920 were related. It would seem logical to assume the Mother > and > > Child who died in the same year would be buried in the same cemetery, I > > would think. AND Whitmire Cemetery is not far north off of Olive Road... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: fl-wfgs-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:fl-wfgs-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On > > Behalf Of L. L. Scott > > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 1:09 PM > > To: fl-wfgs@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [FL-WFGS] Cemetery help needed > > > > Child of Michael C. Boley was born and died in Olive, FL in 1920. Burial > > Olive Cemetery > > Michael's father Louis and mother Lizzie are buried in St Michaels. > > Louis died 1914, largest land holder in Escambia Co. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Evan Strohl > > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 11:29 AM > > To: fl-wfgs@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [FL-WFGS] Cemetery help needed > > > > Lee, > > Don't know if my reply came thru to you, via iPhone. > > > > I know of none with that name, but often, especially if old, > > that name has morphed into a newer one. Where is it? > > Can I talk to the person who queried? > > > > [all this assuming that it's in Escambia Co??] > > > > P.S. An interred surname might help us find it, also. > > Evan > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "L. L. Scott"<llscott2000@bellsouth.net> > > To: "FLWFGS"<fl-wfgs@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 10:01 AM > > Subject: [FL-WFGS] Cemetery help needed > > > > > >> What became of the Olive Cemetery? > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> FL-WFGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > FL-WFGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > FL-WFGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FL-WFGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FL-WFGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Dean DeBolt, University Librarian Special Collections University of West Florida Library 11000 University Parkway Pensacola, FL 32514-5750 ddebolt@uwf.edu; 850-474-2213