To answer Evans ; You have a good memory, that was years ago, long before e-mail. Yes , it was me. It's a rather long story but will try to answer your question, since it is genealogy related. I have found a lot of family members by telling that story. It is a very long story but does have a point, and it could spare others the pain of seeing thier cemetery destroyed, and homes being built over thier ancestors. It is rather a long and involved story---sooooo those of you that don't want to go any farther delete now. I will tell it in two parts. I first found Benjamin Franklin Kersey's , Confederate Tombstone, over in Ft. Pickens That was back in the 1950's when my husband and I were dating. I knew that Ben Kersey might be kin to me, because my grandfather was also named Ben Kersey but being young and dumb, and not really interested , I shrugged it off. Many years later , while volunteering at the Historical Society, I ran across the name again in a booklet , that asked if anyone could identify the headstone of Benjamin Kersey born Jan 4, 1847 and died 1914, that was in the Old Chase Cemetery ( those headstones had been removed from the Navy Base in order to make a runway ) . I got in touch with the person in charge of the tombstones and was told that Ben Kersey's tombstone had just one day showed up there among the Chase Cemetery Tombstones and the only reason that they had kept it was due to the historical information and history written on it, and the fact that it had already been there about ten years. I was told that "if I knew where the tombstone belonged, then I could have it, to return it to it's proper grave ". I found out that the tombstone did indeed belong to my greatgrandfather who fought in the War Between The States, and that he was with the 56th Alabama Calvery, Partisians Rangers. He was wounded , and the whole regiment only 150 strong was captured after harrassing Gen. William T. Sherman in the Trenches of Savannnah He was Paroled when the war ended and he went back home to Barbour County, Alabama. He was only 15 years old when he signed up , and 18 years old when the war ended. ( I have all of this documentation ). Ben came to Pensacola with his father and family sometime after 1870. His father Stephen Kersey was a doctor and he was headed to South Florida to help fight a fever epidemic, plus he had family there. Stephen Kersey and family are another story---another time ! Ben stayed in Pensacola because he liked it, also his wife Samantha Harrell Kersey had family here. Ben collected herbs for Harrells Drug Store. His father had taught him how to identify medicinal herbs. Since Ben had fought in the war he got a land grant , for One hundred and forty four acres in Gulf Breeze, which at that time was called Red Fish Point. Where he and his family lived , is still called Red fish Point ( it now has a bridge over it ). Ben and a neighbor named Charles Rushing started a cemetery over there. It was called " Rushing Cemetery". My guess is that Charles Rushing put up most of the land or all of it, for it to be named Rushing Cemetery. The cemetery was three acres at that time and recorded in Milton. Ben, Samantha, and some children, plus my grandfather's first wife and a child are in there along with Rushing and some of his family. Plus some sailors that had died on a ship and some people working at a Turpentine Mill. I have recently learned that another Confederate Soldier by the name of James D. Brown , Florida Infantry is buried there ( his tombstone is missing ). Walter Turner was the last person buried there and that was in 1933 All of the tombstones are gone with the exception of Ben's. I really didn't know much about my fathers side of the family, he was killed in an auto accident when I was a baby, and I was never around the Kerseys that much. I did know an Uncle who was a surveyor for ( at that time ) St. Regis Paper Co. I got in touch with him and it went from there. End of part one : Will do part two next and give names and dates of those known buried there. You just might find an ancestor. I am kin to most of the old Pensacola Families. Doris