Cemetery on Stillwater Trail
 

We just moved here permanently on April 4th and bought a home in Liberty Park. We rented a villa in the Village of Caroline while looking for a home.
On one of our walks to the mail station, my hubby noticed a break in the hedges that line the fence along Stillwater and Chesnee and along the mail station parking lot. There's a small cemetery beyond the fence. We didn't climb over or under the fence. We got close enough to see gravestones and about 10-15 graves on the property.
Does anyone know who is buried there? There are names on the stones, but we couldn't get close enough to make them out.

Is the cemetery and the graves another part of the "false" markers and plaques that are located in and around The Villages?

Cemetery is for real
 

We just drove by it on Friday, before we left TV on Saturday, on our way to a garage sale. Search the threads for further comments, but I remember reading it is for real. Villages had to build around it.

I think it's interesting, but understandable, that no attention is called to it. Unless I've missed them, there are also no crematories or funeral parlors on Villages property. Likely a conscious decision by the developers as there is certainly a ready market in a retirement community as big as TV. The older I get, the more I will probably appreciate not being reminded every day that the end is getting nearer!

I remember this thread from last year.
 

The cemetery is called Cherry Lake Cemetery.

It is documented at "Find a Grave" with driving directions and photos of the cemetery.

There is no direct access through The Villages property. Access is off Hwy. 466.

The cemetery is still currently in use with 78 interments. The earliest date is 1925.

The website also includes names and dates of the deceased and photos of their headstones.


http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...ty=375&CSsr=1&

I looked at their website and found the directions correct but the GPS co-ordinates were way off. On the map it placed the cemetery somewhere south of the FL pike. To get to it, turn south off of 466 on CR100 or Cherry Lake Road (just west of Spring Arbor Ln past the HV power lines) watch for CR100b ,turn right and follow around the bend to the left to the end of the road. should be able to see Stillwater Trail from there but can't get to it.

pqrstar, I liked that website. Quite a resource. I met a couple of men a few years back who volunteered to document cemeteries in the area where they live. They were just ordinary men. Both retired veterans who had heard about the project. They would take a picnic and a big cooler of water and make a day of it when they had time. They took photos and wrote everything that was on the headstones and documented any unreadable headstones. They turned the info into an organization who posted it on a website and kept records. All volunteers.

That cemetery is mentioned in the book "Leisureville", which is 85% about TV. It may be worth a read for some of you - I enjoyed the book, an easy read, but not sure I believed everything in it. The cemetery is mentioned. In fact, a few pages (I think) are devoted to that cemetery.

As far as funeral homes on TV property go, you are correct. However they are real close by - like the one on Buenos Aires Boulevard across from Spanish Planes Shopping Center. Also Lady Lake and Wildwood have funeral homes.

Did you notice Lieut Hill Bryan Coffee Died 1891 was a member of CO D/5 FLA INF CSA.

common
 

It is quite common in the area I live in to have a new development built around a small cemetery. What happens is a large family owned farm contains a small family cemetery for decades, even centuries then the plot gets sold to a developer who builds around it with varying degrees of camouflage. Sometimes they are very noticeable sometimes hidden but always accessible.

I thinks this death notice was added to the Cherry Lake Cemetery online records in error by "Steve"

There is actually another cemetery called "Cherry Lake United Methodist Church Cemetery in Madison County FL.

Here is the reference to Hill Bryan Coffee in that cemetery in Madison
County, FL

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...try=4&CSst=11&

Birth: Mar. 1, 1837
Death: Apr. 9, 1891

Burial:
Cherry Lake United Methodist Church Cemetery
Cherry Lake (Madison County)
Madison County
Florida, USA

Created by: Donna McPherson
Record added: Nov 02, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 31087314

In response to another post about the location of Cherry Lake Cemetery on the interactive GPS map . .

The reason the interactive GPS maping information at the Find A Grave website shows another location farther south near the turnpike in Winter Garden is that someone misstyped CR466 and instead put CR566 in the driving directions.

Drive South off CR566 on CR100(Cherry Lake Road) to CR100B and turn right to NE 102 Road, then continue straight about 100 yards on a small dirt road to the cemetery.

Guess this is why you can't trust everything you read online :icon_wink:

I was wondering about this.
 

Since he supposedly was at Appomattox Court House according to the Sumter County Cherry Lake Cemetery entry, I thought I would be able to find some kind of internet reference to him. I just got stuff associated with Madison County Florida and not Sumter County. He was also not listed on this


http://www.uscemeteryproj.com/florid...cherrylake.htm