EDEN CEMETERY

This cemetery was on the northern end of the Richards family property.  Only four markers, a small rusting iron fence and a Fee Mortuary (Fee Mortuary established in 1887) marker remain.  The cemetery is located on a bluff overlooking the Indian River, south of Fort Pierce and north of Jensen Beach on south Indian River Drive.

 

RICHARDS, Rebecca     1833-1905

RICHARDS, Thomas     1830-1902

RICHARDS, William F.     1852-1902

Crude gravestone marked "Loved"

 

There are 3-4 unmarked gravesites within an iron fence and the Fee marker is farther back.  It is not known how many people are buried there.  In the book "Memories of Eden" by Raymond Richards Brown, a collection of letters written by Lucie Richards between 1880-1888, she writes of two persons who died in their home.  A letter dated December 1, 1882 indicates a Mr. Walker Crosbie, a man who had abandoned his family and lived in destitution in a shack behind their house,  had died and that they had buried him near where he had lived.   In February 1883 a Mary Brill who was called Polly died and they buried her in a little lime grove on the hill.

HARRISON CEMETERY

This is a private cemetery located on the Harrison Ranch, thirteen miles west of Kings Highway on the Orange Avenue Extension, west of Fort Pierce.

 

ADAMS, Alto     January 31 1899-February 20, 1988

ADAMS, Nathaniel E. Jr.     March 27, 1917-April 9, 1985

ADAMS, Nathaniel E. IV    March 30, 1981-August 15, 1987

 

PAINE CEMETERY/ST. LUCIE CEMETERY

The Saint Lucie Cemetery is located on the Old Dixie Highway, south of what is now the Village of St. Lucie.

 

Within a small iron fence is buried James PAINE Sr.  who had received the deed for this property in 1857.  James had served as a Brevard County Judge in the 1860's and ran a boarding house in the 1870's.  He died November 15, 1882.  Also within the fence rests his wife Johanna M. PAINE who died October 28, 1885.  Mormon records indicate that two sisters, daughters of Edward Cabel and Polly Ann Osteen SUMMERLIN, are buried in the cemetery.  Idella SUMMERLIN 1883-1888 and Lillie Dixie SUMMERLIN 1885-1893.  There are three more graves which are believed to be the Russell family.  All the graves had been enclosed in a wooden fence which no longer stands.

 

PEACOCK CEMETERY

A vault which sits on the corner of ranchland that was retained, along with the right-of-way by the Peacock family when their ranch was sold to the A. Duda Company.

 

PEACOCK, Oliver Lumsden    died 1970

PEACOCK, Mildred 1906-1989

SPRUCE BLUFF CEMETERY

Located in the Norseman's Harbour residential area of Port St. Lucie, off Oaklyn Street, on the banks of the North Fork of the Saint Lucie River.

 

The cemetery is all that remains of the community of Spruce Bluff.  Confederates, sea-farers, pirates and Indians had been known to have lived in the area in the early 1800's but more permanent settlers didn't arrive until the late 1800's.

 

BLAKESLEE    Older son of Charles D. and Nettie BLAKESLEE

BLAKESLEE,     Infant twin sons of Charles D. and Nettie BLAKESLEE

CREWS,     Infant daughter first born of William Frank and Mary Fultz Winters CREWS

FULTZ, George A.     June 6, 1868-July 7, 1902    Son of John Enos and Sarah Elizabeth FULTZ

WINTERS, Arnold    Son of Ed and Gertrude WINTERS

WINTERS, Viola Gertrude    March 7, 1878- July 1906 Daughter of John Enos and Sarah Elizabeth FULTZ and wife of Ed WINTERS