Melbourne_Cemetery References

Melbourne Cemetery
Melbourne Cemetery
	Entrance to Melbourne Cemetery
Details
Location	Melbourne, Florida
Country	United States
Coordinates	28°05′10.42″N 80°36′34.90″W / 28.0862278°N 80.6096944°W
Owned by	City of Melbourne

The Melbourne Cemetery or City of Melbourne Cemetery is a cemetery in Melbourne, Florida, United States. It is located on Hibiscus Boulevard at the intersection with Lake Street. The cemetery includes graves of original settlers of Melbourne, to include Cornthwaite John Hector who founded the city. Although formally organized as a cemetery in 1891, native Americans purportedly used the site as a burial grounds for many years before.^[1]

Graves

Some of the graves include:^[1]

Beaujean family
Ellis family
Fee family
Goode family
Porcher family
Rhodes family
Rowland family

Notes

^ ^a ^b Melbourne Chamber of Commerce. Melbourne: A Century of Memories (Melbourne, FL: National Printing, Inc., 1980), p. 11.

External links

Melbourne Cemetery records on Interment.net

[Memories-1] Melbourne Chamber of Commerce. Melbourne: A Century of Memories (Melbourne, FL: National Printing, Inc., 1980), p. 11.

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