Larkin Cemetery
New Smyrna, Volusia Co., Fla.
The Larkin Cemetery is located in the Hidden
Lakes Golf Course and is being restored and maintained by the owners Lee & Kathy
Griffith. While clearing to expand the course they came across the graves and
immediately sealed it off and started cleaning it up.
They have plans to landscape the area and create a park around it, No golfers or
golf carts will be allowed to cross the area.
They have contacted the local black historians and plan to preserve it for
future generations to visit.
Dot Moore, New Smyrna historian has had the cemetery listed in the County as a
Historical Cemetery.
Jerry Hale and Marti Kara visited along with Dot Moore and the Golf course
owners need to be commended for the work they are putting in to restore the
cemetery.
Below are the names and dates of the headstones
That are left, some are unreadable or partially unreadable.
Click on the name to see the picture.
GPS N 29° 02.581
W 080° 57.033
PARCEL # 731200000110
Copyright© 2010 Bill Morgan
LARKIN, Unreadable, May be Calvin from 1910 census, b. 1865 d. 1912
LARKIN Mamie D., b. Aug.
12, 1875 d. Sept. 9, 1911
"A Truer Nobler Heart never beat within a human breast"
GOODWIN, Jessie, Was Born 1844 Died Nov. 9, 1916 Age 73
GOODWIN, Elizabeth, b. Feb.
16, 1848 d. Mar. 15, 1912
"Safe in the arms of Jesus"
SMITH Maggie, b. 1871 d. 1916
CARTER, Millie, b. Sept. 28, 185? d. Apr. 23, 1917
? UNREADABLE, H. G., b. 1857
d. 1917
Erected by Lear Pettus, "Lear was the wife of Rembert Pettus"
STEWART, Unreadable, b. 18?2 d. 19??
GARDNER, Ada May, b. Apr.
27, 1916 d. Feb. 23, 1920
"Blessed are the dead which died in the Lord"
Daughter of Moses & Carrie Gardner b. Florida, From census record
