Hammock Community Church Cemetery
By: Cisco Deen, Jr.History
In April 1948, ground was being cleared in Artesia, 10 miles north of the Flagler Beach pier, for construction of a community church which came to be known as the Ed Johnson Memorial Community Church. Mrs. Johnson, the former Lillian Williams of Bertrand, Mississippi CO, MO and daughter of Septimus (Seth) Williams and his wife, Laura Frances Basford, gave the property on which it was to be erected and the material for building.
It is from the Ed Johnson Memorial Community Church that The Hammock Community Church descends.
Ed Johnson was William Edgar (Ed) Johnson, who for 31 years he was actively identified with the business, social and political activities of Flagler County. He was a native of Tennessee, coming to Bunnell in 1912 where he entered the contracting and building business. Ed was the son of William Brantley Cooke Johnson and his wife, Martha Ann Wallace Pipkin.
He was a moving factor in creation of the Ocean Shore Improvement District which was created to build the present Ocean Shore boulevard from St. Augustine to Daytona Beach, he serving as chairman of the trustees of the district for 10 years.
The Ed Johnson Memorial Chapel is still there, but a large church building has been built to the East of same with parking on the north and south. The cemetery is to the north of the church.