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Crab Grass Cemetery

Aka Lanier cemetery, Deer Park cemetery & Sumner's Place cemetery

Source: D. A. R. publication: "BIBLE RECORDS of Keen, Keene and Mills Families; TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS of Orange and Osceola Counties, Florida AND 1850 Census and Tombstone Inscriptions of the RUTHERFORD FAMILY of MISSOURI," Copied and Contributed by Mrs. Mary M. (John R.) Ingersoll, Genealogical Records Chairman, 1965, Orlando DAR Chapter #723. A copy can be found at the Orange County Public Library in Orlando. This record also includes Locke Memorial Cemetery listed under Osceola county which is actually in Orange county, but near the county border with Osceola.

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This little cemetery is located on private property owned by Mr. Thacker, Attorney, of Kissimmee being situated about 2 miles in the woods, south of Highway 192 between Holopaw and Deer Park, Osceola County, Florida.

Copied 1964 by Mrs. Mary M. Ingersoll, 219 E. Pierce Street, Pine Castle, Florida, 32809, and is a complete list of all marked grave. There were other graves marked with only wooden stakes - some of which had fallen over.

Kathrine Lanier b. Mar. 17, 1816 d. Jan. 15, 1895

Andrew W. Crosby 3-18-1900 2-16-1924

A. W. Crosby Apr. 5, 1856 - Nov. 8, 1930

Catherine Crosby Mar. 22, 1863 - May 8, 1947

Victoria A. Collins Apr. 1, 1908 - May 10, 1933

The End.


transcribed and donated to the site by Lisa Slaski, May 2017