Dickson-Long Cemetery, Jackson County, Florida File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Miriam Bailey, miriam@phonl.com USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. This file may not be removed from this server or altered in any way for placement on another server without the consent of the State and USGenWeb Project coordinators and the contributor. *********************************************************************** Dickson-Long Cemetery, Jackson Co FL Lawrence Pender of Greenwood who runs the oldest store in Jackson County and I finally got together and visited an old graveyard that is located on his property off Mt. Tabor Road. Lawrence calls it the Dickson-Long Cemetery. It is on land that once belonged to Marmaduke Dickson (Lawrence says). There is no Dickson-Long Cemetery on your list, but there is a Long Cemetery (no. 116) located in sec. 33, twp 5, range 11; however, as nearly as I can tell, this cemetery is located in sec 8, twp 5, range 9. Also, nobody can get to it (or even find it) without help from Lawrence. He took a rifle when we went in case we ran into snakes--a very real possibility. We drove through two fields with locked gates, into another field, and came to some woods with dense underbrush. After stumbling and scratching our way through about a hundred feet of trees, vines and underbrush, Lawrence said, "Look at that." I asked, "Look at what?" I would have fallen over the cemetery fence if he hadn't pointed right to it. At any rate, the cemetery is surrounded by a stone fence 2-3 feet high, no gate. We sat on the fence and swung our legs over. Inside were four graves with marble tombstones--the tombstones for the adults were large, the ones for the children small. There were only four graves that we could find. Lawrence says there were originally maybe a dozen or more graves but the tombstones were of limestone which simply dissolved. Lawrence had it from his old relatives that the main road from Blue Springs to Greenwood used to pass closeby this cemetery. At any rate, the surviving tombstones read as follows: 1. "Felix H.G. Long, son of Richard H. and Ann C. Long, born 1/25/1819, died 11/28/1871" 2. "Sacred to the memory of Emily B. Long, born in Halifax County, N.C. 12/1/1822, died in Jackson County, Fla., 3/3/1864" 3. "Sally Ann Long, b. 7/15/1858 d. 11/10/1959, daughter of Felix H.G. & Emily B. Long" 4. "Richard N. Long, b. 12/1/1850 d. 8/17/1858, son of Felix H.G. & Emily B. Long" Stanley's "History of Jackson County" (page 23): A number of the most prominent pioneer planters lived between Robinson's Big Spring and the Natural Bridge, in the Greenwood community, including . . . . Neighbors of Dr. Baker were Col. Richard H. Long, a distinguished Georgian, and his sons-- Nicholas A. Long, R. H. Long, Jr., Felix Gilbert Hay Long, and Thomas T. Long--all prominent in local and territorial politics. A daughter, Rebecca, was the first wife of George F. Baltzell . . . ."