Okaloosa County FlArchives Cemeteries.....Jesse Rogers Memorial Cemetery - Partial Survey More to Come
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Hart Franklin hfranklin211@cox.net May 17, 2008, 10:11 pm

Abstracted By: Hart Franklin

Jesse Rogers Memorial Cemetery is located on the south 
side of Highway 98 in Mary Esther, Florida, a block west 
of Mary Esther Cutoff, at the traffic light for the Target 
Shopping Center.

It is a beautiful and historic cemetery guarded by tall 
cypress trees, moss-draped oaks and the waters of Santa 
Rosa Sound. A wrought iron fence was added along the 
northern edge in the 1990s to separate the cemetery from 
the bustling traffic along U.S. Highway 98.

Jesse Rogers, whose name the cemetery bears, settled along 
the Santa Rosa Sound in Mary Esther around 1840 with his 
family and a herd of cattle. The land was "so wild that 
bonfires were kept burning at night to keep the black 
bears from devouring the family's pigs." He was in his 
late 80s when he died in 1888, and was originally buried 
in a wooded spot that he had chosen near where Hollywood 
Boulevard and Mary Esther Boulevard intersect. Often 
referred to as a pirate with a legendary treasure booty, 
his gravesite was frequented by those hoping to find a 
fortune. His grandson, J.V. Rogers, quietly moved his 
remains one night to the old Mary Esther burial ground in 
an unmarked spot. A group of his descendents later named 
the cemetery after him.

In 1977 the property was deeded to the City for 
maintenance and administration. There are numerous old 
graves, such as one from 1885 of Peter Green, born in 1826 
in Nova Scotia. His tombstone reads "Free from care and 
sin and sorrow, Doubts and fears all passed away. No more 
night of pain and anguish, but one bright eternal day." 
Another of an infant, Lela Sikes, born in late 1898 and 
died the following July 4th, reads "A little time on earth 
she spent, till God for her His angel sent.


Last Name     First Name    Middle Name   Birth         Death          Comment
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Lamb          William       M             Mar 27, 1926  17 July, 1999  Father
Lamb          Ruth          G             Nov 3, 1928   June 27, 2000  Mother



Additional Comments:
Lamb Double Marker: "Married Sept 14, 1946"

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