WEEDON ISLAND PRESERVE, Weedon Island, Pinellas County, Florida

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Notes:  Weedon Island has been the burial grounds for long dead Navaez
Indians who inhabited the island.  Buried also the Spaniards whom the
indians once fiercely faught.  Believed buried among them are bootleggers
who brawled and fought.  When Weedon Island became a preserve in 1989 the
graves of two Civil War Veterans were found, those of Lorenzo Dow and
Percy F. Ross.  The headstones were moved to the Weedon Island entrance
for preservation, however only one headstone remains, that of Lorenze Dow
Ross.  About 1998 the headstone of Percy Ross was stolen.

While on a hiking trip in 1985 a PGS member, Howard Jensen, photographed
several headstones found on one of the wooded trails of Weedon.  Efforts to
enlarge those photographs and capture the inscriptions failed.  Cemetery
Chair, Lesleigh Laite Butts, collected burial data, photographed the Lorenzo
Ross headstone and Weedon entrance on July 10, 2001.  

This index is provided by the Pinellas Genealogy Society.  For availability of 
complete transcription and to view a cemetery photograph, visit the Pinellas 
Genealogy Society at http://www.rootsweb.com/~flpgs.


ROSS, Percy F. b. 1868 d.1884; Marker was stolen. Information given by Preserve management
ROSS, Lorenzo Dow b. n/a d.1888; "Pvt. Co. B, 7th Florida Infantry C.S.A."