PAOLA CEMETERY, aka BANANA LAKE CEMETERY, Lake Mary, Seminole County, Florida

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Directions:  Paola Historical Cemetery is also referred to as Banana Lake 
Cemetery and Paola Church Yard Cemetery. This land was originally the old 
Wieser property/burial ground, which was later "conditionally" deeded for 
a Presbyterian Church which burned down in 1928. Burials continued on this 
land and there are about 40-60 graves which were for the most part marked 
with wooden crosses which have since deteriorated or been vandalized. The 
earliest record of a burial is about 1855 but their might be a few earlier 
graves that are unknown. This cemetery is one of the last historical 
remains of Paola Town in Seminole County. It is also estimated to be one 
of the earliest non-aboriginal burial grounds in Central Florida. 

The owner of the land on the corner where the cemetery sits is trying to 
make it a commercial zone along with a couple of the houses on the same 
corner. He did move some of the bodies out of the wooded section and 
re-interned them in to the small white picket fence are where the 
headstones are now located. A couple of the stones are damaged and some
were even covered with dirt and leaves. here is still a legal battle going 
on with this cemetery and we are not shure what will happen to it and it's 
burials. The Sanford City Museum across from Flew World had microfilm 
records of the burials in Paola Cemetery. 

BUCHANAN, Wm. B., b. May 30 1854 d. May 6 1917

C.W.M., (not able to read)

DOGGART, Karine V.C., b. Feb 9 1891 d. Nov 13 1922
DORIGO, Caroline, b. Mar 22 1826 Philadelphia, Pa. d. Sep 13 1899 Seabreeze, Fla.

GRAY, Edna, b. Dec 23 1838 or 1888 d. Dec 6 1918 (Wife of Wm. B. Buchanan)
GULLEN, R., d. Oct 31 1892 (age 77yrs.)

MUNSON, Chas. W., b. Nov 17 1862 d. Apr 3 1882 (Drowned in Lake Monroe)
MUNSON, Myra, b. Jan 23 1804 d. Oct 21 1832

PATTON, Matilda M., b. Jun 11 1806 d. Dec 13 1887

TENNEY, Luman, b. May 18 1877 d. Dec 25 1882 (Son of L.H. & F.D. Tenney; born in Minneapolis, Minn.)


*1 headstone broken in half (Not Readable)
1 headstone damaged (Partial Read: Smei (top) Page (bottom)
1 headstone broken in half (Partial Read: b.10-27-1857, d.6-30-1877; Weep not father & mother for me.
For i am smiling in glory for me.)