Volusia County Florida USGenWeb Archives Cemeteries.....Larkin Cemetery
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Bill Morgan http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006397 September 06, 2008

Larkin Cemetery
New Smyrna Beach, Fla

The Larkin Cemetery is located in the Hidden Lakes Golf Course and is being restored and 
maintained by the owners Lee & Kathy Griffith. While clearing to expand the course they came 
across the graves and immediately sealed it off and started cleaning it up.
They have plans to landscape the area and create a park around it, No golfers or golf carts 
will be allowed to cross the area.
They have contacted the local black historians and plan to preserve it for future generations to visit.
Dot Moore, New Smyrna historian has had the cemetery listed in the County as a Historical Cemetery.
Jerry Hale and Marti Kara visited along with Dot Moore and the Golf course owners need to be 
commended for the work they are putting in to restore the cemetery.
Below are the names and dates of the headstones That are left, some are unreadable or partially unreadable.
Click on the name to see the picture.
GPS N 29° 02.581  W 080° 57.033
PARCEL # 731200000110
CopyrightŠ 2008 Bill Morgan

LARKIN, Unreadable, May be Calvin from 1910 census, b. 1865  d. 1912
LARKIN, Mamie D., b. Aug. 12, 1875  d. Sept. 9, 1911
"A Truer Nobler Heart never beat within a human breast"
GOODWIN, Jessie, Was Born 1844  Died Nov. 9, 1916  Age 73
GOODWIN, Elizabeth, b. Feb. 16, 1848  d. Mar. 15, 1912
"Safe in the arms of Jesus"
SMITH, Maggie, b. 1871  d. 1916
CARTER, Millie, b. Sept. 28, 185?  d. Apr. 23, 1917
UNREADABLE, H. G., b. 1857  d. 1917
Erected by Lear Pettus, "Lear was the wife of Rembert Pettus"
STEWART,  Unreadable, b. 18?2  d. 19??
GARDNER, Ada May, b. Apr. 27, 1916 d. Feb. 23, 1920
"Blessed are the dead which died in the Lord"
Daughter of Moses & Carrie Gardner  b. Florida, From census record