Pasco County Cemeteries

(compilation of historical articles ©2003-2008 )


This page is under construction as information is constantly becoming available.  This page includes cemetery history's in addition to other historical information pertaining to Pasco and Hernando Counties.  As this site expands we will add lists of burials for each cemetery with the history of the communities that formed around them. Some of the cemeteries listed have since been destroyed and in some cases have homes and businesses built on them while others remain in unfit conditions; very little remains of them.  Any site marked as a ghost cemetery refers to a cemetery that has not been relocated but upon inspection of the site there is no cemetery, these cemeteries have been documented through historical accounts.  In some cases these sites may have been developed.  

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This article appeared in the Florida Peninsular in May of 1866 titled "Our Grave Yards." The conditions of our cemeteries was outlined and it is apparent that the upkeep and maintenance of local cemeteries has been a persisting problem for the past 140 years and continues to be a problem today, as some of our cemeteries slowly disappear. It's believed this article is directly speaking of a cemetery in Tampa however it shows the cemeteries in our area have laid in neglect for many years and several of those in Pasco County are still victim to years of neglect.

We had an occasion a few evenings ago, to visit one of our Grave yards, and must confess our surprise and mortification at finding it in so miserable dilapidated, and apparently neglected condition. It would seem that the old saying "what is everybody's business is nobody's business," is here fully illustrated.

Has not almost every old resident of the area, some precious jewel or jewels deposited there and is it not the anticipated resting place of our own mortalities! Can it then be a place of so little interest as to cause no emotions in our hearts when we think of its condition. Has the memory of the dear ones deposited there become so faint, and the affections which once clustered around them become so enervated by "times endless hand" as to entitle us to look at its present appearance with indifference? Surely not. Surely there is more pride and more spirit yet left in our midst to suffer the sepulchers of our dead, to remain much longer, thus neglected, thus dishonored.


MAIN ARTICLES:
  1. Anclote Cemetery
  2. Aripeka Cemetery
  3. Ashley Cemetery- old Town of Ashley, near Dade City
  4. Baillie Private Burial Plots- Elfers
  5. Bee Tree Branch Afro-American/The Oaks Cemetery - St. Joe
  6. Bob Hill burial site
  7. Bradac burial site
  8. Branchborough Cemetery
  9. Brown Family Cemetery
  10. Chapel Hill Cemetery- Dade City
  11. Clay Sink/Slaughter Cemetery
  12. County Line Cemetery- Wesley Chapel
  13. Cotee River burials (2 graves)- at this time this is a ghost cemetery- has not been located
  14. Crystal Springs Cemetery- near Zephyrhills
  15. Dade City/ Old Oak Grove Cemetery
  16. Darby single burial site
  17. East Elfers Cemetery- New Port Richey
  18. Ehren Afro-American/Mt. Carmel Cemetery  new logo
  19. Ehren Cemetery- Land O' Lakes
  20. Emmaus Cemetery- near San Antonio
  21. Enterprise Cemetery- Dade City
  22. Freedtown Afro-American Cemetery
  23. Garden of Memories/ San Antonio Cemetery- San Antonio
  24. Geiger Cemetery- Zephyrhills
  25. Greenfield/ Fivay Cemetery- near Gowers Corner or Fivay Junction
  26. Hays Family Cemetery- near Hudson
  27. Hebron Cemetery- near Trilby
  28. Holton/ McKendree Family Cemetery- near San Antonio
  29. Hudson Cemetery
  30. Indian Pond Afro-American/ Primitive- near Lacoochee
  31. Lacoochee Cemetery- Lacoochee
  32. Loyce/ Gillett Cemetery- near Masryktown
  33. Lumberton African American Cemetery- near Zephyrhills
  34. Mills Family Burials (two graves) - near Lacoochee
  35. Mt. Zion Cemetery
  36. Oakside/ Zephyrhills Cemetery- Zephyrhills
  37. Old Fivay Cemetery- near Bayonet Point- not Greenfield Cemetery- ghost cemetery  new logo
  38. Orange Lake Burials- New Port Richey (downtown)
  39. Pearce Family Cemetery
  40. Perrine Ranch Burial(s)- Holiday
  41. Prospect Cemetery
  42. Pine Hill Cemetery
  43. Quertermous burial site
  44. Richland Cemetery- Richland
  45. Ryals Family Cemetery- near Hillsborough/ Pasco border
  46. St. Joe/ Sacred Heart Cemetery- St. Joe
  47. St. Anthony/ Lake Jovita Cemetery- San Antonio
  48. Old St. Leo Cemetery- check history for information on cemetery relocation
  49. New St. Leo Cemetery
  50. St. Leo Grotto burial
  51. St. Thomas Cemetery
  52. Stark/ Port Richey African American Community and Cemetery- ghost cemetery  new logo
  53. Smith Cemetery- Dade City
  54. Townsend House Cemetery- Spring Lake
  55. Country/Trilby Afro American Cemetery  new logo
  56. Trilby Cemetery
  57. Tucker Cemetery- Dade City
  58. Twin Lakes Afro-American Cemetery- near Hernando/ Pasco county line
  59. Vereen/ Frierson Cemetery- Hudson
  60. Vereen Pond Cemetery- near Vereen- at this time this is a ghost cemetery- has not been located
  61. West Elfers- New Port Richey
  62. Whitehouse Plantation Cemetery- Dade City
  63. Williams Cemetery- Dade City
  64. Withlacoochee Missionary Baptist Cemetery- near Dade City

OTHER HISTORICAL ARTICLES:

 LINKS AND OTHER RESOURCES  new logo


** NOTE- Information on this page referring to soldiers of the Civil War was obtained from materials provided by the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Special thanks are given to the Mary Custis Lee- Chapter 1457 of the U.D.C. for assisting in the research of Civil War soldiers buried in Pasco County. The UDC organizations themselves have been doing surveys and research about the locations of deceased veterans. This project has been done nation wide and has never officially been completed since new information is constantly found. Once again I would like to say, Thank You for their care and assistance in this extensive project. **


"The reader is assured that if the cemeteries in his town are kept in good order, this Dream is not leveled at his town at all, but is leveled particularly and venomously at the next town."  

Taken from "A Curious Dream" by Mark Twian, suggested reading.