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The cemetery was the former site of "Tolomato", a village of Guale Indian converts to Christianity and the Franciscan friars who ministered to them. The site of the village and Franciscan mission is noted on a 1737 map of St. Augustine .
The cemetery until title to the cemetery property was acquired by the Rev. Thomas Alexander, who then turned over it to the Presbyterian Church in 1832, burials continued until 1884 when both Huguenot and Tolomato cemeteries were closed. The cemetery is believed to hold at least 436 burials according to city records.
Tolomato can refer to: Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Tolomato, also called Mission Tolomato, a Spanish Christian mission in Georgia, in Spanish Florida, in the colonial era. Tolomato Cemetery, a cemetery established in the Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Tolomato. Tolomato River, part of the Intracoastal Waterway in Florida.
Enrique (Henry) White was born in Dublin, Ireland.He later immigrated to Spain, where he served the Spanish Crown from age 22 until his death. The young man joined the Spanish Royal Army, eventually rising to the rank of colonel. [3]
Map showing harbor of Amelia River and bar of the St. Marys River, 1809. ... Clarke was probably buried in St. Augustine in the Tolomato Catholic cemetery, on what is ...
The SAHS Research Library at the Segui-Kirby Smith House specializes in the history of St. Augustine, colonial East Florida, and Saint Johns County.The collection includes maps, photographs, vertical subject files, church records, circuit court cases, city government records, manuscript collections, circuit court records, and biographical files.
They were assigned to the recently organized Third Florida Infantry as its Company B. More than a dozen former members of the St. Augustine Blues are buried in a row at the city's Tolomato Cemetery. Men from the unit were most likely part of the force that originally occupied the fort on January 7, 1861. [46]
Juanillo (fl. 1597 - died May 1598) was a chief of the Native American Tolomato people in the Guale chiefdom, in what is now the US state of Georgia.In September 1597, Juanillo led the so-called Gualean Revolt, or Juanillo's Revolt, [1] against the cultural oppression of the indigenous population in Florida by the Spanish authorities and the Franciscan missionaries.