Williams Family Cemetery
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Williams Family Cemetery

Bowling Green, Hardee County, Florida, USA

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    Coordinates: 27.64461, -81.63958
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The old Williams Family Cemetery is (or, at least, was) located on the Hardee County side of County Line Rd., west of Old Towne Creek Rd. east of the town of Bowling Green. I found this cemetery several years back with directions from a nearby resident when I was trying to find the graves of some of my Jacobs ancestors. Apparently this old cemetery was located on a plot of land that once included a church and/or homestead. At the time I found the cemetery, the land was leased by the Charlie Creek Cattle Company, and it was fenced and being used as a pasture. With the lessee's permission, I visited the cemetery location. You have to climb through a barbed-wire fence to get to it. I found two headstones that had fallen over. They belonged to Isaac Williams and his daughter Arcadia Williams. Both headstones were near an old cistern. There were several other broken stones in the vicinity, but none that could be read.

After visiting this location, I contacted Hardee County to see what info they had on this old cemetery. People there said that all of the graves had been moved to another cemetery as this property was slated to be mined by one of the local phosphate mining companies. When asked which cemetery the graves had been relocated to, they could not (or would not) tell me. I do not believe the graves were moved. The burial area looked as though it had not been disturbed in decades -- there were still depressions in the ground where graves were located -- just as there are in most old cemeteries. No signs of recent digging were found anywhere in the vicinity.

The old Williams Family Cemetery is (or, at least, was) located on the Hardee County side of County Line Rd., west of Old Towne Creek Rd. east of the town of Bowling Green. I found this cemetery several years back with directions from a nearby resident when I was trying to find the graves of some of my Jacobs ancestors. Apparently this old cemetery was located on a plot of land that once included a church and/or homestead. At the time I found the cemetery, the land was leased by the Charlie Creek Cattle Company, and it was fenced and being used as a pasture. With the lessee's permission, I visited the cemetery location. You have to climb through a barbed-wire fence to get to it. I found two headstones that had fallen over. They belonged to Isaac Williams and his daughter Arcadia Williams. Both headstones were near an old cistern. There were several other broken stones in the vicinity, but none that could be read.

After visiting this location, I contacted Hardee County to see what info they had on this old cemetery. People there said that all of the graves had been moved to another cemetery as this property was slated to be mined by one of the local phosphate mining companies. When asked which cemetery the graves had been relocated to, they could not (or would not) tell me. I do not believe the graves were moved. The burial area looked as though it had not been disturbed in decades -- there were still depressions in the ground where graves were located -- just as there are in most old cemeteries. No signs of recent digging were found anywhere in the vicinity.

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  • Added: 7 Jun 2010
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2356988