Saint Joseph Aid Society Cemetery
East Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida, USA
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East Tampa, Florida 33610 United StatesCoordinates: 27.98389, -82.42224 - Cemetery ID:
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Add PhotosIn 1907, the Montana City Subdivision was created. Then outside the city limits, the Black community had boundaries of what are now Genesee, 34th and 37th streets and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Walker purchased an acre of land there for his cemetery. It's unclear if it was for society members only.
Walker was back in Jacksonville by 1915. But records show that people were buried in his cemetery through 1919, when the Memorial Park Cemetery was established a mile away for Black residents.
Then, in 1927, undertaker Edward Stone was awarded the city of Tampa's contract for indigent Black burials. He purchased the St. Joseph Aid Society Cemetery the following year and burials resumed the following year.
Stone died in 1931.
The funeral home — under the direction of Stone's wife — buried people in the cemetery through early 1940, records show.
By then, the state had become the land's trustee.
In 1937, to collect $97 million in delinquent property taxes owed throughout Florida, the legislature passed a law requiring local clerks to collect back taxes from property owners. The state would serve as trustee of the delinquent land until it was auctioned. St. Joseph Aid Cemetery was among those properties.
The St. Joseph Aid Society's membership had dwindled, and members' families were filing civil lawsuits against it for not paying life insurance claims. The society said it was struggling financially because too many members were dying.
The cemetery was among 25 area properties purchased by Winter Haven's J.F. Holly in a county auction in 1943.
The cemetery land was separated into parcels and sold and developed over the next 15 years, with Baker and Badgett's parents, the Pedrosos, buying their lot in 1956.
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Stone's business still is run by his family, now named the Stone Memorial Funeral Home.
Cemetery researcher Ray Reed found 430 death certificates for the St. Joseph Aid Society Cemetery. Reed has spent years sifting through every Hillsborough death record from 1900 through 1940 in search of people buried in cemeteries that no longer exist. His work has been vital to the discovery of erased cemeteries.
In 1907, the Montana City Subdivision was created. Then outside the city limits, the Black community had boundaries of what are now Genesee, 34th and 37th streets and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Walker purchased an acre of land there for his cemetery. It's unclear if it was for society members only.
Walker was back in Jacksonville by 1915. But records show that people were buried in his cemetery through 1919, when the Memorial Park Cemetery was established a mile away for Black residents.
Then, in 1927, undertaker Edward Stone was awarded the city of Tampa's contract for indigent Black burials. He purchased the St. Joseph Aid Society Cemetery the following year and burials resumed the following year.
Stone died in 1931.
The funeral home — under the direction of Stone's wife — buried people in the cemetery through early 1940, records show.
By then, the state had become the land's trustee.
In 1937, to collect $97 million in delinquent property taxes owed throughout Florida, the legislature passed a law requiring local clerks to collect back taxes from property owners. The state would serve as trustee of the delinquent land until it was auctioned. St. Joseph Aid Cemetery was among those properties.
The St. Joseph Aid Society's membership had dwindled, and members' families were filing civil lawsuits against it for not paying life insurance claims. The society said it was struggling financially because too many members were dying.
The cemetery was among 25 area properties purchased by Winter Haven's J.F. Holly in a county auction in 1943.
The cemetery land was separated into parcels and sold and developed over the next 15 years, with Baker and Badgett's parents, the Pedrosos, buying their lot in 1956.
• • •
Stone's business still is run by his family, now named the Stone Memorial Funeral Home.
Cemetery researcher Ray Reed found 430 death certificates for the St. Joseph Aid Society Cemetery. Reed has spent years sifting through every Hillsborough death record from 1900 through 1940 in search of people buried in cemeteries that no longer exist. His work has been vital to the discovery of erased cemeteries.
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- Added: 7 May 2022
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2752566
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