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Cemetery: Cook &
Beauchamp Cemetery
Other:
Sign: No
Street: across rd and
SW of 5600 Rocky Creek Rd
City:
Marianna
Township:
County: Jackson County
State: Florida
Nation: USA
Zip:
32448
lat_ns: N
lat_h:
lat_mmss: 30.68268
long_ew: W
long_h:
long_mmss: -85.13358
Status: Abandoned
Size: Small
Directions: From the courthouse in Marianna,
take Hwy 90 east 3 and 1/10 miles, turn right (south) onto Hwy 71. Go 2
and 8/10 miles (you will go past I-10) and turn left onto Rocky Creek
rd (SR 280). Go about 3 and 1/2 miles and turn right onto barely
visible dirt rd leading into crop fields. Bear right on this dir rd
through field unti lyou come to clump of trees and vegetation in field.
This is site of former cemetery.
Type:
Road-private
Location: Rural
Terrain: Level
Watersource: No
Features: 2 very large trees... one
of which had been felled around 2000 or 2001
Property: Private
Access:
Permission-required
Enclosure: None
Gate: None
Established: late 1800's
Gravestones: probably about 10
Oldest: 1890's? not sure
Newest: not sure
Removed: Yes
Relocated: No
Repairs: No
Methods: Adhesives
Restoration: No
Association: No
Records: No
Inventory: No
Availability: cemetery can be found in WPA records, which
mention 2 Civil War soldiers buried there.... be careful of directions
in WPA though, as the roads have changed!
Landscaping: No
Paths: No
Trees: Yes4
Crypts: No
Fencing: No
Brickwork: No
Ironwork: No
Sculpture: No
Fountains: No
Roads: No
Buildings: No
Cement: No
Granite: No
Marble: No
Native: No
Slate: No
Others: No
Wood: No
Materials: No
Architectural: No
Angels: No
Draperies: No
Fraternal: No
Hands: No
Lambs: No
Monograms: No
Plants: No
Photos: No
Religious: No
Scrollwork: No
Urns: No
Carvings: No
Condition: Cemetery destroyed
Unmarked: Unsure
Broken: No
Toppled: No
Disintegrating: No
Buried: Unsure
Weather: Yes
Pollution: No
Vandalized: Yes
Report: No
VA1:
VA2:
VA3:
Gravestones-Stolen
VA4:
VA5:
Overgrowth:
Overgrowth1: Problem-Access
Overgrowth2:
Overgrowth3:
Overgrowth4:
GroundCover: Yes
Moss:
Vines: Yes
Drainage: Good
Problem1: Encroachment
Problem2: Apathy
Owner: Private
Use:
Agricultural
Bordering: Agricultural
Change: Unknown
Reason: Roads
Visited: Rarely
Archeology: No
Habitat: Unknown
Contacted: Lou Roberts, at the time a
deputy in Jackson County, Fl.
Surnames:
Beauchamp, Cook
Other_Information:
Owner of property is Glenn Peacock, and he denied any knowledge of a
cemetery anywhere on his land when questioned in 2000 or 2001. However,
descendants of the Beauchamp family recall the cemetery and WPA records
prove its existence. John Beauchamp (now deceased) is said to have seen
the cemetery probably in the 1980's but when returning to it in the
1990's he found it detroyed.
Support:
Cindy Sloan (seagee69@aol.com)--coordinator
of Jackson & Calhoun Counties Genweb sites
Stan Peacock (peacockse@aol.com)
co-coordinator of Calhoun County genweb site
Both individuals helped me search for this cemetery.
Submitted by:
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Name:
Stephanie Sellers Morrow
Email: P.O. Box
1385, Enka, NC 28728
Date: April
12, 2005
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