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, Series 2317, Box 2, Folder 5
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Blount, Readding, 1791-1879 -- Tomb
Marquis, Louis J., 1861-1903 -- Tomb
Parker, John M., 1874-1879 -- Tomb
Parker, Streaty, 1823-1884 -- Tomb
Pearce, William Howren, 1838-1903 -- Tomb
Summerlin, Fannie Knight Zipperer (Frances), 1824-1896 -- Tomb
Summerlin, Jacob, 1820-1893 -- Tomb
Summerlin, Kate Deisher (Katharine), 1858-1901 -- Tomb
Summerlin, Sam (Samuel), 1856-1944 -- Tomb
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Slides: 1. Cast in a classical theme, the Summerlin marker is fabricated with white bronze. It has a pair of heavy arched moldings supported by Corinthian columns that bracket a central statuary niche. A wheat sheath adorns the nameplate of Kate Summerlin, and the Masonic symbol stands over S. Summerlin ; 2. Executed in marble, the Parker family column stands twelve feet high. Manufactured in the 1890s, it rests on a series of rectangular bases that support a pedestal inscribed with the names of the deceased. The east/front side has a carved bouquet of flowers. A column rises from the pedestal, and is embellished with a scroll inscribed with the word husband. The crown of the column is draped with a tasseled cloak, a popular theme of Confederate monuments of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries symbolic of the weary soldier and traveler at rest; 3. A small example of an obelisk marks the grave of Readding Blount. Rising five feet, the marble object has a pointed top, tapered shaft with beveled corners, and a square base; 4. A crown, Bible, and gates in a classical surround motif adorn the 1903 stone of William H. Pearce, who formally platted the cemetery in 1885 ; 5. A Woodmen of the World marker, near the southwest corner of the cemetery identifies the grave of Louis J. Marquis. The five-foot marker is fabricated with Vermont marble. At the crown is a facsimile of a section of a tree carved in high relief. Entwining branches embellish the face, on which is engraved an arch supported by columns, open gates along a fence, and the words "Woodmen of the World" and "Dun Tacet Clamat"; 6. Themes in Confederate and southern history are portrayed through forty-two cast-iron markers shaped as Maltese crosses at the graves of Confederate veterans. They have a symmetrical profile and measure approximately fifteen inches square. Symbols and words cast on the markers include "CSA" with a Confederate battle flag contained in a wreath on one side, and "1861-1865" and "deo vindice" within a wreath on the reverse; 7. Jacob and Frances Summerlin memorial marker; 8. General view of the cemetery.
The historic Oak Hill Cemetery (also known as Bartow's Old Cemetery) was established in 1860. Measuring approximately two acres, the cemetery contains five hundred ten grave markers. Various types of commercially manufactured grave markers mark the graves, including table-stone, columns, obelisks, cradles, ledgers, and vaults. Ranging in size from several inches to fifteen feet in height, the markers are of a variety of materials, including cast iron, concrete, granite, marble, and zinc, also known as white bronze. Oak Hill Cemetery was later added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on February 12, 2003.
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Florida. - Bureau of Historic Preservation. Photographs of Oak Hill Cemetery in Bartow. 2001. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/343598>, accessed 29 December 2024.
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Florida. - Bureau of Historic Preservation. Photographs of Oak Hill Cemetery in Bartow. 2001. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 29 Dec. 2024.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/343598>
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(State Archives of Florida/Florida. - Bureau of Historic Preservation.)