Umatilla Cemetery

Umatilla, Lake County, Florida

PIKE Section

The cemetery is located in the city of Umatilla west of State Road 19 and south of County Road 450.  The cemetery is on Golden Gem Road which runs through the cemetery splitting it into east and west sections..  The PIKE plot is located at the southwest corner of the west section of the cemetery.  The map coordinates for the cemetery are 28-55-32-N and 081-50-51-W.

This is now a city cemetery operated by the City of Umatilla. This cemetery was originally operated by an association which went defunct and the city took it over. There are no records available showing the original purchasers of the older plots and the people buried there. The remaining records are available at the city hall. The older records consist mainly of payment receipts going back to the 1950's.

I was at the cemetery for the burial of my grandmother (Bessie Thomas) in 1968.  I visited the cemetery in November 1981 and again in November 2000.  There had been no new burials in the PIKE section since 1968.  The only change was  damage to the # 7 headstone which had been broken off at the base sometime between 1981 and 2000.  In November 2000, the top portion of the headstone was missing and only the base remained.  There is a 1981 photograph of the headstone below.

The below diagram shows the location of graves in the section.  There do not appear to be burials in the unmarked areas with the possible exception of the area between numbers 6 and 7.  Click on the links to view photographs.  These photographs were all taken in November 1981.

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						12	11	10
										9
1	2	3	4			5	6	??	7	8

Legend	Click to view photo	Headstone Inscription	Notes
1	headstone	Elizabeth Thomas Wirfs 1907 - 1959	Daughter of Pike and Bessie Thomas
2	headstone	Bessie Nash Thomas 1887 - 1968	Wife of Pike Thomas
3	headstone	Pike Lewis Thomas 1881 - 1947	Son of J. M. and Louee Thomas
4	headstone	THOMAS J. M. 1856 - 1945 Mardie L. 1891 - 1924 Louee 1861 - 1923	Single headstone with dates under names J. M. = Joseph Murray Mardie is the daughter of J. M. and Louee Thomas. Louee is the daughter of S. H. and Martha Pike Louee's death certificate shows 2 April 1860 as her birth date
5	headstone	Reva Thomas 1889  1890
6	headstone	Baby Thomas 1888
7	headstone	Little Dock  Infant son of J. H. and Jane Hinson Born Nov. 1, 1880 Died Feb. 20, 1881 He Carries His Lambs in His Bosom Darling We Miss You	1981 photo. This headstone was broken and missing in November 2000.  Only the base remains. Joseph H. Hinson married Jane Pike on 24 Feb 1878 in Orange County, Florida.  Jane Pike is the daughter of S. H. Pike and Martha Pike.
8	headstone	Piety Wife of A. H. Jameson Born Feb. 18, 1861 Died Jan. 7, 1888 Erected by her husband and son Brevort	Daughter of S. H. and Martha Pike.  Piety Pike married A.H. Jameson 14 June 1884 in Orange County, Florida.
9	headstone	PIKE	Pike Monument
10	headstone	Lewis Napoleon Bonaparte Pike Born Feb. 8, 1862 Died May 24, 1878	Son of S. H. and Martha Pike
11	headstone	S. H. Pike Born Mar. 4, 1826 Died May 9, 1900	Sion Hall Pike
12	headstone	Martha Wife of S. H. Pike Born April 11, 1833 Died Feb. 20, 1918	Martha Virginia Marsh Pike