The Melbourne Cemetery or City of Melbourne Cemetery is a
cemetery in
Melbourne,
Florida,
United States. It is located on Hibiscus Boulevard at the intersection with Lake Street. The cemetery includes graves of original settlers of Melbourne, to include
Cornthwaite John Hector who founded the city. Although formally organized as a cemetery in 1891, native Americans purportedly used the site as a burial grounds for many years before.
[Melbourne Chamber of Commerce. ''Melbourne: A Century of Memories'' (Melbourne, FL: National Printing, Inc., 1980), p. 11.]
Graves
Some of the graves include:
[
*Beaujean family
*Ellis family
*Fee family
*Goode family
*Porcher family
*Rhodes family
*Rowland family
]
Notes
External links
{{Commons category, Melbourne Cemetery (Melbourne, Florida), Melbourne Cemetery
Melbourne Cemetery records
on Interment.net
Cemeteries in Florida
Melbourne, Florida
1891 establishments in Florida