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The following persons are buried at Bosque Bello Cemetery according to the city cemetery records. However, no marker, either temporary or permanent, was found when the Cemetery Committee made its inventory of Bosque Bello in 1997. Anyone wishing further information should contact the City of Fernandina Beach. Name Burial Date Andrews, Ellis October 21, 1995 Baker, Frances Lucille November 21, 1991 Battison, Helen M. September 6, 1991 Brennan, Suzanne Robins March 30, 1993 Brown, Bertha November 2, 1996 Brown, Jacob November 30, 1993 Bunch, Walter Phillip October 1, 1996 Butler, Anthony Bernard July 24, 1993 Coes, Jason September 17, 1992 Collins, Pricilla A. March 3, 1995 Dorman, Mary Corinne October 1, 1996 Drummer, Joanne Marie November 25, 1994 Everhart, Betty Ann December 7, 1992 Fiala, Patrick October 4, 1994 Foster, James Franklin February 26, 1994 Gardner, Willie T. November 14, 1992 Goulet, Etoile C. October 6, 1992 Graham, Frances December 9, 1995 Haddock, Mary Elizabeth January 2, 1995 Harker, Vassie Mae February 16, 1993 Harris, Rachel Hunt October 1, 1996 Harris, David Vernell January 22, 1992 Hendricks, Howard S. September 17, 1993 Henry, Gloria Abbie August 26, 1995 Hoggard, Mary E. April 26, 1993 Holmes, Kalem T. February 13, 1993 Johnson, Jimmie Lee July 27, 1991 Joyner, Pauline June 14, 1991 King, Vernall May 17, 1995 King, Nolan D. November 19, 1991 Kitchens, Clarence H. October 20, 1994 Lane, Willie Mae February 27, 1993 Lee, Jessie Mae November 18, 1995 MacDonald, Raymond H. March 7, 1996 MacDonnell, Logan July 21,...

This is a list of the jury drawn for the fall term of the Circuit Court for Nassau County in October 1881 and originally published in The Florida Mirror, October 15, 1881. This information was subsequently published in The Nassau County Genealogist, vol. 5, p. 30.

June 7, 1884, from The Florida Mirror “The mortality list we publish covers three months, and embraces not only the city of Fernandina, but Amelia Island, a population of over 3000 persons. It will be noted that but 2 white adults are included, one of an advanced age. That a large proportion of the deaths are children, and that the death rate for the whole population does not exceed a ratio of 4 per cent per annum, a statement that speaks well for the health of Fernandina.” Mortuary Report of Amelia Island for Months of March, April and May. Furnished by R. M. Henderson, undertaker. March 12 – Matilda S. McConnell, b. Old Town, Fla., d. of carcinoma at Old Town, age 55 yrs 8 mos March 13 – Frank Williams (col), b. Amelia Island, d. of consumption at City [Fernandina], age abt 38 yrs March 17 – Kitty Johnson (col.), d. of dropsy at City, age abt 40 yrs March 25 – Samuel King (col), b. Centerville, Ga., d. of paralysis at City, age abt 66 yrs March 25 – Twins, Mary L. and Emma Martha Keats (col.), b. Bloomfield, N.J., d. of marasmus at City, age 3 mos March 25 – Fredric Bradley (col), b. Fernandina, d. of trismus nascentium at City, age 8 days April 5 – Mary E. Williams (col), b. Old Town, Fla., d. at Old Town, age 4 days April 13 – Patience Cooper (col), b. South Carolina, d. of dropsy at City, age...

Names stricken from Registration Book, by the Board of County Commissioners of Nassau County, October 6th, 1882.

These obituaries and estate sale notices were transcribed from the Florida Mirror issues for 30 Nov 1878, 7 Dec 1878, 28 Dec 1878, 4 Jan 1879, 1 Feb 1879, and 21 Jan 1880. The names of those deceased: Judge John Friend, John C. Griswold, Dr. F. P. Wellford, Rev. Archibald Baker, Mrs. Harriet Willis, Liberty Billings, and Charles L. Hoyt.