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Funerary Art

Older cemetery memorials and markers began by giving simple information:  a name, a date of birth and a date of death. Persons of wealth could add more information. The stone cutter’s craft was slow, painstaking and expensive. Over time more art, symbolic and otherwise, was added. Understanding the meaning behind a bundle of wheat, clasped hands, or a Masonic square required some basic knowledge of religious or fraternal symbols. With the recent advent sand or programmable laser carving, more complex and personal choices are available. So instead of that bundle of wheat you might see a University of Florida Gator. Though perhaps not as graceful, the gator is certainly easier to decipher.

Evergreen is also home to some unique and personal grave markers of local interest. The first is in the shape of a foot and the second is in the shape of a crescent moon. The foot stone belongs to Dr. Robert Giudice, a Gainesville podiatrist for many years.

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Walk Through

  • Beginnings
  • James Tilatha Thomas
  • James Bledsoe Bailey
  • Augustus Steele
  • Watson and Olivia Porter
  • Major William R. Thomas
  • Stars & Stripes
  • William Haisley Lynch
  • The Yellow Fever Monument
  • The Statesmen
  • The Scientists
  • Dr. Sarah Lucretia Robb
  • Norman DeVaux
  • Dr. James Robert Cade
  • The Educators
  • The Birds of Evergreen Cemetery
  • The Trees of Evergreen Cemetery
  • Funerary Art
  • Woodmen of the World Funerary Art
  • Our Neighbors
  • Tom’s Tree
  • Evergreen’s Beloved Maud
  • A Prayer for Evergreen

Artists

  • Frank Barone
  • Eleanor Blair
  • Randy Batista
  • John A. O’Connor
  • Bob Senesac
  • Anne Seraphine
  • Russell Etling
  • Artist Contact Information

Credits

  • Exhibition Team
  • Exhibition Sponsors
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