Cemeteries of Florida presents:

The Home Cemetery

Tampa, Florida

 

"During a yellow fever scare in 1899, three elderly Jacksonville women traveling through Tampa found themselves trapped and stranded by the quarantine. Responding to appeals, a group of Tampa women pooled resources to provide them a room and a helper. This was the birth of The Old People's Home and what is now known as The Home Association, Inc.

"...our existing building [is] located in Tampa on four acres donated by the Peter O. Knight family and the Baptist City Mission Board."
--information provided by The Home Association, Inc.

Signpost at entrance

Central marker with flat markers

 

While 'The Home Association, Inc.' was still known as the 'The Old People's Home', burials took place in a plot maintained in Woodlawn Cemetery.


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