Edgewater was a Spanish land grant purchase it was a place for winter visitors and sellers that would arrive by steamboat at a landing which we hope to investigate eventually. But Edgewater was a place of the Timucuan Indians who use to travel threw the area on its trails one of them being fairly close to where the cemetery is today. 

Dr Hawks in 1910 became very ill and died he was buried within Edgewater Cemetery on the land he donated to the city. He also planned for a town hall and library which were built using the funds left behind which were donated by his wife Dr. Esther Hawks. 

At the time Edgewater was not much of a town you were lucky if their was 200 residents in the area but today the town has grown to over 20,000. I do not think Hawks was one of the first burials within the cemetery. I do think that in the older section where their is roughly seven confederate soldiers that is where you would find the more pioneer burials.  Some of them soldiers names are Fox, Michael, Marlow, Rowlinski, Sams, Sheldon and Wilkinson. So the cemetery does have a little history.

Also being a small town the cemetery boast burials in the thousands with a little creek that runs right threw the middle of it. The fence is made of wood giving it a country type of feeling. It really is a warm and friendly place not very active in paranormal activity but just cause the activity is not high does not mean something does not lurk amongst its stones.

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