Huguenot Cemetery - St. Augustine, Florida
N 29° 53.904 W 081° 18.838
17R E 469687 N 3307568
Located just outside of the City Gates in Historic St. Augustine lies the Huguenot Cemetery. Although it is named after the French Huguenot’s, there is actually not one French Huguenot located in this cemetery.
Waymark Code: WM5W6B
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 02/18/2009
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Most of the cemetery's inhabitants were the more well-to-do residents of the city that died of Yellow Fever. Those poor people of the city that died of the yellow fever were buried just inches below the ground surrounding the cemetery and it is said human bones can easily be found here. The fear from yellow fever was so great that oftentimes people were buried as soon as they fell into a coman from the yellow fever. The rich would pay the grave diggers to add a string to their fingers with a bell above ground. Thus the saying, "Saved By The Bell". In order to insure someone was there to hear them ring the bell they would pay some of the poorer residents to actually sleep on top of their graves at night.
One of the more famous ghosts of the cemetery is that of the "hanging Judge" John B. Stickney who is said to roam the cemetery searching for his gold teeth which were stolen by grave robbers.