Baby Jane Doe - Gainesville, FL
N 29° 37.797 W 082° 19.037
17R E 372476 N 3278506
A headstone for Baby Jane Doe is located in the Evergreen Cemetery in Gainesville, Florida, USA.
Waymark Code: WMR1C3
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 04/27/2016
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The headstone inscription reads:
Aug. 20, 2003
Step Softly
A Dream Lies Buried Here
Hush My Dear
Be Still and Slumber
Earth Has No Sorrow
That Heaven Cannot Heal
Known Only to God
Lord Hold Her Who We
Love in Your Protective
Arms - Our Littlest Angel
Known to This Community
as
Baby Jane Doe
You Are Too Well Loved
to Ever Be Forgotten
The following information about Evergreen Cemetery is from a historical marker near the cemetery's entrance:
"Evergreen Cemetery, known locally as "This Wondrous Place," began with the burial of a baby girl in 1856. The infant, Elizabeth Thomas, was the daughter of wealthy cotton merchant James T. Thomas and his wife, Elizabeth Jane Hall Thomas. The baby was laid to rest by a young cedar tree on family land. Eight months later, her mother was buried alongside her. Their double grave is marked with a simple headstone carved by a noted stonemason from Charleston, W.A. White. In 1866, Thomas sold his 720-acre parcel, reserving roughly one acre around the burial for a graveyard. The Evergreen Cemetery Association operated the cemetery, beginning in 1890, until it was purchased by the City of Gainesville in 1944. The cemetery now includes 53 acres, and is the final resting place of more than 10,000 people. Some the persons interred here are Gainesville founder James B. Bailey, anthropologist William R. Maples, ecologists Archie and Marjorie Carr, Florida's first female physician Sarah L. Robb, Major General Albert H. Blanding, U.S. Commissioner of Education John J. Tigert, and Gatorade inventor Robert Cade. Veterans of nearly every American conflict since the 1830s are also buried here."