The Commyns Family-St. Michael's Cemetery

The Commyns family resided in Pensacola as early as the late 18th century. Thomas Commyns, the patriarch of the family, worked baking bread for the Spanish militia at Mobile.

Thomas married Maria Lafond in 1816, and they had eight children. ...

James Biddle Lardner-St. Michael's Cemetery

James Biddle Lardner was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1808. Lardner joined the Navy as a Midshipman on December 4, 1822 at the age of fourteen, and he may have been assigned to the West Indies squadron monitoring illegal slave ...

Stephen Russell Mallory- St. Michael's Cemetery

Stephen Russell Mallory was born on the island of Trinidad in 1812. He moved to Key West at the age of nine but was sent to both Mobile and Pennsylvania for his formal education.

In 1838, Mallory married Angela Moreno, the ...

Henry Hyer-St. Michael's Cemetery

Henry Hyer was born in Bavaria, Germany on September 13, 1792. In 1824, he married Julia Kopman in New York City. They moved to Pensacola about a year later, where they owned a house at the corner of Palafox and ...

Gidien King- St. Michael's Cemetery

Gidien King died in Pensacola on November 15, 1857 in an explosion on the steamboat Tom Thumb. He was 24 years old. Though no other information has been found on Gidien King, he was most likely only passing through Pensacola ...

James Creary-St. Michael's Cemetery

James Creary was born on March 12, 1818 in New York City and moved to what is now Santa Rosa County, Florida around 1842.

Creary's first wife, Mary, and daughter, Anna, along with Mary's sister, Ann Handley, died in October ...

Jose Roig-St. Michael's Cemetery

Jose Roig (pronounced Rio-ch)was born in 1727 in Paratrugal (Palafrugell) in the province of Catalonia, Spain and his tomb marks the oldest extant dated grave in the cemetery. Roig likely was the patriarch of the Roche family who, by the ...

Plantation Cemetery at Betton Hills

The site is all that remains of a much larger cemetery for African Americans dating from the pre-Civil War era through the 1940s. It was the main burial ground for black slaves and servants from the Betton Plantation as well ...

Whitmire Cemetery

The Whitmire Cemetery is one of the oldest and largest cemeteries in Escambia County, Florida. It offers the Ferry Pass community a burial ground filled with a rich history dating back to the early 20th Century. Although the oldest person ...

Bangor Cemetery

This land, which was owned by George Washington, purchased by Morris Hudson, who in 1819 built a small church on knoll that adjoined this property. As was custom of the times, acres set aside as a cemetery for members of ...