Content copyright . %wstx.site.theofficialwhitehouseboys.com%. All rights reserved.
THE OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE BOYS ORGANIZATION
NEWS UPDATE ON CEMETARYS BY JERRY COOPER 1-8-11
Guys , This hits the FDLE once again right between the eyes!!!!
I chose to do a report on the mental hospital just a few miles to the east of FSB which was also run by the state of Florida, like our institution was, and dating way the heck back.
This was a cemetery record search where I could compare the 2 institutions!!! BLACKS AND WHITES ARE SEPARATED for many,many years according to their own records -- period!!! Records are, to me , very detailed for this hospital, with locations and plot numbers assigned, and the FSB records are no more than a pile of s....t when compared to each other!!!
Roger you know exactly what I'm talking about right???????? Roger I pray this last cemetery that was located on the white side is all black, which datied with 1950"s headstones will be a kick right in FDLE"S ass again and will also prove again that black and whites were not buried together in the same cemetery!!
We all know that the site at "BOOT HILL IS ALL LIES"S and was done in an improper matter. I think it's right there where the pipe crosses are. Once again, there 2 separate cemeteries at Boot hill -- not one!!!!!!!!! Through the years it was simply called boot hill for the both of them!!! We are going to win I promise!!!
Jerry Cooper
ST PETERSBURG TIMES MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1976
Florida State Hospital Cemetery in Chattahoochee
Florida State Hospital Cemetery was final resting place for the patients of the oldest state mental hospital in Florida. Resting on 620 acres in rural north Florida, the hospital's doors opened in 1876. The graves from these earliest patients are now in a wooden, overgrown area with very few tombstones. Unless the families provided stone grave-markers, the hospital used wooden ones, which have decayed years ago. Record keeping was poor in these early years. A newer part of the cemetery was started in 1932, and documentation improved. Now the State Hospital is a city in itself with it own fire and police departments.
Florida State Hospital cemetery
United Press International
CHATTAHOOCHEE - Florida State Hospital has enough need for an undertaker to hire one fulltime.
The hospital has its own mortuary, fulltime funeral director, mortician and grave yard.
The coffins are made on the hospital gounds. So are the tombstones. The graves are dug by inmates from the nearby River Junction state work camp. There are about 6,000 graves at the cemeterv - 27 acres on a hilltop a couple of miles from the city. There is no sign, no offical name and the gate is usually locked.
THE GRAVES are of Chattahoochee patients who died over the past 45 years. Most of the tombstones carry no names, but a number that has meaning only to the few hospital officials with access to confidential patient files.
The stigma associated with mental illness led to the confidentiality and numbers - not names - on the tombstones. The coffins are made from medium- grade pine in the hospital carpentry shop, lined with white muslin stapled to the inside walls and painted battleship gray.
Hospital officials have become highly efficient in disposing of their dead. One or two graves are always ready - even though there may be no body that particular day for them. When one grave is filled, another is dug a foot away.
There are 6,000 graves at the cemetery - 27 acres on a hilltop. There is no sign, no official name and the gate is usually locked.
Several dozen tombstones are neatly stacked in a work shed.
FAMIlES of the patients can arrange burial or leave it to the state, says funeral director Leonard Herring. There is no charge to the family, although it can voluntarily pay about $170. Last year, 216 patients died at the hospital. So far this year, 105 have died. About one third of them are buried in the hospital cemetery.
There is a small chapel at the hospital morgue. Services can be arranged if the families want it.
"We do it however they want," Herring said. "We just try to please the family. Most people seem real pleased. We get lots of letters."
Funerals are held on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays because that works out best for the prison labor, he said.
The chaplain calls shortly after 8 a.m. on each of the days to see if there are to be any funerals. (NOTE: if the words below are in BLUE you can click on them and get the info about the cemetary - names, date of death, and more)
Cemetery # 1
(no information as yet)
Cemetery # 2
Cemetery # 3
Sheet 1 and 2
Sheet 1
Cemetery # 3 Part Div 4 and Part Div 5
Cemetery # 4
(in woods behind Cem # 3)
- New Cemetery on Goat Hill (one being used now)