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Daytona Beach Greenwood Cemetery sits by some
Jewish Burial Grounds but their is some segregation between the two. The
cemetery is very wide open and the one thing that stands out is in the center
of it is a giant stone cross. Their is one section in the cemetery that is
picketed off with an old wood fence while another that is draped with Oak
trees containing many Catholic Burials.
Their are some interesting burials here such as four confederate soldiers by the names of George E. Coleman, Alexander L. Davis, W.G. Mayberry and James Wilkinson. Although most of the burials within the cemetery date on average from 1915 to the 1990s. The oldest burial within the cemetery is a man by the name of Alfred Johnson who was buried here in 1874 which the next burial would not be seen till 1912 which was a confederate soldier. Johnson was the first settler of Daytona Beach in 1867. He purchased from Oliver Swift 1,900 acres of land on the west bank of the Halifax River. He built a log cabin on a shell mound at the corner of First Ave and N. Beach St. His monument was dedicated to the early pioneers of Volusia County. © By Rick-AngelOfThyNight
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