{"id":5999,"date":"2019-09-27T13:54:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T17:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/floridanewsline.com\/Clone2\/?p=5999"},"modified":"2019-09-27T13:54:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T17:54:25","slug":"back-in-time-with-brett-mandarin-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/floridanewsline.com\/Clone2\/mandarin\/back-in-time-with-brett-mandarin-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in Time with Brett | Mandarin Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By Brett Nolan<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">mail@floridanewsline.com<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s hard to imagine what life was like back in old Mandarin, but if there is anything that connects us to those who were here before us, it would be our own mortality.\u00a0Like taxes, death is inevitable and something we all have to face.\u00a0There is no better link to our past than walking through the gates of Mandarin Cemetery.\u00a0The aging oaks, towering with their festoons of moss dancing in the wind, watch as they did over a century ago when the land was first consecrated \u2014 it was 1836.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inscribed on stone, an \u201cafflicted and ever sorrowing\u201d mother laid to rest her son, George S. Mott, establishing the oldest marked grave on these hallowed grounds.\u00a0Folklore tells the story of an execution by Indians because Mott, a New Yorker, was in the practice of bigamy, married to a chieftain\u2019s daughter here and with another wife up North.\u00a0Written letters, however, feature a much different tale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the letters of Corrina Brown and his obituary, Mott never married.\u00a0He owned a plantation on the banks of Julington Creek where he traded with neighboring Indians.\u00a0During the height of the Seminole Wars, Mott conducted his commerce in bad faith and mistreatment, including with the crack of a whip.\u00a0Mott made the mistake of returning to his southern plantation after a visit to New York and by sunset the next day, Mott\u2019s life came to an abrupt end.\u00a0Indians shot him dead while he was working with a slave planting a citrus tree. After scalping him, pillaging and burning his house and returning to the woods, their last business transaction was completed.\u00a0Neighbors then moved his body to the location of the present Mandarin Cemetery for burial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Residents residing six feet underneath come from all over, including places like England, Germany, and Canada.\u00a0Occupations ranged from rural farmers to a noted composer and pianist who played at Carnegie Hall, doctors, artists, reverends, and more.\u00a0One individual even went to school with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert\u2019s children, but when she fell in love with the \u201cwrong\u201d man, her family disowned her and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Orchard immigrated to Mandarin for refuge.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over time, funeral traditions changed from walking processions led by mule-and-wagon pulling the deceased to a row of cars following an elongated black Cadillac with the iconic landau bars.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Mandarin Cemetery is still an active cemetery.\u00a0The Mandarin Museum &amp; Historical Society provides a self-guided walking tour of the scenic and historic cemetery. You can pick up a copy at the cemetery entrance or in the Mandarin Museum. The tour highlights 10 prominent residents who are buried in the old section of the cemetery, including George Mott.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Information for this article was taken from \u201cMandarin on the St. Johns\u201d by Mary B. Graff, \u201cEchoes from a Distant Frontier\u201d by James M. Denham and Keith. L. Huneycutt, and \u201dSome Graves of Historical Interest in the Mandarin Cemetery\u201d ed. by Bill Morrow.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brett Nolan is a volunteer with the Mandarin Museum &amp; Historical Society. Visit <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mandarinmusem.net\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">www.mandarinmusem.net<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for more information about Mandarin\u2019s history and museum schedules.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Photo courtesy Mandarin Museum &amp; Historical Society<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">George Mott\u2019s headstone<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brett Nolan mail@floridanewsline.com It\u2019s hard to imagine what life was like back in old Mandarin, but if there is anything that connects us to those who were here before us, it would be our own mortality.\u00a0Like taxes, death is inevitable and something we all have to face.\u00a0There is no better link to our past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[129],"class_list":{"0":"post-5999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mandarin","8":"tag-back-in-time"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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