Zellwood Tangerine Evergreen Cemetery is owned by the Oak Hill Cemetery Association organized in 1886 for Zellwood and Tangerine. This joint operation would be in effect to maintain the grounds of this cemetery. The cemetery was erected in 1890 and the first burial is William Clark Yeates from England which again verifies that the English settled to the area. The Yeates family plot is located in the center of the cemetery and was supposed to have a rusty iron fence which we did not see therefore it must had been removed.

Near the Yeates family plot is the graves of the McDonald Family who founded the community of McDonald between Zellwood and Plymouth. Last year ago we visited Plymouth remember the old trains around Christmas of 2006? McDonald was the town where the general store owner of Tangerine was axed to death. Andrew McDonald was the first settler there arriving from VA in 1873.

His son Dr. M.G. McDonald practiced medicine there in the 1880s. Another son Marion Fitzugh McDonald became a charter member of the Plymouth Citrus Growers Association which was formed in 1909. Percival McDonald operated a general store and a packing house with S.W. Eldredge of Apopka but it closed when the great freeze occurred in FL. Percival and his two brothers moved to Mexico and did not return to Plymouth until he retired 30 years later.

At one time near the Grave of Raymond J. Wright the original land owner of Tangerine was an old windmill and water tank. I did not see the windmill nor tank but at one time it use to be very close to his grave. In front of Wrights grave is Winifred Estey who also played a part in the history of early Tangerine.

So as you can see the burials within this cemetery are all connected to the local towns in the area...towns like Tangerine where those haunted houses we investigated...Zellwood...Plymouth....McDonald etc all towns in the area.

Upon entering the cemetery are two brick structures one with a plaque on it. The cemetery is heavily woodsy and on the backside is new fencing but at one time there was an old dirt road that went for a few miles out to the main road and you could take the eerie road right to the back of this cemetery. That road has been fenced over and it appears that the cemetery perhaps is today surrounded by groves kind of ironic since most of the early burials here were orange grove planters.
 
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