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Greenville Pallbearers Cemetery

Greenville, Madison County, Florida, USA

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Get directions 1370 SW Overstreet Avenue
Greenville, Florida 32331 United States

Coordinates: 30.45978, -83.64153
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The cemetery was established in the early 1930s during the Depression by the Greenville Pallbearers' Society, an African-American mutual aid society, which offered financial assistance to members in times of illness, crisis, and provided an affordable burial place. Members paid 10-50 cents monthly. Approximately 28 souls are known or believed to be buried in this abandoned cemetery in the woods off S.R. 150 south of Greenville, FL. The graveyard is on property belonging to the Greenville P B Society #3.

Retha Williams, the mother of musical icon Ray Charles, is presumed to have been buried there May 1945 from accounts of Ray Charles and childhood friend, Elesta Pritchett. Williams' grave is unmarked. She was approx. 32 when she died. At the time, Ray Charles (Robinson) was a 15-year old student at the St. Augustine FL School for the Deaf and Blind.

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