Moores Cemetery in Stuart, Florida - Find a Grave Cemetery

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Stuart, Florida 34994 United States

Coordinates: 27.17640, -80.25132
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Moore's Monterey Cemetery, the historic African American cemetery founded by Lillian Taylor Thompson and Wilbert Thompson in Stuart, Florida located between Seville Street and S.E. Monterey Road, with several access gates on Seville. The cemetery was Stuart's original black cemetery. Information on the cemetery is sketchy and some of the burials are unfortunately lost to time and bad record-keeping. We may never know how many unmarked graves were lost under Monterey Road and Seville Street, the concrete of their adjacent sidewalks, or even the nearby Waters CarWash and the gated community behind the wall on the north side of what's left of the cemetery. It is interesting to note that there is a marker on the north side of Seville Street dedicated to those unmarked gravesites that, according to Mr. McHardy, were displaced or covered up during the widening of Monterey Boulevard. No record of these gravesites could be found. The earliest burial appears to be c1918 and there are approximately 257 marked gravesites.