Vaughan-Scott Family Cemetery in Florida

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Get directions Nassau County, Florida, USA

Coordinates: 30.58396, -81.45545
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This old family cemetery is located on the south end of Amelia Island, FL on what was John D. Vaughan's sea cotton plantation, the Old Nest. The cemetery was surrounded by a black iron fence in 2007 and is just off the west side of AIA (5047 First Coast Highway) near Scott Road.

Inscription on NSDAR marker:

JOHN DANIEL VAUGHAN WAS A REVOLUTIONARY WAR PATRIOT, VETERAN OF THE WAR OF 1812, AND THE FLORIDA INDIAN WARS. HE RESTS HERE WITH HIS FAMILY ON THE LAND GRANTED TO BY US GOVERNMENT AS A PENSION IN 1832. HIS LAND WAS ORIGINALLY 200 ACRES OF WHICH HE ESTABLISHED MT. HOPE, A COTTON PLANTATION.

THE CEMETERY WAS REDEDICATED ON APRIL 14, 2007 BY THE AMELIA ISLAND DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

"Sacred be the spot"

There are two markers with names, Warren F Scott Jr and John Daniel Vaughan's obelisk. All other are very small stones without names but numbered by family. The original list matching the names with the numbers is said to have been lost over the years, but a family member did report the names documented here.