MICANOPY

Micanopy Historic Cemetery
Micanopy: 1780-1849
Micanopy was the second leading chief of the Seminole Indians. He acquired a large and continued growth of land and runaway slaves. After the US acquired Florida from Spain back in 1819, the American settlers soon moved into Micanopys territory. Which started the 2nd Seminole Indian War. Micanopy surrender after a long battle, he finally signed a peace tready. The Historic Cemetery has little known information about it available on the internet. The graves date back to the early 1800s. We did see a lot of younger kids.. and especially took a liking to Lester.
Our First Visit
The Micanopy Historic Cemetery is listed on the National Historic Registrar.
Dating back to the early 1800. Residents of the Micanopy Historic Cemetery include The Herlong Family, The Powell Family.

Visit 1
Members:
Don, Dad, Mom, Cheryl and Alice.
Recorders,
Don, Cheryl
Photography
Alice

We spent a good hour and ½ taking photos and running digital recorders. We had become connected to one little boy called Lester. Lester passed at the age of 12. Showing his handsome, adorable photo on his tomb, along with marbles glued upon the top. A lot of the marbles were missing, so we promised to come back and glue new marbles to replace the ones that were missing. Our time was limited due to the fact that we had scheduled an interview at the Herlong Mansion with Carolyn, but we stayed long enough for capture some solid evps and what we feel is an authentic spirit photo.
Our personal experiences: spider web effect, chills.

After our interview we visited some of the old stores.. I wanted Cheryl to go into the Bookstore, the very first time Don, Mom, Dad and I visited there, I had a strong feeling that someone was there. Cheryl did in fact sense that someone was there. A woman. Unfortunately we did not capture any evps on the digital recorders. But the sense is still strong.

Visit 2
Members
Irene, Mom and Alice.

Recorders:
All of us

Photography:
Alice

Things happen for a reason..and this day made us believe in that.

Us girls were excited and ready to go on our trip, but first we had to stop in Ocala to get Lesters Marbles. So 5 miles left to the exit to Micanopy, a complete stop. We were stuck in traffic on 75 for 2 hours. So that really put us on a time limit on what we wanted to accomplish for the day. Finally the interstate started to clear up and things moved on. We finally arrived at the Micanopy Historic Cemetery. The greatest moment was finally gluing new marbles to the top of Lesters tomb. Now being Valentines day, while we went into the town of Micanopy, to get some drinks before we went to the cemetery, I had bought a pink heart for Lester.
After gluing the marbles and the big pink heart on Lesters tomb, Irene and Mom went off visiting the resting places, as I was determined to seek out where I shot that photo from our last visit.
Finally, finding the spot and all of us going over all the angles and positions, we realized that she was not by the tree, but kneeling near some tombs about 20 or so feet in front of the tree. All of us agreed that that was the place, and it was not light/shadow forming from the tree and sunlight. Who it really is, is still unknown.

Photos by Alice Mary Herden