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Verdie Cemetery   (no grave layout)

This Cemetery is located in Verdie Florida. To reach it, take US301 south from Callahan for 9.3 miles. Turn left on Ford Road which is paved, but not marked. To 6/10 mile and turn left on Verdie Cemetery Road. The cemetery is 3/10 mile. It appears that you dead end into the cemetery, but the road actually veers to the right.

A sign on the cemetery lists these numbers for further information: 879-3417 or 879-2175. The cemetery is enclosed in a chain link fence and is approximately 150 ft by 200 ft. This is a well maintained cemetery with oaks and cedar trees providing shade. Some benches have been installed at grave sites.

The area of Nassau County now known as Verdie is named for Verdie Surrency, the daughter of J. Allen Surrency. Surrency moved to the area of Nassau County then known as Dutton from Tattnall County, Georgia . He farmed his land and provided wood for the railroad. In 1895, the post office at Dutton was discontinued and Surrency was named the new postmaster. He named the new post office for his daughter who was then ten years old. The post office was discontinued at Verdie in 1912. The Verdie Cemetery is the only remaining reminder of the town and is located at the site of the Methodist Church which burned in the early years of the 20th century.

For ease of inventory, the cemetery was divided into four sections. The path from the entrance gate is the north/south division and a row of large cedar trees between sections one and two are the approximate east/west division. All information is given by section and the inventory starts at the southwest corner of each section. All dates are recorded as presented on the tombstones, abbreviated or written out. Double stones are indicated only when a marriage date was given on the tombstone. Military markers contained duplicate birth and death information; when additional information (extended name or exact dates) was given on the second marker, that information is recorded. Military service for theater of conflict is abbreviated (i.e., WWI, WWII).

This cemetery was inventoried January 17, 1998, by Pat Graham, Jean Mann, Mary Nelson, Nancy and Ken Sturges.

A Boy Scout troop erected a sign with the names and locations of the veterans buried in the cemetery, and those names are shown below.