Alive in memory

Posted on September 14, 2018

By ANGELA M. CASTELUCCI / Managing Editor

Amanda “Mandy” Hale was left with a brood of children still in their tender years when her husband, Henry, died in a Union prison camp.

Like so many before her, the young widow stood strong and carved out a life for herself and her family by working the farm she and her husband had established in the Cabbage Grove area in the 1850s.

PHOTO: Using a mobile ground penetration radar, Brandon Ackermann, a technical specialist with the Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research, detected at least 11 casket signals and gathered evidence that suggested many more remains at the Cabbage Grove Cemetery site. The cemetery was located near Cabbage Grove Church. Documented members of the long-ago congregation include: Agner, Ayers, Bennett, Blue, Boatright, Chestnut, Clark, Crews, Decausey, Edwards, English, Fletcher, French, Hale, Heartsfield, Henry, Holcomb, Johnson, Kelly, King, Lawrence, Lee, Leggett, Lynn, Mandy, Meinhardt, Messer, Moody, Morse, Page, Poppell, Sapp, Sheffield, Stanaland, Strickland, Tedder, Turlington, Walker, Wentworth, Whiddon, Wilson and Young.

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