Records of Mount Olive, St. Peters, Union and 12th and French Street cemeteries

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Mount Olive Cemetery is an historic African-American cemetery located near Wilmington, DE on Lancaster Avenue. The cemetery entrance is marked with a Historic Marker - from the Delaware State website. Because of the move from St. Peters to Mount Olive in the early 1900s, the use of death records, census and newspaper clippings will help identify not only the persons with existing tombstones, but additional people buried here as well.

The location(s) cited in burial / death records for this survey include 'St. Peters', 'Front and Union', 'Mt. Olive', 'Ezion', 'Union Cemetery'. References to 'Col. Cemetery'; where other family members are buried at Mount Olive or St. Peters are included. Some persons identified by tombstones found in Mount Olive are actually listed in the death records as 'internment at Mt. Zion'. The earliest burial records do not indicate a burial location.. NOTE: Stones which were moved from St. Peters are sometimes in a WSW orientation. Later stones are in an EW orientation, facing the dawn.

TIMELINE - a place in History

1862 - property for St. Peter's Cemetery purchased by Mother AUMP church

1901 - first burial recorded for Mount Olive Cemetery

1901 - 1914 - both cemeteries actively in use

1914 - St. Peter's Cemetery moved to present location, Mount Olive

Aug 1950 - Construction on the site of St Peters / Ezion discovers removal was not complete

2012 - 150th anniversary of the cemetery founding

2014 - 100th anniversary of Mount Olive

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Early Wilmington

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-8BCK-SX7?i=8&wc=MXMM-XTP%3A215132101&cc=1921755

 

 

 

https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/101605830?cc=1447341&cat=1448976

 

 

Only a few burials were recorded in 1971 – 1973.  By 1974; no burials were recorded in Mount Olive for the year.

 

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSSS-G9B5-X?i=83&cc=1447341&cat=1448976

 

 

1890 Agricultural Census

https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1126/