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Record Group Number: 900000
Series/Collection Number: M79- 181
Creator: Woodlawn Cemetery (Tampa, Fla.)
Title, Dates: Woodlawn Cemetery (Tampa, Fla.) burial records, 1895-1969.
Amount: 2.00 microfilm reel 35 mm.
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Organization/Arrangement: Subdivided into 1) records of interment, numerical by burial permit number; 2) the sexton's register, chronological; and 3) the sales records, arranged by lot number.
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Biographical/Historical:     The Woodlawn Cemetery in Tampa, Florida, is one of four cemeteries owned and operated by the City of Tampa. Opened in 1888, Woodlawn is Tampa's second-oldest cemetery after Oaklawn. It contains the graves of some of Tampa's most prominent citizens.

Summary:     The collection contains a microfilm copy of burial records of the Woodlawn Cemetery in Tampa, Florida. It includes records of interment and a sexton's register. The records include information about the deceased such as name, sex, race, place of birth, date of birth, date of death, cause of death, attending physician, undertaker, date interred and location of grave. Another list, which is without a label, seems to be a record of sales and contains name of purchaser, lot number, price and date. Volumes II-VI contain alphabetical indexes by surname.

Finding Aids: Microfilm listing available. 0
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Reproduction Note: Microfilm.
Location of Originals/Duplicates: Tampa Stake Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Tampa, Fla.
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Subject Access Fields: Woodlawn Cemetery (Tampa, Fla.)
African Americans Statistics, Vital. Florida
Cemeteries Florida --Hillsborough County
Registers of births, etc. Florida --Hillsborough County
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Hillsborough County (Fla.)
Tampa (Fla.)
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