Soda Field Cemetery, Leon County

This cemetery is located at the corner of Paul Russell Rd and Cap Cir SE. It has not been maintained for a while but is not in bad shape.

While we were visiting this cemetery a gentleman that lives next door came over and introduced him self as Mr. Bruce.

Mr. Bruce is an elderly African American gentleman and he said he was 70 years old and he just moved in next door with his uncle, another Mr. Bruce who is in his 90's, because the Older Mr. Bruce needed someone to care for him so he moved back here from Detroit.

Mr. Bruce said the cemetery consists of all his family and had been buried here for 100 years. He walked all around the cemetery and showed us the graves of his sisters, brothers, aunts and uncles and said his parents were also buried in some of the unmarked graves. He also gave a little "gossip" on each grave we came to and we spent over 2 hours talking with him and he hopes that some family members will read this and come and visit! He has also hired help to come and help him begin the clean up of his family cemetery.

Constance Walker Died 6/13/1989	Unreadable	Alexander Hawkins 8/22/1911-2/3/1985	Lillie B McCray 1/31/1927-3/28/1981
Mattie Coefield Hawkins 6/12/1886-1/15/1981	Annie Nelly 1920-1999	Eliza Cross1919-1988	Mattie M Hawkins 7/25/1921-9/12/1990
Frances Arnold 1/27/1909-6/9/1979	Murphy L Hawkins PFC US Army11/17/1918-1/21/1979 Suwannee Hawkins McPherson1913-1951	Frances Hawkins Sr1873-1959	George LeRoy Hawkins 1932-1952
Alfred Hawkins1905-1952	Sarah N Hawkins 12/12/1917-6/21/1992	Mammie Hawkins Franklin1909-1948	Unmarked with a concrete top
Ella Bradley1850-1/26/1950	Lila Ilpatrio4/12/1882-5/11/1977	Henry Brown 9/22/1921-5/5/1988	Unmarked concrete
Mary Hill12/16/1918-2/4/1983	Darkes Preston 11/24/1896-5/28/1989	Leroy Frederick Harris 6/17/1939-10/2/1993	Freddie Lee Harris US Navy Korea8/26/1936-7/28/1993
Madie Harris10/18/1915-12/11/1981	David Harris 8/25/1950-6/9/1969	Ellis J Harris 5/1/1917-9/7/1986	Annie V Fisher 9/29/1903-11/16/1981
Lula VanBrunt Died 10/13/1962	Aaron Morrison 10/22/1920-12/11/1981 [This has a concrete top and has his name as Arrow Morrison written in the concrete]	Jamie McQueen FL S SGT US Army WWII 1/17/1915-7/14/1972	Eastman McQueen US Army WWII 9/9/1917-8/20/1998
Laura Williams Flooas 10/23/1914-3/18/1981	Sarah Barnes 11/25/1902-7/29/1996 P??rn?	?? Shear 1909-1981	Sylvester Shear 10/19/1921-12/7/1984
James Smith 12/24/1908-1/5/1988	Unreadable[Has a small ceramic German Shepherd dog attached under the headstone]	Junious Buddy Mitchell 8/25/1919-12/22/1989	Nellie Lord1 2/21/19?7-4/15/1987
Zacharius Williams 7/18/1948-1/14/1994	Kenneth Williams 11/8/1968-2/28/1985	Lucinda Williams 1/17/1933-5/4/1994	Mamie B Burgess 1960-19982
unreadable	Warren Little PVT US Army 1/13/1940-4/15/1996	Unreadable	Artisell Johnson 8/1/1917-9/30/198?
Aston Johnson Died 1980	Mary R Hill 2/22/1902-1/15/1990	Unreadable	Trudie W Murray 10/13/1921-1/23/1998
Jon Bruce Jr 3/1/1907-10/16/1984	Amos Poole 1924-2001	Katie Mae Bruce 8/4/1910-3/2/1965	Rev Bruce 10/9/1912-7/17/1965
Ellen Bruce 7/4/1890-6/19/1946	Jue Bruce	Emma Lee Bruce 6/4/1934-11/20/1995	Brenda W Gibson 4/16/1953
Elliotte C Bruce 4/23/1955-6/1/1994	Ulyscee Smith 12/11/1919-3/16/1984	Frank McFadden 11/24/1915-8/6/1988	Dorothy English 9/17/1917-11/8/1992
Jessie W English 12/25/1897-9/12/1985	Klinton J Bryant 11/19/1984-2/17/1985	Sol Bruce 1912-1999	Frank Bruce TEC5 US Army WWII 6/22/1926-9/2/1986
Major Lord 9/6/1908-5/24/1989	James Myles 6/8/1915-12/17/1998	Temple Lee Myles 6/18/1921-12/12/1962	2 unreadable
Eddie L Myles 7/4/1938-4/12/2000	Unreadable	Cornelia Pollock 6/5/1900-2/17/1970	Charley Pollock FL PFC Q Marine Corp WWII 7/25/1892-11/9/1960
Mary Ellen Shear 10/25/1880-3/5/1949	Annabelle P Browning 9/14/1927-6/3/1994	2 unreadable	Sister Minnie Allen 10/14/1911-9/26/1969C
Cornelia Sutton 9/15/1890-6/7/1950	Lawrence Van Boyd PVT US Army 11/9/1950-7/3/1977	Rachel Inez Boyd 4/4/1932-5/18/2000	Alpha O Boyd SP5 US Army 12/4/1947-8/31/1996
Edith E Hawkins 12/11/1924-4/7/1990	Virginia Mosley 9/15/1913-4/28/1990	William Ryan 8/28/1932-2/16/1996	Marsha E Watson US4 US Army 11/13/1960-2/5/1985
Joe Doc Marshall PFC US Army 12/5/1928-8/30/19844	unreadable	Leonard Smith FL PFC 638 ORD AMMO CO WWII 5/5/1902-12/13/1953	Ike Williams PVT QM Corp 6/10/1934-unreadable
Johnny W Smith 1898-1970	? Guthrie 1905-1977	Alma Guthrie?	Clara Daniels Armstead 7/10/1892-12/28/1944
Annie Hawkins 1876-1947	Elmira Sapp Born in Tallahassee Fl 10/16/1881 Died St Augustine Fl 1/3/1924	Phebia McCray [this appears to be very old and under a large bush]	There are several rows of unmarked graves consisting of probably at least 50 people.

Soda Field Cemetery

AKA: DeSoto Trail Cemetery