Benjamin Miles

Florida · USA · Cemetery

He was a settler here and he died in the 1840s. He is buried in this cemetery in an unmarked grave.

A man in period clothing is seen at this cemetery in Orlando, Florida, and in the woods beside it and the fields across the road.

He is identified as Benjamin Miles, a local settler who died in the 1840s, and he is buried here in a grave with no marker on it.

The unmarked grave is the point. Somebody knows who he is and where he is, and there is nothing on the ground to say so.

Central Florida in the 1840s was frontier. The Second Seminole War had just ended, the territory had barely become a state, and the settlers pushing into this country were living in conditions that killed a great many of them.

A man who was here that early, and whose name survived without a stone, was remembered by his neighbours rather than by any record.

The cemetery is a public burial ground.

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Hvor ligger Benjamin Miles?

Benjamin Miles ligger i Florida, USA.