Stephen R. Mallory was a U.S. Senator from Florida (1852-1861) and Secretary of the Confederate Navy. Born on the island of Trinidad in 1812, Stephen Mallory’s family eventually made Key West their home. Mallory studied law, volunteered in the Florida militia during the Second Seminole War, and became Inspector of Customs at Key West. In 1830 he met Angela Moreno of Pensacola who would become his wife. He served his country as a United States Senator and Secretary of the Confederate Navy. After the Civil War, Mallory became one of Pensacola’s most prominent Attorneys.
Sources: www.stmichaelscemetery.org and
St. Michael’s Cemetery historical placard

Phillip Keyes Yonge was a prominent local educator and served as Chairman of Florida State Board of Regents. At age nine, in 1859, Philip Keyes Yonge moved to Pensacola with his family from Marianna, Florida. The Yonge family came to Florida from England during the British Colonial Period. He began a career in the lumber business in 1876 at the Muscogee Mill on Perdido Bay. As a civic leader, he was instrumental in early efforts to bring formal public education to Escambia County and a university system to the State of Florida.
(Sources: www.stmichaelscemetery.org and
St. Michael’s Cemetery historical placard)

Interred in St. Michael’s Cemetery in 1888, Julia Washington Blount is a descendent of the family of George Washington.

Hunt was a prominent Pensacola brick maker. His monument was built in New Orleans with a popular Greek Revival style of architecture and transported to St. Michael’s Cemetery where it has served as Hunt’s final resting place for over 150 years.

The most imposing marker in the cemetery was built for this prominent lumber baron. Daniel F. Sullivan and his brother Martin, born in Ireland, arrived in Pensacola after the Civil War. Possessing a remarkable talent for business, the brothers purchased lumber mills and wharfs on Pensacola Bay and vast areas of timberland in Escambia County. The success of their lumber business in the late 19th century is exemplified by the founding of the town of Century and this monument to Daniel Sullivan, the largest in the cemetery. (Sources: www.stmichaelscemetery.org and
St. Michael’s Cemetery historical placard)

Consecrated by St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church, Priest’s Mound is an elevated oval lot dedicated to the burial of priests and nuns. Among those interred in Priest’s Mound are:
Rev. I. A. Bergrath (1836-1881),
Rev. Joseph A. Ph. Fortier (1841-1937),
Rev. Robert Fullerton (1853-1926),
Rev. Charles E. Hartkoff (1867-1938), and
Rev. Patrick J. Buckley (1892-1941).

Born a free black man in Pensacola, John Sunday was a skilled homed builder who, during the American Civil War, joined the ranks of the Union Army. He later served in the Florida House of Representatives during Reconstruction.

Theresa was a former slave purchased as a child by Pensacola’s prominent Moreno family. Purchased in 1844 at age seven at Mobile by Don Francisco Moreno, Theresa served the Moreno family for sixty-five years. She was midwife and nurse to many of the Moreno children. Moreno provided for her support in his will and she continued to work for the families of his children after his death in 1882. She rests in the family plot of Moreno son-in-law Hubert Jordan.
(Sources: www.stmichaelscemetery.org and
St. Michael’s Cemetery historical placard)

Probably cleared as a short path into the community burial ground in the mid 18th century, the road was extended later through the burial ground and on to the east of the town. To control traffic in the cemetery, the road was closed In the mid 19th century.

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Known as “The King of Pensacola,” Moreno was a former Vice Consul of Spain during Colonial Period. After immigrating to Florida, he became a prominent Pensacola patriarch who had twenty-seven children.
(Source: www.stmichaelscemetery.org).

Dorothy Walton was the wife of a signer of the Declaration of Independence from Georgia, and her son served as Florida’s first Territorial Secretary. Born Dorothy Camber to a British plantation owner in South Carolina, Dorothy married lawyer George Walton in Savannah shortly before the beginning of the American Revolution. George Walton attended the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, signing the Declaration of Independence. Dorothy relocated to Pensacola in 1822 where her son, George Walton, Jr., was serving as Acting-Governor of Florida after the departure of Andrew Jackson. (Sources: www.stmichaelscemetery.org and
St. Michael’s Cemetery historical placard)

Desiderio Quina, Sr. served in the Spanish Louisiana Infantry Regiment before settling in Pensacola as an apothecary. Born in Italy in 1777, Desiderio Quina served the Spanish army in the Louisiana Infantry Regiment. He was later employed in Pensacola as an apothecary for the John Forbes Company where he married Margarita Bobe. His son Desiderio was born in 1817 and fought in the second Seminole War with a regiment of Alabama mounted volunteers. He opened a pharmacy on Government Street in Pensacola about 1842 and later earned a license to act as a physician.
(Sources: www.stmichaelscemetery.org and
St. Michael’s Cemetery historical placard)

Francis Commyns was one of 253 people to succumb to illness during a yellow fever epidemic in 1853. His “box tomb” inscription also laments family members who perished during the epidemic – his son, Florentio P. Commyns and his daughter, Emma A. Commyns.

William Sebree was a veteran of the War of 1812 and appointed Marshall of West Florida by President James Monroe in 1823. The inscription on his memorial reads: “Errected to the memory of Captain William Sebree who was born in the state of Virginia A.D. 1776 and died at Pensacola A.D. 1827. During the late war with Great Britain Captain Sebree distinguished himself as a brave and valuable officer. The memory of a man who fought for his country should be cherished.”
Source: www.stmichaelscemetery.org

Cast iron monuments mark the graves of two seamen from the Norwegian ship Gertrude.  A yellow fever epidemic in 1867 could have caused the death of two Scandinavian seamen – Capt. Christian Pharo and his First Mate Gunner Andresen. Their distinctive cast iron grave markers are side by side in St. Michael’s Cemetery. The inscription reveals the two merchant seamen came to Pensacola on the “Ship Gertrude,” which was perhaps a schooner involved in the lumber industry.
Source: www.stmichaelscemetery.org

Salvador Pons was the second son of John Pons, a seaman from Maryland, and Maria Rosario, a free woman of color. As a property owner who could read and write, Salvador was able to serve the Pensacola community as City Alderman beginning in 1869 and was elected Mayor in 1874. He later served as City Clerk from 1878 to 1884.
(Sources: www.stmichaelscemetery.org and
St. Michael’s Cemetery historical placard)

Elected the first Mayor of Spanish Pensacola in 1821, Joseph Noriega, Jr. followed in the footsteps of his father, Jose Noriega, and served the Louisiana Infantry Regiment. He operated an extensive brickyard on Escambia Bay and in 1820 was elected by Pensacola citizens Alcalde, an officer comparable to Mayor.
(Sources: www.stmichaelscemetery.org and
St. Michael’s Cemetery historical placard)

Dr. Sierra served as a surgeon for the Spanish Army, and immigrated to Pensacola in 1785. A native of Spain, Sierra arrived in Pensacola in the employ of the Spanish royal hospitals. He was appointed to the post of head practitioner at the Pensacola hospital between 1794 and 1799. In 1811, Dr. Sierra, professor of surgery, was a prominent resident of this city. He witnessed many changes in the community before his death March 12, 1849 at 99 years old. His daughter Isabella married Dr. John Brosnaham. (Sources: www.stmichaelscemetery.org and
St. Michael’s Cemetery historical placard)

Don Manuel Gonzalez was the patriarch of a Pensacola pioneer family and raised wild cattle for the Spanish military. A native of Spain, he joined the army at Madrid and was sent to New Orleans. After his discharge, he was granted passage through the Choctaw and Creek Nations to Pensacola. At Pensacola, he was a successful cattle rancher. He opened a market on Plaza Ferdinand in 1816. With the transfer of Florida to the United States, he was appointed Justice of the Peace and Quarter Master General for the Florida Militia. (Sources: www.stmichaelscemetery.org and
St. Michael’s Cemetery historical placard)

Dr. Brosnaham was a prominent physician in Pensacola during the 19th century. Stone tree markers (like the one shown here), provided by the Woodmen of the World Insurance Company, can be found throughout St. Michael’s Cemetery.

John Innerarity was a partner in the Panton-Leslie trading firm, which engaged in trade with the Creek Indian Nation. Innerarity was the nephew of Spanish Pensacola’s leading merchant William Panton. He arrived in Pensacola in 1802 to become managing clerk of the Panton, Leslie and Co. trading post. However, his uncle had died in 1801, and he entered the employ of the company’s successor John Forbes and Company. Innerarity married Victoria, the Daughter of Captain Marcos de Villiers of the Louisiana Infantry Regiment. The Spanish government granted Innerarity a large tract of land on Perdido Bay in 1815.
(Sources: www.stmichaelscemetery.org and
St. Michael’s Cemetery historical placard)

Ebenezer Dorr served as Territorial Marshal for West Florida. A native of Maine, Ebenezer Dorr spent fourteen months as a prisoner of war in England during the War of 1812. He was captain of his own ship for many years, trading at ports around the world. In about 1827, Dorr moved his family to Escambia County where in 1841 he was appointed U.S. Marshall for the western District of the Territory of Florida. With Florida Statehood in 1845, he was elected the first sheriff of Escambia County.
Sources: www.stmichaelscemetery.org and
St. Michael’s Cemetery historical placard

The daughter of Colonel Wm. King, provisional U.S. Governor of West Florida in 1818, Margaret E. King was heiress to large tracts of land surrounding Pensacola.