Fort King Cemetery stands as a memorial to those who lost their lives at Fort King. In 1927, the Marion County Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution accepted the deed to this one-acre cemetery site, beginning local efforts to preserve Fort King. The property had once served as the burial site for soldiers and civilians at Fort King. At the end of the Seminole War in 1842, the soldiers' bodies were ordered reinterred at the St. Augustine National Cemetery along with 1,400 other soldiers who died in the war, including Major Francis Dade's command. In 1933, the Daughters of the American Revolution erected a memorial for the soldiers and civilians who died at Fort King. The listed soldiers who died there were Calvin Austin, Walter Cannon, James Cassaday, John Christian, Cyrus Clarke, Aaron Desbrough, Richard Fullington, James Gaines, Richard Grace, Charles Herring, William Jones, Hugh Kelly, James Kelly, Joshua Kelly, James McClellan, Thomas McMahon, James McMillen, Patrick McNamara, George L. Maxwell, Frederick Meir, James Mellor, John Melvin, Robert Mure, D. Murphy, Peter W. O' Donaghey, Charles Peter, John Prater, John Reeder, George H. Smith, Constantine Smyth, George W. Theis, Walter Thomson, George Viars, and Chandler M. Warren; this list does not include the civilian dead.
