Family Reunion(s) for June
1997
submit to: [email protected]
Subj: Jackson Co, FL.
Date: 96-11-09
From:
[email protected]
(This is a note from
Ken I found as I cleaned my hard drive, BJS)
Hi Betty, My name is Ken Smith
and I noticed that your are a Jackson Co, FL researcher. The "BLACKSHEAR-KING
Jackson County" caught my attention as I have done some research on
Horace King who was a slave owned by my ancestor's brother, John
Godwin. Horace King was a famous bridge builder in Al and GA and was
my relative's foreman until my relative died. My ancestor was Wells
Godwin, brother of John Godwin, the bridge builder. They built the
Court House in Montgomery, AL. Wells and John had a brother named Thomas who
went to Jackson County, FL in about 1833.
This is what I know about
Thomas Godwin:
1840 Census Jackson County, Florida
#182 Thomas
Godwin
? males 40 to 59 years
1850 Census Jackson County,
Florida
#300 Thomas Godwin 62 M NC Farmer 2500 1788
Elizabeth 53 F
NC 1797
Eliza Godwin 25 F NC 1825
Thomas Godwin 22 M NC
1828
John Godwin 17 M NC 1833
Mary Louisa Godwin 13 F FL
1837
James Godwin 11 M FL 1839
John Clark 35 M NC Carpenter
1815
Married in Jackson County, Florida, 14 November 1850, Alexander R.
Godwin of Washington County to Miss Emma E. Russ of Jackson
County. Alexander R. Godwin then married Mary Long 10 February
1859.
1860 Census Jackson County, Florida
#?? Thomas Godwin 71
M NC Farmer 1789
Elizabeth 62 F NC 1798
Thomas Godwin 27 M NC
Carpenter 1833
Louisa Godwin 22 F FL (Mary Louisa Godwin)
1838
James Godwin 20 M FL 1840
Henry A. Applewhite 32 M NC
1828
Living nearby:
#?? A. R. Godwin 28 M NC Farmer 1832
Mary
Long
Mary A. Godwin
Sarah R. Godwin
1870 Census
Jackson County, Florida
#?? Thomas Godwin 81 M NC Farmer 1800 1475
1789
Thomas A. Godwin 43 M NC Laborer 1827
Mary L. Godwin 32
F FL At home (Mary Louisa Godwin) 1838
Eliza Godwin married
Johnson Allsbrook 27 Apr 1852
Eliza Godwin married Charles
Godwin 17 Jun 1866
Eliza Godwin married Samuel Russ 12
Aug 1866
THE TIMES AND NEWS newspaper in Eufaula, Alabama - 1879,
Tuesday, June 17, had Capt. Thos Godwin, aged 90 years of Jackson County,
Florida died recently.
Also in same newspaper 1889: Capt. A. R.
Godwin, merchant and farmer, of Cottondale, Florida., died on Sunday
last. Believe this could be Alexander R. Godwin, who possibly was the
eldest son of of Thomas. Cottondale is in Jackson County, Florida.
The
Godwin brothers also had another brother named James A. Godwin who was
the oldest. I have not been able to find him however. This is the family
structure:
1 - John GODWIN
Died - Before 1800 Anson County, North
Carolina
sp- Mary ?
2 - James A. GODWIN
Born - 22 Jan 1787
??
2 - Thomas GODWIN
Born - 8 Dec 1789 North Carolina
2 - Wells
GODWIN
Born - 16 Oct 1791 North Carolina
Died - 31 Mar 1873 Butler
County, Alabama
sp- Alice Malinda "Molindy" GRAVES
Born - South
Carolina
Mar. - Abt 1831 South Carolina?
Died - 2 Nov 1872 Butler County,
Alabama
2 - Catherine GODWIN
Born - 14 May 1796 North Carolina
2
- John GODWIN
Born - 17 Oct 1798 North Carolina
Died - 26 Feb 1859
Russell County, Alabama
sp- Ann H. WRIGHT
Born - South
Carolina
Mar. - 2 Sep 1823 South Carolina?
Died - 10 Jul 1854 Girard,
Russell County, Alabama
2 - (girl) GODWIN
Any information that you may
have would be most helpful. I believe that there may have been an
Alsobrook connection back in NC. Also, I am curious why he was referred
to as CAPT. Thomas Godwin. Thank you. Ken
Subj: Dykes history
needed
Date: 97-06-28
From: [email protected]
Need someone with
information on the Governor John Milton Plantation "Sylvania" near Marianna. I
think it is in the town of Greenwood. I was told that after the governor killed
himself after the Civil War ended. Then it was put up for auction. Ths is how I
come in to the story. My GGGrandfather James Riley Dykes bought the
plantation. This is where my GGrandfather John Vincent Dykes was raised.
Also my Grandfather Walter Dykes and all brothers and sisters where born
and lived until it was sold. Does any body have information on the auction and
or where it is located?
Subj: Dykes genealogy needed
Date:
97-06-28
From: [email protected]
Does anybody out
there have any information on the Dykes name that moved from Marianna to
Panama City. There are quite a few Dykes names in the phone book. My
Grandfather talked about a cousin who lived in Panama City. Also does any
body know if any of John Vincent Dykes's brothers or sisters moved to
Panama City. Do they have any decendents there today, if so who are they?
Thanks, Joyce
Subj: DEESE, HAND & BARRY
Date:
97-06-28
From: mailto:[email protected]
You did a very good
job on your page & have a lot of excellant information. Where would one find
the Graceville papers of 1916, 1967 ?
William L DEESE born 30 Oct 1878
Robeson, NC. He died 17 Apr 1916 Graceville, Jackson, FL and was buried in
Damascus Cem, Graceville. He
married Maria Isabel HAND (daughter of P
H HAND and Sara Landonia BARDEN) about 1906 Graceville, Jackson,
FL. She was buried in Damascus Cem, Graceville. Children:
1. Sara Louise
DEESE born 19 Oct 1910 Graceville, Jackson, FL. She died 17 May 1992
Graceville, FL & was buried in Damascus Cem, Graceville.
2. James Henry
DEESE born on 12 Mar 1914 in Graceville, Jackson, FL. He married Mary
Catherine ?? after 1935.
i. Mary Catherine DEESE . She married John P
BARRY on 8 Apr 1967.
Would like marriage date of William DEESE
& Maria HAND, surname of James H DEESE's wf Mary C, also death
date of James Henry DEESE. If anyone knows any DESCENDANTS of these
people, I really would like to correspond with them. Florence Moore
URL: http://www.pcola.gulf.net/~rjmoore
Subj:
THOMAS GODWIN
Date: 97-06-27
From: [email protected]
Searching for
information relating to THOMAS GODWIN and descendents. THOMAS
GODWIN was born in NC. Mar Elizabeth APPLEWHITE . Known children
were Thomas A., Eliza, John, Mary Louisa and James W. Other allied Jackson
County, FL families were ALSOBROOK ,BRYAN, RUSS and
ANDERSON. THOMAS GODWIN first appears on Jackson County, FL census
in 1840 however land records indicate that he obtained land in 1820. He died in
Jackson County in 1878. Place of burial is unknown.
Subj:
RE:RESERVATION (Dellwood)
Date: 97-06-26
From: [email protected] (Mary)
Betty, I have asked my
husband if he had every heard of an Indian Reservation in Jackson Co, FL and he
said that he had never heard of one. He was born in 1936 so he should know. I
will ask around here to see if there every was one. I also looked in the History
of Jackson Co(the black
book if you have one). Page 17 and 18 says that there
was an attack by the Indians on white settlers in Jackson Co is found in
Pensacola and
Tellahassee newspapers in 1842, reporting the murder of several
members of a white family at Hickory Hill. This was during the last years of
the
Seminole War, but there was no evidence that these murders were connected
with the conflict.
In 1823 the Indians in Jackson Co came under the Treaty
of Moultrie Creek, signed on Sept. 18. In consideration of their friendly
relations
with the government, four chiefs were allowed to remain in the
county and were awarded small reservations. Two chiefs, John Blount and
Tuski Hajo, were granted eight squae miles of territory, with a four-mile
frountage on the Apalachicola river. This tract of land was just east of
present-day
Blountstown, county seat of Calhoun county. Mullato King
and Emathlochee were granted a reservation which fronted four miles on
the Apalachicola river, opposite present-day Chattahoochee. Econchatimo was
given premission to reside in a tract of land four miles square, located on the
Chattahoochee river, north of the confluence of the Chattahoochee and Flint
rivers. ALL these reservations were ceded BACK to the United States in 1832 and
1833.
Subj: Re: RESERVATION (DELLWOOD)
Date: 97-06-27
From: [email protected]
All I
can tell you is that My ancestors were John Pinkney King b. abt 1818 in ?
I found him in SC. in 1850 in Orangeburg Co. Edgefield Dist. He married we think
Elizabeth Williamson. His son was Frankiln Elmore King, b. in SC.
Franklin Elmore m. Nancy E. Baxter who was first m. to
Sterlyn-Sterlin Brinson in Henry Co. AL. John Pinkney and
Elizabeth had two daughters, Mary Debroah King b. SC.in that m.
#1Joseph Lynn & #2 Hugh Robinson, And Eliza Ann King
that m. James Henry Ferguson, Eliza was b. in Jackson Co. Fl. in
1854.
There is a story in the family that Eliza ann was adopted. I have not
found proof of that yet.
Franklin Elmore and Nancy Had my grandfather
James Eugene King b. in Jackson Co. FL. My Grandfather Eugene (Gene)
King m. Magaline (Maggie) Smith 3/10/1900 in Jackson Co. Fl. They
moved to Houston Co. AL. where all of their children were born. My father
Lawrence Harold King was b. 4/1/1916 the last of four children. Daddy
(Lawrence) m. my Mother Bessie Lee Forbes in Donaldsonville GA. in 1933.
I was b. in Sneads, Jackson Co. Fl. 7/26/1947. All of us older children, there
were 14 of us were b. in and around Jackson Co. Barbara Ann King was b.
in 1945 in Delwood, she d. in Forth Wort, Texas in 1986 with cancer. Her name
when she d. was Barbara Ann Carlson.
I talked to her daughter Barbara
Ann(Jodi) the other night and she told me about not being able to get her
mother's birth certificate because she was b. on an indian reservation in
Delwood. That we would have to get it from NC. from the bureau of indian
affairs.
The story about indian in our family was that Maggie Smith
my Grandmother was part indian. Her father William (Billy) Smith was
supposed to be indian but we have not found any proof of this. William (Billy)
Smith m. Annie or Anna Sims somewhere in GA.AL.or Fl. He died
after their youngest son Elie was b. and she remarried A Wright I believe
he was F.E. that had been m. before and had two sons, Henry & Albert. Then
they had a son together Malvin or Melvin Wright. Annie must have d. abt 1897
because on the 1900 Jackson Co. Malvin was three and was listed in two differant
house holds. His older half sister, oldest daughter Mary Smith, Ready was
one and and F.E. a widower was the other. I can't imagine Granny being indian
she was were fair complected with the blondest hair anyone could ever have.
I
have some old photo's to share with any kin. Please see what you can find out
abt. Delwood and the reservation, I live a long way from Fl. and
sometimes the mail just doesn't work when trying to find out things about
ancestors. I will be glad to exachnge info with any Family members. Thank you so
very much, Betty Potter
Subj:
Delwood (DELLWOOD)
Date: 97-06-25
From: [email protected]
Betty, do you know
anything about Delwood being on a indian reservation? My sister
Barbara Ann King was b. in Delwood. Barbara d. 8/8/1986 in Ft.
Worth Texas. Her children have been trying to get her birth certificate. They
were told that they would have to contact Bureau of Indian Affairs in NC.
because she was b. on the indian reservation. I have never heard of this. Can
you help us? She was b. Barbara Ann King 12/2/1945 in Delwood. She d.
Barbara Ann Carlson in Fort Worth Texas 8/8/1986 of cancer. Daddy's name
was Lawrence Harold King a share cropper, and Bessie Lee Forbes
King homemaker. Any help on this would be helpfull. You can e-mail me at
[email protected] Thank you so much. Betty
[email protected]
Subject:
Grandfather, CRAWFORD, WILLIS b. 1865 d. 1953 (father Willis also) m.
LOUANNA SPENCER B. 1871. 1964 (father W B SPENCER)
They lived
in WALTON county most of their lives, but moved to Crestview, FL in the last ten
or so years of their life & died there. They were buried in Walton.
There were about 7 or more in the SPENCER family--know there was
an Uncle Buddy, who probably had same name as father. Buddy had one son GENERAL
SPENCER, who also lived in De Funiak for some years. I also remember an
"Aunt Lion," which must have been short for something else. Aunt Lion's
daughter,
KATE DAVIS was a schoolteacher and married a man named
HIGHTOWER.
Any info you might find on this family would be
appreciated. My Aunt AGNES CRAWFORD SULLIVAN, lived in Crestview for many
years and owned a grocery store, Her husband, DENNIS J. SULLIVAN, carried
the mail.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Winkie Crawford
Robinson, daughter of WALTER C CRAWFORD
Subj:
McDaniel, Bateman, Varnum, Rogers
Date: 97-06-24
From: [email protected]
Still looking for
information on:
William McDaniel and Frances Rogers married
about 1825
William McDaniel and Priscilla Bateman marrried
about 1846-47
William McDaniel and Narcissa Emaline Varnum
married about 1868.
Are there any McDaniel listed in your cemetaries and
who might they be.
Any info will be greatly appreciated as I am trying to
research this for a neighbor who is 92 years old. These are his grand, great
grand, and great great grands. Thank you so very much,
Lettie McDaniel
Lee [email protected]
3410 Story Rd
Ft. Meade, Fl 33841
Date:
97-06-22
From: [email protected]
I'm
hunting GIDEONS (Giddings,Gideon, Gideons, etc) There were a few
of them clumped in Jackson Co on the 1850 census records. Thanks
Susie
Subj: HOWELL:
Elias>Albert>William Hezikiah(b. 1858 Screven Co., GA)
From: [email protected] (Jeanette K.
Howell)
William Hezikiah HOWELL (b. 1858 Screven Co., GA) son of
Alfred HOWELL and Saleta ASKEW grandson of Elias
HOWELL.
William Hezikiah HOWELL married Sara Emma Narcissus
JONES and migrated to AL near Dothan and later to Holmes (and Jackson)
Co., FL just over the line. They had at least 11 children and some were
twins.
Are there any HOWELL Genealogy Homepages? Thanks, Jeanette
John Quincy
Dickinson who is buried in Vermont
with a huge marker. He was murdered,
apparently, in Marianna, FL and it gives a full page of information on
him.
Subj: MILES, WHITE, TAYLOR
Date: 97-06-12 00:00:45 EDT
From:
[email protected]
I am a writer - focusing on early Florida history; primarily in the Red
Hills regions of Leon and Jefferson County, however, there some of my families
migrated in and out of the Jackson County area. Most of my stuff dates to the
early 1800's - with data about the first settlers who came from Georgia, the
Carolinas, and some of the original American Colonies. There are over 500
surnames in my data base and I will gladly share info on specific families if I
can. I don't have a web page to link to, but feel free to pass my screen name on
to anyone you think can profit from a brief inquiry. Re your family .... I have
stuff on MILES, ( decendents of AQUILLA MILES b Bef 1752 and HARRIET
GIROUDE ) / TAYLOR ( decendents of JAMES b. 1615 originally of Carlisle,
England and JOHN b abt 1750 ) and / WHITE ( related to ALSTON, PALMER and
others ) Does your WHITE line go back as far as ENRIQUE WHITE who was a Governor
of West Spanish Florida ? Let me know if I can be of assistance - and best of
luck with your page !! [email protected]
Subj:
James/Register/Philips/Phillips
Date: 97-06-10
From: mailto:[email protected]
George
Phillips #1 had a son named William. I found William with his parents in
the 1850 Leon Co. Census. His birthdate calculated to abt. 1845. I
found
Willaim with his wife, Caledonia, and brother, George #2, in the 1870 Jackson
Co. Census, and again his birthdate calculated to abt. 1845. George #1 had a son
named James F., born abt. 1842. George #2 also named a son James Franklin. I
don't know James Henry Clay Phillips , but George #2 named a son Henry
Enalda (my ggrandfather). I haven't run across any Thomas's.
George #1's
wife was Martha A. Lanier. I'm very interested in this little tidbit! I
don't know when George #1 died, or where. mailto:[email protected]
Subj: Re: James/Register
Date: 97-06-05
From: [email protected]
Long time, no see.
Checked your Jackson County Web Page, could not find a reference to a James W.
Register. Clue me in. I did notice a Denise Ney looking for 2 George W.
Philips folks. I have information on them but could not find an address
for her. The younger George W. Philips is in the "Register Family
Records" book that you have a copy of, pages 6 & 7. I have other information
on him, from estate records. He is buried in Damascus Cemetery, I think Jackson
County. He died in 1921. I just discovered his marker on a quick trip through
there. I beleive him to be a nephew of Christchaney PHILIPS Register,
wife of Joseph Allen. One of her children (my great-grandmother's brother)
Daniel is also buried there.
Am still working on Joseph Allen
REGISTER's line. Till Later, Happy Hunting, Frances Keith
Subj: SULLIVAN,
WARREN, RODGERS
Date: 97-06-08
From: mailto:[email protected]
Searching for
parents of Jefferson SULLIVAN. Born: Oct 1824 in Georgia. Died 1882-1885
in Madison County. Married Eliza Rodgers bet 1849-1852, possibly in
Madison County. Eliza was born 1829 in Georgia and died 1870-1880 in Florida.
Jefferson married Sarah ??? bet 1870-1880, probably in Madison County. He may
have had a first wife, Emily ??? m. bet 1848-1849. Jefferson and Eliza had nine
children, one of whom was my
wife's grgrgrdmother, Mary Susan (Sullivan)
WARREN. Jefferson and family are known to have lived in Madison, Jackson,
and Lafayette Counties,
Florida. They may have been living in Georgia
1851-1852. He reported that his parents were born in South Carolina. Any
information will be very much appreciated. Can provide extensive WARREN
linkages in return. mailto:[email protected]
Subj:
English
Date: 97-06-10
From: [email protected] (CHARLES S.
MILLER)
LOOKING TO CORRESPOND WITH ENGLISH FAMILIES IN FLA ABOUT THE
ORIGINS OF FAMILY. SUPPOSEDLY MY ANCESTOR CAME NORTH TO GA ABOUT 1820 DRIVING
CATTLE FROM FLORIDA. BELIEVE HIM TO BE CONNECTED IN SOME WAY TO THE CORNELIUS
ENGLISH AND JAMES ENGLISH FAMILIES OF MONTGOMERY/TATNALL COUNTIES,
GA, WHO SETTLED IN ORIGINAL JACKSON CO.
THANKS. C. S. MILLER,mailto:[email protected]
Subj: Darling
JOHNSON
Date: 97-06-10
From: mailto:[email protected]
Searching
for the sons of DARLING JOHNSON who settled in BARBOUR COUNTY, AL. in
1840 and his sons moved into JACKSON COUNTY, FL. in the late and middle 1840's.
JAMES JOHNSON, GREEN B., ELDRED, HARDY, AND LITTLETON JOHNSON are
just a few of his sons who settled there. Any information on the family will be
appreciated...Paul Wright -Atlanta,
Ga.
Subj: POPE, TANNER, SCURLOCK, YONGE, WHITE
Date:
97-06-10
From: [email protected]
I
would be very interested in corresponding with anyone who is researching the
interrelated families of POPE, TANNER, SCURLOCK, YONGE, WHITE and others
who settled in Jackson Co., Fla. in the 1820s. WILLIAM STUART POPE, and
wife, Harriet, lived in Sneeds and are buried there. William had a brother, JOHN
M. POPE who settled in Jackson County very early, but apparently moved
away. William S. Pope's sister, ELIZABETH POPE married JOHN
TANNER in 1816 in Savannah, Ga. and settled on the site of Chattahoochee,
Fla. She later moved to Marianna, where her son, JOHN TANNER, JR. was a
lawyer and Capt. in the Confederate Army. John Tanner, Jr. married ANN
YONGE, sister of CHANDLER COX YONGE. Another sister of William
Pope, CATHERINE POPE, married Rev. Dr. DAVID L. WHITE of
Quincy. Another relative was MARY ANNE POPE, who married WALTON L.
SCURLOCK in Jackson Co., Fla. in 1845. Any information on any of these
families would be greatly appreciated. Erick
Montgomery
COLLINS and JOHNSON
Narcissis Elizabeth
Collins b abt 1842 GA, lived in Jackson Co FL with parents 1850 census
(Francis Marion Collins b 1815 and Cynthia ____ b 1840) Narcissis
(Narcissy or Lizzy) Elizabeth Collins m James Johnson. 1850
Jackson Co FL; 1860 McElveenville, Mitchell Co GA; 1880 Alachua Co FL. [email protected]
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