Mose’s second family
Mose’s common-law wife was Rebecca Clements. Rebecca
was reared by Mose’s brother and sister-in-law Sam and Mary near Olustee and is
believed to have been orphaned as a result of an Indian raid. She had family in
Rebecca was reported to be a comely and intelligent young
woman who did a more than adequate job of running the north
When Becky assumed control of the plantation on the Little
Saint Mary’s about 1860 she set up a tavern and inn for travelers on the
Mose and Rebecca’s first child was Samuel Jeremiah “Sam” Clements,
born in
In some court
records there is mention of Hezekiah Clements. When I first came across a deed with his name
on it in
On
When invasion of north
After Mose left her for parts unknown (despite all the
named destinations given in various tales) in the fall of 1870, Rebecca took
the children to her stepson Arch’s farm in the present
Evidence that Mose and Rebeccca were either legally married or were considered common-lawfully so after seven years cohabitation, came from the following: (1) she as “Rebecca Barber” petitioned Mose for a lost deed in May of 1870, (2) she, as Mose’s wife, and Moses deeded land to C. B. McClenny in 1870, and (3) she appeared before the clerk of court in Columbia County as ”Rebecca E. Barber” and was his legal heir after he was declared dead in November of 1870.
Thanks to Mary Ida Shearheart, a
document of June, 1870, has come to light of Rebecca Barber having appointed attorney Turner to take charge, in her
name, of a herd of cattle in Brevard and
Lawyer Bill Turner was rapidly getting his hands on Mose’s cattle and money. The Lafayette and Suwannee Counties Barbers said his expenses ate up most of the herd.
In February, 1871, another
About a year later an
If Rebecca received any assets from her dead husband’s estate, they didn’t last; it was told she died in poverty and dependent on her son-in-law Arch. Some swore it was because her stepsons swindled her, but it is most likely that her new husband had his hands on her money even before they were married.
Rebecca’s attorney for all the
proceedings to claim some of Mose’s estate for herself and her children was William B. “Bill” Turner (originally from
The Suwannee County Barbers think Rebecca moved back to
The first child of Moses and Rebecca was Samuel Jeremiah “Sam” Barber, known as Sam.
Sam was reared mostly in
Sam’s first marriage was to Virginia Clements in
Sam married, second, Nathan Americus Calhoun (nee Bryant) Howell, mercifully called
“Callie.” Their marriage was in
Sam built a large house on the banks of the
Sam operated a ferry at
A red bone puppy took up at the ferry. He was fed and spoiled by all who came by. Throughout the dog’s life he made every crossing. He slept in the breezeway of the Barber house, but his keen ears caught the calls of potential fares from across the river. He alerted his master day and night. In winter he scratched at the door, and in summer he nosed his way past the screen door and pawed his master.
When the old dog died, it was like a member of the family who had gone away.
A Barber either loves his dog(s) or despises all of dogdom…no in between.
I was told that Sam, like his brother Arch, was severely bent double by arthritis but that it didn’t prevent either of them from being effective horse riders and cowmen. Sam had been given a large herd by his father as a beginning. He worked with Arch in a common open range throughout the old Horse Prairie area as both their herds increased.
I was privileged to know Sam’s oldest and youngest sons. Moses Edward Barber, the eldest, lived near O’Brien. He had many stories to tell, including the one about how Mose, Sr.’s large painted portrait (this came as a surprise to me), over and under firearm, Bible, and the hatchet that an Indian threw at Moses’ grandsons or nephews were lost in the fire that burned the younger Moses (Sam’s son) home in the 1920’s. His stories about how the Indians reacted when shot and the tale about the Indians sparing one of the Barber wives, and other stories, were amazingly similar to the ones heard from the family here, in Palatka, and in central and west Florida (these stories are found elsewhere in these notes).
Sam’s youngest son was Talmadge Barber. He and his wife Mary owned a
restaurant in High Springs. He was
influential among county government circles and owned the first hard liquor
license in
Jenny Barber
married William A. “Sam” Clark in
1885 in
I will give a story here that I have serious doubts as to its authenticity; the chronology just doesn’t fit. It was given to me by some of the Suwannee County Barbers, and I evidently copied it incorrectly.
Sam was lazy in the extreme and kept Jenny and the kids
in dire circumstances when Mose was not around to provide. It was said that on one of those occasions
when Mose was in central
I heard that Mose threatened Sam that if he didn’t begin
to take good care of Jenny and her young’uns, “I’ll whup yore aise good
fashion. I’ll see to it that you won’t
be a’gittin’ any more young’uns to starve to death, cause I’ll cut out your
-----, you sorry son of a bitch.” Sam
supposedly left in the night taking Jenny and the kids with him. They went from pillar to post in
Jenny was born in 1861, Mose supposedly died in 1870. This would have Jenny being married and with children at the age of nine when Mose was threatening her husband.
The
Arch and Jenny, though siblings and living under the same roof, did not always get along well. Their spats were frequent. During one of those particularly bitter arguments, Jenny threatened to go live with a bachelor named Bunk Cason. Bunk lived not far from Arch’s place. Arch yelled at her, “No sister of mine is a’gonna live like that!” Jenny struck out at her brother. Mr. Mose E. Barber of O’Brien said, “They wuz a’wrasslin’ all over the place.” Jenny broke free and ran through the woods towards Cason’s house.
Arch took down his shotgun and rode to the Bunk Cason place. He tethered his horse in the woods and approached Bunk’s house. He peeped in through a chink in the one-room cabin’s wall and saw Bunk sitting by a fire (a mud and stick chimney) playing his accordion. Arch placed his shotgun through an open chink between the logs and killed Cason.
Jenny found the body. She returned to Arch’s. She and her brother argued very little after that incident.
There is more to this story in Arch’s biography (see it earlier).
Moses’
siblings (and those thought to be his siblings)
Two known siblings of the subject of this narrative were Samuel “Sam” (married [1] Clary [2] Mary [? Clements]) and William “Bill” “Will” (married Susan - last name not yet learned). A sister (or perhaps a cousin) was Levicey (married Daniel John “Dan” Mann). Others mentioned as possible siblings were Archibald Aaron “Big Arch”, Elizabeth “Betty”, Isaac, John, and Joseph Andrew “General” “Big Joe” (married (1) Mary Smith (2) Ruthie [nee Spears] Ellison). General and John were also sometimes referred to as Mose’s sons from an earlier marriage (this will be confusing to the reader throughout much of this narrative…sorry; it’s been confusing to the writer for many years too).
Older heads in the family insisted Mose, the subject of these notes, had four sisters.
Family tales (and some tales outside the family) give
these brothers and sister (or cousin) of Moses as having come to
John Barber
John Barber lived across the Little Saint Mary’s River from Mose and Leah. Indians killed him soon after he arrived. As was their wont the Indians attacked just before daybreak. John was found in his cow pen and was murdered immediately.
His wife found his corpse and sent the oldest - Jack - with his two younger siblings to Mose’s stockade for their safety and to get help. The youngest wasn’t a walker yet and had to be toted by Jack. As they ran, an Indian threw a small tomahawk at them. It scarcely missed Jack and stuck in the gatepost. Jack placed the baby on the ground, pulled the weapon from the gatepost and said to his younger brother, “Looky hyear, Buddy, what a purty little tommyhawk!” He picked up the baby, grabbed his brother’s hand, and ran to his uncle’s stockade.
The widow rushed back to her husband and cradled his head in her lap. The Indians returned to finish off their job of slaughter. She bowed her head and waited for death. One of the surviving children (can’t remember the name given me) told his cousin Moses E. of Suwannee County, son of Samuel Jeremiah, that he saw an Indian grab his mother’s thick hair to scalp her, stroked it for a while, and then motioned others over to see that her hair was black, coarse, and straight. They discussed something hurriedly and then let her go. The survivor later mused that they must have thought she was either Indian or had Indian blood in her and decided against harming her. In time, the tale had the Indian saying, “We won’t kill her; she has Indian blood in her.”
I haven’t figured out how the unfortunate child saw and heard his mother being spared when he was running for his life across the field toting a young’un and dragging another toward his uncle’s house.
Another ending to this tale has it that the mother was expecting, and Indians feared bad luck and uncleanliness if they touched a pregnant woman. I have a feeling that I could have collected as many endings to the story as the number of people I interviewed about it had I continued.
Mose kept the widow and her children for a long while. Jack remained with his uncle for the rest of Mose’s life (this Jack could be confused in the memories of the tale spinners with Andrew Jackson, son of William W.). What happened to the others isn’t known.
The tomahawk was among the prized
possessions of Samuel J. and his son
Moses E. in
The second son was believed by some family members to be Moses Ben Barber (? Moses B. F. Barber. See Moses B. F. Barber). To further muddy the waters of history, there were three Ben Barbers, and they have become mixed, fused, and confused in oral history.
One of the other sons might also
have been William Jasper Barber who
lived near Samuel J. in
Ah, Confusion, thy name is Barber.
Another tale of an Indian raid is similar but with everybody in the family killed. The father, supposedly a brother of Mose, went down the hill from his little cabin in the early morning to untether his oxen for the day’s plowing. His wife busied herself in the house, and their two young children, barely infants, were left playing on the front stoop. As the young father was hooking up the oxen a small band of Indians crept out of the woods. They jerked the children up and bashed their brains out against a corner of the house. The father rushed back and found his babies with their brains scattered against the cabin and his wife with a tomahawk buried down into her shoulders, her head split in two.
The tale was told as if there had been an eyewitness; I suppose it was recreated from the scene that was found.
The great probability is that more than one Indian raid happened on family and neighbors, that the raid stories blended, separated, and re-blended in time as they were told and re-told, misheard, and inadvertently incorrectly handed down. There could have been a healthy dose of Barber coloring added also.
Joseph Andrew Barber, perhaps Mose’s brother but most likely a son by a first marriage, is sometimes referred to as “Big Joe”, but most often he is known by his more popular nickname “General”. He was a dandy who sported gold jewelry and drove the finest buggy. He was considered somewhat unscrupulous and often outside the law. Some of the older heads mentioned his fine appearance and inflated ego. He was either rich or gave the appearance of being so. He was not close to the family.
General was born about 1820. This would seem to place him as a son rather than a brother of Mose, especially so since Mose, born 1800, was supposed to be the youngest of his siblings. General’s first wife was Mary A. Smith (b. c. 1829). They lived in Duval County (1850 census) with children Catherine, b. 1843; Josephine, b. 1845; Mary, b. 1847; and Joseph Andrew, b. 1848.
He and his nephew (or half-brother…we don’t know at this writing) George William “Mean Bill” Barber seemed to have a running contest as to which could sink the lowest. They stole corn from each other and from the widowed Lizzie Barber. When she put a lock on her corncrib door, they pulled the ears from between the cracks of the log crib…low scannels indeed.
No record has come to light of his Confederate service, if any. Some of the family said he was in the infantry and that his bragging of his war service earned him the nickname “General.”
General lived in both north and
central
His nephew John Benjamin Barber of Palatka told the following story. He (Uncle John) was traveling into Jacksonville from Macclenny (never heard him say what was his mode of transportation) one evening during full moon (not unusual for folks to travel at night during the summer season), and when he approached the ford at Deep Creek, he saw an elderly well-dressed gentleman down alongside his fine buggy searching in the grass. Uncle John didn’t recognize the old fellow (General didn’t hang around the family a lot), but he asked if he could be of service. General introduced himself and said, “You be a Barber too, mighten you?” John answered in the affirmative, and his uncle General informed him he had lost his gold watch. Uncle John got down near the ground opposite the moon, as he put it, and began searching. Soon he discovered the watch gleaming in the moonlight. The old man was so grateful he gave his nephew a gold coin (can’t remember the denomination). Uncle John said he never saw the old man again.
General’s last marriage (? in advanced age) was to Mrs. Ruthie (nee Spears) Ellison (she was the mother-in-law of William W. Alexander, Jr.). Some of Aunt Ruthie’s descendents believed General was the father of her daughter Rachel, but others insisted it was not so. I don’t have a clue as to the truth of the matter. It was known that the Barbers, especially Aunt Lizzie’s bunch, visited the Alexanders often. Of course, this could have been because Isaiah’ first wife and Little Mose’s wife Penelope were daughters of William Wright, Sr. Some Alexanders said they would prefer not to remember their female relatives had married General and Little Mose.
Samuel “Sam” Barber
Sam Barber lived in that
part of
Sam’s land deeds show he had
interests in several pieces of land in the present Baker,
Sam’s second wife was Mary (? Clements). Sam was supposed to be the eldest of the
Barber brothers who came to
In 1850 the census taker recorded
Sam as being fifty years of age and having been born in
Eleven years later he seems to
have found the fountain of youth and was listed again as fifty years of age in July of 1861 when he enlisted at
William W. Barber
was born about 1805 in
His wife was Susan (maiden name
not learned) from
There are conflicting stories as to whether Bill came down
to
William and Susan made their home on the south bank of the
Saint Mary’s River on Trail Ridge. In
later years it was the farm of William M.
and Zilphia Chesser and was known
for a long time as the
The following is a newspaper documentation – New York Herald issue of 8 June, 1841 - of the death of William W. “Bill” “Will” Barber, which, except for a few glaring inaccuracies, goes along well with the family tradition (it was written by a Northern person…that should explain the inaccuracies).
“Day before yesterday a party of
Indians attacked the house of William Barber on Brandy Branch about 35 (sic)
miles from here, and after killing Mr. Barber by shooting him twice they
scalped him, then stabbed him several times and stripped him. His wife was at the cow pen near the house
and was about to milk the cows, and hearing the shots that killed her husband,
looked up and saw a young Indian standing on a log about 20 feet away with his
gun. She sprang toward her husband who
implored her “For God’s sake, flee away and save yourself for I am done”, and
as she turned away she saw him die. By
this time the Indians were in the house plundering when a little daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Barber rushed in among the Indians and seized her infant brother
who had been left by the mother, and hurried off with him. The Indians didn’t see her or the baby till
she was inside the door. One of them
gave out a horrible yell to warn her to stop but she ran away, the Indian too
engrossed in plundering. Mrs. Barber
with her two children hastened away and met four men en route to
According to the correspondent the attack took place on
Some comments on the news item
follows: William Barber’s house was
about 25 miles west of
From several divers sources came the following tale of Uncle Bill’s death. Most of the tales heard were not glaringly contradictory. We probably have no means of ever learning what parts of which tales were inaccurate, so I combined them.
Bill and Susan were in a short lull between the toil of spring planting and cultivating and the gathering of crops in early summer (it was early May in 1841). Susan was expecting again.
Just before daybreak Uncle Bill went to the cow pen to tend to the morning milking. A band of Indians broke out of the woods and shot him. He called as best he could for Aunt Susan to fetch up the young’uns and run. Rhoda grabbed the baby and rushed toward her uncle Mose’s plantation. Why Aunt Susan was not killed was not told (? Could the stories of the raids be fused and Aunt Susan was the part Indian Barber wife who was spared [see John’s story earlier] or was it because of a belief imputed to the Indians that they were fearful of touching a pregnant woman). And where were the other children?
Mose had been sensing Indians around his place for two days. Some connected this incident with his being shot in the shoulder (or dislocating it) while out checking on his swine in the present Glen Saint Mary area. He sent a slave (name lost in history) to warn his brother and others in the vicinity. About the same time he sent the slave on his mission, Susan and Rhoda with Jack arrived in the company of some men they had met on the way. Aunt Susan and Rhoda had run the greater part of the way and were exhausted. Mose put them in the care of Mary Leah and set out with a party toward his brother’s farm. Jason and most of the older kin and white laborers were left to defend the plantation.
On the way he recruited Bryant Hicks and Jonathan L. Thigpen (they were related to each other…? nephew and uncle or cousin, respectively) among others. They were from east of Trail Ridge and were riding hard to warn the settlers of the region of an imminent Indian attack. The Indians had departed, and Mose directed his crew to load his brother’s corpse into a wagon. The party headed back to Mose’s plantation.
When they reached Bay Branch, about half way between the Barber’s homes, the Indians attacked again. This time they killed Messrs. Hicks and Thigpen and Mose’s slave.
The Indians withdrew, and the party continued their sad
trip. When they got to a bend in the
trail on the crest of a white sandy
The fight was long and fierce. The sun was beating down, and the bodies were bloating. Mose refused to leave the bodies for the Indians to mutilate and directed that the wagon used to haul the dead be broken down and made into two coffins…one large for the three white men and a smaller one for the slave. While the battle raged, some of the men dug a common grave and interred the four in their two makeshift coffins.
Eventually the Indians quit the fight, and Mose and his party were able to gain the plantation.
Another version has it that Susan and the children hid out in the woods after William was murdered and one of their slaves made the trip to Mose’s plantation to solicit aid. This version said Susan and the children were with the party when they were attacked the second and third times.
Some old timers told me Mose planted four cedars at each corner of the common grave. Others claimed it was Susan who marked the grave with the cedars. The truth is probably that the Hicks family did the planting. Bryant Hicks’ father Eli was soon buried there also, and the site became known as the Hicks Burying Ground.
One lone cedar remains at the northeast corner of the grave. It doesn’t have the height or girth to have been living there since the Indian raid. Perhaps it replaced an older one or the sterile sand of the cemetery has kept it stunted.
In the 1890’s a
Mose and his crew chased the Indians south for about eight miles before they lost them. See the story about the chase under the heading the famous bulldogs and the indian attacks.
The widow Susan lived with and
near Mose for several years and then headed south. She and the children lived in the present
Hernando and
No matter where they lived, the
kids were subjected to taunts by an Indian who called himself Ecochattee (or Econchattee). He would step out of the woods and sing,
“Ecochattee killed your daddy.” He would
grin and laugh as he disappeared back into the woods. Ecochattee was an Alabama Miccosuckee (so I
was told by some who study such things) who had lived in the
William’s widow later married Joe Ward (“Jack” according to some of that branch).
Champion Barber married Nancy
Ennis in
Their children were Samuel, born 1862, died 1888, married Margarete Hay; William Francis, born 1853, married Civility Beaty (daughter of Thomas J. and Charity [nee Frier] Beaty); Susan, born 1858, married George Sullivan; John, born 1860, married Mrs. M. E. Westcott; and Frances, born 1864, married Clement Sullivant.
Champion was called independent by some of his cousins. Although he and Jack stayed with their uncle Mose a lot and worked the long cattle drives, Champion supposedly broke from the tight family and went his own way. He was involved in the feud and was probably killed in the conflict.
Champion served in the Seminole War 1856 to 1857.
Jeanne (nee Barber) Godwin of
Rhodie was the
daughter who risked her life to save the baby Jack when the Indians attacked
and killed her father in 1841. She was
also the second wife of Daniel Clifton,
a son of Ezekial, originally from
Daniel (1828 – 1903) was living with his parents and
siblings south of Olustee when he and Rhoda met and married. In the fall of 1855 he and Rhoda left
Most of Daniel’s siblings left with him and Rhodie, but
some of their descendents are represented in
The Cliftons had the following children: Henry, 1855-1932; George W., 1857-1942; Wesley, 1859-1935; Isabel, 1861-1937; Francis “Frank”, 1863-1925; James Harmon, 1865-1936; Andrew, 1866-?; Reason, 1867-1933; Hardy, 1869-1875; Lydia E., 1871-1941; Elizabeth Ida, 1875-?; and Daniel “Danny”, 1876-1955. Rhodie also reared Jonathan, 1851-1916, and William “Babe”, 1853-1920, children of Daniel’s first wife Dora Ann.
“Mrs. Rhoda Clifton, wife of Daniel Clifton,
sr., who has been in feeble health for several years, died Friday, August 23,
1901, at 9 o’clock p. m., aged about 75 years.
The deceased leaves a husband, nine sons, three daughters, and many
grandchildren, great grandchildren, and a host of friends to mourn their
loss. The sons are Jonathan, William
(known as Babe), Henry, Wesley, George, Frank, Harmon, Reason, and Daniel,
Jr. The daughters are Mrs. W. E.
(Isabel)
“The deceased was a good Christian woman –
quiet, inoffensive, with a heart full of human kindness. She has doubtless heard the welcome plaudit,
‘Well done, my good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joys of they
Lord.’ She belonged to another day and
generation who have almost passed on before.
The family have (sic) the sympathy of the
entire community. Brief funeral services
were conducted at the grave by Rev. (sic) S. C. Butler,
and the remains were laid to rest in the new cemetery at
There are good
William W. Barber,
Jr., and his wife Rebecca are
found on the 1860
From The Daily Sentinel, 22 February,
1913: “One of Orange County’s Oldest Citizens
Passes Away – Thursday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. S. A. Hall,
near Formosa, Mr. William W. Barber, one of Orange County’s oldest and highly
respected citizens, passed away in the eighty-sixth year of his life.
“His remains will be laid to rest today in
the Confederate lot in the cemetery.
“The deceased is survived by a daughter,
Mrs. Hall of Formosa and a brother, Mr. Andrew Jackson Barber, of Chuluota.
“Mr. Barber came to
“The only time he was out of the county was
during the War Between the States, when he was in the Confederate Army for four
years.”
Nancy Barber Platt
More is known about
Both were illiterate but like their brother-in-law Jack, they were able “to amass an ample competency.”
A sidelight of the Platt connection: John,
Marion, and William C. Platt (? Lewis’ brothers) served in the Third Seminole War in Capt. Hooker’s Company and were later
transferred to
John J. Barber
John Jim Kent
Barber was in Capt. Robert Bullock’s
Company of Florida Mounted Volunteers during the Third Seminole War. At that time he is described as being 5 feet
10 inches tall, fair skinned, and with light hair. He was also a Confederate soldier. In the beginning of their terms of service John was with
his brother Jack in Company G,
I am grateful to Nickey
Bronson Neel for the following material on John Barber and his wife the
former Mary Yates, sister of
John and Mary had the following children: Andrew Jackson “Deed”, born 1857, died 1934, married Liza Padgett; Rhoda “Rhody” born 1859, died 1927, married John Farmer (another source gave Ceef [?] Cook); Martha Ellen, born 1861, died 1931, married John Padgett; John Frank, born 1865, married Emaline Aggie Yates; and Mary, born c. 1870, married a Simmons.
I was always amused how Anna Fertic Warr referred with some disdain to the above folks as “the Flat Ford Bunch”, but I wasn’t privy to her reasons. Neither did I learn why one of John and Mary’s descendents spoke of Anna with a haughty inflection in her voice. I hope this is one of those Barber in-family situations where the members feel they can talk about each other but will square off for a fight if an outsider makes the same comments about one of the family.
John died in the state penitentiary in
Andrew Jackson
“Jack” Barber was the baby saved by his sister Rhodie during the Indian
raid which killed his father, and he was Mose’s favorite nephew. Jack spent most of his youth with Mose, moved
to central
“Gone But
Not Forgotten.
“The roll of the brave pioneers
of the State of
“One of the brave Indian fighters
and pioneers and the subject of this biographical sketch was Mr. Andrew J. Barber, son of William Barber, and who was born in
His father died when Andrew was but
two years old. Sixteen years of his life
was passed in
“He came to
“In those days Mr. Barber could
count on his fingers the families residing in the county. It was the time of the Seminole Indian war,
and Mr. Barber was engaged for twenty-one months Indian fighting. During this time he fought under the
leadership of Journegan (sic), Bullock, Carter, Sparkman, and Kendricks, and the life of excitement
and adventure can be better imagined than described, and the settlers of today
are enjoying the peace and prosperity brought about by the bravery and
hardships of these early Indian fighters and who owe a debt of gratitude to
such men as Mr. Barber.
“After the war was over and the
Indians dispersed, Mr. Barber turned his attention to stock raising and farming
and later raised some of the finest orange groves in the county.
“His untiring energy and good
judgment enabled him to amass an ample competency out of which he endowed to
his surviving children sufficient means to place them in comfortable circumstances.
“His foresight and good judgment
also enabled him to select suitable sites for his stock raising, farming, and
orange culture, and from the start he began to prosper. He then realized that he needed a companion
and helpmate to share his prosperity. He
soon found an estimable young lady, Miss Violet
Robertson, to whom he was married
“A little incident showing the
frugality and industry of the women of these days is depicted here. Mrs. Violet Barber and many other wives of
the early pioneers, raised the raw material, carded, spun, and wove it into
cloth out of which they made clothing and household articles. All the stitching had to be done by hand, for
there were no sewing machines those days.
“On
“Mr. Barber married again on
“Mr. Barber was a long and
patient sufferer, and during the last three years of his life he suffered
greatly. The most skilled physicians
were summoned and everything that human aid could do was done.
”Mrs. Barber’s devotion to her husband and the care, attention and the
ministering by her of his many wants and requirements deserves special
mention. She was constantly at his side
night and day. His every wish was
gratified, and the cheerful manner in which she did these things no doubt
helped him to endure his suffering so patiently.
“On
“A precious one from us is gone, Whose voice now is still.
A place is vacant in our home, That never can
be filled.”
Jack was buried in Phillips Grove on Hilliard’s Island Grove, Boggy Creek.
One Jack Barber
was reported a deserter from Company H (Marion Hornets) 7th Florida
Infantry while at Linden, Kentucky on July 26th, 1863. This Jack was mustered in on
Children: Joseph Andrew “Joe”, born 18 December, 1860, died July, 1920; married Maggie Simmons; Jacinta “Jean”, born 1864, married Holliman (? first or surname); William Jefferson “Jeff”, born 1865, died 1947, married Julia McKee; Susan Elizabeth, born 19 July, 1867, died 26 August, 1929, married Albert Thomas Hughey; Mary Ellen, born 18 October, 1869, died 2 June, 1926, married James Harvey; Walter Theodore, born 19 March, 1871, died 3 May, 1963, married (1) Eula Bryant (2) Veaurnal Smith; Lena Blanche, born 11 December, 1872, died 1952, married Gordon Lawson; Alice Isabel, born 1873, married Frank Landing; Henry, born 1875.
I was privileged to know Joe’s
son Carl E. Barber of
I found it fascinating that Aunt Mary Jane lived near the far reaches of the upper Saint John’s and her brother George’s magnificent estate (now named Marywood and is a Catholic retreat) was near the end of the that lovely old river.
Uncle Carl purchased the Mid-Florida Live Stock Market in 1954.
Their only surviving child was Margaret Vickery, wife of Theodore Vickery. The Vickery’s operated a small store in the community of Christmas, and she often helped out in the little post office during the pre-Christmas mail rush. Margaret had touches of gray in her otherwise dark hair, had dark eyes that seemed to investigate one as she conversed…a very pretty lady. I imagined Aunt Mary Jane must have looked a lot like her when younger.
I met two of Uncle Walt’s sons, but I can’t recall the name of but one - Posey. They were big into country and gospel music. One year they brought amps and instruments and entertained us after dinner at the re-union.
An interesting story about a late
1860’s shotgun came from Tom Arline, a member of the William Barber clan. Mr. Arline has a shotgun that came from Henry
Hughey (grandson of Andrew Jackson Barber), and Henry said the shotgun had been
used in the feud. The barrels are
Andrew Jackson was his uncle Mose’s favorite, and Mose made no bones about it. See Jack’s story in the feud account.
Lidea/lydia Patrick
Lidea Barber
Patrick was listed as handicapped on an early census, but perhaps it was a temporary
condition; none of her descendents had heard of it. Lidea was born after her father was killed in
the 1841 Indian attack on their home on Trail Ridge in
Traditionally
mentioned as a sister of Mose was Levicey
“Vicey” (an old pronunciation of the
name Louisa) Barber Mann, wife of Daniel John “Dan” Mann.
One old timer said Aunt Vicey was Mose’s cousin, not his sister. The Manns came to
Levicey was born on the ninth day
of March, 1812, in
Their children:
All the
following were born in
The Manns were found on the 1830
census of
After a short say near the Mose
Barber compound, Mr. and Mrs. Mann settled somewhere north of the present Glen
Saint Mary and Sanderson area, probably near the present
During the Second Seminole War
Mr. Mann moved his family back into
Three of the Mann boys were in
the CSA army. William J., Benjamin D.,
and Archibald J. enlisted in Company A, 7th
Florida Regiment at
Some of the second generation Manns moved east along the
old
Dan Mann was a veteran of the Second
Seminole War. His first enlistment was
at
On the 23rd of October
in 1850, Mr. Mann appeared before Justice of the Peace John W. Price in
William Daniel Mann, a
Great Grandpa Charley Barber
referred to the Manns as cousins. He was especially
close to Mrs. Lil (nee Dinkins)
Some of Mose’s cousins, uncles and aunts
Grandison Barber was older than Mose and is thought to be his
cousin. He was a son of Israel Barber and his mother was a daughter of
Topley Tullis (or Tillis), Sr. Grandison and family were residents of
Tattnall and Camden (that area of the present Ware and Clinch) Counties,
Georgia, and Columbia (the present Columbia and that part now Baker) and
Hamilton Counties, Florida. That he was
in
Grandison was a private in Captain North’s militia company in 1842
in
In the 1820’s he settled a parcel of land southeast of the
For a short while Grandison
maintained a residence on the Florida-Georgia border in the extreme
northwestern corner of the present
Another story said he rustled over a hundred head of cattle single handedly in one night (this was also attributed to Obadiah Barber). These stories are, of course, too far out for even the most credulous, but it is typical of the tales told by old time Crackers.
He then moved a short distance farther east on what was known as the old Settlers’ Trail (also called the Yarborough Train Trail) at Travelers’ Rest (now just “Traveler”), and still later he moved west into what is now Columbia County
Grandison’s wife was about ten years younger than he. They had four daughters and six slaves on the 1840 census.
Hardy and Benjamin Barber
are two more mysteries in the Mose Barber story. They were born in 1836 and 1837,
respectively, and both in
Hardy and Benjamin were at Mose’s
plantation in
Ben returned as a laborer in later years but didn’t stay long.
These two boys will probably remain mysteries until a more knowledgeable researcher takes on the task of ferreting out the facts.
I had much information on the
brothers Holden and Dr. John Barber of the Hazelhurst, Georgia,
area, but it has disappeared. If someone
wants to pursue these gentlemen’s kinship to Mose, the historical society in
To confuse the matter, I recall a
lady from
Isaac Barber the elder is believed by some descendents of Obadiah to be a brother of Mose, and well he could be because so much family oral history points to that relationship. He was born in 1802 and died in 1854. Bobby Tatum gives a good biography of Isaac in his book on Obadiah.
His wife was
Emaline and James Johnson lived for a while in the
Isaac was an elder in the Primitive Baptist faith (anti
missions and pro predestination) and a Justice of the Peace in
Israel Barber, born about 1770, was of a generation before Mose. His relationship to Mose, if any, isn’t known, but he is believed by some family researchers to be his uncle. I heard enough about him from the very old timers, although the little anecdotes they tried to remember were nebulous, to believe he must have been some sort of kin.
A traditional story about
In 1830, the Camden County census showed Israel as having in his household three males under ten years of age, one male in the 18 to 25 years bracket, himself in the 25 to 44 years category, one female under ten years of age, two females from ten to fifteen years old, and one (? his wife) from 16 to 25 years of age, and 39 slaves.
One of the oral legends about
John Barber of
John H. Barber’s
kin (can’t remember their names) claimed he was a nephew of Mose, but none
could give me his father’s name. They
recall they were told Mose kept a large cow pen at the John H. Barber farm in
Most of the older folks around Barberville were in agreement that John H. had “come out’a Georgie.”
Major Barber
Major Barber and his wife Mary of Olustee were black (Mary was listed as mulatto). Several of the older Olustee residents said they had heard of them, but they were uncertain who they were or of what race they were (sounds strange). Some blacks and whites thought they were Mose’s mulatto offspring. Major was living as late as 1909 and Mary as late as 1925 as a widow.
If they turn out to be related, one should not let his prejudice stand in the way of understanding that these things happened in olden times the same as they do now. I met a fine pale skinned Negro with a Phd in the early ‘80’s by the name of Gene Barber who declared he was a g-g-g-grandson of the renowned Moses E. Barber and seemed quite proud of it.
Moses Benjamin Franklin Barber
Moses B. F. “Ben”
Barber has become an enigma to most Barber family researchers. Until the 1980’s the name Moses B. F. Barber
had not been heard of or read by most old time Barbers I talked with. Ben was in the ambulance corps in the Confederate Army and
was discharged from the CSA Army at Waldo at the end of the war. Had the Confederacy been victorious, he might
have been hanged, because he deserted from Capt. J. J. Dickison’s Cavalry unit to the Union Army in early 1865 and
gave them intelligence about CSA units in the area. He claimed to have deserted twice. From what the old timers said about him after
he returned to
Moses B. F. signed the oath of allegiance to the
Known as Ben (also called “Old Man Ben Barber” and “Uncle Ben”), he said he was with his uncle Mose during Mose’s stay in central Florida, was involved in the feud, and, after wandering over the state for a quarter of a century, returned to the vicinity of the then defunct Barber Plantation on the Little Saint Mary’s River to live out his last days. He was aged and could hardly walk.
As mentioned elsewhere in this narrative, he was the most
extraordinary person to have ever lived…or died. Some of his biographers said he was killed by
drowning in 1870 in
Aunt Caroline Tanner, his relative (don’t know how), took him in
when he wandered back to Baker County in the mid 1880’s and requested the
county place him on the paupers’ roll.
He is listed on the
As per his wish he was buried in
the
Regarding the tendency of some during the past several
years to rename Moses Edward, Jr. (“Little Mose”) Moses B. F., please
understand I am not married to Little Mose remaining what his parents named
him. There are so many
similarities between the two young Mose Barbers that I find myself becoming
confused…but the fact remains, Little Mose’s own family knew him as Moses
Edward, Jr., and we know Moses Ben was buried in
Obadiah Barber’s history is best found in Bobby Tatum’s book on the old gentleman – OBADIAH’S JOURNEY TO THE OKEEFEENOKEE SWAMP, copyright 2001. One can also read up on Uncle Obe in the writings of Luther Thrift. Both men have done solid research, added it to traditional lore, and presented us with good readable accounts of their ancestor. I am indebted to their and Sabina James Murray’s research for much of the following material.
According to Bobby Tatum, Obadiah
was born in upper
We were misinformed by older heads in the family that Uncle Obe was a younger brother of Mose, but this has since been corrected. Obe’s biographers believe him to be Mose’s nephew. I still don’t have satisfactory proof of the relationship. It is known, however, that most Barbers of south Georgia and all of Florida want to be kin to both Obadiah and Mose, and a few have stretched and re-arranged the facts to make the pieces fit (much like I did as an inexperienced researcher…at least, I marked mine as “unproved”, “conjecture”, and “possible.”
Uncle Obe married (1) Nancy Stephens, (2) Matilda Tatum, and (3) Martha Ann Kight.
Obadiah’s offspring by his first
two wives were many. They married into
several of the old southern
Obe and Matilda’s children were Lucinda, born 1875, married Noel Strickland; Virginia, born 1879, died 1971, married Noel Strickland (his second wife); Perry, born 1882; Charles F., born 1884, died 1904, married Rosa Howard; George Cleveland, born 1885, died 1931, married Laurie Smoak; Henry Lee, born 1887, died 1909, did not marry; Samuel Jackson, born 1889, died 1967, married Gertrude Robinson; John H., born 1893, died 1905.
Obadiah’s last marriage produced no children and evidently little happiness. They divorced after what some described as a union less than irenic.
Uncle Obe served as a Justice of
the Peace in Ware and
He was called “King of the Okefenoke”, and the story of his killing a bear is the stuff legends are made of. There have been as many versions of the story as there have been tellers, including one debunker type that claimed Obe had merely found a half grown bear in his hog pen and beat it to death with a litered knot. Most relate a more or less story in common that Obe was caught in the woods with nothing more than a litered knot with which he delivered two or more fatal blows to a sow bear (see the story detailed in Bobby Tatum’s book on Obadiah).
From a source, which escapes me now, came a statement about Obadiah from his neighbor John Craven: Obadiah “…made things funny at any cost of the truth.”
G-grandpa Charles F. Barber, as a young man, visited his kinsman Obadiah and brought back wondrous tales of the old gentleman. For years, a book containing Obe’s exploits remained at the Charley and Mollie Barber house until spirited away by one of the Harwick kin several years ago.
To learn more about Uncle Obe I motored up to Homerville
and interviewed Judge Folks Huxford. He allowed me access to his card files and
told me stories about Obadiah who he said he had known many years before. Although I had often sent him genealogical
data on Barbers and other Cracker families of
Becoming disillusioned with Judge Huxford (and suffering guilt because of doubting the venerable gentleman) I decided to go on a tip and seek out Obadiah’s son Mr. Perry Barber. I learned he was to visit my cousin Tom Chesser near Folkston. My father and I drove up and spent a few hours talking with Mr. Perry. His mind was wandering a bit, but I came home with some good information on several Barbers but not much on his father, and Daddy came home with a good hunting dog.
William Jasper Barber
Jasper Barber
referred to Mose as Uncle Mose, and he said he spent much of his young life
with his uncle. He was said to have been
orphaned as a small child. His young
adulthood was passed in central
William cone
William Cone
the younger was born in
During the Creek or First Seminole War Col. Cone was captured by the Indians somewhere in the area of the present Folkston. It was said of the sagacious gentleman that he could talk anybody or anything into or out of any item or situation and that his ability to fluently speak several Indian tongues and dialects fascinated his captors so much that they delayed sending him to the happy (or unhappy) hunting grounds. Others figured that since Cone was so despised by the red men they kept him tied all night just so they could plot a more fitting creative and lingering torture and death for him.
Col. Cone escaped his bonds during the night, stole the Indians’ rifle balls from their weapons, replaced the powder, placed the bullets in his pocket, and sat back until the Creeks waked.
When he noticed the first of his captors stirring, Cone bolted for the woods. The Indians made hot pursuit, firing their bulletless rifles at him. Col Cone turned and pretended to catch the balls and put them into his pocket. He then walked over to the amazed Indians, retrieved the rifle balls from his pocket from where he had secreted them the night before and totally stunned them.
Col. Cone was left alone with the Indians’ horses, his scalp, and his life.
Col. Cone settled in old
The Cone militia often made forays into Spanish Florida where they retrieved stolen and runaway slaves (all blacks however, slave or free were fair game), “stray” cattle, and “unattended” horses. They were so successful in those ventures that it was traditionally rumored the Spanish offered a $10,000 reward for his head. The offering of a reward can be well believed because the Spaniards knew that many of the Georgians were not above turning in one of their own for a handsome price…but the amount is a bit incredible; the Spanish were notoriously tight with a peso.
At the beginning of the War of 1812 (sometimes called the
Second War of American Independence), Col. Cone performed the southernmost
known feat against the British in that war.
Archibald Clark of Saint
Mary’s was a collector of customs in that port and was
a major lumber miller near Traders Hill (not a great distance north of the
present
When the British occupied Saint Mary’s (not at all a
difficult task for them), they demanded of
The British made their way up the crooked Saint Mary’s
River to burn
The Cone militia continued to be active in the Bend Section and made a number of belligerent trips into Florida where they harassed the Spanish and Indians in what has become known as the Florida or Patriots War (not so simply stated as a concurrent and extension conflict of the War of 1812 as well as a fight between anybody and among anybody who cared to join in).
Col. Cone married Mrs. Sarah Peeples in 1826. She
was born Sarah Haddock, a daughter
of a very old English family from British colonial days in
When he was a Georgia legislator, Col. Cone had wanted
Spanish Florida to give up several million acres of north Florida as he pushed
for the headwaters of the South Prong below the present Sanderson to be
declared the beginning of the Saint Mary’s River (a late 18th
century agreement between Spain and the United States gave the headwaters of
the Saint Mary’s as a salient factor in determining the boundary). However, he found himself later as a
Cone used the Old Settler Trail/Yarborough Trail through
the Okefenokee-Pinhook complex and the Jacksonville-Tallahassee Road that ran
through the center of the present Baker County and through the Gum Swamps for
much of his business. He evidently saw
A grandson was the late Governor Fred Cone, one of the most human and humorous chief executives the
state has had. Another grandson (and
brother of Gov. Cone) was Macclenny attorney William Branch Cone. Col
Branch Cone was a member of the state Democratic Executive Committee, chairman
of the Baker County Democratic Committee, mayor of Macclenny for several terms,
and was secretary to his brother Gov. Cone from 1937 to 1941. He received his law degree from
I recently learned from Nickey Bronson Neel that there were Need Yates, Sr. and Jr. Need, Sr. married (1) Elizabeth Scott, and they were the parents of Need, Jr. Need the elder then married Malintha Lee.
Some miscellaneous notes on Need: He was a second lieutenant in Capt. Aaron Jernigan’s Company under Gen. Hopkins during the Third Seminole War. And he was in Company H, 10th Florida Cavalry during the War Between the States.
There is more on Need Yates under the Barber-Mizell Feud.
books, periodical articles, etc. using or
mentioning mose barber’s life and activities or those of his kin
BUZZARD BARBARA
was written in the 1970’s by Bernice
More Barber of Haines City (originally a Northern girl),
Barbara or “Buzzie,” may be a bit too innocent for most contemporary literary tastes, but one can appreciate and welcome the ability of the author to sell a book premised on something other than base appetites.
Mrs. Barber researched well, for her descriptions of
Cracker daily life and utensils are acceptable and true. I don’t recall some of the lingo matching
that in our own earlier days of cattle-driving, but I bear in mind that the
folks’ ways of down south differed from our’s even though they were former
north Florida Crackers. I flinched at
each mention of
From
Sufficient hints at sex are included to appeal to those with prurient interests. A lot of people get killed, and although explicit details are omitted, this should satisfy our modern bloodthirstiness.
I gave my copies to our local library, and I suppose they have been either thrown away or stolen; no one seems to know anything about them. Maybe one can be found at second hand book dealers.
unpublished manuscript in the Baker county, florida, historical society library by the above author. An historical novelette on the life of Moses Barber.
Florida’s frontier – the way hit wuz
by Mary Ida Bass Barber Shearheart
has received much attention since its publication in 1991. It is historical fiction based on the life of
Moses Barber and his feud with the prominent Mizell family of central
Mary Ida has innocently included some of my glaring
mistakes from my early writings, in particular Mose’s wife and pedigree. She gave an excellent story of corpse
preparation after her story of Uncle Bill Barber’s death…only problem: Uncle
Bill’s corpse was interred hurriedly in a wagon body with two other slain men
in the heat of an Indian attack, and there was no time for a traditional
preparation of the dead. But the account
of Uncle Bill’s corpse’s preparation must be read to understand that dying,
like living, was not a lark in 19th century backwoods
Her account of the Barber-Mizell Feud evinced exhaustive research and is much more complete and surely closer to the facts than mine.
Florida cow man has just a scant mention of the Barbers, mostly some cow brands. Can’t recall the author.
Obadiah’s journey to the okeefeenokee by Bobby Tatum has been mentioned earlier. His account of the Barber-Mizell Feud and Mary Leah’s ancestry repeated some of my serious mistakes. His narratives of his ancestors and lateral lines are most enjoyable, and, believing he and his relative Sabina James Murray did Obadiah’s research well, I was able to use it fill in some gaps in my narrative.
Tales of the okefenoke is a collection of stories by Luther Thrift with his ancestor Obadiah Barber featured. There is nothing about Mose in his book, but one should enjoy reading about Uncle Obe and other south Georgia characters.
The Barber-Mizell Feud, a lecture
in Cocoa in 2001 given by a Mr. Wood of
the University of Central Florida wandered off course in the field of facts,
and the lecture was seriously subjective, favoring the Mizells (so, what else
is new among Florida’s historians?).
However, the lecturer is to be commended for bringing attention to a
neglected segment of
Punta Rassa (actual title escapes me),
although not a Barber book has substantial research on the cattle drives to
that shipping port. The book is by Ann O’Connell Rust. I think the subtitle is Punta rassa – capture the flavor
of old
The Real Story of the barber-Mizell Feud is a short story of the famous conflict written by Ruth Barber Linton (? from her book Pine Castle: A walk down memory lane, 1993) and borrows much from my early writing including the errors. It is easier to follow than some accounts I’ve read or heard.
the florida star is, I believe, a publication of the Florida Sheriff’s Association. Several years back it featured a story of the Barber-Mizell Feud.
MOVIE (TITLE NOT LEARNED AT THIS WRITING)
based on mose’s life produced by Sam
Barber of Warner Bros.,
FEBRUARY SUNDOWN is a documentary on the War Between the States activities in Florida produced by Bryan Terrell of Channel 30 in Jacksonville, Florida, that has a short segment on Mose’s plantation. It might be released sometime in early 2003.
The river of the long water is by Alma Hetherington and has a short version of the feud in it plus some info on Barbers and their kin.
There have been at least three stories on the Barbers written by Nixon Smiley, dean of newsmen, in the Miami Herald. I can find a date on only one – 20 October, 1968.
The tampa tribune also has had
stories about the feud. Joe Barber of
Cynthia Parks did over a half page
story titled Barber’s
There was a good write-up about my ancestor searching in
the Orlando Sentinel in, I think, 1974.
A much later –
Baker County Centennial Celebration,
Mark Boyd’s the federal campaign of 1864 in east florida gives
brief mention to Barber’s
Born of the sun,
Harper’s Weekly gave us the only pictorial representations we have of the plantation and the bridge (destroyed) over the Little Saint Mary’s River at the plantation.
The Sunday supplement of the
Possum Trot, a novelette by Anne Harwick, gives no Barber history but mentions a fictitious character named Barber who did a bit of preaching among the pages. Some believed they saw a young Charles Monroe “Rowe” Barber in that character, and the young Rowe Barber was not unknown to pull some lively pranks…posing as a preacher would not have been beyond his sense of humor.
http://www..rootsweb.com/~flbaker/, web master Carl W. Mobley, Orlando, Florida, is the official Baker County, Florida, web site. It contains Barber data and photos.
There are numerous web sites that give mostly proper
mention of Mose and his descendents. I
suggest the surfer go to his browser and type in “Moses Edward Barber of
sources
Charles Monroe Barber, Macclenny, Fl
James Edward Barber, Jax, Fl
Mamie Barber Andreu,
William Monroe Barber, Macclenny, Fl
William Isaac Barber,
Joe H. Barber,
C. M. Barber,
Nettie Rowe, Macclenny, Fl,
James Arthur Rowe, Macclenny, Fl,
John William Rowe, Macclenny, Fl,
Carmeta Barber Ray,
George Curtis Barber,
Moses Edward Barber, O’Brien, Fl,
Talmadge Barber, High Springs, Fl
Manning Starling, Macclenny, Fl,
Folks
Huxford,
Luther
Thrift,
Bobby Tatum,
Perry Barber,
Molly Chesser Crews, Glen St. Mary, Fl
Mary Ida Bass Barber Shearhart,
Anna Fertic Warr,
Bertrice Dann Mach, New
Robert Barber, Palatka, Fl,
John Benjamin Barber, Palatka, Fl,
Harry Barber, Hollister, Fl
Pearl Barber Motes, Palatka, Fl,
Harriett Barber Smith, Palatka
Rosa Bair Worley, Macclenny, Fl,
Charles Edward Barber, Macclenny, Fl,
Irlo Bronson,
Carl E. Barber,
Tate Powell, Sr., Macclenny, Fl,
Joe Fertic,
Samuel Proctor,
Charley Barber,
Warren Barber,
Gabe White,
Mrs. Whaley,
Barney Dillard, Astor, Fl
Ola Barber Andrews, Wakulla, Fl
Lee Andrews, Wakulla, Fl
Ola Barber Pittman,
Mrs. McAlpin, Live Oak, Fl
Lill Mann Walker Blum, Macclenny, Fl
Ira Walker, Macclenny, Fl
Kenneth Walker,
Casey Dinkins,
Clem Fraser, Macclenny, Fl
Henry Barber, Palmetto, Fl
Robert Driggers,
Lonnie J. Jones, Macclenny, Fl
Mr. Chewning,
Rufus Powers, Glen Saint Mary, Fl
Alto
B. H. Rowe, Macclenny, Fl
Ed Rowe,
Otis Barber,
Robin Barber
Edna Floyd Cash,
Nancy White Whaley,
Bertie Barber,
Col. Joe Finley,
Dicky Ferry, Macclenny, Fl
W. H. Milton, Macclenny, Fl
Richard Davis, Macclenny, Fl
Nettie Bynum Dorman, Macclenny, Fl
Maggie Johnson Chesser, Glen Saint Mary,
Fl
Ethel Drawdy Reddish, Lawtey, Fl
George L. Taber, Jr., Glen Saint Mary,
Fl
A. L. Ferriera, Macclenny, Fl
Pearl Ferriera Blocker, Macclenny, Fl
Tom Arline,
John & Sara Strain,
Dennis Padgett, Apopka, Fl
(This is terribly unprofessional, but I’m not going into dozens of
pages with particulars)
Several of those listed above
Gen’l Land Office Automated Records,
Slaveschedules,
Family Bibles (several),
Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund (
Jeanne Barber Godwin
US censuses, earliest through 1880
Dockets Brevard, Baker,
Clerks’ offices, same counties,
Military records,
Grady Copeland,
Florida Senate library,
Newspapers (several),
Official Papers of the Rebellion,
Dicky Ferry, Macclenny,
Linda Johnson,
Joe Dobson, Macclenny, Fl,
Carroll Driggers,
Ward
Gary Barber, Macclenny, Fl,
Carl W. Mobley,
Mary Ida Bass Barber Shearheart, Osceola Co., Fl,
Travis Alvarez,
Kimberly Barber
Aubrey Greene, Glen Saint Mary, Fl,
Barbara Humphries Miller,
Nickey Bronson Neel,
Florida penal records,
Florida Cattlemen’s Ass’n magazine,
Julie Barber Kowalski,
Helen Fertic,
Grace Bates,
Thomas Lindsey,
Revised 12/8/02