A History of Levy County, Florida
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A History of Levy County, Florida TABLE OF CONTENTS and ALL N AME INDEX Published by The Levv County Archives Committee Seanctt fan 'ke&tenday A History of Levy County, Florida ALL NAME INDEX Published by The Levy County Archives Committee Note: * indicates more than one entry on that page. STARCH JOR yTSTTRDAy TafiCe of Contents HVoCume 1 Introduction Dedication The Land and the Waters .1 Florida Indians. 10 The First Settlers. 15 yoCume 2 Minutes of the Levy Co. Commissioners, April 1850 - September 1878 . 1 - 18 yoCume 3 Slowpoke.1 The Nearsighted Catfishermen.2 Hafele's Ditch.3 Slow Riders .4 December Dawn .6 A Little of Gulf Hammock.7 Mr. Atkins .8 Episode at Yankeetown .9 Bird Creek Revisited. 11 Gulf Hammock Impressions. 13 Lazy Day on the Suwannee. 14 Florida Post 236 . 15 Shell Mound. 17 Williams Landing . 19 Sunset. 20 Otter Creek Homecoming . 21 Suwannee Cathedral . 22 The Williston Gunnells . 23 Ishie Day, 1977 . 24 Pine Landing. 26 Clyde. 27 Gulf Hammock, Fall of 1976 . 28 Museum at Cedar Key . 29 Dust . 31 'Volume 4 Minutes of the Levy Co. Commissioners, March 1, 1879 - July 6, 1891 .1-20 'Volume 5 Levy County Marriages - 1854 - 1887 ... 1 - 32 'Volume 6 Levy County civil cases - 1842 -1912 . 1-19 'Volume 7 Levy Co. Officials - 1953 ... 1 The McCall Tapes .2 Interviews of Mr. Walford Ellzey; Mrs. Missouri Cobb; Mrs. Vivian Harper; Mrs. Gilley; Mr. Michael Clancey; Mrs. L.W. Markham; and Mr. Raddie Davis, Sr. The Strongs .5 Otter Creek School, 1936 .6 Memories of Otter Creek..7 Letter to Mrs. Keifer. 17 Cedar Key Tidal Wave, 1896 . 18 Girls' Basketball Team, Cedar Key High School, 1914.24 Lukens, Florida . 25 Volume 8 County Commissioners abt. 1936 . 1 From the County Commission Minutes, 07 Sep 1891 - Jan 1897 .2 The Fourth Book of Minutes, May 1897 - Jan 1903 .6 Minutes of Levy County Commissioners, 01 Jun 1903 - 02 May 1910 . 10 Minutes of Levy County Commission, 06 Jun 1910 - Jul 1918 .20 Map of Judson, 1890 . 25 Map of Bronson, 1924 . 27 Map of Levyville, 1874 . 29 The Seventh Book of Commission Minutes, Oct 1918 - Sep 1925 .... 31 Volume g The High Sheriff .1-22 A Few Things Remembered.23 And Then Came the Sixties .. 26 The Seventies. 32 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries https://archive.org/details/searchforyesterdlevy 1VoCume 10 Life in Bronson, 1920 to Early Thirties .1 History of the Williston Airport . 12 Gulf Hammock, The Town . 15 The Pioneer Carters. 19 Judson, Florida . 23 More Slowpoke. 28 'VoCume n The Levy County Courthouse, 1906-1937 .1 The Yearty Family.2 Anderson Philpot (1819-1866). 13 Thomas Charles Love (1825-1864). 13 Robert P Philpot (1861-1926) . 13 Memories of An Old Timer and His Wife. 14 Hodgson Hill in Cedar Key. 23 History of Pine Grove Baptist Church .27 Ellzey School, 1927-28 . 30 'VoCume 12 Where They Lived .3 From the 1867 Census.5 From the 1880 Census, Bronson and Levyville Precincts.5 A Few Levy County Landowners, 1877 .9 From the 1874 Tax Roll . 10 From the 1887 Tax Roll . 10 From the 1896 Tax Roll . 10 President of the US to the US Senate about Cedar Key. 11 Number Four: A Mystery Solved?. 13 Hiers . 15 Eliza Hearn and Life on Way Key, 1867 - 1873, As She Saw It .24 Corrections and Additions.34 'VoCume 13 The Latest News, About a Century Ago .1 Johann Conrad Christian Wellman.3 The Latest News, About a Century Ago, From the Levy Times-Democrat, 22 Oct 1896 - 17 Jun 1917 .... 5 1891 Map of Levy County .28 . "VoCume 14 Early Newspapers . 1 The Bryant - Hardee Connection . ..30 The Ellzey Methodist Church.34 Henry Mims Mattair. 37 What Rye...Key, That Is? . 39 The Cedar Keys, Steamboats, and the Suwannee River.40 'VoCume 15 Spaniards and Pirates in the Cedar Keys? . 1 The Family of Joseph Fleming Prevatt.5 Meeks .7 The Bronson Methodist Church .9 Elmira Prison Camp . 10 Shell Pond . 13 A History of the McDonell Family. 15 Holcombe - Griffin. 17 Sawmill at Williston, 1902 20 The McCalls of Florida . 22 Eddie Buie . 25 Bronson in 1889 . 27 A Few Pioneer Families . 29 'Volume 16 Old Roads and People. 1 The Civil War, Here .2 Saga of a Jug.4 The Night the Stars Fell on Long Pond .6 Cedar Key Docks.7 Old Red .8 The 1850 Decade .9 The 1850 Decade, Again . 10 The 1860 Decade . 11 Contemporary Folkways: The Voices . 12 Some More Wonderful Kids: Night Storm . 13 Place Names. 14 How They Talked. 16 The Shift . 17 Gulf Hammock Hunting Camp. 18 Turpentine . 19 The Courthouse. 21 In 1902 . 23 Genealogy in General. 24 'VoCume 16 - cont. Local Government. 25 The Old Automobiles.26 Old Schools . 27 The Synthetic Man. 29 1830, Some Speculations.30 The Quincey Family. 31 Ebenezer .. 32 Bits and Pieces of Bronson . 33 The Political Rallies . 34 Book Review.36 To Your Wagons, Men!.37 Tooke . 38 The Sanchez-Sheffield Family .40 'Volume 17 Family chart of Lindon J. Lindsey.... 2 Levy County Marriages, Abbott - Kirby, 1888 - 1906 .4 "Volume 18 Levy County Marriages, Kirkland - Ziegler, 1888 - 1906 .. ... 2 - 27 'Volume 19 Orange Hill Cemetery, Williston.1-53 'Volume 20 Seven Generations of the Gunnell Family .2 Growing Up in New Town, Florida.5 Thomas Jefferson Faircloth.9 The Island City . 12 The Tooke Sisters, An Atsena Otie Family. 15 Sea Horse Key Cemetery .. 17 Cemetery on Little Hickory or Hodge's Island, Port Inglis. 17 History of Chiefland; Bronson Post Office. 18 Bronson Post Office.20 Bronson Town Council Minutes.21 Around Levy County .24 Notes from Minute Book L .26 The Old Water Mill. 27 Road to the Watering Place. 28 * Indicates name appears more than once on that page. Abbott A. 17:05 Adams J.L.L. 4:20 Abbott C. T. 13:08 Adams J.W. 4:15; 13:07 Abbott Charles T. 17:05 Adams James 2:18; 4:03 Abbott J.P. 16:32 Adams James C. 2:17 Abbott M L. 17:21 Adams Joe E. 19:21 Abbott Robert Harrison 19:34 Adams Joel 19:21 Abbott W. Lewis 17:05 Adams Joseph 8:10 Abeel Albert 5:03 Adams Joseph C. 19:08 Abel Leola T. 19:42 Adams Joseph W. 8:18 Abercrombie Dora Isabel 19:42 Adams Laura 5:28 Abercrombie Duncan (Mrs) 5:04 Adams Laura O. 19:21 Abercrombie Emma 5:04 Adams Louis 19:08 Abercrombie Jannie A. 19:42 Adams M.J. 5:15 Abercrombie Jefferson S. 19:19 Adams Margaret 7:06 Abercrombie L. 4:01; 4:04 Adams MaryM. 19:21 Abercrombie L.D. 8:24; 8:26 Adams Nora 19:41 Abercrombie Laurence E. 18:13; 19:49 Adams Queen 17:22 Abercrombie Leona 5:04 Adams Sarah 18:03 Abercrombie Leona M. 19:39 Adams Viola 17:15 Abercrombie Levi 4:05 Adams W.C. 13:06 Abercrombie Lewis 8:18; 19:19 Adams William 17:05 Abercrombie Lewis Duncan 17:05; 19:42 Adamson Aileen W. 19:09 Abercrombie Louis 4:12; 5:03 Adamson L.L . 3:15 Abercrombie Louis D. 13:14 Adamson Lauten 19:21 Abercrombie Mary S. 19:20 Adamson Lauten L. 19:09 Abercrombie Oscar 5:03 Addams Ed 8:02 Abercrombie Oscar L. 19:19 Aderholt 9:29 Abercrombie Rosa Belle 19:44 Adicks George O. 5:03 Abercrombie Undine 5:04 Adkins Ike 17:05 Abraham David 2:17 Adkins Jake 17:05 Abrahams Peter 5:03 Adkins James B. 11:06 Abrams Willis 17:05 Adkins S.J. 3:07 Acree A.D. 4:14 Adkins W.D. 8:28 Acree Donald P. 19:12 Adler Levi 8:16 Acree Inez Theresa 19:12 Agent Lelar 18:24 Acree James Harmon 19:12 Agent Robert 5:03; 17:05 Acree John Alfred 19:12 Agnew E.W. 4:07 Acree Perry 9:05 Agnew Ida M. 18:13 Adams Alice Jane 19:29 Agnew Samuel 12:10 Adams Arrie A. 18:23 Agnew W.S. 13:11 Adams B.C. 20:26 Ahrens Christian 5:03 Adams Charles 5:03 Ahrens Wm. H. 4:07 Adams Clifford Sr. 19:29 Aiken Clara 18:08 Adams Ellen Jane 5:28 Aikens Viola 18:16 Adams Elminer 5:08 Akans Fannie 5:28 Adams Eva M. 19:08 Akins Emily V. 19:50 Adams Grace 19:08 Albert Ethel K. 19:40 Adams Isabella 17:26 Albert John 19:40 Adams J.E. 4:16 Albertson Dewey G. Sr. 19:31 Albertson Myrtle S. 19:31 Allen Sarah Eliz. 5.13 Albrittan Billy 20:23 Allen Sarah J. 6:04 Albritton N. J. 20:26 Allen Susie 17:12 Albritton Olive P. 17:22 Allen Thomas 1:16 Albury Julia 5:31 Allen Tom 17:05 Albury Wm. Henry 5:03 Allen Twiggs 4:04; 5:03 Aldams James 4:07 Allen Twigs 4:07 Aldman Adam 17:05 Allen Wash 4:07; 17:05 Aldridge A. 4:13; 4:15 Allen William 5:03 Aldridge Betty 8:28 Allen Winnie 19:23 Aldrige Mary 18:04 Allman Eliza Jane 5:21 Alexander Carrie 17:28 Allridge A. 4:13 Alexander Henry 17:05 Allridge Anderson 4:05 Alexander James 17:05 Allston Crummy 4:18 Alexander Mack 17:05 Allwood Beulah Mae 19:43 Alford Lula 17:12 Allwood Joseph W.B. 19:43 Alford Miles 8.08 Alsina John C. 19:16 Alias John 17:05 Alsina Leota Nelson 19:16 Allan Harriett 5:07 Alstead Crum 5:03 Allbritton N.J.