The Tallahassee Genealogist

Volume XXX Number 4 OCTOBER 2011

In This Issue:

* Ministering Angels on Civil War Battlefields

* The Battle of Mariana - 1864

* Julia Miller Birch, Early Kentucky Schoolteacher

* The Family of Laura Richardson Reece

** And much more !!

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Table of Contents Vol XXX, Number 4 OCTOBER 2011

Ministering Angels in Civil War Battlefields………………. 3

Civil War Medical Terms…………………………………………. 10

Statistics on Ethnic Diversity of Civil War Soldiers……… 12

Diet of the Civil War Soldier……………………………………… 13

Battle of Marianna, Fl, September 1864……………………… 14

Julia Miller Birch, early Kentucky schoolteacher…………. 16

Tax Your Brain – Genealogy Puzzle…………………………….. 15

Laura Richardson Reece and Her Family……………………… 18

Read All About It……………………………………………………… 23

New TGS Members…………………………………………………… 27

Genealogy Meetings to Note………………………………………. 28

Surname Index…………………………………………………………. 30

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THE CIVIL WAR – 150 YEARS AGO

2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the first shots fired in the long war that caused so much loss and heartache in this embattled nation. In commemoration of this event, the following article was first published in the Winter 2005 edition of the Quarterly, and it is reprinted again with permission of TGS member Diane Dittgen.

(Continued from the April 2011 TGS Quarterly)

Ministering Angels on Civil War Battlefields

Reprinted from the Washington Post, April 21, 1912

In Charge at Fredericksburg

After the battle of the Wilderness, Mrs. Jane Grey Swisshelm went to Fredericksburg, where most of the wounded had been taken. There she found deplorable conditions, no adequate preparations for the care of the wounded having been made. Churches were filled with the wrecks of men brought from the fields of strife, and an old theater was used for those most desperately injured. The floor of the old theater was covered with mud, and there hundreds of men were lying, with little attention being paid to them. Her activity in the Washington hospitals had won her the favor of Secretary (Edwin M.) Stanton, and to him she reported the condition of affairs. The result was an emphatic order that she be placed in charge of all the improvised hospitals in Fredericksburg. She was a frail little woman, weighing not more than 100 pounds, but of boundless energy. Backed by the support of the great Secretary of War, she soon placed the hospitals in better condition, and hundreds of lives were saved through her efforts.

She found the wounded without beds, lying on the hard floors, and in some cases, especially at the old theater, on the ground, with little or no covering; there were no stoves on which to cook or vessels in which to carry the food to the patients. She organized a small force of men, and went to barns in the neighborhood and seized straw and hay. The provost marshal undertook to stop her, threatening to put her under arrest. She defied him, took the hay and straw where it was needed, and improvised beds. In Fredericksburg, (Virginia) were a number of abandoned houses. She entered some of them and carried to the hospital stoves and cooking utensils. In all this she was aided and abetted by Mrs. (Arabella Griffith) Barlow.

She communicated her energy and zeal to others, and in a practically short time had all things in ______Tallahassee Genealogist -2- Volume XXX Number 4 better condition. Complaints were sent into Washington of her seizing the hay and straw, but President Lincoln returned word that she was not to be interfered with. The wounded came in by the hundreds and thousands from the Wilderness and Spotsylvania, and but for the energy of Mrs. Swisshelm and the other women who were assisting her the suffering would have been terrible.

The women seemed to be tireless, working night and day, frequently compelled to snatch what sleep they could in damp, ill-ventilated rooms, and wading through rain and mud to and from the various hospitals. It was a horrible time; hundreds of the wounded died and hundreds of the others would have died had it not been for this band of noble workers. No less effective than their careful nursing were the words of cheer they had for those who were downcast and actually dying from homesickness.

A Belle on a Battlefield

(Georgiana) “Georgie” Willetts was one of the belles of Jersey City, where her family occupied a high social position. She was as beautiful as a dream. Leaving her home she took her place in the hospitals of Washington, where she gave her time in comforting the sick and wounded, soothing the dying and writing loving messages to the dear ones the soldier had left behind him. No fatigue could overtax her strength. At any time day or night, she was ready for a call to lend her aid. She was one of the most efficient allies of Mrs. Barlow and Mrs. Swisshelm. When occasion demanded she threw aside her natural timidity and assisted in dressing wounds, in bathing the fevered hands and faces of the patients. She stood on more than one battlefield unterrified by bursting shells and hurtling Minnie balls. She was with Mrs. Swisshelm in that awful time after the battle of the Wilderness (Virginia). Exposed night after night to drenching rains she contracted a cold that soon developed into tuberculosis, and the beautiful Georgie Willets was carried to the tomb from which she had so materially aided in snatching many a soldier.

One day in the summer of 1862 at the hour in which visitors were admitted to the Washington hospitals, appeared a tall, stately lady of not more than 22 or 23 years of age. She was wonderfully beautiful. She asked permission to go through the wards, which was granted. As she entered one of the wards where a large number of badly wounded men were lying, she

______Tallahassee Genealogist -3- Volume XXX Number 4 paused as if uncertain what to do. Mrs. (Arabella) Barlow and one or two other ladies were talking together in low tones when the stranger approached them, her great eyes filled with tears, and she asked if there was anything she could do for him. “Sing, oh sing to me,” he whispered in a broken voice. She quickly turned to Mrs. Barlow, who was watching her, and told of the request. “Can you sing?” “Yes if they will permit me and my heart does not break”, was the reply. “Sing,” said Mrs. Barlow, “and I will see that it is all right. Sing him something of heaven, for he is very near that eternal home.” The Singing Angel

Returning to the side of the dying man, on a voice of wonderful sweetness and pathos, she sang:

“I will sing you a song of that beautiful land, That faraway home of the soul; Where no storms ever beat on the glittering strand, While the years of eternity roll.”

When she ceased, surgeons, nurses, wounded and sick were all weeping. From every part of the ward came anxious requests for her to sing again. She sang one song after another. As she turned away after her last song Mrs. Barlow impulsively threw her arms around her saying: “What a darling you are. I would give the world if I could sing as you do.” At the earnest request of the surgeon in charge she promised to return the next day, which she did, and for many days thereafter, until she became known as the “Singing Angel”. On one of her visits, she asked a young soldier if there was anything she could get for him. He was burning up with fever and expressed a desire for a drink of ice water. She was astonished on inquiry to find no ice was provided. Going to the surgeon in charge, she asked if she might be permitted to furnish ice, and was told the hospital authorities would be glad to have it in abundance if they could get it. She drew a large roll of bills from her handbag, and asking the surgeon if he would superintend the procuring of the ice she handed him several hundred dollars to meet the expense, saying she was about to leave the city and wanted him to act as her trustee. For many weeks she made her daily visit and then ceased to come. She never told her name, and none ever knew her or her story

The name Clara Barton is familiar to every civilized nation as the organizer of the Red Cross Society. During the Civil War, she was a most efficient help in the care of the wounded and sick of the army of the Potomac. She was present on several battlefields, incurring hardships and dangers with the heroism of the tried soldier. She possessed great organizing and executive ability, and wherever she was given charge the work was effectively done.

In the West also were many noble women who followed the armies, and in camp and field gave of their strength to care for the stricken ones. The two most noted were Mrs. Eliza George, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and “Mother (Mary Ann) Bickerdyke” of Illinois.

______Tallahassee Genealogist -4- Volume XXX Number 4 Mrs. Eliza George

Mrs. George went to the front in 1862 and offered her services as a nurse to the surgeons of the army of the Cumberland. She followed that army through the battles of Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge and the Atlanta campaign, and then on to the sea. On many a stricken battlefield she ministered to the wounded while shells were bursting all around her, and on more than one occasion someone assisting her was killed at her side.

A Monument to This Nurse

Even in the winter she spent many a night sleeping on the ground with no cover except an army blanket. She bore all hardships without a murmur. Her labors were incessant, and the wonder is her strength did not fail long before it did. She accompanied the army from Atlanta to

Savannah, and started with it on its march to the North. At Wilmington, worn out with her labors, she was unable to resist an attack of malarial fever, and died far away from her home. By the order of General (William Tecumsch) Sherman, her body was embalmed and sent to her home in Fort Wayne. There the city erected over her grave a handsome marble shaft. On one side is a bronze tablet bearing a bas relief, a scene that occurred at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain. A wounded soldier is sitting near a hospital tent, leaning against a tree, with his cup and canteen by his side. A fire is burning near by, and over it is Mrs. George, with kettle and coffee pot, handing a cup of smoking coffee to the wounded soldier, who has his hand outstretched to receive it. On the other side is this modest inscription:

MRS. ELIZA E. GEORGE Born at Bridgeport, Vt. Oct 20, 1803 Died at Wilmington, N.C. May 9, 1865 After faithfully aiding with her friendly hands, and cheering with her Christian and motherly voice, the sick and wounded soldiers of our army on the march, on the battlefield, and in the hospital, for more than three years, the heroine fell at her post, honored and loved by all who knew her.

This is the only monument publicly erected in memory of any of the noble women who served our armies during the civil war. Of all those women, perhaps the most original character, and one who accomplished most, was “Mother Bickerdyke”.

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Mother Bickerdyke’s Career

When the war came “Mother” Bickerdyke was a widow, 40 years of age, a plain, unpretentious woman of energy and determination. Her education was of the heart; of that which is obtained in schools she had little. Her first experience as an army nurse was at Cairo, where General (Ulysses S.) Grant had his headquarters. She wore a plain calico dress and a Shaker bonnet. The bonnet became known to every soldier and officer in the army of the Tennessee, and every soldier and officer saluted when she passed by.

Just after the battle of Belmont (MO) she was made matron of one of the hospitals at Cairo (IL), and was almost immediately at war with the surgeon and his helpers. The surgeon was given to much drinking, as were several of those under him. Clothing and delicacies sent to her for the use of the sick and wounded were frequently stolen. She denounced the surgeon and charged him with being one of the thieves. He ordered her out of the hospital. She replied that she would stay as long as the men needed her, and if he barred the doors she would climb in at the window, and that if anybody left it would be the surgeon and not the nurse.

A few days later she caught one of the assistants of the surgeon wearing a shirt, slippers, and socks which she knew had been abstracted from her supplies. She sprang upon him like a tiger, seized him by the collar, and compelled him to disrobe, after which she hustled him out of the hospital, forbidding him ever to show his face there again. She determined to make a little experiment to discover who was systematically purloining the fruits and vegetables. She mixed tartar emetic with some dried peaches she was cooking. She placed the peaches on the kitchen table to “cool”, as she informed one of the helpers. That night she heard a terrible commotion, shrieks, groans, and prayers. She hurriedly went to the room whence the shrieks proceeded, and found cooks, waiters, and surgeons all believing they had been poisoned. The peaches had disappeared. “Peaches,” she said, “do not appear to agree with you. If you do not stop stealing, you will have a worse time of it, for next time I will use rat’s bane (rat poison) instead of a simple emetic.” That effectively ended stealing in the hospital while she had charge.

After the great battle at Fort Donelson she took charge of the boats sent for the relief of the wounded, and by her energy and will had everything in readiness for the wounded – clean shirts, soft bandages, hot drinks, nourishment of all kinds, and bandages and sponges for the surgeons. It seemed as if nothing could be needed that she could not instantly produce. She was the embodiment of system and regularity.

______Tallahassee Genealogist -6- Volume XXX Number 4 Mother Bickerdyke’s Authority One of the troubles in hospital work was the difficulty in getting clean bandages and beds. Mother Bickerdyke at once sent to some friends in Chicago and procured a full laundry outfit, washing machines, portable boilers, and mangles (machine with heated rollers for ironing laundry). From that time whenever the army moved that outfit went, and as soon as a hospital was established Mother Bickerdyke would set up her laundry.

She was with Grant’s army at Shiloh, and the work of death hardly began before she had her kettles at work preparing hot soup. A surgeon coming along asked her where she got the supplies and by what authority she was there. Without stopping her work of dishing out the soup, or looking up at him, she snapped out: “I have received my authority from the Lord God Almighty. Have you anybody in this army that outranks Him?”

Nothing so aroused her anger as carelessness in searching for the wounded after a battle, or the rough handling of them when found. Such neglect was sure to bring upon the head of the delinquent, no matter what his rank, a storm of words, hurled like hot shot from a battery. In caring for the sick and wounded she literally fought death by the inch, and in hundreds of cases came off conqueror. Night and day she was always at work, and would walk or ride miles to obtain some delicacies for those under her charge. In 1863 she went to Memphis. General Grant gave her a pass to go anywhere in his lines, into all camps and hospitals, and an order on all quartermasters for what wagons or ambulances she might need to transport her stores. That pass she held until the close of the war. While in charge of the hospitals at Memphis milk and eggs were in great demand. The price of milk had gone up enormously, and it was impossible to get eggs. One day she told the surgeon that if he would let her go for 30 days she would supply the army with milk and eggs. He laughed at her when she said she would bring the milk and eggs from Illinois, but gave his consent to her application for leave of absence. She hastened to Chicago, told the people what she wanted, and the needs of the sick and wounded, and in a very few days started back with more than a hundred choice cows and a thousand hens. These she loaded on boats and soon landed them at Memphis, where the government turned over to her an island for her use, and thereafter the hospitals had good milk and the best quality and an abundance of fresh eggs.

Story of the Hard-Boiled Eggs

It is told of her that one of her patients once clamored for boiled eggs until he worked himself into a fever. At last she gave him a half dozen hard boiled eggs, telling him he was to

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Tallahassee Genealogist -7- Volume XXX Number 4 keep them until he was well and was not to eat them before. The surgeon happened to see him fondling the eggs and took them away. At this the sick man set up a cry. One of the nurses hastened to Mother Bickerdyke and told her the story. This aroused her ire, and she seized a bucketful of eggs and rushed to the man’s cot. Meeting the surgeon, she burst forth: “Doctor, will you tell me what harm there is in humoring a sick man? Here John, is a whole bucketful of eggs, and you can keep them until they hatch if you want to, and I defy any man to take them away from you.” That surgeon never interfered again with Mother Bickerdyke.

A hundred well-authenticated stories could be told of how she forced surgeons to do her will. She always kept near the hospital a number of colored people employed in laundry work or cooking. One day while she was absent the surgeon left an order for her to send the darkies away. It was at night when she heard of the order, and the rain was pouring down in torrents, but Mother Bickerdyke climbed into an ambulance and drove at once to General (Steven A.) Hurlburt’s headquarters. The general was in bed, but she would not be turned from her purpose, and before returning had an order from the general to keep her colored assistants. When the surgeon heard of this he declared he would drive her from Memphis. She defiantly told him she had come to stay, closing with “Doctor, I guess you had better not get into a row with me, for whenever anybody does one of us always goes to the wall, and it has never been me.”

On another occasion she was informed that a surgeon who had been assigned to one of the wards had neglected his duty and the patients had not been fed. Instantly she loaded everybody down with soup kettles and started for the neglected ward. While engaged in the work of feeding the doctor came in. She started at him in a fury, with “You drunken, worthless scalawag, what do you mean by leaving these sick and wounded men without anything to eat! Off with your shoulder straps and get out of the hospital.” She made her words good, and in a day or two the surgeon was discharged. He went to General Sherman, and declared the charges against him were false. The general asked who had preferred the charges, and on being told it was Mother Bickerdyke, said: “If she had made the charges I can do nothing for you. She outranks me.”

The Steamboat Captain Subdued

When Sherman was preparing to start on his Atlanta campaign Mother Bickerdyke was temporarily absent. Starting for Chattanooga with a large quantity of supplies for the hospitals, on her arrival at Nashville she was told the general had issued an order that nothing should be carried on the road to Chattanooga but supplies of ammunition and army rations. She found a large number of ambulances were being loaded on a train. These she filled with sacks of dried fruits, potatoes, and other sanitary articles. She used the pass she had from General Grant and forced them to carry her as a passenger. On arriving at Chattanooga she interviewed Sherman,

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Tallahassee Genealogist -8- Volume XXX Number 4 telling him his order was all wrong, and at last, fairly forced him to give an order that two carloads of hospital supplies should be brought forward each day.

Immediately after the surrender of (Gen. Joseph E.) Johnston she left the army for the North and hastened to the hospital at Louisville. While there a large number of troops were ordered to Texas. She heard that scurvy was playing havoc with the troops in the state, and she determined to send them a supply of vegetables. She saw the captain of the boat who promised to wait until a certain hour for her. The rain was pouring in torrents, but she hastened to hire wagons, and at last got them to the wharf, only to see the boat out in the river. She imperiously hailed the boat, and ordered it to return, and then pounced on the captain, who explained that he did not think she could get the supplies in such a rain. She told him he had no right to think; that she had said they would be there, and that ought to been sufficient.

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“I struggled long and hard with my sense of propriety, with the appalling fact that I was a woman whispering in one ear, and groans of suffering men …thundering in the other.”

- Clara Barton These brave women and many more, from all races and religions, on both sides of the conflict, worked tirelessly and without remuneration to aid the sick and wounded. Many lost their lives alongside the very men they were trying to help – 1 out every 4 Union and 1 out of every 3 Southern soldiers were killed or wounded during the war. Although nurses were not documented at the time it is estimated by historians that the number of women providing everything from sweeping the floors to assisting the surgeons, maybe placed between 5000 and 8000 during the course of the war.

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Tallahassee Genealogist -9- Volume XXX Number 4 CIVIL WAR MEDICAL TERMS

19th CENTURY MEDICAL 21ST CENTURY DESCRIPTION TERMS Ague Recurrent chills & fever of malarial character Apoplexy Stroke Bad Blood or Pox Syphilis Black Death Bubonic plague Bloody Flux Dysentery Bright’s Disease Kidney disease Camp Fever Typhus Catarrh Inflammation of nose & throat Chilblain Swelling of extremities caused by exposure to cold Chlorosis Iron deficiency anemia Consumption Tuberculosis Corruption Infection Costiveness Constipation Cramp Colic Appendicitis Dropsy Swelling, often caused by kidney or heart disease Dry Belly Ache Lead poisoning Dyspepsia Acid indigestion Falling sickness Epilepsy Flux Discharge of fluid from the body French Pox Venereal disease Galloping Consumption Pulmonary tuberculosis Gravel Kidney stones Grippe Influenza Green Sickness Anemia Jail Fever or Ship’s Fever Typhus Lock Jaw Tetanus Lumbago Back pain Lung Fever Pneumonia Lung Sickness Tuberculosis Mortification Infection, gangrene or death of tissue Mortis Death Neuralgia of the Brain Nerve pain, migraine Puerperal Fever Septic poisoning & childbirth complications Putrid Fever Typhus or diphtheria Quincy Tonsillitis

Tallahassee Genealogist -10- Volume XXX Number 4 Looking for a relative who disappeared during the mid-19th century? The following statistics from the approximately 2.2 million Union soldiers show the breakdown of the main ethnic groups fighting for the north:

1,000,000 – native born white Americans

515,000 – Germans; about 216,000 were born in Germany

210,000 – African American

200,000 – Irish

90,000 – Dutch

50,000 – Canadian

50,000 – English – born in England

40,000 – French or French-Canadian – about half born in the US

20,000 – Scandinavian (Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish)

7,000 – Italian

7,000 – Jewish

6,000 – Mexican

5,000 - Polish

4,000 – Native American

Accurate statistics for the Confederate armies are lacking due to poor record keeping at the time and later destruction of the 19th century records. However it is generally estimated that between 750,000 and 1,000,000 men fought for the south. This does not include the unknown number of slaves who were impressed into performing various tasks such as construction of fortifications and driving supply wagons, desertions and suicides. But it is generally thought that 91% of the Confederate armies were white, native born soldiers, with only 9% foreign born. Of this last percentage, the Irish were the largest group, with a number of Germans, Mexicans, French, African Americans and Native Americans.

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What did Civil War Soldiers Eat?

UNION SIDE CONFEDERATE SIDE

Hardtack – rock-hard “crackers” Cornmeal Meat - fresh or dried, salted Meat - fresh or dried, salted Flour Dried peas Cornmeal (IN LESSER AMOUNTS): (IN LESSER AMOUNTS):

Molasses Molasses Salt & pepper Hardtack (occasionally) Coffee or tea Coffee substitute of chicory, acorns, etc. Sugar Sugar Rice or hominy Dried beans or peas Peanuts (“goober peas”) Desiccated vegetables Occasional fresh vegetables Condensed milk when available

Foraging for food on private property was illegal on both sides but often overlooked by officers in charge when hungry men were on the march. Union General William Tecumseh Sherman wrote: “Convey to Jeff Davis my personal and official thanks for abolishing cotton and substituting corn and sweet potatoes in the south. These facilitate our military plans much, for food and forage are abundant”. (Cooking for the Cause, Confederate Recipes, Documented Quotations and Commemorative Recipes, Patricia B. Mitchell, 1988)

Remember NECCO wafers? They were a part of everyone’s childhood. They were also a part of every Union soldier’s mess kit. The candy was developed in 1847 and provided a bit of sweetness and a touch of home to the otherwise scant battlefield meals.

Tallahassee Genealogist -12- Volume XXX, Number 4 THE BATTLE of MARIANNA, FL

In the weeks before the battle, the southern army, in a effort to stem the growing desertion problem, and ensure the supplies of beef, corn and pork continued to flow from northwest Florida to southern troops, established a base camp outside the small (population estimated at 500 citizens) but increasingly important town of Marianna. On September 27, 1864, due to information from a spy concerning the base and an unsubstantiated report of Union prisoners in the area, 700 Union soldiers led by Brigadier General Alexander Asboth, entered the town. A bloody battle commenced with Colonel Alexander Montgomery’s outnumbered southern force of regular troops, volunteers and even young boys. The fighting moved down Lafayette Street and into St. Luke’s Episcopal Church grounds, finally spilling into the cemetery. By the time the remnants of the northern invaders were forced out of town both sides were severely decimated. It is estimated that 25% of the male population of Marianna was either killed, wounded or captured, and many buildings, including St. Luke’s Church were burned to the ground. The battered town however, was saved from Union rule.

Documented Casualties

Confederate soldiers killed:

Henry O. Bassett, Captain – Company E, 6th Florida Infantry (Marianna Home Guard) James H. Brett – Marianna Home Guard John C. Carter – Company E, 6th Florida Infantry (Marianna Home Guard) M.N. Dickinson – Marianna Home Guard Arthur Lewis – Norwood’s Marianna Home Guard Woodbury “Woody” Nickels – Norwood’s Marianna Home Guard Solomon Sullivan – Norwood’s Marianna Home Guard Francis “Frank” Allen – Greenwood Club Calvary M.A. Butler, Lieutenant – Greenwood Club Calvary Littleton Myrick – Company B, 15th Confederate Calvary

Confederate soldiers wounded:

Thomas Baltzwell – Marianna Home Guard A.F. Blount, Lieutenant – Marianna Home Guard Samuel Bosworth – Campbellton Calvary

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Confederate soldiers wounded (con’t):

John Chason – Marianna Home Guard John Davis, Sr. – Marianna Home Guard John J. Dickson – Greenwood Club Calvary Peyton Gwin – Marianna Home Guard Thaddeus W. Hentz – Marianna Home Guard Issac King – Company B, 15 Confederate Calvary R.C.B. Lawrence – Marianna Home Guard Adam McNealey – Marianna Home Guard William McPherson, Lieutenant – Company G, 5th Florida Calvary William Matthews – Campbelton Cavalry Oliver Sellers – George Roninson’s Jackson County Home Guards C.N. Sheats – Chisolm’s Company Alabama State Militia W.N.W. Shiver – Poe’s Battalion, 1st Florida Reserves

Union Casualties:

Issac Adams, Lieutenant – Company M, 2nd Maine Calvary Ellis Ayer, Lieutenant – Company 1, 2nd Maine Calvary Ansel Brackett – Company F, 2nd Maine Calvary Silas Campbell – Company E, 2nd Maine Calvary Thomas A. Davis – Company J, 2nd Maine Calvary Nicholas Francis – Company E. 82nd US Colored Infantry David C. Whitney – Company F, 2nd Maine Calvary Mahlon M. Young, Captain – Company H, 7th Vermont Infantry (Volunteer Staff Member)

Union Wounded

Joshua R. Adams – Company M, 2nd Maine Calvary Alexander Asboth, Brigadier General Isaac Anderson – Company C, 86th US Colored Infantry James Breckenridge – Company C, 86th US Colored Infantry Elisha Clark – Company L, 2nd Maine Calvary Charles Clough, Jr. – Company L, 2nd Maine Calvary Nathan Cutler, Major – 2nd Maine Calvary Orrin Evans – Company L, 2nd Maine Calvary Eben Hutchinson, Major – 2nd Maine Calvary Solomon Johnson – Company C, 86th US Colored Infantry Samford Pendelton – Company E, 2nd Maine Calvary

Tallahassee Genealogist -14- Volume XXX Number 4 Luther Pollard – Company G, 2nd Maine Calvary Lyman W. Rowley, Lieutenant – Company B, 1st Florida US Calvary Samuel Stoddard, Jr. – Company F, 2nd Maine Calvary ~~~ ~~~ _

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Tallahassee Genealogist - 15 - Volume XXX Number 4 Julia Miller Birch

(Submitted by daughter, Evelyn Florence, and granddaughter Vicki Register, Tallahassee, Florida)

It is a great pleasure to be able to share stories about my mother and her teaching career in a one-room schoolhouse. To her students, she was not Miss Miller or Mrs. Birch; she was “Miss Julie.” She loved teaching, and her students knew how much she truly cared about them, both in and out of the classroom.

She was born on June 22, 1903 in Monroe County, Tompkinsville, Kentucky and departed this life at the age of 93 in Franklin, Kentucky. She was next to the youngest out of ten children.

She grew up on a farm and always talked about her family playing musical instruments (she played the organ) and singing as their nightly entertainment. She also carried this love of music into her classroom with the students.

Mamma’s older brother, Wesley, taught in a one-room school for many years. He was a great model, mentor and encourager for my Mother. She attended school under him at Willow Springs and repeated the 8th grade for three years. She wanted to gain all of the information possible about the subjects, teaching, and to prepare to take the test for teaching. She studied hard and took the 1922 Teacher’s Examination in Tompkinsville, Kentucky, at the age of 18. I’ve heard her say many times that this was a very hard exam. With a room full of people taking the test, she was one of three who passed. After passing this exam, she taught her first school that year, in Mud Camp, Kentucky, without a day of High School. She lived with her older sister, Zora Gentry and family while teaching there. She later attended High School in Tompkinsville (I think during the summers) and then on to the Teachers College (now Western Kentucky University) in Bowling Green. Education was very important to my Mother and she wanted to continue learning in order to share it with her students.

One-room schools where she taught in Monroe County were at Hamilton (where she taught with her brother, Wesley Miller, from 1923 to 1925), Ivy Hill, Willow Springs, Slick Rock, Oak Hill and Rock Bridge.

A keepsake that I have today is a quilt that parents gave to Mamma when she taught at Willow Springs. The parents who had children attending school there from 1928 through 1933 embroidered the name of their child in a square. Then some of the mothers put the squares together and quilted it. Mamma spoke of how honored she was when the parents presented her this quilt.

While she was teaching at Ivy Hill she met Ewing Birch, who later became my Daddy. His younger

Tallahassee Genealogist -16- Volume XXX Number 4 brother and sisters were students under Mamma. She met him when on some Friday afternoons he would come to the school and play ball with the students. It was customary at that time for the teacher to spend a night in the home of each student during the school year. The night that she stayed in the Millard and Ollie Birch home, the younger people got together after the evening meal and played the game “Please and Displease.” One of the children said it would please him /her if Ewing would go over and sit with Miss Julia. This was the beginning of their courtship.

My parents were married for forty years (1934-1974). My sister and I were the only two children. I was the oldest and Runell was three years younger. (I married Wallace Rich and we had three children, Vicki, Greg and Vanessa. I am currently married to Robert “Bob” Florence. Runell married Preston Cary. They also had three children, Debby, Sue and Kim.)

At some schools where she taught, she either walked or rode a horse, using her side saddle. After she married Daddy, he would drive her to school and come back to get her in the afternoons. (She never learned to drive until she was in her 70’s.) One year there was an exception when my sister Runell drove Mamma to the Oak Hill School daily (although she was underage), with Mamma being her 8th grade teacher.

Mamma stayed home to raise my sister and I and then returned to teaching at Willow Springs when I was in 2nd grade. This was the only year that I had her as a teacher and I felt that she was “harder” on me than anyone else.

The last school where she taught before retirement was at Rock Bridge with Thelma Emmert. The school was close to our house and our oldest daughter Vicki, went to school with Mamma almost every day (although she wasn’t old enough to be enrolled). This was a great educational boost for Vicki and she has many vivid memories from this experience. Vicki still shares those memories with her students now and calls them “history lessons.” She remembers going up to the front recitation bench with Johnny Poland to learn her reading, writing and math lessons. She shares how the older children helped the younger children with lessons while the teacher was teaching other groups. She talks about recess and the marble games, the boys’ and girls’ outhouses, and pumping the water out every morning for the students to drink that day. And she remembers that Tony Carter bought her box at the pie supper and they shared the food together.

I am a retired reading teacher. Vicki, my daughter, will soon retire from a very successful teaching career as a math teacher and district math coordinator for secondary schools in Leon County. Her daughter Lindsey also has her teaching degree. Lindsey taught kindergarten, but now is a stay at home Mom with my great-grandson Bryson. She is the fourth generation in our family to be a teacher and it all started from the one- room schoolhouses in Monroe County, Kentucky.

Tallahassee Genealogist -17- Volume XXX Number 4 Laura Richardson Reece and Her Family Laura Lucretia Richardson was born in Statesville, North Carolina to Washington Bolivar Richardson and Elizabeth Dean Richardson. W.B., as he was known, was a Methodist church circuit rider who also owned a small farm. The family had little and W. B. was frequently away from home administering to the members of his four or five nearby parishes.

Elizabeth was W. B.’s second wife. His first wife died about 1874 leaving W. B. with two young children. W. B. and Elizabeth had two children of their own: Thomas born in 1877 and Laura born in 1879. Elizabeth died in 1887 when Laura was 8 years of age. A year later, W. B. married a widow with three teen-age children. Laura and Thomas, who were very close, were soon at the bottom of the pecking order in the family.

Laura and Thomas were made to work to help support the family. (In fairness, it is presumed the other children likewise worked.) Laura had a third grade education when she went to work full time at a local textile mill at the age of 10. Laura’s life became even harder when Thomas died at the age of 15.

Laura’s foreman at the mill was John William (Will) Reece. Will was 9 years older than Laura and had attended Elon College. Will became smitten with Laura despite the age differences between them and her youth. He looked after her to make sure she was treated fairly and was kept away from trouble at the mill. He began to court her when she was 15 and they married when she became 16 in 1896.

Both soon left the textile mill and Will started a business making hardwood shuttleblocks for textile mill weaving machines. For a few years, they had a mill and small farm in Ramseur, North Caroline where Will had family.

Laura’s father, W. B. died in 1899. Laura had a 14 month old son and she was pregnant. She and Will were notified of her father’s death but unfortunately they arrived in Statesville a day after the funeral. They went to her father’s home where they were made to feel unwelcome. Laura was unable to get even a memento from her mother’s or father’s things.

Will’s shuttleblock business became more successful. He filled orders from mills in North Carolina, New England, and even from England. However, his business was dependent on hardwood trees being readily available in the vicinity for his use. As hardwood became scarce, the family had to move to areas where it was plentiful. Will and Laura moved to Sequatchee, Tennessee, to Decatur, Alabama, and finally to Tallahassee, Florida, arriving in 1918.

About 1905, Laura and her children traveled to North Carolina by train to see family.

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Tallahassee Genealogist -18 Volume XXX Number 4 While returning, there was a train wreck and a number of people were killed and injured. Laura and her children were unhurt. Her derailed passenger car was the only one not submerged or partially submerged in the Tennessee River.

In Tallahassee, Will and Laura bought a home on West College Avenue. Will bought land and built his shuttleblock mill at the northeast corner of Gaines and Gay Streets. A 75-acre farm was purchased between the railroad tracks and Park Avenue about ¼ of a mile east of Magnolia Drive. The family settled permanently in Tallahassee.

Laura and Will had nine children. Sadly, only 5 survived to adulthood. Those that died young succumbed to childhood illnesses that are generally preventable today. By the time the family settled in Tallahassee, there were five socially active children ranging in age from 18 to 8: Kathryn, Joseph, Lucile, John, Jr. and Virginia. Kathryn, the oldest graduated from high school in Decatur, but the others attended and graduated from Leon High School when it was located on the north side of Park Avenue about a block east of the City Cemetery. The girls attended and graduated from Florida State College for Women (FSCW) where they all were members of Zeta Tau Alpha (ZTA) women’s fraternity. The boys attended the University of Florida.

Kathryn was born in Ramseur, North Carolina in 1899. She earned a degree in voice from FSCW. She received a scholarship to the University of Cincinnati and earned a masters degree. She also received a scholarship from Julliard. Kathryn married Ewald Haun in 1924. They had no children.

Kathryn’s first appeared on Broadway in 1927. She had a musical and movie career that lasted until 1947. She sang lead and parts in light musicals such as Gilbert and Sullivan, and appeared in three movies (one with the Marx Brothers). She and Ewald attended the Olympic Games in Berlin and saw Hitler. Ewald died in 1939.

Kathryn retired in 1948 and moved to Tallahassee. She was very active in the arts at Florida State University (nee FSCW) and Tallahassee. She organized a real estate business, was a founder of the Tallahassee Little Theater, traveled extensively, and appeared in many plays at the University and TLT. Later, she took the lead in caring for Laura and Will. Kathryn died in 1994 one day before her 95th birthday.

Joseph ran away from the family in 1918 and enlisted in the army to fight in World War I. He lied about his age. Will located him and had to go to a North Carolina army training camp to retrieve him. Joe returned home, graduated high school, and attended the University of Florida. He married Elmina Council of Tallahassee and they had a son, Joseph, Jr. Sadly, in 1932, Joseph, Sr. and his brother had a horrific automobile accident (they ran into each other head- on) and Joseph, Sr. died from his injuries. This was followed by Joseph, Jr.’s death a year later from the effects of a ruptured appendix. Both died in the same hospital room a year apart.

Tallahassee Genealogist -19- Volume XXX Number 4 Lucile, known as Cile, was born in Sequatchee, Tennessee. She graduated from Leon High School and FSCW. She was popular and very social. She was May Queen at FSCW and on the basketball team. A 1921 photograph shows her and her teammates posing in the fountain in front of Westcott Hall.

Lucile followed Kathryn to New York to seek a Broadway career. She became a dancer in several Broadway musicals and plays. She met and married Dr. Clyde Roberts, a prominent New York City physician. They lived at 39 5th Avenue for many years and never had children They enjoyed the New

York, Connecticut, and Hudson River Valley social scenes, and traveled frequently to Tallahassee and St. Petersburg, Florida. Clyde died in 1948 of a heart attack at Will and Laura’s home in Tallahassee. Coincidently, Virginia’s husband Bully was present when he collapsed.

Cile continued to live in New York at the same apartment. She took a job with the New York Life Insurance home office in New York. She was elected the National President of Zeta Tau Alpha and held that position for several years and traveled all over the country. Cile married Matthew Grover about 1957 against Laura’s wishes. Cile and Matt retired to Miami and later moved to Crystal River, Florida. Matt and Cile, and Kathryn and Cile traveled extensively. Cile died in 2004 at the age of 99.

John, Jr., known as Bill, was born in Decatur in 1907 and graduated from Leon High School. Bill was not an academic but he was very social and had a colorful personality. He told many a good story and joke. In high school he played clarinet and saxophone in the band and, with four good friends, formed a dance band. The dance band played frequently at social functions in Tallahassee, Gainesville, and at the Panacea and Lanark Hotels

Bill was in the army during World War II. He never experienced combat but he developed a Parkinson’s-like tremor condition which affected him the rest of his life. He also never got over his automobile accident with his brother Joe. Bill never drove over the speed limit and was over-careful to the extreme while driving.

Bill married Ethel Peck during the war. After Ethel’s death, he married Hazel Porter. Bill never had children. After his retirement from the state of Florida, Bill and Hazel spent many happy years summering in North Carolina, and enjoying the many friends they had made there and in Tallahassee. Bill died in 1994 at age 87 and Hazel died in 2000.

Laura Virginia Reece, known as Virginia and Faye, was born in Decatur in 1910. She graduated from Leon High School. She soon married William Knott (Bully) Whitfield and gave birth to a daughter, Mary Jean. She later went on to FSCW graduating in 1934. She had a son, William, Jr., in 1938. Virginia was a housewife never living the glamorous life her sisters lived.

Virginia enjoyed the excursions to the Panacea and Lanark Hotels during the 30’s. She traveled occasionally to New York to visit her sisters, and enjoyed several cruises. Later, she enjoyed golf, her friends, her children, grandchildren, and the family beach cottage at St Teresa Beach. She kept up with and worried about her family all of her life. She died in 1991 at age 81.

Laura and Will’s two-story home was located at 529 West College Avenue in Tallahassee. It was

Tallahassee Genealogist -20- Volume XXX Number 4 ½ block east of the main gate to FSCW. It was across the street from the ZTA house in a neighborhood full of university professors and employees. Their lot ran through the block to the next street. College Avenue was a dirt street until it was paved with brick about 1928. Laura and Will had the main house, a barn, and an apartment on the property. They kept a milk cow and a flock of chickens on the property until the late 40’s.

Laura was very busy raising children and keeping house. It was constant hard work for her raising children, cooking, washing, ironing, cleaning, milking, churning butter, canning food, feeding the chickens and cow, catching, slaughtering, and plucking, and plucking chickens, and overseeing homework, music lessons, and so on. She had some help from Will, an occasional maid, and the children. Laura’s modern conveniences included a wood stove, wood-burning furnace, an ice box, a wash tub with washboard, hand-crank wringer, and clothes line, a stove-top hand iron, a hand butter churn, and fans

Regular fun occasions happened when ice was delivered by horse and wagon, and the neighborhood kids gathered around up and down College Avenue seeking ice shavings to be eaten or licked as treats. Special fun occasions occurred when Laura organized an ice cream churning party.

Laura was a very intelligent individual despite having only a 3rd grade formal education. She encouraged her children in educational matters and to participate in cultural events. The family made many lifelong friends in Tallahassee at the Methodist Church they attended, in school, and in the neighborhood around FSCW. Some of their best friends were professors at FSCW or their children. Laura was also one of the founders of the Tallahassee Garden Club.

After the children left home, the 2nd floor of the College Avenue home was turned into a rooming house. FSCW was turned into a co-educational institution (Florida State University) and there was a huge need for student housing.

Will worked his mill and the farm. The mill had large, noisy, and open electric saws and lathes. Will would receive dogwood or hickory logs ordered from loggers. These would be cut by Will to correct lengths, then cut into strips. Will used the lathes to make the shuttleblocks from the strips. Each shuttleblock was three feet long rounded in the middle and squared at each end. All work was done by hand by Will and hired help. The finished shuttleblocks were wrapped and packaged according to the orders Will received from various textile mills, and shipped by railroad. The scrap wood, blocks and under-size strips, was sold as firewood. The work at the mill was very dangerous, labor intensive, and would never be approved by modern work safety laws. It is fortunate that neither Will nor his workmen were ever injured. Will worked his mill until 1948 when he was in his late 70’s, and his eyes and hearing were failing, and the textile mills were turning to hard plastic shuttleblocks.

The farm was worked by Will, a tenant farmer, and occasionally by Laura. Ground was plowed by mule and plow. Corn and vegetables were grown. A few cattle and hogs were raised to sell or slaughter. Will had a two-story barn to store hay, corn shucks, and tools. A 30-foot well was dug although there was a small pond on the property. There was lots to do to keep the fences repaired, animals watered and fed, planting, harvesting, and selling, storing, canning of the crops. Occasionally,

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Early each fall, a hog was selected for slaughter. It was placed in a small pen and fatted. After the first freeze, plans were made. On the morning of the slaughter, a large cast-iron pot was filled with water and a fire lit around it to boil the water. When the water was ready, the hog was killed and lifted by tripod and dipped into the water. The hog was scraped, gutted and cut up. Nearly every scrap of the hog (meat and viscera) was processed into food. Will and Laura had the tenant farms to assist and share in the food. The food was preserved by smoking and salting. This was a major family event every November which lasted several days.

The farm property was enjoyed by the younger children while Will and Laura were working there. To keep them out of the way, they played under and climbed in the large oak tree in the middle of the property near Valley Road. Bill and Virginia remembered spending lots of time there.

In the late 40’s, Will’s eyesight and hearing began to fail. He closed the mill and was forced to stop intensive farming. A few cattle were kept and soon became Laura’s pets. They would follow her around as she walked around checking the fences and water looking for a special handout.

The College Avenue home was sold in 1953. Will and Laura built their dream home on the farm property. Will’s general health was good but he became totally blind and profoundly deaf. He would listen to the blasting radio news while “cussing out” Presidents Truman and Eisenhower. He had many a good story to tell about his family and life to his children and grandchildren. He was a fine, kindly, honorable gentleman. Laura’s health began to fail. She had diabetes and developed a heart condition. She gave herself insulin shots daily and took nitro pills for her increasing angina.

Kathryn sold her home on Calhoun Street and constructed an apartment under Will and Laura’s home to be closer to them. A housekeeper, “Miss Sadie” Thompson was hired to help as well. She had a bedroom next to Will and Laura.

In 1959, Laura got up one night and fell breaking her hip. She died in the hospital three days later. She was 79. She was buried next to Joseph at Oakland Cemetery. Will was too infirm to attend the funeral. Will’s mental condition remained good. He was now called “Foddy” by the family. He gradually became frailer. He could hear only if one literally yelled in his ear. He died in 1969 during a Sunday afternoon nap with Kathryn sewing in the room. He was 99. Foddy is buried next to Laura.

Children of Laura and Will:

Earl b. 1897 d. 1900 Richard b. 1908 d. 1909 Kathryn b. 1899 d. 1994 Virginia b. 1910 d. 1991 Joseph b. 1901 d. 1932 Fred b. 1912 d. 1914 Lucile b. 1904 d. 2003 Jane b. 1916 d. 1918 John, Jr. b.1907 d. 1994 - William K. Whitfield., January, 14, 2011 ______Tallahassee Genealogist -22- Volume XXX Number 4

The following was transcribed by TGS member Dick Sherwin from The Weekly Floridian newspaper on microfilm in the Florida Collection, Florida State Archives.

January 8, 1884

MARRIED. At the residence of the bride’s father, Mr. J. L. Bryan, on the 7th instant, Mr. J. W. Bradshaw, of Wild Wood, and Miss Urania Bryan, Rev. Asa Crowder officiating. The bride and groom came to this city yesterday evening, and will leave on the one o’clock train today for their South Florida home followed by the good wishes of their many friends here.

January 29, 1884

MARRIAGES AND DEATHS

MARRIAGES At Sarasota, Mr. Robert Grier and Miss Anna M. Johnson At Monticello, Mr. Wiley M. Whidden and Mrs. Emma M. C. Horn At Sumterville, Mr. Addison Arnold and Miss M. Carrie Hall At East Jacksonville, Mr. H. V. Bracy and Miss Lorena Long At LaVilla, Mr. Robert J. Miller and Miss Rosa Haynesworth At Lake City, Cap Herrington and Miss Mat Roberts At White Sulphur Springs, Capt. John A. Powell and Miss Jennie Rambo At St. Augustine, Dr. S. W. Boynton and Miss Lizzie Yelvington At Quincy, Mr. W. J. Watt and Miss Ida V. Tanner At Pensacola, Mr. Barto F. Marzoni and Miss Nellie Pettersen At Palatka, Mr. John M. T. Baughman and Miss Judina A. Thomas In Hamilton county, Mr. J. W. Putnel and Mrs. Fanny Turnage; Mr. John L. Ratliff and Miss Lucinda McGauley; Mr. Wm. Rogers and Miss Mary E. Bird At Mikesville, Mr. Rhett Hunter and Miss Hessie Gunnin At Pensacola, Mr. James Stearns and Miss Jennie Faust

DEATHS At Manatee, Mrs. Ellen M. McNeill ______Tallahassee Genealogist - 23 - Volume XXX Number 4 At Apopka, Rev. J.F.B. Mays, D.D. In Alachua, Mr. David Roper In Jacksonville, Colonial Edward I. Getebell At Winter Park, Mr, J.F. Welborn At La Villa, Mrs. W.D. Wiggins At Madison, Katie Croom Crecel At Lawtey, Mr. Rolvin B. Skeen At Cedar Key, Mr. Isaiah Sapp At Tampa, Mr. Rufus L. King At Monticello, Mr. Henry Walker At Ormond, Mrs. Jane W. Wilson

February 5, 1884

(Asbury Park (N.J.) Journal, Jan. 26)

DIED. ROSS. On the 23d inst., after a lingering illness, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. L. R. Hutton, in Asbury Park, Mrs. M. E. Ross, daughter of the late Gov. Collins, of Delaware, in the 72d year of her age. Interment at Seaford, Del. (The deceased lady was the mother of our esteemed fellow citizen, Col. J. C. Ross, of Bradfordville, in this county.)

April 1, 1884

MARRIAGE LICENSES.

During the month of March licenses to marry in Leon county were issued to the following persons:

WHITE. Green D. Chaires and Drucilla V. Adams Thomas B. Byrd and Rubie B. Bernard Chas. A. Cochran and Katie E. Fudge Jesse Atkinson and Leda Hartsfield James Syfert and Zulinnier P. Drake Jas. A. P. Cabanas and Rosa B. Townsend Fred. A. Totten and Alice Shults

COLORED. Morgan Robinson and Emma Cooper Tilman Roberts and Charlotte Edwards Willis Moss and Mary Nolan James Davis and Sarah London Kingston Mitchell and Drucilla Robinson

______Tallahassee Genealogist - 24 - Volume XXX Number 4 Dempsey Gee and Sarah Booth Altamon Randall and Elvira Johnson Goliath Nicholson and Edna Scott Richard Jackson and Margaret Isler Crawford Human and Ella Walker Benjamin Dilworth and Hattie G. Lundy Lynrus Cotton and Florian Todd

April 8, 1884

MARRIAGES AND DEATHS

MARRIAGES. At Eustice, Mr. Frank J. Starbird and Miss Emma Reidermeister At Dunedin, Mr. Wm. Simpson and Miss Marianna Douglass At Bay View, Mr. Leander Blakely and Miss Ella Dorn At Green Cove Spring, Mr. Wm. Long and Miss Mary A. C. Smith; Mr. J. M. Jones and Mrs. M. J. Davis

DEATHS. At Key West, Mr. William Saunders In Volusia county, Mr. J. D. Sykes At the residence of Mr. Jas. Hendricks, Bloomingdale, Mrs. Campbell At Tampa, Mr. Daniel B. Hopkins; Mr. David Tainter (drowned) At Quincy, Miss Laura Gee At Ocean Pond, Rev. A. G. Connell At Jasper, Mrs. Gaston Eatman At Cedar Key, Mr. John Quinn At Madison, Mr. Aristides Pejot; Miss Addie Sharp At Lake City, Mr. Fred. Harper; Maxell Ives, age one year; George Leonard Smith, aged five years At Lutherville, Miss Texanna Feagle At Beresford, Mr. Robert J. Reed At DeLand, Rev. Mr. Fisher At Fort Reed, Mr. John Willey In Orange county, Mr. Wm. Duval

April 15, 1884

A TRIO OF MARRIAGES. Last Tuesday evening, at the residence of the bride, in this city, Mr. F. C. Gilmore and Mrs. E. G. Tatum, Rev. H. H. Kennedy officiating.

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On Wednesday evening, at the residence of the bride’s father, Mr. J.D. Coburn, Mr. Constantine Alergo and Miss Mattie M. Coburn, Rev. Mr. Kennedy officiating.

On Thursday at the residence of Mr. Charles Munch, near Tallahassee, Mr. George W. Houston and Miss Julia L. Montgomery, Rev. Dr. A.C. McCants officiating.

MARRIAGES. At Palatka, Mr. W. H. Merriday and Miss Ella Lucas At Point Pinellas, Mr. James Cox and Mrs. Mary W. Allen At Madison, Rev. T. J. Nixon and Miss Nonie Blalock At Sanford, Mr. David A. Miller and Miss Hattie L. Payne At Lake City, Mr. John Varn and Miss Ella McClamma At Fernandina, Mr. Jay J. Sheldon and Miss Gertrude Baker At Apalachicola, Mr. John Tinsley and Miss Bettie Gregory

DEATHS. At Monticello, Master Homer H. Pharr At Marianna, Mrs. Sarah M. Land At Key West, Hon. Walter C. Maloney, Sr. At Pensacola, Mr. Alexander Ross Suiter At Orlando, Mrs. Helen Williams Near Gotha, Orange county, Mr. Yancy A. Griffin At Green Cove Spring, Mrs. Helen Van Evera

April 29, 1884

MARRIAGES AND DEATHS

MARRIAGES. At Apopka, Mr. T. D. Bourland and Miss Kate Fleming At Bartow, Mr. John Reed and Miss Ada Blount At Marianna, Mr. James S. Gardner and Miss Mary S. Wilson At Monticello, Mr. L. T. Brookins and Miss Ella S. Walker At St. Augustine, Mr. W. T. Broadwell and Miss Marie Terry At Suwannee Station, Mr. B. M. Brightwell and Miss M. Marable At St. Mary’s, Ga., Mr. J. E. B. Culley and Miss Annie L. Bachlott At Lake de Funiak, Mr. Idus Allred and Miss M. A. Cawthon At Sanford, Mr. J. S. Williams and Miss Fanny McJohnson At Pensacola, Charles B. Parkhill, Esq., and Miss Genevieve Perry

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Welcome and happy researching to the following new TGS members:

Bailey, Jennie S. Linzy, Michael Leo Byrd, Melissa L. Mitchell, H. David Elliott, Suzanne M. Mooney, Jane D. Ferrell, Cheryl Green Nix, Jack O. Fletcher, JoAnn C. Palmer, Barbara M. Gaston, Juanita Patton, Jerry G. Green, Effie M. Sellers, Gene T. Griffin, Anna “Beth” Thomas, Joan S. Griffin, Molly C. Thomas, Theodore F. Herold, Dorothy Y. Wolfe, Steve H. Herold, Patricia P. Wolfe, Lori E. Linzy, Mary Alice

Editor’s Note: If you have read a book, used a website, purchased a new product or service related to genealogy, and would like to share your knowledge and insight with other members of the Society, please write a review and submit it for consideration for inclusion in the Tallahassee Genealogist. Mary LePoer TGS Quarterly Editor

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NEWS TO NOTE

The Tallahassee Genealogical Society

Where: Leon County Public Library, Meeting Rooms A & B 200 W. Park Ave. Tall When: Sunday, October 23, 1:30pm Schedule: 1:30pm - Sharing Time 2:00pm - Program 3:00pm – Research help – Bring your notes! Program Speaker: Mary Alice Linzy Sixth generation descendent of Benjamin Cadwallader Chaires (1786-1838) and Sara Powell Chaires (1790-1846)

Other events of note in the Southeast:

The Florida State Genealogical Society 35th Annual Conference

Where: Sheraton Orlando North Hotel 600 North Lake Destiny Drive Maitland, FL 32751 When: November 11-12, 2011 Speaker: Lloyd Dewitt Bockstruck Topic: See FSGS website: www.fsgs.org/

The Jacksonville Genealogical Society Monthly Meeting:

Where: Webb-Wesconnett Branch Library Auditorium 6887 103rd St., Jacksonville, FL When: Saturday, October 15, 2011 Speaker: Marie Santry Topic: Sorting Fact From Fiction in Family Stories ______Tallahassee Genealogist - 28 - Volume XXX Number 4

Bay County Genealogical Society

Where: Bay County Public Library 898 W. 11th St., Panama City, FL When: Thursday, October 20, 2011, 5-8pm Speaker: Bay County Public Library Staff Topic: Genealogy After Hours! Hands-on coaching for those researching their ancestors. Especially valuable for those pursuing First Families of Bay County Certification. Reservations required. Contact: Rebecca Saunders, Bay County Public Library (850) 522-2100

Ft Myers-Lee County Library Genealogy Research Seminar

Where: Fort Myers-Lee County Library 2050 Central Avenue Ft. Myers, FL 33901 When: Saturday, November 5, 2011 Speaker: Bryan L. Mulcahy Reference Librarian Fort Myers-Lee County Library Topic: Evaluating Evidence: Do the Facts and Circumstances Fit? Contact: Bryan L. Mulcahy, (239) 533-4626 Email: [email protected]

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Tallahassee Genealogist - 29 - Volume XXX Number 4 INDEX OF SURNAMES

A… Bradshaw, J. W…… 23 Cutler, Nathan, ...14 Adams, Drucilla...... 26 Bradshaw, J.W…….. 23 Adams, Issac, L ...... 14 Breckenridge, James.. 14 D… Adams, Joshua R..... 14 Brett, James H……. 13 Algero, Constantine... 26 Brightwell, B.M….. 26 Davis, James …. 24 Allen, Francis…….. 13 Broadwell, W.T….. 26 Davis, Jefferson… 12 Allen, Mary W...... 26 Brookins, L.T……. 26 Davis, John S….. 14 Allred, Idus...... 26 Bryan, J,L……….. 23 Davis, M.J…….. 25 Anderson, Isaac….. 14 Bryan, Urania…… 23 Davis, Thomas A. 14 Arnold, Addison….. 23 Byrd, Melissa L… 27 Dickinson, M.N… 13 Asboth, Alexander… 13 Byrd, Thomas B… 24 Dilworth, Ben…. 24 Atkinson, Jesse…… 24 Butler, M.A…….. 13 Dorn, Ella…….. 25 Ayer, Ellis, Lt……. 14 Douglas, Marianna 25 B… C… E…

Bachlott, Annie L… 26 Cabanas, James A… 24 Eatman, Mrs. Gaston.. 25 Bailey, Jennie S…. 27 Campbell, Silas…… 14 Edwards, Charlotte… 24 Baker, Gertrude….. 26 Carter, John C……. 13 Eisenhower, D..… 27 Baltzwell, Thomas… 13 Carter, Tony……… 17 Emmert, Thelma… 17 Barlow, Arabella…. 4 Cary, Debbie…….. 17 Evans, Orrin…….. 14 Barton, Clara……… 4 Cary, Kim……….. 17 Bassett, Henry O…. 13 Cary, Preston……. 17 F… Baughman, John M.. 23 Cary, Runell…….. 17 Bernard, Rubie B….. 24 Cary, Sue……….. 17 Faust, Jennie…… 23 Bickerdyke, Mary A. 5 Cawthon, M.A….. 26 Feagle, Texanna.. 25 Birch, Evelyn…….. 17 Chaires, Green D.. 24 Ferrell, Cheryl G.. 27 Birch, Ewing…….. 16 Chason, John…… 14 Fleming, Kate….. 26 Birch, Julia Miller.. 16 Clark, Elisha……. 14 Fletcher, JoAnn C.. 27 Birch, Millard…… 17 Clough, Charles, Jr.. 14 Florence, Robert… 17 Birch, Ollie……… 17 Coburn, J.D………. 25 Francis, Nicholas… 14 Birch, Runell…….. 17 Coburn, Mattie M… 25 Fudge, Katie E…… 24 Bird, Mary E…….. 23 Cochran, Charles A. 24 Blakely, Leander… 25 Collins, Gov.…… 24 G… Blalock, Nonie….. 26 Connell, Rev. A… 25 Blount, A.F., Lt… 13 Cooper, Emma…… 24 Gardner, James S… 26 Blount, Ada……. 26 Cotton, Lynrus…… 25 Gaston, Juanita…… 27 Booth, Sarah…… 24 Council, Elmina R.. 19 Gee, Dempsey…… 24 Bosworth, Samuel.. 13 Cox, James………. 26 Gee, Laura……….. 25 Bourland, T.D…… 26 Crecel, Katie Croom. 24 Getebell, Edward… 23 Brackett, Ansel…. 14 Crowder, Rev. Asa.. 23 George, Eliza……. 4 Bracy, H.V……… 23 Culley, J.E.B…….. 26 Gilmore, F.C. …… 25

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