This 1929 photograph shows some of the Louisville & Nashville (L&N) Railroad workers in DeFuniak Springs. The photo was taken on the tracks looking west with Circle Drive and the depot in the left background. The two men on the left have not yet been identified. The man in the center is Alex B. Powell. […]
Anna (often called “Annie”) Becker was born on October 22, 1849, in the village of Schodack Depot, New York. She attended a private “Young Ladies Academy” in northern New York. Wallace Bruce and Anna married on June 29, 1870, at Schodack Depot. They had three children. The photograph of Anna was taken in Edinborough, Scotland, […]
Gladys Delores Nichols was born at Caney Creek in south Walton County on May 26, 1924. She was the daughter of Lonnie and Lillie Mae Anderson Nichols. She married a high school classmate, Huey Milton, and had seven children. Gladys Milton was licensed to practice midwifery in 1959 after the Walton County Health Department sponsored […]
Myrtice Vera McCaskill (left, in 1922) was born June 15, 1896, in DeFuniak Springs. She was the daughter of the first City Marshal (1901-1903) Malcolm McCaskill and his wife Mary Stanley. Malcolm was born in Knox Hill in 1861 and was the brother of John Jette McCaskill and the uncle of R. E. L. McCaskill. […]
Park Trammell has no known connection to Walton County but, in his “Address upon the Closing of His Administration and Retirement from Office as Governor of Florida” on January 2, 1917, he introduced incoming Governor and Walton County resident, Sidney J. Catts. Here follows the introduction: It is now my pleasant privilege to turn to […]
Robert Tyng Bushnell was the Attorney General of Massachusetts from 1941 until 1945, and he also enjoyed raising chickens. He first learned of the Four Mile Point section of southern Walton County in a land sale advertisement in a poultry magazine. He soon visited the area and fell in love with its beauty. In 1944, […]
Harley Emmett Wickersham (1877-1953) and his wife Coralie (1875-1944) lived on Circle Drive in a home designed by Duncan Gillis, a well-known architect. Harley operated a funeral parlor a few blocks from their home that his father, Jonathan Adoniram Wickersham, founded in 1885. Coralie was from a prominent family that included her brother, Donald Stuart […]
In the late 1920s, Carrie “Fennie” Humphries Allison (1903-2000) and her husband Wayne (1903-1958) hauled fruit up to DeFuniak Springs from central Florida and sold it out of the back of their truck. They liked the town and moved to DeFuniak Springs in 1931 with their two daughters to open a small business. Allison’s Grocery […]
William Henry Wesley (1865-1947) (left) and Katie Maria Strickland (1875-1953) (below) were married in Point Washington on March 30, 1893. Katie’s mother died in 1891, so she was not there to see Rev. J. A. Daly sign the marriage certificate. W. H. and Katie had nine children born between 1894 and 1912. In addition to […]
Robert E. Lee McCaskill (1871–1946) was a wealthy land developer and timber tycoon who inherited vast land holdings from the estate of his father, John Jett McCaskill. Robert McCaskill’s promotional booklet, “The Road to Health, Happiness and Prosperity,” interlaced facts and photographs with folksy prose designed to lure farmers and ranchers to Walton County. The […]