By Anna Reardon, Staff Writer, DeFuniak Springs Herald-Breeze, December 28, 1972, Page 1Published by the Genealogical Society of Okaloosa County, Volume XIX, Number 66, Winter 1995, Pages 52-53. The man for whom the town of DeFuniak Springs was named, was a Frenchman, according to his grandson, Colonel William Q. DeFuniak of Santa Cruz, California. He […]
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William Miller
William Miller (1820-1909) was born in New York, but his family moved to Louisiana when he was an infant. He served with General Zachary Taylor in the United States Army during the Mexican War but changed his allegiance to the Confederacy early in the Civil War. He was commissioned Brigadier General in August 1864 and […]
John Oliver Rutan
The 1937 Walton High School basketball team members were (front row, left to right): Ed Taylor, Dawson Cawthon, Gerdon Tappan, John Rutan, Jeb Stuart Gaston, (middle row) Woody Wesley, Bob Hatcher, Frank Mzwreck, Earl Wesley, Kenneth Sconiers, Charles Taylor, (back row) Buddy Lowery, coaches Shorty Waites, Grey Wilson, and Ox Clarke. John Oliver Rutan (above, […]