This advertisement (and similar ones) ran weekly in the Pensacola News Journal during the first quarter of 1906. No follow-up articles have been found, so the fates of the child and his kidnapper remain mysteries. A Hugh A. Douglass is buried in the Euchee Valley Cemetery, but the father of… Continue reading
The following list is from Victor Silvestri’s excellent publication, Encyclopedia of Florida Sheriffs, which is available from the Walton County Heritage Museum Gift Shop. The two-volume set has biographies of every sheriff who served in Florida from 1821 until 2008. Four Walton County Sheriffs died while in office: J. Murdock… Continue reading
State Representative for Walton County, 1891
Stuart Knox Gillis, seventh son and eleventh child of John and Christian McIntosh Gillis, was born at Knox Hill, Walton County, Florida on July 28, 1866. He, like his older brothers, attended school at the Old Knox Hill Academy. As did many of his Gillis kin, Knox Gillis taught school in his younger… Continue reading
In a story about Mack Edge, it states that his pet squirrel named Walter bit him on his finger, and the wound did not heal. Mack eventually went to a doctor in Milton who apparently removed his finger (“When he returned he had the finger in a bottle”) and told… Continue reading
Joel Turner Alford was born on May 2, 1929. He and his wife had six children and attended Oak Grove Baptist Church. Alford was a heavy equipment operator who worked in law enforcement for twelve years. He was at various times the Chief Deputy for the Walton County Sheriff’s Department… Continue reading
Daniel Clayton Adkinson was born on July 20, 1897, in Walton County. He was one of six children of Jason D. and Annie Infinger Adkinson. He was educated in the public schools of Walton and Santa Rosa counties and taught school in both counties until the United States entered World… Continue reading
John “Buck” Crews was a Deputy U.S. Marshall who was born in Isagora (Holmes County) on July 12, 1866, after his father, George Washington Crews, completed service in Company K of the 6th Alabama Cavalry. Buck married Annie Laura Ward on January 7, 1889, in Isagora. Annie Laura was born… Continue reading
The house at Eden Gardens State Park was built with native yellow pine by William H. Wesley for his wife Katie between 1895 and 1897. It was almost identical to the nearby home of Katie’s parents, Simeon and Louisa Strickland. William Wesley died in 1947, and Katie died in 1953…. Continue reading
Murdock Gillis McQuagge (1843-1930) and his wife, Minerva Gainer McQuagge (1888-1952), were the parents of nine children, including Duncan Gillis McQuagge, the Bay County Tax Assessor from 1932 until 1952. Murdock’s father, Norman Daniel McQuagge, moved to Florida from North Carolina in the 1830s and settled in Walton County. Murdock… Continue reading