A hand-written list of Indian War and Civil War burials in Gum Creek Cemetery in Glendale was recently discovered. Links to the men’s memorials could be found for eleven out of twelve of them. J. F. Davis (Confederate) 26 August 1840 – 4 April 1915 Robert J. Davis (Co. F,…
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Black Public Officials, 1867-1879
In honor of Black History Month, below are four men who held office during Reconstruction. This information is excerpted from Florida’s Black Public Officials, 1867-1924 by Canter Brown (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998). Henry W. Call Born 1834, Florida. Mulatto. AME Minister. Alive in DeFuniak Springs 1910. Washington County…
Walton County’s Identical Triplets
Ann L. Butts and John Brown married and settled in the Sandy Creek area of Walton County. They had a total of eight children, three of whom were identical triplets. That would be remarkable in itself, but their names made them all the more memorable. As the story goes ….