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…
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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 ….