My husband's great-grandfather, Otto Robert King, was listed in the family bible as being born in Olive, Florida. He was born in 1883 in Escambia County. The federal 1880 census shows the family living in District four of Escambia County. On the State 1885 census he is still in Escambia County and the photocopy of the page their names are listed only notes, "Inhabitants in District 6, 7 &9". They are in dwelling 295, family 295. The head of household was Johnson King. The point being here, is that if they lived in Olive, Florida, and you can determine where the voting district four was in 1880, and the districts 6,7 & 9 were on the 1885 census, it might help you calculate where Olive, Florida was. Is this of any help? Billye Cutchen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dean DeBolt" <ddebolt@uwf.edu> To: <fl-wfgs@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 2:48 PM Subject: Re: [FL-WFGS] Cemetery help needed > Most of our resources on the history of Ferry Pass, Olive, and Flat Iron > (the area around the UWF campus, sometimes called Delta in early articles) > were studied for the history of Olive Baptist Church. Mr. Whitmire came > here and built his home sometime in 1866 or 1867 along the Olive-Ferry > Pass > road, and the Eliott's Florida Encyclopdia of 1889 noted the existence of > Ferry Pass but also Olive for which it said it was on the L&N Railroad, 8 > miles north of Pensacola, population 100, and Lewis Boley was the > Postmaster. > > I really have great doubts about place called "Olive" in 1823. There are > many religious churches, etc. that use the term "Olivet" as a relaxing > garden spot but often to denote a cemetery spot. A family could have > called a burial plot on their farm "Olivet." And it would have been easy > over time for a transcription error to creep in between "olivet" and > Olive, > Florida. > > What many don't know is that Escambia was a citrus county for Florida up > until about 1926 with orange, grapefruit, and other exports, and probably > olives, too. > > Dean > > > > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Jerry Merritt <jerrym151@mchsi.com> wrote: > >> Henry Shepard died of Yellow Fever in Mar 1823 and was buried in Olive - >> I assume in the Olive Cemetery. I doubt you will find a tombstone for >> him though since he left four orphans. His wife had died earlier. >> >> There is no mention of an Olive Cemetery in Escambia in Chronicling >> America from 1905-1910 in the Pensacola Journal. >> >> And it may be that there never was an Olive Cemetery. Back then the >> front yard was close at hand and the Funeral Parlor Lobby hadn't yet >> formed. Those listed in the early papers as buried in Olive may have >> just been buried on their family's property. >> >> Bonnie is right though. It would make a great Footprints article to >> document trying to find the Olive Cemetery. >> >> Jerry >> >> On 5/2/2011 1:42 PM, Bruce and Connie Rova wrote: >> > Michael C. Boley (26 Sep 1880-21 May 1947) is buried in Clopton >> > Cemetery >> > behind the East Brent Baptist Church. I noted there are Merritt's >> > buried >> > there too...could one of them be the one Jerry referred to? There are >> three >> > burials from 1920 shown there, but not an infant Boley... Perhaps >> someone >> > associated with that cemetery would know if it had been known by >> > another >> > name previously? >> > Bruce >> > >> > I just got Jacki Wilson's note about Michael's wife dying in 1920 and >> being >> > buried in Whitmire Cemetery. Perhaps her death in 1920 and the child's >> > death in 1920 were related. It would seem logical to assume the Mother >> and >> > Child who died in the same year would be buried in the same cemetery, I >> > would think. AND Whitmire Cemetery is not far north off of Olive >> > Road... >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: fl-wfgs-bounces@rootsweb.com >> > [mailto:fl-wfgs-bounces@rootsweb.com] >> On >> > Behalf Of L. L. Scott >> > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 1:09 PM >> > To: fl-wfgs@rootsweb.com >> > Subject: Re: [FL-WFGS] Cemetery help needed >> > >> > Child of Michael C. Boley was born and died in Olive, FL in 1920. >> > Burial >> > Olive Cemetery >> > Michael's father Louis and mother Lizzie are buried in St Michaels. >> > Louis died 1914, largest land holder in Escambia Co. >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Evan Strohl >> > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 11:29 AM >> > To: fl-wfgs@rootsweb.com >> > Subject: Re: [FL-WFGS] Cemetery help needed >> > >> > Lee, >> > Don't know if my reply came thru to you, via iPhone. >> > >> > I know of none with that name, but often, especially if old, >> > that name has morphed into a newer one. Where is it? >> > Can I talk to the person who queried? >> > >> > [all this assuming that it's in Escambia Co??] >> > >> > P.S. An interred surname might help us find it, also. >> > Evan >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "L. L. Scott"<llscott2000@bellsouth.net> >> > To: "FLWFGS"<fl-wfgs@rootsweb.com> >> > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 10:01 AM >> > Subject: [FL-WFGS] Cemetery help needed >> > >> > >> >> What became of the Olive Cemetery? >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> >> FL-WFGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> > FL-WFGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes >> > in the subject and the body of the message >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> > FL-WFGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes >> > in the subject and the body of the message >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> FL-WFGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> FL-WFGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > -- > Dean DeBolt, University Librarian > Special Collections > University of West Florida Library > 11000 University Parkway > Pensacola, FL 32514-5750 > ddebolt@uwf.edu; 850-474-2213 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FL-WFGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

The Heritage of Escambia Co. FL Vol. II, page 20. *Olive* According to Webb's Historical, Industrial, and Biographical Florida, compiled in 1885 by Wanton S. Webb, Olive was settled by Abraham Cavenaugh in 1877. The community was located 6 miles north of Pensacola and was a "terpentine station" on the L & N Railroad. Fare from Live to Mobile was $3.25 and to Montgomery was $4.70. Per Elliott's Florida Encyclopedia of 1889, the community of Olive was "located on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, 8 miles north of Pensacola." The land was described as clay and sold at $5 to $10 per acre. Lumber was the main shipment, and the population was 100. Postmaster was Lewis Boley. The Olive community was adjacent to and somewhat overlapped into the larger Ferry Pass community. Today's busy North Davis Highway, once called "the Olive-Ferry Pass Road," goes through the old Olive community. the northwest corner of the intersection of North Davis Highway and Olive Road features Olive Baptist Church, organized in 1897, one of the most prominent landmarks. Submitted by Judith R. Jolly, Heritage Book Committee. --------------- I would contact Judy Jolly. She keeps files on all her stories and may have more to share. Cynthia