I know that it was said in a genealogical/historical/geographical sense, but, Terrell, thank you for a great laugh - "There are no 'Snowballs' left in Florida!" Good luck in your continued genealogical research - I doubt you will need to do much meteorologic research on your family! Just couldn't resist responding!! LOL:-) Margaret Stradley Marquis ----- Original Message ----- From: <terrellthomp@bellsouth.net> To: <flduval@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 1:32 PM Subject: Re: [FLDUVAL] Old Fernandina - Cemetery in Fernandina > To: Edgar Taylor > > We need to get together. My great,great,great,great grandfathers were > both > involved in the "Patriots War" The first, Francisco Diaz Teran, a Spanish > soldier from Santander in northern Spain was stationed on Talbot Island as > a > sentry ordered to burn his house as an alarm that an invasion force was > coming from Fernandina (not know by the name Fernandina until 1821 -long > after the war) My other G,G,G,G grandfather was Samuel P Russel who > arrived > in East Florida after the second Spanish occupation about 1785. Samuel was > up to his ears in the rebellion, first as a member of the local militia > and > than as a full blown rebel for which he was arrested along with his > company > commander and close friend, Spicer Christopher. He was treated fairly by > the Spanish governor and only put under arrest for six months when he > could > have been hung as a traitor. Another close friend, George Arons was hung. > The whold story was published by the SGES in their March edition and can > also be seen in my Gedcom file on Ancestry.com "Samuel P Russel". Spicer > Christopher, Samuel Russel and George Arons are all mentioned in books > about > the war by Charles Bennett and James G Cusick both available at th public > library downtown. > > I am a descendant of the marriage of Samuel R Russell, Jr and Mary Isabel > Teran through their daughter Mary Ann Russell. Mary Ann Russell married > Martin A Whittemore and they started a Whittemore clan in Nassau county > that > numbers in the hundreds. Their daughter, Charlotte Whittemore married my > great,great grandfather Edwin Snowball who is buried in a small family > cemetery on Pages Dairy Road abt two miles from Yulee. Most of my Snowball > ancestors(16) and one Whittemore are buried there. My great grandmother, > Mary Eveline Snowball married Joe Ellis and my grandmother, Ella Viola > Ellis > married Roy David Thompson about the same time they moved to Jacksonville. > There are no Snowballs left in Florida. > > I have located my great,great, great grandmother, Mary Isabel Teran > (Russell) buried in the old Bosque Bello cemetery in Fernandina and her > son > Antonio Diaz. (he apparently chose Diaz as his last name as did his mother > out of shame for Francisco Teran's part in the rebellion). I have located > what I believe is the remains of Francisco's Tabby house on Talbot Island > and it sits in the south west corner of the island within view of McQueens > house on Ft. George Island.( I know it is now called the Kingsley > plantation > but Zephaniah Kingsley bought it from Juan McQueen who acutally built the > house and the plantation). > > Send me your email address and we will try and get together > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Edgar Taylor" <ertjr1@earthlink.net> > To: <flduval@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 9:41 AM > Subject: [FLDUVAL] Old Fernandina - Cemetery in Fernandina > > >> For those who may have ancestors in the Fernandina or Nassau Co. area, >> there was a book published by the City of Fernandina in 1988, "The >> Original Section of Bosque Bella Cemetery, Fernandina Beach, Florida - >> A listing of Existing Grave Markers and Maps Showing their Locations". >> This was a project of "The General Duncan Lamont Clinch Historical >> Society of Amelia Island". However, years ago before this book came out >> when I contacted someone who was looking after the cemetery, he stated >> that there were a number of unmarked graves for which the records - if >> they ever existed - were lost. >> " >> My interest in this was to find who of the original settlers in Old >> Fernandina were buried there. I was particularly attempting to find if >> my many great grandmother, Catherine Chicken Dewees Hall was there, >> rather than in or near the Old Pablo Cemetery. It appears that she may >> have died in Old Fernandina before or during the Patriots' War. Her >> daughter, Mary Dewees, claimed a lot in (Old) Fernandina when Florida >> became a territory. >> >> Old Fernandina is an interesting and historic little Spanish town. >> Before the Spanish regained Florida back from the British, there was an >> "Egmont Town" at what appears to have been the same location. Many of >> us probably have ancestors who owned property there. It is a shame that >> no archeological work was ever done there. >> >> Ed T of PGH >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> FLDUVAL-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 > FLDUVAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message