There was a Flu epidemic in northwest Florida in the 1890's. My grandmother lived in Santa Rosa Co. and almost all of her family was wiped out with the flu in 1892-93 leaving her an orphan. Many families in Santa Rosa Co. lost family members during this epidemic. I'm sure it probably spread to surrounding counties. Jim Brock

Hi All: Does anyone know if there was an epidemic or something of that nature in Washington Co. that would have caused both a mother and father of a family to died suddenly, leaving three children orphans? I'm guessing that they died about 1879. I cannot find them on the mortality index cd 1850-1880. One of their daughters is found in the 1880 census of Walton County as a ward of the family she is living with. The oldest daughter is also living as a servant in the household of D.N. Horn of Washington Co. in 1880. The last and youngest child was born about 1874. I cannot find him until 1900, listed as adopted and living in Walton Co. This McDERMIT and WORTHINGTON family were living in the Vernon District of Washington Co. in the 1870 census. Any possible clues would be appreciated. Thanks. Mary Jane Pattillo

Yes, it was the Spanish Influenza that wiped out entire families across the nation and the world in 1918-1919. It is interesting to note these dates as you walk through cemeteries and see the frequency of deaths occurring in these years. From what I have heard, the epidemic started in Europe and the boys from WWI brought it home to the states.

Betty and all.... I know from a death certificate my grandfather's first wife died in 1919 of the Spanish Influenza. Cindy

The list below by Anne Futch leaves out Jackson Co FL. James Reeves told me about people in Jackson Co FL dying like flies and if they thought someone was not going to live they left them at home to die. This one (boy?) begged so hard to be taken in the wagon and he told them that he was going to live, so they took him and he did live. .......was this the 1918 flu that killed so many people around the world? How many times in Jackson Co FL and when did these Epidemics happen? Thanks for any information.......Betty ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anne Futch "In case you ever wondered why a large number of your ancestors disappeared during a certain period in history, this might help. Epidemics have always had a great influence on people - and thus influencing, as well, the genealogists trying to trace them. Many cases of people disappearing from records can be traced to dying during an epidemic or moving away from the affected area. Some of the major epidemics in the United States are listed below. 1657 Boston: Measles 1687 Boston: Measles 1690 New York: Yellow Fever 1713 Boston: Measles 1729 Boston: Measles 1732-33 Worldwide: Influenza 1738 South Carolina: Smallpox 1739-40 Boston: Measles 1747 Conn, NY, PA & SC: Measles 1759 North America (areas inhabited by white people): Measles 1761 North America & West Indies: Influenza 1772 North America: Measles 1775 North America (especially hard in New England): Epidemic (unknown) 1775-76 Worldwide: Influenza (one of worst flu epidemics) 1788 Philadelphia & NY: Measles 1793 Vermont: Influenza and a "putrid fever" 1793 Virginia: Influenza (killed 500 people in 5 counties in 4 weeks) 1793 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever (one of worst) 1783* Delaware (Dover) "extremely fatal" bilious disorder 1793 Pennsylvania (Harrisburg & Middletown) many unexplained deaths 1794 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever 1796-97 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever 1798 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever (one of worst) 1803 New York: Yellow Fever 1820-23 Nationwide: "fever" (starts on Schuylkill River, PA & spreads) 1831-32 Nationwide: Asiatic Cholera (brought by English emigrants) 1832 New York & other major cities: Cholera 1837 Philadelphia: Typhus 1841 Nationwide: Yellow Fever (especially severe in South) 1847 New Orleans: Yellow Fever 1847-48 Worldwide: Influenza 1848-49 North America: Cholera 1850 Nationwide: Yellow Fever 1850-51 North America: Influenza 1852 Nationwide: Yellow Fever (New Orleans 8,000 die in summer) 1855 Nationwide (many parts) Yellow Fever 1857-59 Worldwide: Influenza (one of disease's greatest epidemics) 1860-61 Pennsylvania: Smallpox 1865-73 Philadelphia, NY, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Memphis & Washington DC: A series of recurring epidemics of Smallpox, Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever & Yellow Fever 1873-75 North America & Europe: Influenza 1878 New Orleans: Yellow Fever (last great epidemic of disease) 1885 Plymouth, PA: Typhoid 1886 Jacksonville, FL: Yellow Fever 1918 Worldwide: Influenza (high point year) More people hospitalized in World War I from Influenza than wounds. US Army training camps became death camps - with 80% death rate in some camps. Finally, these specific instances of cholera were mentioned: 1833 Columbus, OH 1834 New York City 1849 New York 1851 Coles Co, IL 1851 The Great Plains 1851 Missouri

I now have the INDEX for the 1885 State Census for Washington County, Florida, and will do lookups for names. Simply email your request. Thanks to everyone. Cindy

Have you had any problems sending GEDCOM files? Would you like to know more about GEDCOMs? Well, thanks to a wonderful genealogist who sent me a link there is some great info on the 'net about this subject. <A HREF="http://enws347.eas.asu.edu/~buckner/gedcom.html">GEDCOMS</A> (http://enws347.eas.asu.edu/~buckner/gedcom.html) Check it out... I learned many things from the site. Cindy (an old dawg who has learned a new trick)

A Genealogy Workshop is scheduled for Saturday, 21 November 1998, at Chipola Junior College. This three-hour workshop covers research techniques, locations, sources, and more. For more information contact Margie B. Williams, Continuing Education Coordinator, Chipola Junior College, 850-718-2239, or via email at: WilliamsM@Chipola.cc.fl.us. You may also email me, Cindy Sloan (SeaGee69@aol.com) for further information. Hope to SEA you there!! Cindy

Any one that attended Campbellton School is invited to a school reunion on Nov. 14, 1998, at the Campbellton Baptist Church. Bring a covered dish. Registration starts at 10:00 a.m. and lunch is near 12:00. e-mail bjtoole@wfeca.net Barbara Toole for information Betty

This is a special request, can anyone help here if so please e-mail Mike (Jay). I know we have some LAMB researchers out there. Thanks Betty Subj: BIRTH CERTIFICATE Date: 11/8/98 9:01:14 PM Eastern Standard Time From: RIXANWIL@webtv.net (WILLIAM WILSON) To: bettymaes@aol.com MY ADOPTED NAME IS MIKE YOUNG AND I LIVE IN DAVENPORT FLORIDA. I WAS BORN IN MARIANNA ON SEPT. 18, 1980. MY BRITH NAME WAS JAY LAMB. I DO NOT KNOW MY MOTHER OR FATHER"S NAMES. CAN YOU HELP ME LOCATE A BIRTH CERTIFICATE? I AM GOING TO JOIN THE U.S. AIRFORCE AND MUST HAVE A BIRTH CERTIFICATE. I WOULD APPRECIATE ANYTHNG YOU CAN DO FOR ME. THANKS MIKE (JAY)

Any one that attended Campbellton School is invited to a school reunion on Nov. 14, 1998, at the Campbellton Baptist Church. Bring a covered dish. Registration starts at 10:00 a.m. and lunch is near 12:00. e-mail bjtoole@wfeca.net Barbara Toole for information Betty

1885 Jackson Co FL Census The Census takers were not very careful with the census and many people are not listed as they should be..Use of Ditto Marks were used for Color and they put a W or a B at the top of page and went down. So be careful researchers. 12 of the 14 Districts have been sent to Cathy at the FL Archives. I am working on Dist 4 and Dist 6 and will have that soon. (Mary Gay and I had finished Dist 4 and I lost the file and Dist 6 was lost in the mail              I am not perfect!   :) Volunteers: Etta Hodges Tellico Plains, TN .......computer Peggy Riley Anchorage, AK Mary Gay   Cottondale, FLAnna Gay   Cottondale, FL Patty Shipes Whiting  Tallahassee, FL Sandy Spelham Tallahassee, FL C. Allen O'Shields Fortson, GA Kelly Sherill Plainsboro, NJ Janis B Smith Jacksonville, FL Betty James Smith Plant City, FL Sharon Schmidt Jacksonville, FL Carlos J Owens Arlington, TX Carol Schoepf Marianna, FL Mary Bowen Murfreesboro, TN The 1885 Jackson Co FL was more of a "BEAST' than the 1880.  We had to order 111 pages from the National Archives (they copied from the old books for us, yes they still have the old books)   Betty

Can someone help Barbara....Thanks Betty Subj: Inquiries Date: 11/7/98 2:43:50 PM Eastern Standard Time From: barbking@net1inc.net (Barbara King) To: BettyMaeS@aol.com Do you have a web page and if so could I have the URL? I have been reading the records posted on the Jackson County FL web page. My family of interest is YANCY PEACOCK. So far I have found nothing of him there. Thanks. Barbara

Can anyone in your area help me find the obitiary of my cousin, Ola Spurlock. She is said to have died in Marianna, FL, Jul 1980. I would like to know the names of her survivors. Do any of her children still live in the area? Thanks! Martha Rogers

Hi, PLease post my message on Washington/Jackson County discussion list. Thanks. I'm really impressed with your high-quality list and the Genweb sites. They are really superior to those in a lot of the larger county. Thanks for all the hard work, Debbie

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_910355891_boundary Content-ID: <0_910355891@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII In a message dated 11/5/98 10:58:58 AM Eastern Standard Time, SGVICK writes: << Betty, I revised the Jackson Co. map by putting cemeteries on it. It is on my site. I will do the same for Gadsden Co. soon. >> Duke did it again....go look at Jackson Co FL new map from Duke Vickrey..... --part0_910355891_boundary Content-ID: <0_910355891@inet_out.mail.aol.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline From: SGVICK@aol.com Return-path: <SGVICK@aol.com> To: BettyMaeS@aol.com Subject: West Florida Land and History Site Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 10:58:58 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Betty, I revised the Jackson Co. map by putting cemeteries on it. It is on my site. I will do the same for Gadsden Co. soon. Last weekend, Gail and I went to the FSU game and spent the night in Marianna. Rather than driving straight home the next day, we toured some of the areas that I have been researching. We visited Ocheesee and Ocheesee Ferry landing, Chattahoochee, Torreya State Park, and Fort Gadsden. I was very surprised at how big the State Hospital is at Chattahoochee. Are you still interested in having a map drawn of the cemetery? Are you thinking of a map of the grave sites? Do you have that kind of information? I would be interested in trying to draw it if you do. Duke Vickrey --part0_910355891_boundary--

In a message dated 11/5/98 5:48:05 PM CDT, JDowsr@aol.com writes: << The Padgett line comes through Nancy Gay Haynes who married her second husband John Padgett in 1857 and had two children by him. John Padgett was married to his first wife Penny Jones and supposedly a sister of Jonathan Jones Jr and the daughter of Jonathan Jones Sr. Another Jones daughter married a McQuagge and their sons...Daniel and Duncan McQuagge married two of the above mentioned daughters of Nancy Gay Haynes Padgett...Sarah and Mary Caroline Haynes. >> Below is some data on Elijah Padgett who may have been a brother or cousin of your John - this is all I have on this family as I haven't really pursued this line yet. Elijah married a dau. of my 3rd great grandparents, Walter & Rebecca Davis. Hope this helps. Betty Descendants of Elijah W. Padgett 1 Elijah W. PADGETT b: 1801 GA ..+Susanna DAVIS b: Abt. 1808 MS* m: Abt. 1828 Marianna, Jackson Co., FL d: Bef. 1885 Father: Walter DAVIS, son of John & Elizabeth DAVIS who both d. & both left wills in Effingham Co., GA in 1793, naming their children. Mother: Rebecca HARVEY, dau. of Unknown HARVEY & Elizabeth of Effingham Co., GA. 2 William PADGETT b: 1829 FL 2 Jane PADGETT b: 1832 FL 2 Milda(Matilda?) PADGETT b: 1834 FL 2 John PADGETT b: 1838 FL 2 Ellis PADGETT b: 1840 FL 2 Elijah PADGETT, Jr. b: 1842 FL 2 Henry PADGETT b: 1844 FL 2 Phoebe PADGETT b: 1847 FL *I believe Susanna was born in Effingham or Bryan Co., GA if this is the correct year of her birth, because her parents didn't move to MS until Dec 1809, then to Jackson Co., FL in 1823/24. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I found these Padgetts who may be related to Elijah & John. 1860 Walton Co., FL Census 201/201 Henry PADGETT 19 Mary A 20 Ga Roxiann J 1 Al 202/202 Dosier PADGETT 20 Fl Clarissa 19 Al 203/203 Elijah PADGETT ** 73 NC Charlotte 47 Ga Roda 22 Fl Dorsee 17m T Sunis ?? 15 Darcus 13f James W 4 Sousanna 10 **This is possibly the father of Elijah W. PADGETT, husband of Susanna (DAVIS) PADGETT and John PADGETT, husband of (1)Penny JONES & (2)Nancy (GAY) Haynes 210/210 Ambrose PADGETTE 38 Issabell 26 Absolum 4 Fl Willey 1 Napsom 4 Al 148/148 Norman McQUAGGE 60 NC Nancy 49 Angus D 31 Fl Nancy 26 Duncan 21 Christian 18f Samuel 14 Malcom 10 John 10 Catharine 8 Norman 6 Duncan 15 Murdoch 16

Fellow Jackson Count Researchers, I am trying to locate anyone with family connections with mine with the names of Mayo, Padgett, Jones, and McQuagge who were in Jackson Co. FL during the early settling of the county...1820's on. John P. Mayo was the brother of Mary Frances and the guardian of her three daughters after she and her husband Jonathan Jones, Jr. died. I have no information on the Mayos and would like to know if anyone would know of any Mayos still in the area? The Padgett line comes through Nancy Gay Haynes who married her second husband John Padgett in 1857 and had two children by him. John Padgett was married to his first wife Penny Jones and supposedly a sister of Jonathan Jones Jr and the daughter of Jonathan Jones Sr. Another Jones daughter married a McQuagge and their sons...Daniel and Duncan McQuagge married two of the above mentioned daughters of Nancy Gay Haynes Padgett...Sarah and Mary Caroline Haynes. Hopefully someone can help me with these lines as I have hit a deadend in all of them as I cannot trace any back further than their arrival to Jackson Co. I look forward to hearing from you. Vickie Dow Blue Springs MO

From: bjtoole@wfeca.net (Bobbie) The Kittrell Reunion is held each year on the second Sunday of Nov. at the Civic Center in Alford Fl.(Jackson Co.) It begins around 10:00 a.m. and last until. Sandra (Jackson) Rowe spear heads this event.

This is from a new volunteer, she will be surveying Pilgrims Rest Church for us. Anyone who has information let her know. (She didn't know that A A BRIGHAM was my great uncle :) hehe) Betty Date: 11/4/98 3:11:39 PM Eastern Standard Time From: bjtoole@wfeca.net (Bobbie) To: BettyMaeS@aol.com (Betty) I guess we will go to the Kittrell reunion Sun. Where is the REUNION? I have some names that I can't locate. Do you know anything that will help? They are: J.L. Glass, John Calvin Yon,A.S. Parrish and Walter Leroy Glass. Also Adolphus Alexandrie Brigham. I plan to check again tomorrow, but I'm not too hopeful. Thanks, Bobbie TOOLE