Just a tidbit for thought about What's Jackson County like? The conditions of life for the poor and the rich back before the Civil War (when most of the ancestors came south from Virginia, the Carolinas, and west from Georgia as the populations in those states increased and the land was "used up" - agriculture was not scientific back then, remember) was untamed true, but the people were either large land owners and planters or the tradespeople who supported them. And then there were the small farmers and others who just scraped by. The Civil War devastated both groups. And life was hard for anyone who were among the middle class or poor. There were a few county fathers in Jackson County as in many counties in the Panhandle whose long ties to the Panhandle sustained them, and they became leaders in the political and economic life of the county - though they could not be compared with the moguls of the north and barons of industry who opened the West and the Midwest. North Florida was not the "getaway" for northern industrialists and entrepreneurs like South Florida would become. In Tallahassee the first electric lights came in 1903 to downtown. For the rural counties it may not have been until the REA brought "modern life" in the 20's and 30's. And so it goes ...