Fellow list members, I would like to share a treasure that I have found. It is the Florida Department of Transportation - County Maps: http://www.dot.state.fl.us/MapsAndPublications/manuals/pub-cmap.htm The maps sell for $0.30 each, most counties have just one map, but a few have two. The maps show three features that genealogy researchers like that are not on most other maps: (1) the townships, ranges, and sections, if you are investigating land deeds, and some land grants as well, (2) many of the rural churches and cemeteries, (3) many of the rural towns, subdivisions, and state management areas by name, but not all for example two that I know Judson in Levy County and Neunansville in Alachua County were missing. The maps aren't genealogically useful for urban areas. There are 67 counties but who needs all the counties. There are legends, but no indices on the maps, you need to search the map for a particular name or place. The above web site gives the details for you to acquire your own county maps.

The followig is a copy of a letter I sent to Brian. I mean't to send it to the list. Any comments would be appreciated. John Brown " In about 1818 my GGF Ephraim Taylor was born in Hempstead, NY. He supposedly ran away from home at an early age and became a cooks assistant on a schooner and sailed around the Cape three times (hearsay from my Grand Mother Elizabeth Taylor Brown born in Orange Mills in 1865). I find Ephraim as an election official in "Washington Camp", Mosquito County, in 1845 state elections in the company of Henry Washington' surveyor for the State. I suspect this was on the St. Johns River near Astor. He then appeared in the 1850 census in JAX as a laborer, then in 1855 he bought land in Duval county (BLM Records); 1860 census he was in Palatka as a raftsman, 1861, age 45 he joined the CSA 2 Florida Infantry in Jacksonville , was wounded in Battle of Gaines Mill in 1862, mustered out in Julyof 1862 at Fredrick City, MD. He next appears in 1870 census in Orange Mills with wife Mary Charlotte and two daughters age1 and 5. Wife died about 1873, He left one daughter with Squire Tenney in Federal Point and the other with Duncan McBride in Barberville(Volusia County) He suppossedly went to Tick Island near Barberville. He signed land records in 1875 in Putnam Conty. His oldest daughter was in apprenticeship as of April 1873, wit Tenney. His other daughter was in the 1880 census with Duncan McBride as an adopted daughter. She ended up in Federal Point in the 1885 State census with her sister Elizabeth living in the Tenney household. From then on I think I know their lives quite well. My Question: How can I trace Ephraims trail when he was with Henry Washington. I suspect that they were good friends as there are two creeks near Tick Island name Eph Creek and Taylor Creek. I suspect that he lived in that vicinity early in his Florida days. He may have married an Indian. I think he met Washington in North Florida when Washington surveyed Amelia Island about 1840. Washington surveyed most of central Florida also. I have a story of Washington written by a researcher for the state of Florida, but it doesn't give many details. I wold like to find his daily journal or a diary. Can you make any suggestions on these. Also I'm curious abou the time from 1862 when he left the army and 1870 when he showed up in Orange Mills census. Any suggestions on any of this would be appreciated. I have a copy of the orignal cemetery records (back and white) of Federal Point Cemetery, the record books of the Federal Point Literary and Social Clubs (1906-1929) lots of names, My grandfather Charles W. Brown's early business records (1890-1929) I would like to put these in some archives somewhere. Any suggestions? Well, I've taken enough of your time. Any thing I can do for you, let me know. I will be in Florida from May23 to June 8. I'm going to the P.K.Yonge Library in Gainesvile and also the St. Augustine Historical Society. I'll be staying in St. Augustine, Federal Point and Orlando." Thanks. John Brown

Nancy Alvers and Janice Mahaffey have prepared four books for The Putnam County Sesquicentennial Committee: Putnam County Census Reports - 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1885 and Marriages 1849-1887 (424 pages); Putnam County Census 1900 and Marriages June 1, 1885-December 1900 (302 pages); Putnam County Census 1910 and Marriages January 1, 1901-December 1910 (340 pages); and Putnam County Census 1920 and Marriages January 1, 1911-December 1920 (366 pages). They estimate these books will sell for $37.50 each or a set for $135.00. The Putnam County Sesquicentennial Committee has no money with which to publish these books. They will publish, at cost, only the number of books for which they receive orders. A county purchase order or an order with 50% down, on the estimted price, will ensure that you will receive your book(s). Ordr from : Putnam County Sesquicentennial Committee, Ken Mahaffey, Chairman, PO Box 1339, Palatka FL 32177- 1351 or contact Nancy Alvers <nalvers@worldnet.att.net> Leslie

Hello Listers, I am so very delighted to report I have made major progress with my WHIDDON line. My Charles WHIDDON b. 1848, FLA, (looks like Gadsen Co.) married Catherine PRINE in Washington Co., AL in 1873. Now, according to 1860 Census, (he was 11), he looks to be the son of an Easton WHIDDON, whom I believe to be born in 1823 or '24.. questions: Who was wife of Easton WHIDDON? Who were Easton's parents? Who else out there is researching this branch? Is Laura Tully of Jacksonville still on this list, or does anyone have her email address? Is the person who did a roll call for WHIDDEN interested in contacting me? How likely did the two endings, "ON" and "EN" actually end up being the same line? Now I am pretty certain my Whiddons were the ones who went from Ga to Fla and, I would love to hear from WHIDDON or WHIDDEN cousins!! Would ADORE any anecdotal material... Thank you, and God Bless us all, Susann Whiddon Wandrey

Donna, If indeed you were looking at a Florida Death Index (I would call your Library back and inquire), the county code for 19 would be Citrus County, Florida. You can send for the Death Certificate by mailing all of your relevant death information, and a check for $5.00, to : Office of Vital Records P.O. Box 210 Jacksonville, FL 32231-0042 Good Luck! Lynn -----Original Message----- From: Tom & Donna Cino <spike@mail.islandnet.com> To: FLORIDA-L@rootsweb.com <FLORIDA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, April 08, 1999 3:06 AM Subject: I found LILLIE!!!! >To all the good folks who have been helping me with ideas on how to find >her....I feel so dumb! I found out tonight that the local library had >the USA death index on hand. I pulled the 1950-1959 lot and lo and >behold----there she was! At least I have my hopes way way up there. >There was no expalantion on any of the fiches as to how to interpert >them, so if anyone understanding them can look at what I taken to be the >answer is right, could let me know for sure. >I have: >WEBSTER Lillian m (married?) AJ (spouses intials?) under co is the >number 19, is this the county or state( hopefully Florida)? the date is >4/6/1957 regist# 5033 state file 57-31918. >Now if you have been following, her husbands name was Arthur James, so >the initals are right, the date is at least before he died as a widower, >so I just need to know what the co stands for. Also, do I send $2.00 for >the certificate to the Vital Stats Ofiice in Jacksonville or will I have >to find the town and do I need to include the file numbers? >You've all been so great and helpful, I can't thank you enough for your >time. >My next query after this will be to try and find the marriage date, >providing the death record gives me the information I will need. >That will only leave me 2 more marriages to find from the 12 siblings to >have them all. It's kinda like playing monopoly or something. Do I win >Park Place or something, when I find the lst one (grin). Again, thank >you all....Donna in Canada :0) >(wish I could put a bigger smile on that face, cuse that's how I feel!) >

To all the good folks who have been helping me with ideas on how to find her....I feel so dumb! I found out tonight that the local library had the USA death index on hand. I pulled the 1950-1959 lot and lo and behold----there she was! At least I have my hopes way way up there. There was no expalantion on any of the fiches as to how to interpert them, so if anyone understanding them can look at what I taken to be the answer is right, could let me know for sure. I have: WEBSTER Lillian m (married?) AJ (spouses intials?) under co is the number 19, is this the county or state( hopefully Florida)? the date is 4/6/1957 regist# 5033 state file 57-31918. Now if you have been following, her husbands name was Arthur James, so the initals are right, the date is at least before he died as a widower, so I just need to know what the co stands for. Also, do I send $2.00 for the certificate to the Vital Stats Ofiice in Jacksonville or will I have to find the town and do I need to include the file numbers? You've all been so great and helpful, I can't thank you enough for your time. My next query after this will be to try and find the marriage date, providing the death record gives me the information I will need. That will only leave me 2 more marriages to find from the 12 siblings to have them all. It's kinda like playing monopoly or something. Do I win Park Place or something, when I find the lst one (grin). Again, thank you all....Donna in Canada :0) (wish I could put a bigger smile on that face, cuse that's how I feel!)

Sue Ann, My Jacksonville source for the Calkins obit never followed through. Sorry about the delay. I was at the Haydon Burns Library there today and did it myself. Bad film, but we finally got a readable copy so I made two on the reader/printer rather than have your mother's copy be one more copy-generation removed. He had not grown any more hair in the interim, but there's a photo with the obit, so you'll now have pictures spanning more than fifty years from the 1907 House collage. I'll try to get it all out tomorrow, he said, just before hitting the proverbial sack.... Pleasant dreams! --Brian

Lynda, I did finally find the 1857 deed to Sarah Ann Wightman from James Burt, but only because the grantor was recited in the 1869 deed. Why should it take an hour, you ask? Because it was in the grantee index under Mightman! Yes, as in ("Might makes right....") It just about drove me nuts--and that's not a very long drive, I fear. I tried other variants, but I confess that Mightman never entered my mind. I finally called a staffer to help me understand why I couldn't find it. She couldn't find it either, so I got the grantor's name (one of the pre-eminent developers here for 50 years and more) and went through several pages of conveyance indexes until I saw "Mightman." Egad! It will be easier for the next folks, though. We corrected BOTH indices by hand in ink. So the plat and the three deeds left Palatka by priority mail at 1 p.m. today. They should hit your mailbox on Friday. Do share them with those old folks immediately, if not sooner. More on probates, God willing, later.... Regards. --Brian *********************************************** Lynda, I'm on my way to the courthouse to see if I can find the other deed. If I do, I'll include it. If not, I'll send the other two and the plat on the way back. Someone has observed that "old people have a positive genius for dying just when you were about to ask them something or show them something." Since you live way off there in Texas and your folks' ages range into the nineties, I'll send the stuff by priority mail. I don't want to cause them to miss out. I'll let you know about estate proceedings as soon as I can get to St. Augustine. In the meantime, enjoy! --Brian **************************************** Lynda wrote: > > You are truly fantastic!!! I am so excited. This is such wonderful news!!! > Thank you, thank you, thank you!! I'm almost speechless - This means so much to > me. I have aunts and uncles down around the St Pete area and they are in their > 70's, 80's and 90's. They are the main reason I started this genealogy in the > first place - I can't wait to share this with them. My dad died in 1981 - (he > was the eldest child) and he could have given me so much info if only I had > started this research while I still had him here. He was about ten years old > when his grandma Kate (Tim and Sarah's daughter) died. He's probably heard > stories and more stories, but I never asked the questions. > Thank you again Brian. You have certainly brightened my week! > Lynda

Seeking related families of the TANNER - HART - PRICE - SAULS - BARRETT - KIFF affiliations. Steve Tanner

Lynda, I'm on my way to the courthouse to see if I can find the other deed. If I do, I'll include it. If not, I'll send the other two and the plat on the way back. Someone has observed that "old people have a positive genius for dying just when you were about to ask them something or show them something." Since you live way off there in Texas and your folks' ages range into the nineties, I'll send the stuff by priority mail. I don't want to cause them to miss out. I'll let you know about estate proceedings as soon as I can get to St. Augustine. In the meantime, enjoy! --Brian **************************************** Lynda wrote: > > You are truly fantastic!!! I am so excited. This is such wonderful news!!! > Thank you, thank you, thank you!! I'm almost speechless - This means so much to > me. I have aunts and uncles down around the St Pete area and they are in their > 70's, 80's and 90's. They are the main reason I started this genealogy in the > first place - I can't wait to share this with them. My dad died in 1981 - (he > was the eldest child) and he could have given me so much info if only I had > started this research while I still had him here. He was about ten years old > when his grandma Kate (Tim and Sarah's daughter) died. He's probably heard > stories and more stories, but I never asked the questions. > Thank you again Brian. You have certainly brightened my week! > Lynda

Hazel, the Florida State Archives is located in Tallahassee at 500 South Bronough (pronounced "Bruno" by the locals) Street. It's a couple of blocks behind and almost directly in line with the State Capitol. It's on a one-way street, but if your friends will turn off US90 onto M.L. King they can come in from the rear and enter the adjacent parking garage on the far corner of the archives block. Good luck! flcrkr@mindspring.com wrote: > > Thank you Brian. Can you give me an exact address for the Florida State > Archives. I no longer live in Florida (reverse migration?) and need to tell > friends exactly where to go. Thank you. Hazel

Hi Rick! Good to see you on the list. I am descended from Mary Martin and Felix Geiger's son, Allen Bethel. I think we also discussed at one time that we might have a little connection to the Marion County Caruthers. Henrietta Caruthers married Laughlin McNeill, the brother of my gggrandmother. They moved to Lee County, FL. I am also researching Collier/Murphy/ Jordan/ Hogan/Geiger/McNeill. Most of these were in Alachua and Marion. I have always found the story of Emanuel and Mary's baby so very sad. Good to see you on the list. Sydney Cardner

Walt & Jo wrote: > > HAGAN, Jessie > b. about 1811, ?, d. 1893, Bradford Co. FL > > Any info. appreciated and happy to swap files. 12 Feb 1811 - 24 Feb 1893 Hope cem, Bradford Co. h/o A.J. -- Carl Mobley Orlando, FL http://www.genealogy.org/~mobley -- <Mobley Family History Page> http://www.magicnet.net/~cmobley -- <Baker Co., FL USGenWeb Project Page> 'show me how people remember their dead and I'll show you how they take care of their living.'

Can someone help me to locate my Douglas Family "Book"? When I got my Florida Pioneer Certificate, my family book was placed in a library somewhere. I think it was in Tallahassee. Since I do not know where it went, I cannot tell others where to find it and those who have tried have failed to locate it. Thanks to anyone who knows where these books are placed. Hazel

Thanks to all of you who responded to my question about Homestead procedures in FL. This answered some of my questions. Emma in NM

Hazel, If by your family "book" you mean the materials submitted to qualify you for your FPD certificate, they are placed in the Florida State Archives, where they are indexed three ways and are available for copying and/or research. Access is easy--if I understand correctly what it is that you're seeking, anyway. --Brian Michaels, Palatka ******************************************************** flcrkr@mindspring.com wrote: > > Can someone help me to locate my Douglas Family "Book"? When I got my > Florida Pioneer Certificate, my family book was placed in a library > somewhere. I think it was in Tallahassee. Since I do not know where it went, > I cannot tell others where to find it and those who have tried have failed > to locate it. Thanks to anyone who knows where these books are placed. Hazel

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_btV17pnoXGsztRShXDnnvQ) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mrs. Callicott, I'm forwarding your posting--which did come through on the FL-L, direct to Lynda. Her e-mail address is <lilbop@sprintmail.com>, in case you want to contact her directly/privately. Thanks for your help! --Brian Michaels --Boundary_(ID_btV17pnoXGsztRShXDnnvQ) Content-type: MESSAGE/RFC822 Return-path: <Southernheritage@pobox.com> Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by WIZARD.FIRN.EDU (PMDF V5.2-29 #33499) id <01J9PY02ZXFK00250Z@WIZARD.FIRN.EDU> for MICHAELS_B@popstore.firn.edu (ORCPT rfc822;michaels_b@popmail.firn.edu); Tue, 6 Apr 1999 17:04:45 EDT Received: from mail.jax (mail.jax.bellsouth.net [205.152.64.21]) by WIZARD.FIRN.EDU (PMDF V5.2-29 #33499) with ESMTP id <01J9PXYH1CEI0025SK@WIZARD.FIRN.EDU> for MICHAELS_B@popstore.firn.edu (ORCPT rfc822;michaels_b@popmail.firn.edu); Tue, 06 Apr 1999 17:04:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Callicot (host-209-214-129-193.jax.bellsouth.net [209.214.129.193]) by mail.jax (8.8.8-spamdog/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA09694; Tue, 06 Apr 1999 17:01:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 17:00:45 -0400 From: Richard & Deborah Callicott <Southernheritage@pobox.com> Subject: RE: The Wightman Project In-reply-to: <370A7219.3916E357@popmail.firn.edu> To: "Brian E. Michaels" <michaels_b@popmail.firn.edu>, FLORIDA-L@rootsweb.com Reply-to: Southernheritage@pobox.com Message-id: <000001be8070$8a47b400$c181d6d1@Callicot> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal This will make the 3rd time I have tried to send this message to the list.... Hopefully it will make it this time...... Mr. Michaels, if this does not appear on the list, could you see to it that the lady researching the Wightman family gets the information... it may help her piece the family's movement before Palatka. Thank you, Mrs. Callicott ............................................................................. .............................................................. Have been collecting info on FL pioneers of (Duval) Clay Co. I think the following may be of use in your research: WIGHTMAN, ELISHA D. 12/31/1839 Territorial Papers; page 629; living at Black Creek, Duval (now Clay county) WIGHTMAN, TIMOTHY 5/4/1829 - Voter - Black Creek at Wightman's, Duval (now Clay Co.) This would have been the area known 1st as Whitesville, later changed to Webster, just south of Middleburg. WIGHTMAN, TIMOTHY 5/4/1829 Territorial Papers; XXIV P.605 - Duval WIGHTMAN, T. 12/31/1839 Territorial Papers P 628 - Duval This information was provided to me courtesy Jim Thomas, Ocala. If the person researching the Wightman family will e-mail me personally, I have someone that they may want to contact who may have more information for them. Deborah Callicott Clay County, FL --Boundary_(ID_btV17pnoXGsztRShXDnnvQ)--

This will make the 3rd time I have tried to send this message to the list.... Hopefully it will make it this time...... Mr. Michaels, if this does not appear on the list, could you see to it that the lady researching the Wightman family gets the information... it may help her piece the family's movement before Palatka. Thank you, Mrs. Callicott ............................................................................ ............................................................. Have been collecting info on FL pioneers of (Duval) Clay Co. I think the following may be of use in your research: WIGHTMAN, ELISHA D. 12/31/1839 Territorial Papers; page 629; living at Black Creek, Duval (now Clay county) WIGHTMAN, TIMOTHY 5/4/1829 - Voter - Black Creek at Wightman's, Duval (now Clay Co.) This would have been the area known 1st as Whitesville, later changed to Webster, just south of Middleburg. WIGHTMAN, TIMOTHY 5/4/1829 Territorial Papers; XXIV P.605 - Duval WIGHTMAN, T. 12/31/1839 Territorial Papers P 628 - Duval This information was provided to me courtesy Jim Thomas, Ocala. If the person researching the Wightman family will e-mail me personally, I have someone that they may want to contact who may have more information for them. Deborah Callicott Clay County, FL

I am new to the Florida list and I have Martin, McDermitt,Shaw, Hall, Allen, and Caruthers ancestors from Marion and Sumter counties. My ggggrandfather(Emanuel Henry Martin) came to Fort McCoy ,Alachua County in 1827 with his wife and young baby. As a result of an Seminole Indian attack, the young baby died of a arrow wound, and Emanuel and Mary Geiger Martin went back to Bryan County Georgia. They came back in around 1831-32 and Emanuel became one of the early settlers of Marion County and part of the militia fighting the Seminoles. He went on to become a leading citizen until he died in 1851. His progeny went on as citizens of Sumter and Marion Country. My gggrandfather Henry Emanuel Martin lived in Oxford, Florida as did his children, grandchildren some of his great-grandchildren. I live in Sarasota County and at the County Historical Department is a log of obits where people can find ancestors who died in Sarasota County and the Sarasota County library has a listing of names from cemeteries around Sarasota County. Rick Bullock

Lynda, Bingo! Widow you say? Well, now, as a matter of fact that's what this here deed of 31 December of 1850 calls her: "... Mrs. Sarah Ann Wightman, widow, ... Town of Pilatka [it became a city later, in 1853]...." Consideration was "$600 lawful money... being the same or nearly the same premises which for the past three years have been occupied by the party of the second part [i.e., Sarah herself]." According to the plat of the "Town of Pilatka, E.F. [East Florida]," which I also got today, there were five buildings of varying sizes on the property, which was over 250 feet square, a nice chunk of land. Then, this here other deed shows that she sold the property as "Sarah Ann Wightman of the City of Fernandina" to Estanislada Teasdale, wife of former county commissioner and later Palatka mayor Henry R. Teasdale on 19 July 1869 for $1500. Apparently there was another deed (recited in this one) where she also had bought the original Lot 1 from James Burt on 18 May 1857 and added it to the holding. I'll try to find that one, too, but don't have it yet. There's a reasonable chance that since Tim was missing from the 1850 USPC and the deed confirms that she was a widow by Dec. 1850, there may be a probate in our parent county, St. Johns (seat, St. Augustine). I tried to get them to check for me, but they want a letter and prepayment of a search fee of $1.00/year/name. Too much time and effort. I expect to be in St. Augustine next week, so I'll look in their indexes for free and can then decide what to copy if there's anything there. I'll try to get this stuff out tomorrow. Hope it will help.... --Brian Michaels ****************************************************** Lynda wrote: > > Thanks Brian. Appreciate your help very much. > I wonder, if he died while their children were small wouldn't there have to > be something in probate records - seems like I remember seeing something > that the widow <snip>