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