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Submitted by Descendant:  Thomas Edward BRONSON Easter Lucinda Waters, the daughter of Emanuel Waters and Nancy Elizabeth Gornto Waters, was born abt. 2 May 1856 in Levy County, Florida.  She married William Jasper Bronson on 7 February 1878 in Bronson, Levy County, Florida. Easter was a wife, homemaker, and mother. …

Submitted by Descendant:  Thomas Edward BRONSON Emanuel Waters was born abt. 12 Dec 1829 in Georgia.  He married Nancy Elizabeth Gornto abt. 12 Jan 1851 in Madison Co., Florida.  He was a farmer as well as a husband, father, and soldier. Emanuel served with Captain David Lang’s Company in the…

Submitted by Descendants:  Daisy Webb, Jason Webb, and Madeline Mae KENNEDY John Francis Webb, son of John Webb and Elizabeth Lawson was born in 1804 in Liberty County, Georgia.  By the time he was thirteen, John was an orphan and became a ward of the Reverend Charles O. Screven, a…

Submitted by Descendant:  Elizabeth STRONG William West was born in Barsham, England, about 1798, traveled by ship to the United States in 1819 and after residing in New York and South Carolina, arrived in Jefferson County about 12 February 1830.  On 25 November 1830, William West swore allegiance to the…

Submitted by Descendant:  Deanna D. RAMSEY William “Elias” Wester was the sixth child of William Elias Wester and Susanna Page.  After his father’s death in 1808, Elias was raised in Tattnall County, Georgia near the Altamaha River by his older brother Richard.  At the age of 21, he married Margaret…

Submitted by Descendant:  John WHALTON John Whalton arrived in St Augustine in Spanish Florida around 1818.  It is believed that he was born in New York into a family that had originally come from Ireland.  By 1819, John had won the hand of Felicia Buchani and they were married on…

Submitted by Descendant:  Erman Edward MURRAY John A. Whitehurst was born about 1815 in Georgia, he first settled in Hamilton County, Florid about 1835.  He fought twice, in 1836 and 1840, with the Florida Militia during the Seminole wars. He settled in Benson County (now Hernando) about 1841 with his…

Submitted by Descendants:  Halley Jr., Halley Bronson III, and Halley BRONSON IV Jesse Wiggans was born Tatnall County, Georgia and moved to Columbia County, Florida where he enlisted in Captain W. B. North’s Company of Florida Volunteers and served from January to June of 1836 and was discharged at Fort…

Submitted by Descendants:  Vivian “Babe” Carter DAVIS; Jessica Harper HOOVER; Sylvia “Peggy” Carter MANN; and Paul Vaughn WYNN John Daniel Williams was born in Tattnall Co., Georgia in 1816.  He came to Columbia Co. Florida, with his parents, William Williams & Sarah Harvey Williams sometime in the early 1830’s.  On…