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Submitted by Descendants:  Joseph Newton and Pamela Newton MOORE; Melissa Moore STOCKHAM John Carroll Houston was a captain in the Revolutionary War, serving with the South Carolina militia.  He was granted 265 acres of land in Beaufort, South Carolina, for his service in the war.  John was born about 1756…

Submitted by Descendant:  Jackson Lee LANDERS John C. Houston was born on Big Talbot Island, Duval County, in August of 1813.  He married Mary Virginia Hall in Pablo Beach on 22 September 1836, and they remained in Duval County until 1842 when they traveled south via steamboat to take advantage…

Submitted by Descendants:  Waldo W. DAVIS and Gloria Beatrice Ann HART William henry Willingham was born 18 April 1816, possibly in Oglethorpe, Georgia.  William voted in the 1845 state election in Columbia County and served four enlistments in the Indian Wars. He married Anna. E. “Annie” Hilliard on 23 July…

Submitted by Descendant:  Elizabeth Marion Stover BAILEY Joseph Higginbotham was born 1837 in Spring Grove, Marion Co., Florida, to David Bod Higginbotham and Elizabeth Hughes.  By the time of the 1850 Federal Census Joseph was living with his family in Putnam County, Florida.  Joseph Higginbotham married Frances Beck 30 Oct…

Submitted by Descendant:  Tally Sanborn BROWN Zilphia Hicks was born 26 January 1806 in Camden County, Georgia, the daughter of John Hicks.  She married Robert Sandlin from North Carolina 12 December 1822. About 1827 they moved to a homestead in forested land near Blounts Ferry, Florida.  There on their homestead…

Submitted by Descendant:  Filiberto J. R. HENDERSON Juan Hernandez was born 23 August 1761 at Mahon, Minorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.  His parents were:  Gaspar Hernandez and Margarita Triay.  This family can be traced back in the parish records of Mahon to 1648.  In that year Francisco Hernandez, native of Vilanova,…

Submitted by Descendants:  Corey James, Heather Ann, Jason Michael, and Mary Ann Sullivan MAMMEN William Charles Hawkins, son of William Hawkins and Mary Elizabeth Cox, was born 21 October 1843 in Leon County, Florida.  His parents were both born in South Carolina. After his father was awarded a land warrant…

Submitted by Descendants:  Corey James, Heather Ann, Jason Michael, and Mary Ann Sullivan MAMMEN William Hawkins’ actual birth date is unknown, but the 1850 Leon Co. census record states that he was 50 years old.  He migrated to the Territory of Florida from the Greenville area of South Carolina, probably…

Submitted by Descendant:  Nicholas J. LINVILLE Margery Harris was born in Nassau County, Florida on 28 January 1845, and lived her entire life in Florida.  She married James Madison Wilson on 6 January 1859 in Clay County, Florida.  They had ten children together. James served in the Confederate Army during…