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Submitted by Descendant:  Sara Parham JOHNSON John Morrison was born circa 1807 in North Carolina.  He lived in Georgia, marrying Sibbiah Blair born 1801.  While living in Georgia, they had 4 children and then moved to Marion County, Florida.  There, two more children were born in 1846 and 1848.  John…

Submitted by Descendants:  Alexander P., Lindsay M., and Richard E. HADDEN Eliza Motes was born around 1821 in Georgia.  It is probable that her parents were John and Margaret Motes of Nassau County, Florida. On the 29th October 1840, Jackson Tynum, J.P. performed the marriage between Eliza and James M. Burnsed…

Submitted by Descendants:  Gregory N., Jon L III, and Jon L. COURSON Jr. Florida W. Murrhee was married at a young age to Joseph Alexander McIntosh.  Together they raised a large family and today have many descendants who meet each year to honor the family legacy we inherited. Florida endured…

Submitted by Descendant:  Jackson Lee LANDERS Mary Virginia Murray-Hall was born 13 February 1823 in Duval County, Florida. She married John C. Houston in Pablo Beach, Duval County, Florida on 22 September 1836 where they remained until 1842.  It was at this time the government was offering 160 acres of…

Submitted by Descendant:  William Thomas Tuttle Elizabeth K. Nathans was a blushing bride when she and her husband, Nicholas Grubb, joined her father, Isaac Nathans, and his family in Florida shortly after her marriage on 17 Dec 1829.  She was about age 20 at the start of her married life…

Submitted by Descendant:  William Thomas TUTTLE Isaac Nathans was born in Philadelphia.  At about age 46, Isaac settled in Quincy, Florida, sometime before the 1820 census, with his second wife and five children.  All counted, Isaac had three wives, seventeen children and at least five slaves.  He remained in Quincy…

Submitted by Descendant:  Lynda Nelson BODELON John Nelson was born Jens Nissen 22 April 1812 in Haderslev, Denmark.  According to family oral history, at the age of 12, he was sold by his father as a hired servant, soon after running away to sea.  He spent several years at sea,…

Submitted by Descendant:  Martin Dewayne NETTLES Willis Nettles was a private in the 6th Regiment Florida Militant Seminole War 1835-36. He was born about 1810 in Georgia.  In 1832 he married Nancy Ann Lanier, daughter of Hardy Lanier.  They had two sons, Isaac Mills Lanier Nettles born 1833 in Alachua County,…

Submitted by Descendant:  Latrell E. MICKLER Born 7 Feb 1803 in St. Augustine, Spanish East Florida, Rafaela Ynes Maria Romaulda Oliveros was the daughter of Sebastian Oliveros (born in Bonafacia, Corsica, France) and Catalina Antonia Alzina/Usina (born in St. Augustine, British East Florida, the daughter of Minorcan parents).  Rafaela was…