Submitted by Descendants: Steven Charles and Waldo William WALLACE Jr. William Craig Wallace was born July 9 1848 at Soddy, Hamilton County, Tennessee and was educated in schools of that state, graduating from King College in Bristol TN and later…
Annie Viola WALKER
Submitted by Descendants: Frances Elaine McKENDREE & Robert Taylor KOEHLER Annie Viola Walker, a pioneer of the Tampa Bay area, was a lifelong resident of Florida, having been born 23 August 188 in DeSoto County. Viola was first married to…
Thomas WALKER
Submitted by Descendants: Amy Katherine, John Albert, and John Edward WALKER Thomas Walker was born circa 1796 in Colleton County, South Carolina. His parents are not known at present, but he is thought to have been a descendant of Isham…
Easter Lucinda WATERS Bronson
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,…
Emanuel WATERS
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…
John Francis WEBB
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…
William WEST
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. …
William Elias WESTER
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…
John WHALTON (aka Walton)
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…
John WHITEHURST
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…