Genealogical history of Florida revealed in the Old St. Nicholas Cemetery

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Jacksonville History Center

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Genealogical history of Florida revealed in the Old St. Nicholas Cemetery

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Library.2023

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256, [2] pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm Genealogical history of Florida revealed in the Old St. Nicholas Cemetery by Dr. Kay Ellen Gilmour. Registration: TXu 1-661-926. Dec. 10, 2009 Includes index. Summary: In a small neighborhood cemetery in Jacksonville, Florida are found the graves of 240 people of 49 different surnames whose lives and those of their distant ancestors formed the nidus for this unique depiction of Florida history. The research of their daily lives including their interactions with their neighboring Native American Indians and African slaves, the Civil War battles in which they fought and died and the prisons of war camps of both sides in which they languished, their working of the land, the St Johns River, and the Atlantic ocean, their many other 19th century professions, their health, diseases and causes of death. https://residentnews.net/2016/09/03/cemetery-blog-provides-rich-resource-st-nicholas-history/. Selected contents: Bowden Family -- Hendricks family -- Florida freezes -- New Switzerland plantation owned by Frances Philip Fatio -- John Batram -- Fort Picolata -- Red Stick War -- First Seminole War -- Yellow fever in Jacksonville in 1888 -- Cholera -- Markille family -- Age of steamboats -- Steamboat men of Jacksonville (Floyd, McIntyre, Somerville, Pointsett) -- Armed Occupation Act of 1842 -- Palmer Family -- Ferris Family -- Slavery and race relations -- Kingsley Plantation -- Second Seminole War -- Holmes Family -- Wilson Family -- Third Seminole War -- Financial Panic of 1873 -- 1850 Slave schedule of Duval County (Hart, Bowden, Dewees, Holmes, Fatio-- 1860 Slave schedule of Duval County (Hart, Palmer, Ferris, Fatio, Halliday) -- Civil War medicine -- Dr. Mary Blackmar Bruson -- Fort Sumter at Andersonville -- Civil War in Florida -- Regiments that fought in Florida --Battle of St. Johns Bluff --Battle of Cedar Point -- Battle of Olustee -- Bayard Family -- Van Valkenburgh family -- Riley family -- Bellflower family -- Hale family -- Commercial crops of 1894 (tobacco, cigars, lumber) -- Spanish American War of 1898 (Stephen Crane, Edward Murphy captain of Commodore) -- Great Fire of 1901 -- Movies (Kalem Studios, Oliver Hardy, Norman Studios) -- Claude Augusta Wilson -- Naming of St. Johns River -- Osceola.

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Documentary Objects

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Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

St. Nicholas Cemetery (Jacksonville, Fla.)., Cemeteries -- Florida -- Jacksonville., Jacksonville (Fla.) -- Genealogy., Yellow fever -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- 1888., Steamboats -- Florida -- Saint Johns River -- History., Slavery -- Florida., Kingsley Plantation (Jacksonville, Fla.) -- History., Great Fire, Jacksonville, Fla., 1901.

Publication Details

Author

Gilmour, Kay Ellen

Publisher

[publisher not identified]

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

[Charleston, SC]

Call No.

F 319 .J1 G58 2010

ISBN

9781453795439