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Desoto Co FLGenWeb Project
"Familiar
Names from Desoto's Past"
~ The first in a series on pre-Civil War pioneers in local communities in the 1840's - 1860's ~ The elite list consists of familiar names who were from or came in this area in pre-Civil War and post Civil War years. Names are familiar because their descendants still live in the area. The list is as follows:
Mary's sister, Isabella Brewer married James McBride. Florida Brewer, another sister of Mary, married Ziba King on July 24, 1870. Another sister Eliza Brewer married William Raulerson on December 16, 1869. These and other older children of James Brewer Sr. and Elizabeth Whidden lived in this territory as far back as 1841, and younger children were born as late as 1860, including Georgia Brewer who married John Kabrich and Joseph Thomas Brewer who married Julia Fredonia Hollingsworth. John Henry Hollingsworth was married to Ann Elizabeth Hooker. They had eight children who were born from 1847 to 1867 in Hillsborough and Manatee Counties when they took in Desoto County. The eight children of John Henry Hollingsworth and Ann Elizabeth Hooker were; Martha, born December 2, 1847, married William Alderman; Robert Hollingsworth, born in 1849; William H. born 1851, married Delilah Waldron; Mary A., born in 1854; Julia Fredonia, born 1859, married Joseph Thomas Brewer; Lillie Ann, born 1865, married William Stewart; Marsha Ann, born 1866 and James Jasper, born 1867. Enoch Everett Mizell came to Manatee County
about 1860 when Pine Level was the county seat. He was county judge in
1866-67. His children were:
His second marriage was to Annie Jackson,
and they had:
Annie Amanda Mizell married in 1868 to Francis Marion Platt. They had eight children: Frances Everett was born in 1869; the other seven children were born after 1870. Morgan Bonapart "Bone" Mizell was born in 1863. His father was Morgan Mizell. His mother was Mary Tucker Mizell. George Clinton Mizell, a son of Enoch Mizell was married to Mary Angeline Platt and they had six children. Alice Minrva was born in 1869, and was the oldest. She married Riley M. Grantham who was a traveling tax assessor of Manatee County after moving to Pine Level in 1868. In 1859, the Thomas Williams family were the original settlers of the area now known as the City of Arcadia, along with Matthew Herndon, who was the first landowner in 1856 when he acquired 40 acres described as the NE1/4 of the NW1/4, Section 36, township 37, R. 24E. Manatee County (now Desoto). He gave his brother Thomas Jefferson Herndon 20 acres, who in turn built a cabin on it; and it became the first post office in Arcadia. David Sampson Williams became the first postmaster, and his son, Thomas J. Herndon was the second postmaster. Frank Burdette Hagan moved to Pine Level in the early 1860's after serving under Captain James McKay in the Civil War. He married Elizabeth Jane Platt, daughter of John Platt. He served as county treasurer of Manatee and Desoto County in 1877 and 1887 respectively. In 1855 he helped in the formation of Manatee County. He was the father of Charles Hagan, life-long resident of Pine Level. Jesse Hagan, Alice Hagan Keene and Frances Hagan were also the children of F. B. Hagan. John Daughtrey came to Ft. Ogden during the Civil War. Captain F. C. M. Boggess was in Ft. Ogden at the time of the Civil War. Simeon Elias Whidden came to Joshua Creek in 1869. W. A. Ware had an orange grove and cattle in Ft. Ogden during the Civil War. ~ Next week: The Parker Brothers and the Carltons, their forebearers and descendants ~ ~ Article contributed by Carrie Parler Gibson ~
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