Please submit (and date) your
items:
You may drop items off at the museum to be included here. That would be
the preferred way, however if you are from out of town simply e-mail
them to Mary Ellen Wexler: Xme@wexonline.net You must remove the leading "X" in the address. It has been
put
there for security purposes and the subject should be: "Item for
Bulletin Board" so we will know that you are sending an attachment.
If
you have suggestions on how you would like to see this site organized,
please email us as bakerblockmuseum@aol.com
School Photos to identify --1 2
Updated material
Do you Know who
this lady is ?
We
believe she is from the Florida panhandle area. Perhaps from
the
Ruckel family. Please email us or phone (850)537-5714. We are
willing to give the original to the family. It is such a nice
photo; we want to give her a name/home.
We
heard from Sarah McSwain and she says, "She was Christian
Corrine Cawthon Miller, granddaughter of William Cawthon and Nancy
Langston Fountain, daughter of Lafayette W. A. Cawthon and Nancy
McSwain. I believe that I put a copy of the photo of Chrissie in the
Cawthon book that Linda and I wrote." She also sent
another photo that she suspects was taken on the same day.
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See the new section on our home
page entitled, "Educational Services" Browse
the History and Culture of Okaloosa County, the Florida Panhandle and
the State of Florida. Public
Schools, Homeschoolers, Private Schools will find this a most helpful
site.
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The
Heritage of Okaloosa County, FL. Volume II is now on sale
at the museum. Cost is 63.80 (less than you children's high
school annual). Call, stop in or order on line.
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New items in the museum's research library!
There is a new binder in the museum's research library,
"Veterans
of Foreign Wars Post #7674 and Auxiliary" 1950-60s. Check this
Index
to see if the
surname you need is in
it. There are also two Directories which name people
from
all over the State of Florida (1960-60 & 61-62).
22nd Car Company. 5th Army. Quartermaster
Corps. "The
Double Deuces" Unit history and names of those who served.
Index
within.
Pryor Junior High
School. Year books for 1960/1961/1962 in a single volume.
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re: Oral History CD -
An
interview with Bob Merritt. Contact the museum's
Curator if you wish to view or transcribe data from this CD.
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re:
Harp Family
- if you
are researching this family in Okaloosa, Walton, Santa Rosa counties,
please contact the Curator who has more information on the family.
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re:
Eglin
homestead:
There is a homestead at T1N-R20W Section 32, the main landowners in
that area are Daniel Sanford, William Sanford, James Reddick, H. W.
Reddick, J. D. Shaw, Hiram Spears, Horace Godwin, Malcolm Shaw, and
Matthew Cauley. If anyone is a descendant of one of these
folks,
or knows anything about a homestead in theis are, James
Mathews
who is working on the archeaology of Eglin, would like to talk to
you. He may be reached at Prentice Thomas Associates:
850-243-5992. He is interested inhearing about any homesteader who
lived within the Eglin reserve, so please call him.
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re:
Jim Taylor
Hi. I am researching my gg grandfather Jim Taylor. He was married to
Adeline "Daught" Steele and they lived in Laurel Hill. Adeline was born
in 1858 and died in 1946. Not much is known about Jim. Family lore says
that he had a job at the post office in Laurel Hill but got into
trouble there and fled to Texas leaving his family behind. I know
nothing of his parentage. I am including the wedding pictures of Jim
and Adeline's two sons Josephus born in 1890 and Henry Herbert born in
1893. I have found Adeline in the 1885 census as single and in the 1900
census with just she and the boys. I have been unable to find Jim
Taylor on any record. I am hoping to visit your facility in March. I
live in Pennsylvania.
Thank you so much,
Rene Schaffer
pagirl@epix.net
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re: A
Walton
County Circuit Court Seal was found in Eucheeanna. If
you know anything about it or can shed some light on the year it may
have been made or used, please contact Donald Perring
attwoperr@cox.net or phone: 850-689-1731
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re: Have you seen the brochure on the Otahite Community Post
Office at the museum?
