A young widow in Georgia struggled to feed, clothe and house her children. She nursed them through smallpox only to lose her own life to the deadly disease. Daily existence for the children became a nightmare but they persevered and a long line of progenitors remember their lives. Years later in Florida a grand-daughter, Elizabeth (Durham) Rhymes, was tragically killed by the northbound No. 78 train in her panic dash to spare her young son from the oncoming crushing, steel wheels.
Surnames profiled within the 8½ x 11 bound book are: Arnold, Ashley, Ashton, Baisden, Baker, Barber, Bass, Basse, Blankenship, Boykin, Brack, Brecht, Bright, Bronson, Buckles, Burgess, Butler, Campbell, Carroll, Cleavenger, Cline, Collins, Cubbedge, Donegan, Durham, Eagerton, Ellis, Evans, Farmer, Farrell, Flake, Flowers, Gragg, Grimm, Grimmett, Guy, Gwaltney, Hadden, Hall, Hancock, Hansel, Hart, Harvey, Hatfield, Hayden, Hinchman, Hoover, Horner, Howard, Johns, Johnson, Jourdan, Knight, Lesley, Lupfer, Lybass, Mann, Marriott, McCall, McClelland, McConnell, Mizell, Monts de Oca, Nettles, O'Daniel, Oliver, Osceola and other Florida Indians, Overstreet, Padgett, Parker, Pearce, Perry, Peterson, Prevatt, Priest, Rader, Raulerson, Sellers, Shaw, Silas, Simmons, Smith, Stevens, Story, Sullivan, Sullivant, Thomas, Thompson, Tindall, Tracy, Tumblin, Vance, Walker, Warren, Wheeler, Williams, Willingham, Wright and Young.
BASSE/BRIGHT and BRECHT/BRIGHT FAMILY HISTORY
A HODGEPODGE OF PEOPLE-PLACES-EVENTS
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BASSE/BASS and BRECHT/BRIGHT FAMILY HISTORY
A HODGEPODGE OF PEOPLE-PLACES-EVENTS
Many years of research have gone into the compilation of this work. An untold number of various records have been searched, numerous persons interviewed. The end results are approximately 520 pages plus a 32 page index that contains more than 2,400 entries. There are more than 500 pictures and/or images and over 500 individual family sketches.
Read stories of rugged individuals who helped make this land home to so many. They cleared land, planted crops, fought for freedom, endured unrelenting hardships, enforced laws, praised Heavenly Father for giving them the fortitude to strive forward, sought a better life for their families and left a legacy for us to build upon.
Most know when Osceola County, Florida was created. But how many know the name of the county's first sheriff, or the county's first motorcycle patrolman, or how the great Indian leader Osceola was captured. Where was the only known legal hanging in Osceola County held and who was the sheriff? Early voters and some of the 1918 draft eligibles, along with many settlements or areas existed but most are now forgotten such as Olive Branch, Klondyke, the Bird Rookery, Nittaw, Pocataw and Wewahootee. Read of these in this exciting fact filled book. How many locations can be found? Answers to these and much more are documented in a new book entitled Basse/Bass and Brecht/Bright Family History - A Hodgepodge of People - Places - Events. Read a KKK reply to a letter seeking information on a reported member. Read of a West Virginia legal hanging gone horrifically wrong when the condemned is decapitated. Ritchie, Logan, Kanawha, Wyoming and Greenbrier are some of the counties in West Virginia that were home to many families whose lives unfold on these pages. West Virginia's penitentiary in Moundsville had a troubled history that touched the lives of others.
Some of the most hardy individuals made their homes in the mountains and hollows of Virginia and West Virginia. Many were deep seam coal miners while others farmed the land. From these early settlers came attorneys, ministers, educators, doctors, law officers, and close knit families. The names Ellis, Hatfield, Wright, Blankenship, Hoover and Vance are just a few of these. Formidable men left their footprints on the history of this nation. Men such Abner Vance, who met a tragic death, fought in the Revolutionary War, was an Indian Scout and a preacher.