This is a list of the jury drawn for the fall term of the Circuit Court for Nassau County in October 1881 and originally published in The Florida Mirror, October 15, 1881. This information was subsequently published in The Nassau County Genealogist, vol. 5, p. 30.
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June 7, 1884, from The Florida Mirror “The mortality list we publish covers three months, and embraces not only the city of Fernandina, but Amelia Island, a population of over 3000 persons. It will be noted that but 2 white adults are included, one of an advanced age. That a large proportion of the deaths are children, and that the death rate for the whole population does not exceed a ratio of 4 per cent per annum, a statement that speaks well for the health of Fernandina.” Mortuary Report of Amelia Island for Months of March, April and May. Furnished by R. M. Henderson, undertaker. March 12 – Matilda S. McConnell, b. Old Town, Fla., d. of carcinoma at Old Town, age 55 yrs 8 mos March 13 – Frank Williams (col), b. Amelia Island, d. of consumption at City [Fernandina], age abt 38 yrs March 17 – Kitty Johnson (col.), d. of dropsy at City, age abt 40 yrs March 25 – Samuel King (col), b. Centerville, Ga., d. of paralysis at City, age abt 66 yrs March 25 – Twins, Mary L. and Emma Martha Keats (col.), b. Bloomfield, N.J., d. of marasmus at City, age 3 mos March 25 – Fredric Bradley (col), b. Fernandina, d. of trismus nascentium at City, age 8 days April 5 – Mary E. Williams (col), b. Old Town, Fla., d. at Old Town, age 4 days April 13 – Patience Cooper (col), b. South Carolina, d. of dropsy at City, age...
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from The Florida Mirror, December 2, 1882 The Times takes the Mirror to task on the subject of expensive and extravagant court-houses. Economy in public expenditures has been made a cardinal principle in the platforms of both political parties. It is either a principle of universal application, and has a practical application to the affairs of the National Government, the State, county and city governments, or else is a meaningless and hypocritical utterance, a glittering generality to be laid aside whenever a practical question comes up. Grover Cleveland, after Buffalo had suffered a long period of extravagant and reckless financial mismanagement, was elected mayor. He gave practical shape to measures of reform, cut down extravagant expenditures, vetoed improper ones, and made a clean record upon the issue of an economical administration. The unmistakable verdict of the country in the recent elections is in favor of economy in public expenditures. What then, is economy? Webster defines it: “Economy avoids all waste and extravagance, and applies money to the best advangage.” Courts are a part of the necessary machinery of government, and court-rooms for the hearing of causes, and jury-rooms for the private consideration of verdicts, have to be provided. It has been the fashion, particularly in the West, to make this necessity for courtrooms a protest for building extravagant and costly buildings to ornament new towns, and give greater value to real estate in its vicinity. Macoupin county, Illinois, some years ago built a court-house costing over $100,000, and issued its...
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The following information is given on individuals with connections to Nassau County followed by the ancestor chart of James Taliaferro Goodbread who presently lives in Cleveland, Oklahoma. Details of the lineage are given with the ancestor chart.
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Provides an Ahnentafel chart of James Taliaferro Goodbread through his Nassau county, Florida roots backwards until he reaches the Nordheim, Germany area in the 1500s.
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Herbert Eaustace Goodbread was the fifth child of Phillip Souder Goodbread, Jr. and Mabel Clair Goodbread. He was born on September 29, 1898 in Nassau County, Florida, and died in Tucson, Arizona, on June 28, 1986.
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Houston Parrish Goodbread was the eighth child of Phillip Souder Goodbread, Sr. and Elizabeth Ann Parrish. He was born on April 19, 1876 at Chester, Nassau County, Florida. He died on April 22, 1953 at Edgewater, Volusia County, Florida. On November 28, 1909, he married Frances Strickland in Nassau County, Florida.
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Jacob Tapley Goodbread, third child of Phillip Souder Goodbread and Elizabeth Ann Parrish, was born on October 10, 1862. He died December 17, 1948, at Callahan, Nassau Co., Florida. He was married in Nassau County on January 29, 1885, to Charlotte Lee Colson.
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Phillip Souder Goodbread, Sr., the 2nd child & 2nd son of Jane Dean Brown and Jacob Tapley Goodbread; was born at White Oak, Camden Co. Ga. June 11, 1835 and died Feb. 21 1911 at Chester, Nassau Co. Fla.
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A description and image copy of the 1884 hand drawn lithograph Bird's Eye View of Fernandina, Fla.
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