One Room School Genealogy

Mary Reid Godwin, arrived in the Florida territory in 1826. Her husband, William Solomon Godwin, Sr. and three of their children lay buried in Georgia.  She and her four surviving children: Robert Jacob, Richard Jefferson, William Solomon, Jr., and Susannah Zilla; left Georgia with many neighbors to establish homestead in the Wild Territory of Florida.  The Godwins first settled in the Duval County area for a few years, a common stopping place for many of the settlers coming into Florida from Georgia.  There Susannah married William Bevin and passed away soon after. The boys established neighboring homesteads near the junction of New River and the Santa Fe River now in the Bradford County.  Jacob lived out his life on the New River.  His one child with Elizabeth Sparkman, was James who married Elizabeth Knight and they had one son, Jacob.  James died in 1862 a casualty of the Civil War. Jacob attended Teacher's Normal and school teaching became his pri...

My great-great grandfather is Wright Carlton, a pioneer settler of Nocatee, Florida.  He was  a  soldier, cattleman,  citrus grower and farmer, as well as a land developer,  and church leader. Wright Carlton was born September 17, 1843 in Thomas County, Georgia. His parents, Daniel  and Sallie Ann (Murphy) Carlton, moved through Alachua and Marion Counties in Florida and settled briefly in the Alafia Settlement in Hillsborough County, Florida where they were listed in the 1850 census. Soon the Carlton family moved to Fort Meade and then to Troublesome Creek (between present-day Wauchula and Ona), and after the Civil War to Nocatee, Manatee (now DeSoto) County, Florida. Wright was a unmarried when he  enlisted as a private on April 10, 1862 in Company E, Seventh Florida Infantry, C.S.A. Soon after being enlisting, the Seventh was ordered sent to join the Army of Tennessee, with which they took part in all its campaigns. He was captured December 1...