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From: "Sarah Jane McKenzie" <>
Subject: Re: [FLGADSDE] newspapers
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 22:19:44 -0600
References: <200602130334.k1D3YIYn007146@mail.rootsweb.com>


I have a Sarah Jane Butler who married a Herring and then my Alexander
McKenzie. Does any of that sound like you've heard it before?
jane


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Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 9:34 PM
Subject: RE: [FLGADSDE] newspapers


> All that I can say is maybe. My great grandfather had a brother, Henry
> Butler who, at various times, lived in Jackson, Calhoun, and Gadsden
> Counties - and in Bainbridge, GA, for a while. I have not yet tracked all
> of Henry's offspring, but I know that some remained in Gadsden. On top of
> that, their other brother, Job Butler, lived in Jackson County and then
> settled in Grady County, GA after the Civil War - some of his descendants
> also moved down into Gadsden.
>
> On the other hand, there is a bunch of GA Butlers who moved into Gadsden
> and
> who claim that they are no kin of ours - I think that they are wrong, but
> have not yet gotten around to proving it. Anyway, I think, but am not
> sure
> the folks that you refer to are from this third group.
>
> Jack Butler
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sarah Jane McKenzie [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 10:26 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [FLGADSDE] newspapers
>
> Thanks for the information. Might you be a Butler from the
> Butler/Herring/Mckenzie line from Gadsden Co., FL?
> jane
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 5:00 PM
> Subject: RE: [FLGADSDE] newspapers
>
>
>> There are certainly newspapers available from the period before
>> Statehood -
>> I have worked my way through a number of Tallahassee papers from the
>> 1820s.
>>
>> The Florida State Library has microfilms from some early newspapers - and
>> I
>> did see some from Quincy, but I think that they were from dates after the
>> period that you are looking for.
>>
>> Depending on what you are looking for, you might want to look at the
>> Tallahassee newspapers from the period. They tended to have news and
>> notices
>> from the surrounding counties, too.
>>
>> Jack Butler
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [mailto:]
>> Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 5:52 PM
>> To:
>> Subject: Re: [FLGADSDE] newspapers
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 2/12/2006 12:22:13 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>> writes:
>>
>> Did Gadsden have a newspaper from 1805 till 1868? Was it actively
>> printing
>>
>> during those years?
>> jane
>>
>>
>>
>> No, Florida did not become a state until 1845. There were several
>> papers
>> from time to time, closer to 1868, but the Civil War disrupted a lot of
>> things.
>> However, in adjacent Leon County, being the capitol, there was a
>> much
>> better record for newspapers, and they carried some of the Gadsen County
>> News.
>> The best collection of old newspapers on microfilm, I think, is at
>> the
>>
>> University of Florida in the Smathers Library, but Smathers has been
>> undergoing a major renovation for the past two or three years, and the
>> microfilm
>> section is currently scattered.
>> I have a list of the newspapers and their publishing dates on
>> microfilm
>> at Smathers, so if you can e-mail me directly with your wants, I will
>> look
>> and see what might work for you.
>> Obituaries were rare until about 1940, unless you were a prominent
>> citizen or politician.
>> Jim Webb - Jacksonville, Florida
>>
>>
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