African-American Resources for Duval County, Florida

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Duval County, Florida, United States
Surnames/tags: Black_Heritage Slavery

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Contents 1 Genealogy Resources 2 Cemeteries 3 Slave Owners 4 Slave Profiles 5 Plantations 6 One Place Studies 7 Stats for First Quarter of 2023 8 Sources

Genealogy Resources

• Smith, Julia Floyd (2017). Slavery and plantation growth in Antebellum Florida, 1821-1860 (PDF). Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series. University of Florida Press. ISBN 9781947372627.
• Florida County List
• Florida: Family History & Genealogy, Census, Birth, Marriage, Death Vital Records & More
• Duval County, Florida: Family History & Genealogy, Census, Birth, Marriage, Death Vital Records & More
• Historic African-American Sites in and around Jacksonville, Fla.
• LAVILLA, FLORIDA, 1866-1887: RECONSTRUCTION DREAMS AND THE FORMATION OF A BLACK COMMUNITY By Patricia Drozd Kenney, May 1990
• Gravely Hill Plantation and Graveyard
• History of Early Jacksonville Florida by Thomas Frederick Davis (1911)
• Arlington Plantations
• Celia (Florida) - the first woman executed by the state of Florida, killed enslaver/father Jacob Bryan in Duval County in 1847
• Complilation_of_PowerPoint_Presentations_2021_Leadership_Lyceum -pp 23-65 highlights African-Americans from LaVilla and other areas of Florida who made an impact
• A rifle and a shovel — As a wagoner in World War I, early Pablo Beach resident made his mark in history.

Cemeteries

• Bethel AME Cemetery, Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida - completed all profiles (21) (one listed as Unknown Unknown with no name or dates was not done)
• Sunset Memorial Cemetery Memorials -177 memorials,153 profiles of interred created, ( 24 people are listed in the wrong cemetery, reported to FG, profiles not created)

Pending:

• Mount Olive Cemetery Memorials - needs 966 profiles of interred
• Mount Hermon Cemetery Memorials - needs 217 profiles of interred
• Pinehurst Cemetery Memorials - needs 486 profiles of interred
• Memorial Cemetery Memorials - needs 564 profiles of interred
• Greenwood Cemetery Memorials - needs 380 profiles of interred
• Saint Nicholas Cemetery, Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida - needs 1132 profiles of interred

Slave Owners

• George Acosta and Slaves of George Acosta, Florida
• Sarah Acosta
• James Armstrong
• Arthur Burney
• Abel Seymour Baldwin
• James Baldwin
• Joseph A. Barber
• James Bardin
• Martha Pratt Baxter (updated) and Slaves of Martha Pratt Baxter, Florida
• Jefferson P Belknap
• Thomas Bellows
• Thomas Benton
• Stephen Jackson Eubank (1785-1837)
• Miles Price (1817-1886) (updated profile already on Wikitree)
• Caroline Lucinda (Eubanks) Price (1829-1857) (updated profile already on Wikitree)
• Maria Louisa Eubank (bef.1837-)
• William David Eubank (bef.1837-)
• Jonathan Jesup Eubank (bef.1837-)
• Henry Jackson Eubank (bef.1837-)
• Ann Maria (Thigpen) Eubank (bef.1811-)
• Sarah Adeline (Eubank) McGahagan (bef.1831-)
• Bernard, Charles and Slaves of Charles Bernard, Florida
• Hemming, John C and Slaves of John Charles Hemming, Florida
• Abraham Bessant and Slaves of Abraham Bessant, Florida

Pending:

• 1850 Slave Schedule, Duval County, Florida - developing profiles for enslavers not already on Wikitree
• 1860 Slave Schedule, Duval County, Florida - developing profiles for enslavers not already on Wikitree

Slave Profiles

• Simon Hemming

Plantations

• Gravelly Hill Plantation, Duval County, Florida

Pending:

• Kingsley Plantation, Duval County, Florida - needs slave profiles completed
• Slaves of Stephen Jackson Eubank, Florida (needs slave profiles created)

One Place Studies

• LaVilla, Jacksonville, Florida One Place Study

Stats for First Quarter of 2023

The Florida Team worked on Duval County all quarter. We added a One Place Study of the Lavilla community in Jacksonville [1]. We also added two cemeteries with a total of 174 profiles created, one plantation (Gravelly Hill) , one slave profile, and 24 slave owner profiles, along with 5 Slaves of pages which need slaves identified.

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