Another Coat of Arms

This is taken from a newspaper article, written by Albertus Vogt, and publishedin the Ocala Daily Banner, Wednesday, August 10, 1910. Albertus describes his early family life in Hancock County, Georgia, during theCivil War: “No man is more grateful in his remembrance to the faith of the coloredpeople, kept as slaves to their owners’ families…

FAMILY RECORD Marriages Page 1: John W. Vogt and Maggie Vassie, married November 21, 1889 at Dunnellon, Florida. Adelaide Bonita Vogt and Claude Watson Thomason, married November 23, 1910 St. John’s Episcopal Church, Jacksonville, Fla. William Vassie Vogt and Helen Ray Heisley, married June 23, 1918, at First Christian Church, Deland. Fla. John Walker Vogt…

How fitting it is, after so many years, for our families to meet hereduring Dunnellon’s celebration of its past, to which our Vogt family mademajor contributions.  How important is our history to us?  The followingquotations put this question in good perspective: “Let the dead past bury its dead”,Longfellow wrote.  That’s bad advicebased on bad information.  The Pastis not dead.  Another…

Excerpts from a personal autobiography of Albertus Vogt, which was printed in the Ocala Banner in 1893. “In my memory there is a sacred picture which I feel is no sacrilege togive the public a glimpse of, for in the main the public heart is right, thebetter nature predominates in the majority of people.  Born with…