Another Coat of Arms

           Copy ofNewspaper Clipping, dated June 28, 1889 LIFE IN FLORIDA by ALBERTUS VOGT THE WITHLACOOCHEE “The water-lily dips its vase of snowOn many a shallow cove along whose graceful edge the purple flowers grow And dappled river beds and tufted sedge,And in the stream beneath their image liesMirrored like beauty in a lover’s eyes.” Almost immediately on…

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…

From:  The Dunnellon Citizen   C. Y. Miller, Publisher Published Every Friday  Member of the Florida Press Assn.Ore Dollar a Year        Affiliated with the National Editorial Assn. The following was first printed in the Ocala Banner in 1899: A Tribute to a Benefactor Written by L. L. Aiken While you and I differ in politics, it does seem to me…

JOHN WALKER VOGT Margaret Vassie’s first husband was a tall, handsome man with blue eyesand black hair, who was known to be a gentle, well-educated man.  As an or-phan boy before his sixth birthday, and who probably did not remember hisparents, he learned to be adjustable.  He was fortunate to be reared and edu-cated by an uncle,…

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…