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…
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…
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…
Below follows an article written by my grandmother, Mary Vogt Duval. I never new I had ancestors from Hamilton, Ontario! A kind, loving, thoughtful, caring lady with a wonderfulsense of humor are the words to describe our grandmother, allfive feet, three inches of her. She was a brunette with veryfair skin and bright, clear blue eyes,…
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,…
My grandmother maintains many records about our family, which I believe my mother has now, but here follows a little bit of what I have: Images
Perhaps there are millions of people related to Charlemagne, but I am one of them, and my grandmother was an avid genealogist, who spent hours and hours researching these things before we had the internet, so this is both interesting and sentimental for me. Charlemagne Family Tree Charlemagne(768-814)=Hildegard Pepin, King of Italy Bernard, King of…
Charlemagne(768-814)=Hildegard Pepin, King of Italy Bernard, King of Italy Pepin de Peronne, Count of Vermandois Pepin de Senlis Herbert I, Count of Vermandois, d. 902 Poppa de Valoism. Rollo the Dane, 1st Duke of Normandy Herbert II, Count of Vermandois, d. 943 William Longswood, 2nd Duke of Normandy Albert I, Count of Vermandoism. Gerberga, dau….