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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…

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…

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…

North StreetLakeland (FL) 1914 To-my-Sweetheart (Dedicated to Marguerite.)now my wife God’s truest artist wrought your formWith subtle graces in its curves,And strength and beauty to adornA Goddess such as you deserveTo make you divine, “My Sweetheart.” Your guardian angel at your birth, Brought down from out the skies Two wide blue townships in the earth,…