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 a painting that hung in my grandparents house for many years and was hung in my parents house. My grandmother, Mary Vogt DuVal painted it. It seems likely it was an oil painting, since that was generally her choice of medium. You can see the beautiful reflection of the mill on the water…
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…
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…
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…
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…