Draft:Caroline Howze Milton
Caroline Howze Milton (1826 - 1901) was a First Lady of Florida married to John Milton[1] and mother of ten children who was twice married. Her second husband, Florida governor John Milton killed himself as the Confederacy's loss in the American Civil War became imminent. She lived at their Sylvannia plantation in Jackson County, Florida and raise their children.
John Milton's first wife Susan Amanda Cobb died and he left Georgia after shooting a man he had a political and personal feud with in the back.[2] He returned to Alabama pursuing his legal career and married Caroline Howze in 1844.[3] By 1860 John Milton owned 7,000 acres and 52 enslaved persons.[4]
She was from Alabama.[5]
She and Milton had two sons and seven daughters.[6] Her children included frontier lawman Jefferson Davis Milton (Jeff Milton).
References
[edit]- ^ Johnson, Rossiter; Brown, John Howard (1904). "The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans".
- ^ Cooper, Jeannie Weller (4 November 2011). Panama City Beach: Tales from the World's Most Beautiful Beaches. Arcadia. ISBN 9781625841407.
- ^ Weitz, Seth A.; Sheppard, Jonathan C. (12 June 2018). A Forgotten Front: Florida During the Civil War Era. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 9780817319823.
- ^ Yearns, Wilfred Buck (May 2010). The Confederate Governors. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820335575.
- ^ Randall Stanley, J. (1950). "History of Jackson County".
- ^ "The National Cyclopedia of American Biography ... V.1-". 1901.
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