Genealogy for
Southward Thurman Segars Jr
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Southward Thurman Segars Jr
12/7/1809 - 9/28/1864
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Southward Thurman Segars, Jr, was born on December 7, 1809 somewhere in North Carolina and died on September 28, 1864 in Gulf County, Florida. He lived to be 54 years old.
His parents were Southward Thurman Segars Sr. (1770-1852) and Nancy Clark (1780).
He married in August of 1830 to Clarkey May Moore (1812-1904) | 
 | Marriage | 8/1/1830 | GA | 20 yrs old | | Written in the Segars family Bible - Southward Segars and Clarky Moore was married
August (date is torn) 1830 |
| Other | 9/28/1864 | Mexico Beach FL (Bay County) | 54 yrs old | Family lore said Southward Segers, Jr. worked for the Confederacy at Saddle Hills (near Mexico Beach, FL) excavating salt. His work there continued after the Union took over and he died there as a Union prisoner. An historical study of the salt works details Confederates transporting salt from the area. There is no records of Southward as a prisoner or soldier. It is probable that IF Southward Segers, Jr. died at the salt works, he was civilian labor.
per family historian Garnet Walden |
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Southward, his family, and friends. For example, Southward is 2 years old when By 1811 the new "Federal Road" (which started as a horse path) is filled with a steady flow of white settlers into Creek Indian Territories. The Spanish begin to fan hostile sentiments among the Indians.
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1810 |
Western Florida, from the Pearl River to the Mississippi, is annexed by the US from Spain. |
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1813 |
During 1813-14, over 2,000 Muskogee-speaking Creeks move to Florida in response to the Creek Civil War (also known as the Red-sticks War). Most come from AL and GA. |
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1818 |
First Seminole Indian War takes place when Andrew Jackson brings his troops into northern Florida. |
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1821 |
Spain formally cedes Florida to the United States in 1821, according to terms of the Adams-Onís Treaty. Spanish colonists as well as settlers from the newly formed United States begin to pour into the new territory. Prior to this change, Florida was a wilderness sparsely dotted with settlements of native Indians, escaped/freed slaves and Spaniards. |
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1822 |
Florida Territory is purchased |
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1823 |
The Treaty of Moultrie Creek pushes the Seminole Indian towns into the interior of the Florida peninsula. |
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1824 |
Tallahassee is established at the capital of Florida because it is half-way between the two government centers in St. Augustine and Pensacola. The Legislative Council meets in November in a log house erected in the vicinity of today's capitol. |
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1835 |
The Second Seminole Indian War keeps the United States and Seminoles Indians fighting in North & Central Florida. |
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1837 |
NEWS HEADLINES: In October, Chief Osceola of the Seminole Indians is captured when he arrives for supposed truce negotiations at Fort Payton. He is imprisoned at St. Augustine, FL where he refuses to eat and attempts to escape several times. In December he is moved to a prison in SC where he dies on January 20, 1838. At the time of his death, Osceola was the most famous American Indian. |
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1842 |
Second Seminole Indian War ends and some of the Seminole Indians living in FL are moved to the Indian Territory |
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1842 |
Congress passes the Armed Occupation Act of 1842. It entitles persons willing and able to bear arms against the Indians and establish themselves in villages along the borders of Indian territory ownership of their land after 5 years. |
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1845 |
Florida becomes the 27th state to join the United States. William Moseley becomes the first governor and David Yulee the first senator. |
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1850 |
Florida's total population has grown to 87,445. This includes about 39,000 slaves and 1,000 free blacks. Indians were not counted. |
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1855 |
Third Seminole Indian War begins and war breaks out with most of the battles occurring in Central Florida. It ends three years later when Chief Billy Bowlegs and his band are forced to move from Florida. |
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1861 |
No Floridian's voted for Lincoln during the 1860 election. On Jan. 10, 1861, Florida seceded from the U.S. and joined the Confederate States of America a few weeks later. |
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1864 |
Battle of Olustee is a Confederate victory. Union troops pull back |
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1814 |
The first locomotive engine was created by Stephenson |
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1830 |
The first railroad is constructed between Liverpool and Manchester, England |
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1839 |
Goodyear invents vulcanized rubber, opening the door for tires and other rubber products. |
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1844 |
The first telegraph message is sent by Morse, who later invents the Mores Code |
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1853 |
The process of creating steel is invented by Besermer in Britain and Kelly in the U.S. |
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1856 |
The first Neanderthal fossils are found near Germany |
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1859 |
Charles Darwin publishes "Origin of Species" and begins the evolution theory. |
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1811 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Tecumseh's emerging Indian Confederacy is defeated at the Battle of Tippecanoe in Ohio. Afterwards, Tecumseh and his brother travel from their Shawnee homes in the north to recruit and unify the southern Indians. |
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1812 |
NEWS HEADLINES: War of 1812 begins and will continue for until 1814. Some call it the Second War of Independence because the US fights Great Britain to a stalemate, Americas independence was assured. |
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1828 |
Gold is discovered in Georgia. |
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1834 |
July 9 - The S.S. John Randolph, the first successful iron steamship, is launched in Savannah |
| 52 |
1861 |
NEWS HEADLINES: American Civil war begins at Ft. Sumter, located in Charleston Harbor, VA. |
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1862 |
NEWS HEADLINES: May 20, 1862 the US government passes the Homestead Act to provide cheap land for settlement of lower Southeast and West. |
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1830 |
The U.S. Government begins forcing Cherokee Indians from their homes in what becomes known as the Trail of Tears. Many Cherokee hide in the mountains of North Carolina and surrounding states. |
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1811 |
By 1811 the new "Federal Road" (which started as a horse path) is filled with a steady flow of white settlers into Creek Indian Territories. The Spanish begin to fan hostile sentiments among the Indians. |
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1820 |
The Act of April 24, 1820 abolished the land purchase credit system, fixed the price of public lands at $1.25 per acre, and set the minimum purchase at 80 acres. After a person purchased land, a final certificate was issued by the land office and sent to Washington DC to be verified and signed by the President -- a time consuming process. Public lands were most typically available through US treaties with Indians who agreed to be removed from their homelands. |
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1830 |
Indian Removal Act signed and the moving of eastern Indians west of the Mississippi begins. |
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1835 |
Second Seminole Indian War begins. |
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1837 |
The trickery used to capture Seminole Indian Chief Osceola (Assi Yohola) creates a public uproar and U.S. General Jesup is publicly condemned. |
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1840 |
Oregon Trail is established |
| 33 |
1842 |
Second Seminole Indian War ends and thousands of Seminole Indians are forced to move west of the Mississippi. |
| 46 |
1855 |
Third Seminole Indian War begins. It ends three years later when Chief Billy Bowlegs and his band are forced to move from Florida. |
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1860 |
Presidential election puts Abraham Lincoln in office. The campaign has heated the issues regarding slavery in the south. |
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1862 |
May 20, 1862 the US government passes the Homestead Act to provide cheap land for settlement of lower Southeast and West. |
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1863 |
Abraham Lincoln issues the "Emancipation Proclamation" freeing slaves. |
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1833 |
Santa Anna is elected President of Mexico |
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The Children of Southward Thurman Segars Jr
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Permelia Elizabeth Segars
Born in Early County, Georgia on March 12, 1838 and died in Dale County, Alabama about 1905. She was about 66 years old.
Her daughter, Josephine stated in the 1880 census that her father was born in Alabama and her mother was born in Georgia. Past down in the family is the Knight name, that appears as her name on her...
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