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Title: Jacksonville: the Story of a Dynamic Community, 1872-1972

Dimensions: 15cm x 23cm (9in x 5.9in)
Pages: 356
Printed: April 1972, May 1972
Copyright: Jacksonville Centennial Corp., 1972

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Contents

Page
 Section
3 Introduction
6 Jacksonville – Then and Now
13 Schools of Jacksonville
20 Jacksonville College
22 Lon Morris College
24 Baptist Missionary Association
Theological Seminary
25 Jacksonville Public Library
28 Nan Travis Memorial Hospital
31 Travis Clinic Association &
Travis Clinic Foundation
32 Newburn Memorial Hospital
34 Stripling Clinic
35 Law Enforcement
36 Post Office
37 Jacksonville Fire Department
38 Jacksonville in Sports
44 The Killough Massacre
45 Lake Jacksonville
50 Some of the Many Hotels
57 Jacksonville Once Tomato Capital of the World
59 Home of the Peach
62 Music
69 Pioneer Familes
  SEE BELOW FOR LIST OF FAMILIES
277 Worship
278 Benson Memorial C.M.E. Church
279 Calvary Baptist Church
280 Central Baptist Church
282 Church of Christ
283 Evangelical Methodist Church
283 First Assembly of God Church
284 The First Baptist Church
286 First Christian Church
288 First United Methodist Church
290 Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church
292 First Presbyterian Church
293 New Hope Baptist Church
294 United Pentecostal Church
295 Trinity Episcopal Church
296 St John's Methodist Church
Page
 Section
296 Women's Society of Christian Service
297 Cemeteries
298 Century of Clubs
299 Business and Professional Women's Club
300 Jacksonville Civitan Club
301 Delta Kappa Gamma
302 Major Thaddeus Beall Chapter NSDAR
304 Jacksonville Garden Club
305 Jacksonville Jaycees
306 Lions Club of Jacksonville
308 Jacksonville Lodge No. 108,
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons
310 Kiwanis Club of Jacksonville
311 Jacksonville Rotary Club
312 Independent Order of Oddfellows
312 Five-Hundred Mile Hike
313 Business and Services in Jacksonville
314 Chamber of Commerce
316 Aber Box & Basket Factory
318 Beall Brothers
320 Cherokee Hardware Company
321 Crown Coca-Cola Bottling Company
322 First National Bank
324 Jacksonville Building & Loan Association
326 Jacksonville Daily Progress
328 Gould Monument Works, Inc.
329 Jacksonville Candy Company
330 G& H Motors, Inc.
330 General Telephone Company of the Southwest
331 Lang's Jewelry Store
332 KEBE (AM) - KOOI (FM) Radio
334 Nichols Studio
335 Mercy Funeral Home
335 Southwestern Life Insurance Company
336 Renfro-Elliott Funeral Home
337 Thompson Funeral Home
338 Texas Bank & Trust Company
340 Southwestern Electric Service Company
341 Thomas Sullivan Ford
341 The Raymond West Insurance Agency
342 United Gas Inc.


Pioneer Families

Page
 Head of Family
70 Ed. A. Aber
72 The Pioneer Acker Family
74 T. E. Acker
76 C. D. Acker
78 W. W. Albritton
80 M. P. Alexander
81 A. A. Atkison
82 Solomon Gleason Barber
84 C. J. Barbier
85 Jennings A. Beall
85 W. H. Bramlette
86 Edmond Frank Bearden
87 J. W. Bearden
88 George Clinton Benge
89 W. L. Black
90 Gus Stephens Blankinship
91 William Clayton Boles
92 Canada Bolton
92 Bartlett (Bart) Bolton
93 Cal Bolton
95 John H. Bolton
96 Pearl Bolton
97 John C. Box
98 John Newton Bone
100 W. A. Brown
104 William Henry Brown
105 J. M. Brittain
106 L. D. Byrd
107 J. A. Campbell
108 M. B. Canon
109 Ben Casey
110 J. P. Carnes
111 John L. Caveness
112 "Grandma" Chessher
113 Henry A. Childress
114 Carter A. Childs
116 O. W. Childs
118 Sam A. Cobb, Sr.
119 Wade Cook
120 T. A. Cocke
122 H. V. Collins
123 James Henry Cotton
124 George W. Crysup
126 T. J. Cunningham
127 W. L. and J. H. David
128 B. F. Davis
129 W. P. Deason
131 J. L. Douglas
132 Frank L. Devereux
134 Robert Valentine Dublin
136 W. L. Dublin
137 Elijah Earle
137 James C. Earle
139 James Newton Earle
139 Hubert L. Earle
Page
 Head of Family
141 M. L. Earle
143 William Henry Emerson
144 W. Y. Forrest
146 L. E. Frank
148 John Fry
149 William E. Fry
150 Frank A. Fuller
152 Middleton George
153 T. E. Gillespie
154 Isaac Gillespie
155 John Glass
156 James, John and
Frank M. Goodson
157 J. E. Gould
158 N. C. Graagard
160 T. C. Gray
162 James G. Griffin
163 George Gunter
164 Fred L. Haberle
166 George John Haberle
167 James Harlan
168 William H. Hammett
169 G. F. Harris
169 Monroe Hill
170 John Harris
171 James E. Hearne
172 Richard Heidelberg
174 Erastus Heermans
175 Wade Wilson Holman
176 R. H. Holland
178 Rufus B. Hood
179 John Henry Howard
179 Richard R. Jowell
180 William Isaacks
181 Samuel Elmer Kesler
182 Henry Morris Jarratt
184 S. E. Jones
186 Benjamin Roberson Jenkins
186 Gus Kiesow
188 Charles R. Kelley
189 Nat Kennedy
190 John Lang
191 Frank Lindner
192 John Hunter Lattimore
194 C. A. Lawler
196 The Pioneer Love Family
196 John Wesley Love
198 John Martin
199 John McAnally
200 G. A. McKee
201 O. M. Meador
202 John S. Merritt
203 D. Y. Morris
203 P. H. Morton
204 K. M. Monkress
Page
 Head of Family
206 J. A. Muckleroy
207 Luther Henry Newbern
208 C. L. Newburn
210 G. L. Newton
212 W. A. Newton
214 C. C. Nicholson
215 Charles L. Nunnally
216 Christian S. Ousley
218 John F. Patton
219 Reese Pickens
220 James Hoke Peacock
222 William Thomas Pinkard
223 James Priestly
224 Nimrod Ragsdale
227 John F. Rountree
228 Andrew Searcy
228 John Mark Simpson
229 Thomas Jefferson Skelton
230 Jackson Smith
231 L. A. Seymour
232 Tol Gover Smith
234 Tom N. Slaton
236 William Harris Sory
238 E. L. Starkey
240 Russell Starkey
242 James H. Staton
244 Anson Allen Stevens
246 David Green Templeton
248 Sam Pat Thompson
249 Rufus G. Thompson
250 William Henry Thompson
251 George Tilley
252 William Henry Tipton
253 Frank Samuel Todd
254 Robert Lee Trantham
255 James Vance Trout
256 J. M. Travis
258 R. T. Travis
258 P. D. Turner, Sr.
260 D. B. Tucker
261 Joseph Arthur Thompson
262 Philip L. Tucker
264 C. A. Walker
264 Grover C. Walker
265 Rev. C. C. White
266 Albert Eugene Walters
267 William Watters Whitaker
268 William Edward Williams
270 George Williamson
272 J. D. Williams
272 R. W. White
273 H. C. White
274 Samuel Thomas Wood
276 Hiram Thomas Wooddell
276 James Andrew Yingling




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