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Nancy  Bevis 

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William Langley Bevis
1/3/1791 - 10/1/1870

Jane Virginia Palmer
1/9/1801 - 11/1/1882
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Nancy Bevis
6/16/1835 - 9/7/1931
Nancy Bevis was born on June 16, 1835 in Laurens County, South Carolina and died on September 7, 1931 in Bascom, Jackson County, Florida. She lived to be 96 years old.

She married Joshua S. Johnson
children:
Frances
Mollie
Mary
Samuel
Records
Census10/25/1850 District 41 GA (Heard County) 15 yrs old 
Recorded as family #469: William L. Bevis (age 35, born in Virginia), Jane (age 30, born in South Carolina), John (age 21), Jances L (male, age 18), Susanah (age 15), Nancy (age 14), Thomas (age 12), Punkny (male, age 10), Martin L. (male, age 7), Andrew J. (age 4). William estimates the value of his property at $700. He is a farmer, John is a mechanic and Jances is a farmer. Place of birth is not recorded for the children. 

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2 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.
7 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.
7 1842 Second Seminole Indian War ends and some of the Seminole Indians living in FL are moved to the Indian Territory
10 1845 Florida becomes the 27th state to join the United States. William Moseley becomes the first governor and David Yulee the first senator.
15 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.
20 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.
26 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.
29 1864 Battle of Olustee is a Confederate victory. Union troops pull back
30 1865 May 10th -- Union troops occupy Tallahassee. While Tallahassee was the only Confederate state capital east of the Mississippi River that had not been captured, Union troops occupy the capitol following the surrender of the major Confederate armies in the east.
30 1865 Battle at Natural Bridge (Wakulla County) is a Confederate victory.
35 1870 During the 1870s, the remaining Seminole Indians begin establishing trading posts and other economy with local settlers.
47 1882 The Florida Central and Western Railroad Company was created. It combines the Florida Central, Jacksonville, Pensacola, and Mobile railroads.
48 1883 Three railroad companies are merged to form the Florida Transit and Penisular Railroad Company. Thee are: Florida Transit Railroad Co., Peninsular Railroad Co, and the Tropical Florida Railroad Co.
49 1884 Most railroads in Florida are passed into the hands of a single company owned and operated by a single management, under the name of The Florida Railway and Navigation Company. It has more that 500 miles of main track in operation and about 300 miles of track under construction. The longest route was the "Western Division" which ran from Tallahassee to Jacksonville - 209 miles.
71 1906 An attempt to drain the Everglades and convert it to farmland begins.
82 1917 Seminole Indians become a Florida tourist attraction.
93 1928 The Tamiami Trail opens. It opens the southernmost 275 miles of U.S. Highway 41 from State Road 60 in Tampa to U.S. Route 1 (SR 5) in Miami, Florida to tourist. It also destroys many of the Seminole Indian waterways and hinders their economy.
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4 1839 Goodyear invents vulcanized rubber, opening the door for tires and other rubber products.
9 1844 The first telegraph message is sent by Morse, who later invents the Mores Code
18 1853 The process of creating steel is invented by Besermer in Britain and Kelly in the U.S.
21 1856 The first Neanderthal fossils are found near Germany
24 1859 Charles Darwin publishes "Origin of Species" and begins the evolution theory.
30 1865 Mendel publishes his papers on genetics and introduces the concept to the public.
34 1869 Cro-magnon Man fossils are found in France
42 1877 Edison invents the phonograph permitting music and voices to be recorded and replayed.
44 1879 Edison invents the electric light bulb.
54 1889 The first calculating machine is invented and uses punch cards
60 1895 Wireless telegraph and the "antenna" are invented but it covers a very short distance.
62 1897 First ship to shore message is sent using an improved form of wireless telegraph
65 1900 Freud publishes his book "The Interpretation of Dreams"
65 1900 The cause of yellow fever is discovered. It is proven that the fever is spread by mosquitoes. This rallies an effort to provide better mosquito control.
66 1901 First transatlantic wireless telegraph is sent.
67 1902 The first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil is discovered.
68 1903 Wright Brothers complete the first successful flight with an airplane at Kitty Hawk
69 1904 The first vacuum tube diode is invented by Fleming
71 1906 Electrons are discovered by Thomson
71 1906 The triode vacuum tube is invented
71 1906 Kellogg sells the first box of Corn Flakes
77 1912 The unsinkable Titanic sinks on its first trip to New York drowning 1,513 people.
78 1913 Ford builds the first assembly line into his automobile production plant
79 1914 The first traffic lights (which is only red or green) are put up in America; Construction of the Panama Canal is completed
88 1923 Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id"
88 1923 Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes
89 1924 Insecticides are used for the first time on crops
91 1926 Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket
92 1927 The first television transmission was announced in England
93 1928 Big bang theory was introduced
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26 1861 NEWS HEADLINES: American Civil war begins at Ft. Sumter, located in Charleston Harbor, VA.
27 1862 NEWS HEADLINES: May 20, 1862 the US government passes the Homestead Act to provide cheap land for settlement of lower Southeast and West.
47 1882 NEWS HEADLINES: Edison creates the first large power station in New York City, making it the first place in America to have electricity.
50 1885 NEWS HEADLINES: Eastman invents the box camera. For the first time photography becomes affordable for the average citizen.
73 1908 NEWS HEADLINES: Henry Ford produces the first Model T automobile
77 1912 White residents of Forsyth County, GA, drive the black population out.
78 1913 NEWS HEADLINES: Edison invents motion pictures
82 1917 NEWS HEADLINES: In June, the United States enters World War I on the side of the allies. The Russian Revolution ends the reign of the czars and thrusts Russia into communism.
84 1919 NEWS HEADLINES: World War I ends with the signing of The Versailles Treaty.
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25 1860 About 63,000 men from South Carolina served in the Confederate armed forces.
33 1868 South Carolina was readmitted to the Union.
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2 1837 The trickery used to capture Seminole Indian Chief Osceola (Assi Yohola) creates a public uproar and U.S. General Jesup is publicly condemned.
5 1840 Oregon Trail is established
7 1842 Second Seminole Indian War ends and thousands of Seminole Indians are forced to move west of the Mississippi.
20 1855 Third Seminole Indian War begins. It ends three years later when Chief Billy Bowlegs and his band are forced to move from Florida.
25 1860 Presidential election puts Abraham Lincoln in office. The campaign has heated the issues regarding slavery in the south.
27 1862 May 20, 1862 the US government passes the Homestead Act to provide cheap land for settlement of lower Southeast and West.
28 1863 Abraham Lincoln issues the "Emancipation Proclamation" freeing slaves.
30 1865 American Civil war ends with General Lee's surrender at Appomattox, VA. Reconstruction begins in the "old South"
33 1868 An eight-hour work day is established for federal employees.
40 1875 Tennessee enacts Jim Crow law.
41 1876 The National League of Baseball is founded
74 1909 The National Association for Advancement of Colored People is formed (NAACP)
75 1910 Boy Scout and Girl Scout Organizations are introduced in America and the concept of a "week end" meaning time off from regular work begins to take root. The British Empire covers 1/5th of the world land area.
92 1927 Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs.
94 1929 Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October
95 1930 Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states.
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74 1909 The "Piltdown Man" hoax -- a fake archeological discovery announced by dishonest scientists who wanted to "prove" that human beings had evolved in Europe
79 1914 World War I - Following the crisis touched off by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Germany declared war on Russia and additional countries joined the war within several days.
82 1917 Germany uses airplanes to drop bombs in the early stages of World War I -- the first major military use of airplanes.
84 1919 The Versailles Treaty marks the official end of World War I.
85 1920 Adolph Hitler begins to organize the Nazi party in Germany; The Ku Klux Klan launches a recruitment campaign using mass marketing techniques to gain 85,000 new recruits; the first commercial broadcast is made.


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