Barbara Libby My husband and I have been married since 1979 and we have three children. Two have graduated from Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida, and the third graduated from Berry College, Rome, Georgia, May 2007. I work in a law office in Jacksonville, Florida. In my spare time, I love to research, read, sew, garden, scrapbook, and collect family photos. My collection consists of over 500 photos scanned to my computer, but more in albums. I am also the Sunday School Director and Church Clerk of my church. I became interested in genealogy in the early 1970\'s and have continued my research on and off since then. I have received certificates from the Florida State Genealogical Society establishing proof that my great, great, grandfather and his father were settled in Florida before it became a state in 1845, and proving that my great, great, great grandfather was settled in Nassau County, Florida, before it became a county in 1824. In 1995, my church, Ephesus Baptist Church, Hilliard, Florida, celebrated its 150th year and I put together a 43 page history for that celebration. Since that time, I have been working on a History of the Northeast Florida Baptist Association, which is a collection of church histories of approximately 60 Southern Baptist churches in the North Florida area. In doing the research for my certificates, I came across the 1860 census that listed an 80 year old black female, born in Africa, that lived with my ancestors. I have been trying to find out as much as possible about the black woman, Florida Morrison. It has become like finding a needle in a haystack to match earlier censuses without names, just the sex and age, to an 80 year old woman. I am working on plantations along the St. Mary\'s River on the Florida side in Nassau County, and in Camden and Charleton County, Georgia. Morrison Plantation in Camden County, Georgia has a special interest to me because it was located next to my ancestor\'s property. There is also an area along the St. Mary\'s River on the Florida side called \"Woodstock\". My g-g-g- grandfather owned a 600 acre Spanish Land Grant in this area which was after his death purchased by Edwin R. Alberti, who began one of the first steam sawmills in the area. Since the lady living with my ancestor was named Florida Morrison, and the plantation next to my ancestor\'s property was owned by John Morrison, I can only assume she acquired her name from the Morrison Plantation, located in Camden County, Georgia. Contact Info. barbaralibby at gmail dot com - I\'ve spelled out my e-mail address to prevent spam-bots from detecting and using it.
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