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(Pages 265-279) Levin Tomlinson and Sarah Daugharty made their home in Clinch County, Georgia. Levin served three enlistments during the Indian Wars. He was a private in Captain John J. Johnson's company of the Florida Militia from June 16, 1837, to December 18, 1837. He also served as a private in Captain David Johnson's company of the
Ware County Militia from November 1, 1839, to December 31, 1839. He continued his service as a private in Captain John J. Johnson's company of the Georgia Militia from August 23, 1840, to October 18, 1840. While living in Clinch County, Levin Tomlinson and Sarah Daugharty became parents to Nancy Rachel, born in 1844, and Rebecca, born in 1845. Shortly after Rebecca was born, the family moved to Columbia County, Florida, where Sarah's father, James Daugharty, had moved
after the death of his second wife, Nancy Bassett. In Columbia County, Levin developed a large farm with his father-in-law James. Levin Tomlinson purchased on December 7, 1852, a two-hundred acre tract of land in Columbia County, later part of Baker County, located about seven miles west-north-west of the present town of MacClenny, Florida, which he developed as a farm. The exact description is SW ¼ E ½, SE ¼ NW ¼ SW ¼ NW ¼ SE 1/4, Section Seventh Township, 2R, 21, South
and East. While in Columbia County, Levin Tomlinson and Sarah Daugharty became parents to Elizabeth, born on February 2, 1847; William, born on March 18, 1848; Martha, born in May 1849; James J., born in 1851; Harris, born on February 26, 1852; John, born in 1853; Francis "Frank", born in 1854; and Sarah, born on February 8, 1858. In 1858, Levin Tomlinson and Sarah Daugharty sold their land holdings in Columbia County and moved their family to
Traders Hill, a town located on the St. Marys River in Charlton County, Georgia. While living in Traders Hill, Levin and Sarah added five more children to their family including Candacy, born on April 7, 1860; Mary J., born on December 14, 1861; Phoebe, born in 1862; Levin, Jr., born in 1864: and Emily, born on June 11.1866. 
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About 1869, Levin Tomlinson and Sarah Daugharty moved across the St. Marys River to Nassau County, Florida, where Levin had purchased a farm on the river just south of the current land section number 41. Levin was a very successful farmer and over a period of time expanded his landholdings in Nassau County. 
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Levin Tomlinson died on March 8, 1883, and is buried on, what was then, family property. Levin's final resting-place is in sight of the St. Marys River and has been become known as the Johnson/Tomlinson Cemetery. A broken headstone marks Levin's grave. 
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As a benefit of Levin's Indian War service, Sarah Daugharty applied for a widow's pension on January 14, 1893, which she received until her death on October 26, 1894. Sarah Penelope Daugharty Tomlinson is buried next to her husband, Levin in the Johnson/Tomlinson Cemetery. The very close friends of Levin and Sarah, John J. and Elizabeth "Betsy"
Johnson are also buried in the small cemetery. The old headstones for Sarah and Levin Tomlinson, and John and Betsy Johnson are broken or missing. Lately some members of the McLean family have been buried in the small cemetery. There are other illegible broken and unbroken stone markers. Lately the small Johnson / Tomlinson Cemetery has been referred to as the McLean Cemetery. The Johnson / Tomlinson or McLean Cemetery is located west of Rt. 121 in western Nassau County.
The cemetery can be found by traveling west for about .6 mile from the intersection of Rt. 121 and Tomlinson Road to where the road makes a 90 degree turn to the south, traveling .2 mile south ending at Emmie Lane, traveling .1 mile west on Emmie Lane, turning south on Family Lane and traveling .8 mile. The small Johnson/Tomlinson Cemetery is located on the east side of Family Lane. Sarah Tomlinson
Levin Tomlinson and Sarah Daugharty's daughter Sarah, born on February 8, 1858, married William "Newton" Stokes in Nassau County, Florida, on March 10, 1878. Newton was born in November 1846, son of Courtney Crews and Elbert Stokes, a native of South Carolina. Newton had several brothers and sisters including Elizabeth, who married Steve Kirkland; Henry J., who married Marcy C. Motes; Sarah, who married Willis A. Hodges; George W., who married Mattie Wainwright; Sherod, who
married Sallie Hunt; Julia, who married J. C. Thompson; and E. B., Victoria, and Anna who never married. Newton served in the Confederate Army with Henry J., his brother. He and his brother survived the war without sustaining any serious wounds. After the war, the brothers returned to Stokesville where their father and other brothers had developed many successful enterprises. Stokesville was located in the northeast
section of the Big Bend of the St. Marys River in Charlton County, Georgia. Later Newton sold his interests in the Stokesville area enterprises to Henry J., his brother. After which, Newton Stokes and Sarah Tomlinson moved to Toledo, located about fifteen miles to the south of Stokesville on the St. Marys River, where they made their home. Newton Stokes and Sarah Tomlinson became parents to Stanley; L. E.; Jasper:
Tora; Walter; Stafford: Herman, born in 1893; Elizabeth "Lizzie", born in 1894: and Hautie, born in 1901. Sarah Tomlinson died on December 13, 1915, and is buried in the Boones Creek Cemetery in Charlton County, Georgia. William "Newton" Stokes died on July 18, 1923, and is interred with his wife Sarah. Mary Julie Tomlinson
Levin and Sarah's daughter Mary Julie, born on December 14, 1861, married in 1892, William Henry Wingate, born in January 1849 in Florida. William Wingate's father Nathan was a native of North Carolina. William's mother Marianna was born in Florida. Nathan and Marianna Wingate had developed a large farm in Nassau County, Florida. William's siblings included Thomas, born in 1844; Isaac, born in 1846; Margie, born in
1850; Elizabeth, born 1852: Lydia, born in 1854; Florida, born in 1856; and Nathan, born in 1858. William Wingate followed in his father's footsteps as a farmer in Nassau County. William Wingate had been married previously and had ten children by his former wife, Mary E., born in 1850. These children included Emma, born in 1870; Nathan, born in 1874; Leonard, born in 1876; Mary E., born in 1879; Scriven, born in
May 1881; David L, born in July 1883; Martha, born in April 1885; Joseph, born in 1888; Eliha, born in March 1889; and Etta A., born in 1892. William and Mary E.'s children, Leonard and Mary, died very young. Shortly after Etta was born, William's wife Mary E. passed away. William Wingate then married Mary Julie Tomlinson and they became parents to Sallie, born in June 1893; Frank, born in February 1895; Nora, born in
December 1897; Thomas B., born in August 1899; and Robert, born in 1904. William Wingate and Mary Julie Tomlinson's son Frank died at a very young age, prior to 1910. Phoebe Tomlinson Levin Tomlinson and Sarah Daugharty's daughter Phoebe, born in 1862, married in 1890, Washington "Wash" Bradley, born in September 1866 in Florida. Wash's siblings included Lucian H., born in 1860; Polly A. L., born in 1862; Arian V., born in 1865;
Noah A., born in 1869; and Ella, born in 1870. Wash Bradley's father, John H., born in December 1837, and his mother, Margaret, born in 1846, were married in 1860. Both were natives of Florida. Wash's father John developed a large farm in Nassau County, Florida. Phoebe Tomlinson and Wash Bradley made their home in Nassau County where Wash followed in his father's footsteps as a farmer. Phoebe Tomlinson and
Wash Bradley became parents to Maud, born December 1891; Lucian, born in November 1893; Newman, born in December 1894; and Sherman, born in January 1898. It is thought that Phoebe Tomlinson died about 1899 and that Wash Bradley married a young lady by the name of Eliza, who was born in 1880. Levin Tomlinson, Jr. Levin Tomlinson and Sarah Daugharty's son Levin, Jr., born in 1864, married Effie
Estelle Sikes on July 4, 1894, in Nassau County, Florida. Effie was born in December 1873, daughter of Daniel and Hester Sikes of Nassau County, Florida. Hester was born in 1832 in Florida and Daniel in 1822 in Georgia. Effie's siblings included John, born in 1866; Daniel N., born in 1869; Thomas, born in 1871; and Hester, born in 1878. Levin Tomlinson, like his father, was a farmer and developed a farm in Charlton County,
Georgia, across the St. Marys River from Nassau County, Florida, where his father had a farm. This was the same area of Georgia in which his father had developed a farm in the 1850s. Levin Tomlinson and Effie Sikes became parents to Covington, born in August 1895; Levin H., born in December 1897; James Frank, born in 1901; and Ellie E., born in 1904. After the birth of their last child, the family moved back to Nassau
County and later to the town of MacClenny in Baker County, Florida. Levin Tomlinson and Effie Sikes' sons Covington and Levin H. made their homes in Jacksonville, Florida. Levin H. Tomlinson died on June 21, 1951, in Jacksonville. Nancy Rachel Tomlinson Levin Tomlinson and Sarah Daugharty's daughter Nancy Rachel, born in 1844, married James Towers, born in 1840 in Georgia. Nancy Tomlinson and James Towers made
their home in Nassau County, Florida, where James had developed a farm. Nancy Tomlinson and James Towers became parents to Levin, born in 1867, and James, born in 1869. It is thought that James Towers died about 1905. Nancy married Alexander Swearingen, who was born in 1846 in Georgia to Wayne Swearingen and Emily Holzendorf. Wayne Swearingen was born in 1805 and Emily Holzendorf in 1832, both in Georgia. Alexander Swearingen's siblings, all born in Georgia, included a twin brother,
John; Mary L., born in 1852; Robert, born in 1855; and Walter S., born in 1857. After their marriage, Nancy Tomlinson and Alexander Swearingen moved to Clinch County, Georgia. Rebecca Tomlinson Levin Tomlinson and Sarah Daugharty's daughter Rebecca, born in 1845, married a distant cousin, James W. Daugharty, born in 1844 in Georgia. James Daugharty was a farmer. Rebecca Tomlinson and James Daugharty made their home in Nassau County
and lived next door to Rebecca's sister Nancy Tomlinson and James Towers. Rebecca Tomlinson and James Daugharty became parents to John W., born in 1868; Levin, born in 1869; William, born 1871; Foster, born in 1873; and Sarah, born in 1875. In the years that followed James Daugharty developed a large farm in Nassau County that perhaps included the one that was owned by James Towers. Rebecca Tomlinson died in 1914. Francis "Frank" Tomlinson Levin Tomlinson and Sarah Daugharty's son Francis "Frank", born in 1854, married on March 28, 1880, Anna Mallissie Henderson, born in 1860, in Charlton County, Georgia. Anna's parents, John and Alair Henderson, were natives of North Carolina, as were their parents. Alair was born in 1834 and John in December 1822. Anna Henderson had an older brother, Robert, who was born in 1857, in North Carolina. Shortly before Anna
was born in 1860, the family moved to Georgia where Anna's other siblings were born including Elsie, born in 1861; John, born in 1862; and Nancy, born in 1867. About 1870, the family moved to Nassau County, Florida, where they engaged in farming. Anna Henderson's father John also was in business as a cooper. Frank H. Tomlinson and Anna Mallissie Henderson made their home in Nassau County where Frank farmed. Candacy Tomlinson
Levin Tomlinson and Sarah Daugharty's daughter Candacy, born on April 7, 1860, married George F. Osteen on March 23, 1887, in Charlton County, Georgia. George was born on January 12, 1852 in Charlton County, Georgia, the son of Zekiel Osteen and Hester Murhee Wainwright. Zekiel Osteen was born in Traders Hill, western Camden County (currently Charlton County), Georgia, in 1818. Hester Murhee
Wainwright was born in Georgia in 1816. George Osteen's siblings included Virginia, born 1845; Hester, born in 1851; Rose, born in 1852; Stephen, born in 1854; Mary, born in 1856; Emarintha, born in 1858; and Leah, born in 1860. It is thought that there were other brothers and sisters who never grew to maturity. Zekiel Osteen, who had a farm near Traders Hill in Charlton County, Georgia, died during the 1870s. Zekiel
Osteen had a brother Hezekiel who married and moved to St. Marys, Georgia. Later Hezekiel Osteen and his family moved to Volusia County, Florida where he established a large farm near the present town of Osteen. Prior to marrying Candacy Tomlinson, George Osteen had been married to a lady by the name of Matilda, who was born in 1855. George and Matilda Osteen were parents to George, born in 1873; Florence, born on January 10, 1874; Julia C., born in
December 1876; William, born in January 1879, and Leah E., born in October 1881. Shortly after Leah was born Matilda passed away. On March 23, 1887, George Osteen married Candacy Tomlinson and they made their home in the Toledo area of Charlton, County, Georgia, where George had developed a farm. George F. Osteen and Candacy Tomlinson were parents to Callie, born in December 1887; Sallie, born in 1891, Mollie, born in March 1892; George C., born on
March 11, 1893; and Nettie, born in March 1897. George F. Osteen died on May 19, 1904, and is buried in the Mill Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery in western Nassau County, Florida. George F. Osteen and Candacy Tomlinson's daughter Callie died at a young age, shortly after her father. 
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Candacy Tomlinson died July 13, 1910, and is interred in the Mill Creek Cemetery with her husband George. George F. Osteen and Candacy Tomlinson's son, George C. died on June 26, 1927, and is buried in the Mill Creek Cemetery. John Tomlinson Levin Tomlinson and Sarah Daugharty's son John, born in 1853, as a young man lived with his mother and father for many years. In 1880, he was busy as a logger in Nassau
County, Florida. John Tomlinson on October 2, 1889, married Sama Rivers in Nassau County. It is thought that John Tomlinson and Sama Rivers had no children. Five children of Levin Tomlinson and Sarah Daugharty married sons and daughters of their close neighbors and friends in Nassau County, John "Cherokee" Jackson Johnson and Elizabeth "Betsy" Douglas. Levin and Sarah's son James J., born in 1851, married
on March 12, 1873, in Nassau County, Rachel Johnson, born on July 22, 1852, in Charlton County, Georgia. Levin and Sarah's son William, born on March 18, 1848, married on March 12, 1873, Eliza Johnson, born on February 21, 1856, in Charlton County, Georgia. Levin and Sarah's son Harris, born on February 26, 1852, married on February 21, 1878, Amanda Johnson, born on November 6, 1863, in Nassau County, Florida. Levin and Sarah's daughter Elizabeth "Lizzie", born on February 2, 1847,
married on November 18, 1870, in Nassau County, Florida, William Warren Johnson, born on November 6, 1846, in Charlton County, Georgia. Levin and Sarah's daughter, Emily, born on June 11,1866, married on August 16, 1888, John Jackson Johnson, Jr., born on May 30, 1860, in Nassau County, Florida. Levin and Sarah's daughter Martha, born in May 1849, never married and made her home with the family
of her sister Emily and John J. Johnson, Jr. A short time after 1910 Martha passed away. The family story of John Jackson Johnson and Elizabeth Douglas is the subject of Chapter Two. Included in Chapter Two are the family stories of Levin Tomlinson and Sarah Daugharty's children James, William, Harris and Elizabeth. The family story of Levin Tomlinson and Sarah Daugharty's daughter Emily and John J. Johnson, Jr. is the subject of Chapter Four.
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