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Caroline <I>Howze</I> Milton

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Caroline Howze Milton

Birth
North Carolina, USA
Death
26 Sep 1901 (aged 75)
Navasota, Grimes County, Texas, USA
Burial
Marianna, Jackson County, Florida, USA Add to Map
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Second wife of Florida Governor John Milton. Caroline Howze (House) came to Perry County, Alabama as a child. Members of her Howze family also lived in Mobile. She was well educated and her family was accustom to being in the social circles of politicians and lawyers. It was there she met a 37-year-old lawyer who was a recent widower with small children living in Mobile. At the age of 18 years, she became his bride in 1844. After a steam boat accident and her husband being burned badly, the family moved to his family's plantation, the Sylvannia, in Jackson County, FL. There she lived a true Southern Belle's life-style on a huge cotton plantation with slaves. She borne 10 children to this union with her youngest being 4-years-old when the governor, after realizing the Confederacy had lost the war, committed suicide in their bedroom. He left her with the task of being a single mother who was penniless in a war-torn state on a plantation without slaves to work the fields. In 1900, she was living with one of her son's in Texas, but was laid to rest next to her husband in the family's Jackson county, FL plot at her death in 1901.

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Thank you for the obit to
Sarah Sharpless (#48770277)

The Oasis
Arizola, Arizona
Saturday, 12 Oct 1901, p. 5
[digital image at Newspapers.com]

A private letter received Sunday conveyed the sad intelligence that Mr. J. D. Milton had lost his mother, who died at Navasota, Texas, on the 26 ult, her demise being very sudden and unexpected. Mr. Milton took the remains to Florida for burial.
Second wife of Florida Governor John Milton. Caroline Howze (House) came to Perry County, Alabama as a child. Members of her Howze family also lived in Mobile. She was well educated and her family was accustom to being in the social circles of politicians and lawyers. It was there she met a 37-year-old lawyer who was a recent widower with small children living in Mobile. At the age of 18 years, she became his bride in 1844. After a steam boat accident and her husband being burned badly, the family moved to his family's plantation, the Sylvannia, in Jackson County, FL. There she lived a true Southern Belle's life-style on a huge cotton plantation with slaves. She borne 10 children to this union with her youngest being 4-years-old when the governor, after realizing the Confederacy had lost the war, committed suicide in their bedroom. He left her with the task of being a single mother who was penniless in a war-torn state on a plantation without slaves to work the fields. In 1900, she was living with one of her son's in Texas, but was laid to rest next to her husband in the family's Jackson county, FL plot at her death in 1901.

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Thank you for the obit to
Sarah Sharpless (#48770277)

The Oasis
Arizola, Arizona
Saturday, 12 Oct 1901, p. 5
[digital image at Newspapers.com]

A private letter received Sunday conveyed the sad intelligence that Mr. J. D. Milton had lost his mother, who died at Navasota, Texas, on the 26 ult, her demise being very sudden and unexpected. Mr. Milton took the remains to Florida for burial.

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  • Created by: Linda Davis
  • Added: May 2, 2010
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51907149/caroline-milton: accessed ), memorial page for Caroline Howze Milton (20 Mar 1826–26 Sep 1901), Find a Grave Memorial ID 51907149, citing Saint Lukes Episcopal Cemetery, Marianna, Jackson County, Florida, USA; Maintained by Linda Davis (contributor 46609907).