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An enjoyable weekly publication, the Journal is packed with local interest and inspiring stories, good clean jokes, crossword and sudoku puzzles, and always something to amaze you! Home Town Journal is distributed in North Florida every Friday. It connects the rural communities of Macclenny, Glen St. Mary, Sanderson, Olustee, Taylor, Baxter, Cuyler, Raiford, Lake Butler, and Baldwin, Florida. It's available now in St. George, Georgia. Over 6,400 readers pick up and enjoy reading the free Home Town Journal each week. It's another way to promote your business and locate new customers!
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Baker County - Yesterday
Baker County Historical Society
Five hundred years of fascinating history, lore not found in history books, transcribed  cemetaries, census records, marriages, obituaries, Civil War history for Baker County, old photographs, and loads of memorable accounts of days gone by.
Roots Run Deep
Elgin and Dorothy Mobley Barnes have more than likely given more time and energy to serving others in Baker County than any other couple. Together they have logged untold hours of volunteer service in genealogical research earning local and state awards for their work. Together Elgin and Dorothy have climbed fences, searched wooded areas in the county battling bugs, sandspurs, cold, heat and snakes to hand copy every tombstone, in every cemetery, in the county.  They published their work in eight volumes listing 20 Baker County cemeteries. Because many Baker County people were connected to surrounding counties, together they set out to copy 25 cemeteries in Bradford County, 44 in Columbia, 48 in Levy and 46 in Nassau. They crossed over into Georgia to copy 40 cemeteries in Carlton County. They published the results of their work in a total of 25 volumes for the Baker County Historical Society who makes the information available to others. They also hand copied and published the courthouse marriages of Baker County from 1877 to 1930. The exact numbers of volunteer hours to copy, publish and make available this work, as well as volunteering countless hours to assist others doing research in the local BCHS is phenomenal. Their lasting contribution will make a marked difference in the lives of others who seek to do family research and dig into their Baker County roots.
Carl Wendell Mobley began collecting all the data he could locate on Baker County and uploading to his web page only a few years ago. Carl has copied all the work of his sister and brother-in-law, Elgin and Dorothy Barnes, and now has made their cemetery and marriage records accessible to anyone in the world who has Baker County interests. In addition Carl has also added records of counties surrounding Baker researched and copied by Elgin and Dorothy. Carl has copied the seven volumes of LaViece Smallwood's Once Upon a Lifetime publications. He has the entire collection of Gene Barber's The Way It Was articles completely indexed for accessibility on his website. Carl's collection of Baker County photographs is larger than that of the Florida State Archives and all is available to the public free of charge. Carl freely shares his collection with anyone and has shared all of his information with the Florida State Archives. According to the Florida State Archives, more genealogical data is known and collected about Baker County than any other county in the entire state of Florida and we owe it to none other than county nativeWe are proud of Carl Mobley and consider him a real hero who not only makes a present difference in the lives of others, but also for future generations of people with Baker County roots and connections who will revere his name with gratitude for his vision in pulling from obscurity to preserve the deepest roots of Baker County's history.
Casey Dinkins and Elgin Jr. Barnes share a lot in common because of their love for recording our county's history to posterity and the good-natured humor in the traditions of mixed up lineages and names.
LaViece Moore-Fraser Smallwood is a former feature writer and columnist for The Florida Times Union. She has written nine books on Baker County families that can be found online under Carl Mobley's website. She is the writer of the series, Once Upon A Lifetime in Baker County, Florida. She is currently the director of Baker County Heritage Park and Museums on south Lowder Street where the preservation of local and area history is being collected and displayed.
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DID - There's a did possum in the middle of the road.
FAR - My still blew up and caught on far.
BARD - I bard that El Camino from my cousin Jimmy.
RAT - Go down the road and make a rat turn at the bait shop.
AWL - I need to get a quart of awl for my outboard motor.
BASS - That was the bass moonshine I ever had.
CHEER - Pappy sure does like sitting in his rockn' cheer.
RANCH - Can you hand me the ranch from my toolbox?
Baker County GenWeb Project
Baker County, Florida was founded in 1861. It was named for James McNair Baker, a judge and Confederate Senator. Carl Mobley was coordinator for the Baker County GenWeb site for about 10 years. GenWeb extends gratitude to Carl Mobley and his group from the Baker County Historical Society for their dedication to compiling the genealogical data of Baker County.
Once Upon A Lifetime
Brown-Raulerson Families - Imagine having the ideal family. Imagine having your ideal family continue for generations and generations, long after you are departed from this life. Impossible you say. Especially today. Well, think again if you are pessimistic, because there is a family in Baker County who says they have inherited the ideal life, one that began for them generations ago. It is a life, they recall, established with respect and honor, and a succession of generations who have held it in high esteem, and who faithfully carry the banner today as an ensign to yet another generation who are following in the steps of their parents, grandparents, great-grand parents, and on and on.
In a world where love and respect for family ties are fast declining, it exists in its fullest... (continued...Brown-Raulerson)
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