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HUSBAND: Ezekiel A. Suggs
date and place of birth: Between 1765-1784, North Carolina
date and place of marriage:
military service:
date and place of death: 1834, Alachua County, Florida
place of burial: Alachua County, Florida
father: William Suggs
mother: Unknown
other marriages:...........................................................................
WIFE: Margaret Unknown
date and place of birth: Between 1765-1784, South Carolina
date and place of death: October 1832, Alachua County, Florida
place of burial: Alachua County, Florida
father:
mother:
other marriages:
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CHILD 1: Noah Patrick Suggs
sex: M
date and place of birth: About 1794
married: Edith Deane
date and place of marriage: About 1824, Georgia
date and place of death: About. June 1856, Alachua County, Florida
place of burial: Alachua County, Florida
other marriages: none
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CHILD 2: Ezekiel Suggs
sex: M
date and place of birth: About. 1800, South Carolina
married: Lydia Unknown
date and place of marriage: date and place of death: February 22, 1837, Florida place of burial: Florida
other marriages: none
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CHILD 3: Azana "Zanny" Suggs
sex: F
date and place of birth: About 1807, South Carolina
married: Anthony Ivey
date and place of marriage: About 1824, Florida
date and place of death: After 1860, Florida
place of burial: Florida
other marriages:Cader Clark
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CHILD 4: John Alligood Suggs
sex: M
date and place of birth: August 25, 1818, Early County, Georgia
married: Mary Hope
date and place of marriage: August 22, 1839, Ft. Tarver, Alachua County, Florida
date and place of death: November 17, 1896, Jones County, Texas
place of burial: Spring Creek Cemetery, Avoca, Jones County, Texas
other marriages: Rebecca Everingham Barnett
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CHILD 5: Robert Suggs
sex: M
date and place of birth: 1823
married:
date and place of marriage:
date and place of death: December 28, 1835, Ft. King, Marion County, Florida
place of burial: (Ft. King, Marion County, Florida?)
other marriages:
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CHILD 6: Mary Felicia Suggs
sex: F
date and place of birth: About. 1824, Alachua County, Florida
married: John Berlin Snider
date and place of marriage: September 30, 1847, Madison County, Florida
date and place of death: Before 1880, Florida
place of burial: Florida
other marriages: none
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CHILD 7: Elizabeth Suggs
sex: F
date and place of birth: About 1825, Alachua County, Florida
married: Alexander Dunlavy
date and place of marriage: October 6, 1841, Colorado County, Texas
date and place of death: About 1865, Colorado County, Texas
place of burial: PROBABLY on the Suggs family plantation in Colorado County, Texas
other marriages: none
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CHILD 8: Caroline Suggs
sex: F
date and place of birth: Abt. 1832, Alachua County, Florida
married: George Washington Guinn
date and place of marriage: February 1, 1852, Colorado County, Texas
date and place of death: July 1, 1869, Colorado County, Texas
place of burial: PROBABLY on the Suggs family plantation in Colorado County, Texas
other marriages: none
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SOURCES: (1) John A. Suggs' Second Seminole War pension application
(2) Colorado County, TX, marriage records
(3) Colorado County, TX, deed records
(4) Colorado County, TX, probate records
(5) U.S. census records: 1820-1880
(6) Mrs. William Jefferson Suggs family letters
(7) Spring Creek Cemetery, Jones County, TX tombstone records
(8) Alachua County, FL, marriage records
(9) Alachua County, FL, probate records
(10) Florida Mounted Militia muster records (Second Seminole War)
(11) Second Seminole War history records
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COMMENTS: Robert Suggs was twelve years old on December 28, 1835. He was working for Erastus Rogers, the suttler at Fort King in Marion County, Florida. At about 2:30 in the afternoon, Osceola and his band of Seminole warriors attacked the suttler's building killing the Indian agent, Gen. Wiley Thompson, along with Lt. Constantine Smith, Erastus Rogers, and Robert Suggs. According to accounts of the massacre, Robert was the only victim who was not scalped or otherwise mutilated. This atrocity is today known as the Wiley Thompson Massacre. At about the same time, a column of U.S. soldiers under the command of Maj. Francis Dade was attacked and massacred just a few miles away. Robert's brothers Ezekiel and John joined the Florida Mounted Militia to fight the Seminoles along with brothers in law, Jonas Ellis and Anthony Ivey. The United States government launched the Florida War otherwise known as the Second Seminole War. At the time of his death, Robert's parents, Ezekiel and Margaret, had already died.
The Second Seminole War was long, brutal and bloody. Robert's brother, Ezekiel, died at the hands of the Seminoles and possibly other family members met the same fate. There are Florida Mounted Militia records for other men named Suggs, unknown males on the 1820 census record in South Carolina and this family group sheet. Those Suggs names from the Florida Mounted Militia don't appear on any 1840 or 1850 census record. After years of fighting, John Alligood Suggs gathered up what was left of his family and relocated to Colorado County, Texas.
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