Dania Cemetery – 300 West Dixie Hwy, Dania, Florida, 33004

1.  Joseph Henry King

     Captain

     Co. B. 8th Ga. Infantry  Roswell Battalion

His father was Barrington King and his grandfather was Roswell King, the founders of Roswell, Georgia.  They were the first settlers of Roswell and Presidents of the Roswell Factories. 

     Several of the Roswell men saw battle in the early days of the war at the Battle of Bull Run (typically known as Manassas in the South) in Virginia. Charles Dunwody, Horace Pratt, Thomas Edward King, and Joseph Henry King all fought in that battle, one of the biggest of the early battles and the one that proved to the nation that the war would be neither quick nor grand. Apparently, there had been civilians on the sidelines of the battle watching it as if it were a sporting event. Despite being a Confederate victory, over 1,000 men were killed or wounded. Joseph King, Thomas King, and Dunwody were all severely wounded, with Pratt the only one unharmed physically. The war was not kind to Roswell’s men. Thomas King wounded at Bull Run, was killed at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863. Barrington Simeral King, a doctor, was killed at Averasboro, North Carolina in 1865, less than a month before peace. William “Willie” Seagrove Smith died of dysentery in North Carolina just after the war ended.

     Joseph married Nellie Palmer Stubbs. Joseph went to Ft. Pulaski before Georgia succeeded from the Union. He joined the Confederate Army in Virginia as a private under the command of General Bartow and fought under Joseph E. Johnston. In 1861, He was seriously wounded at the 1st Battle of Manassas in the hip, leg, and hand. Joseph never fully recovered from his injuries. After the war, he founded "Eldorado" a popular rest site on FLA intra-costal (New Smyrna, FL). Years later, in a single night, almost all his descendants were drowned in Lake Okeechobee during the great hurricane of 1928 which ranks among the United States' worst natural disasters. This category 4 storm produced an unexpectedly large tidal surge, 18 inches of rain, and winds of over 150 mph. Headlines around the nation summarized the calamity: "Florida Destroyed!". A vivid account of this tragedy is chronicled in Lawrence E. Will's book, "Okeechobee Hurricane and the Hoover Dike".  Joseph's grandson, Edwin moved to Ft. Lauderdale and Edwin's wife was believed to be the first white woman to settle in the community.  Edwin built a home in Ft. Lauderdale which his descendants lived in until  1968 .  The home was then restored and opened to the public as a house museum - King-Cromartie House.

BIRTH 19 OCT 1839 • Milledgeville, Baldwin, Georgia

DEATH 28 JUN 1917 • Broward County, Florida

Married:  29 May 1861 • Milledgeville, Baldwin, Georgia

Ellen Palmer Walton (Nellie) Stubbs

1843–1918

BIRTH 1 AUG 1843 • Milledgeville, Georgia

DEATH 15 FEB 1918 • Broward County, Florida

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2.  John Albert Clifton

     Private

     Co. H. 2nd Fla. Cavalry

BIRTH 06APR1864 • Volusia, Florida, USA

DEATH 7 MARCH 1914 • Dania, Broward, Florida

Married:  18 Jun 1892 • Volusia County, Florida

Eugenia Bellamy

1869–1950

BIRTH OCT 08, 1869 • Barberville, Volusia, Florida

DEATH 1950 • Florida

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3.  Thomas Graham

     Private

     Co. B. 50th N.C. Infantry

BIRTH 18 AUG 1842 • Lumberton, Robeson, North Carolina

DEATH 14 AUG 1913 • Dania, Broward, Florida

Married:  28 Oct 1860 • Lumberton, Robeson, North Carolina

Sarah Elizabeth Britt

1842–1923

BIRTH 12 OCT 1842 • Lumberton, Robeson, North Carolina

DEATH 09 16 1923 • Dania, Broward, Florida

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4.  William Henry Harris

     Private

     Co. C. 5th Ga. Findlay's Battalion Reserve Infantry

BIRTH 14 JAN 1846 • Davisboro, Washington, Georgia

DEATH 19 DEC 1939 • Dania, Broward, Florida

Married:  4 NOV 1885 • Lowndes County,

Alabama

Martha H."Mattie" Rabb

1861–

BIRTH ABT 1861 • Alabama

DEATH 1937

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5.  William S. Humphrey

     Private

     Co. E. 5th Va. Infantry

BIRTH 1846 • North Carolina

DEATH 1925 • Florida

Married 1st: 24 Nov 1874 • Onslow,

North Carolina

Laura E. Hill

1855–1889

BIRTH 30 JANUARY 1855 • North Carolina

DEATH 25 APRIL 1889 • Morriston, Levy County, Florida

Married 2nd (Sister of first wife)  5 Jul 1888 • Onslow, North Carolina

Janie P Hill

1857–1941

BIRTH 1857 • North Carolina

DEATH 1941 • Dade County, Florida