Wimauma Cemetery-Carltons & Browns
Family cemetery, Wimauma, Florida.
Fellowship Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery
1. Sources Hillsborough County, Florida Cemeteries 1840-1985 Vol. 1-8 published by Florida Genealogical Society, Tampa, Florida
2. findagrave.com
3. Florida Death Index 1877-1998 as contained on ancestry.com
4. Headstone pictures contributed by Joyce.
5. Hillsborough Historical Commission survey done in the early 1950′s
My grandmother
Brown , Annie Viola (Dowling)March 3 1908
My grandfather
Brown, Byron B.
April 1 1902 February 28 1968
My great grandfather
Brown Benjamin B.
July 5 1861 November 8 1924
My great grandmother
Brown, Mary A (Carlton)
November 5 1862 December 26 1906
My great-great grandfather (father of Mary Brown)
Carlton Isaac c
September 15 1835 February 21 1897
Isaac’s parents were Alderman (January 4, 1803-1856 Seminole War)and Martha Maria(Alderman) Carlton (March 3, 1806-December13, 1858)
Alderman’s parents were John (April 20,1775- February 26, 1868)and Nancy Ann Alderman (November17,1775-June 4, 1867)
Martha Marie’s parents were David and Jemina (Hall)
Alderman
John Carlton’s parents were Thomas (1747-1795) and Martha (1751-1797)
Martha’s parents were Daniel and Mary (Wilson) Alderman
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Carlton: A Goodly Heritage
By Spessard Stone
The original version was published in the Sunland Tribune of Tampa, Fla. 24 (November 1998), pages 75-82.
The Carltons, in diverse fields from the cattle ranges to the governor’s chair, have exerted a prominent influence in Florida for over 150 years. Herewith follows a summary of the family from early origins to several prominent Tampa citizens.
When Alderman Carlton settled in Florida in January 1843, Florida was a frontier territory. He and his contemporaries would be astonished at how Florida has evolved in the interval into a modern state with its accompanying infrastructure, technology, and tourism. Probably only on the cattle ranches would they readily be at home.(1)
Alderman Carlton was the scion of a colonial family. Thomas Carleton, his grandfather, was born May 10, 1747. He and his wife, Martha (1751-1797), lived in North Carolina, in which while living in Duplin County, during the Revolutionary War, he rendered service as a private. Thomas died October 3, 1795 in Duplin County. In his will Thomas made mention of prior modest bequests to his daughters, Rachel, Anna, Elizabeth, Lydia, and son, John, with his “dearly beloved wife, Martha, all the rest of any property both and stocks of all kinds and negroes her lifetime,” except after her death, his sons, Stephen and Thomas, to inherit separate lands. (2)
John Carlton, the third of seven children of Thomas and Martha, was born April 20, 1775 in Duplin County, North Carolina. John, as others of the family, changed the spelling of his surname to Carlton. In Duplin County on November 17, 1797, John married Nancy Ann Alderman, born November 17, 1775 in Duplin County, daughter of David Alderman, a Revolutionary War soldier, and Jemima (Hall) Alderman. John and Nancy Ann lived in Duplin County until about 1800 when they moved to Sampson County, North Carolina. In the early 1820s, the family migrated to Bulloch County, Georgia and then, about 1825, to Thomas County, Georgia. They lived on the Ochlockonee River, where John owned and operated a sawmill and gristmill and farmed. In 1852 John sold his property and relocated to Madison County, Florida. There Nancy Ann Carlton died June 4, 1867 and John Carlton died February 26, 1868. Sales from Carlton’s estate, which included: 120 acres of land and 40 head of stock cattle, realized a modest $1,011.30.(3)
George W. Hendry remembered his grandfather for his spiritual, not material, walk in life: “John Carlton resembled greatly old Abraham. I never read of old Abraham, but in my mind’s eye I behold my grandfather. He had his family worship mornings and evenings as regularly as the days came and went. I can recall vividly the verbage of many of his prayers, and can sing many of the songs that I learned when but eight years old at my grandfather’s hearthstone as though it was but yesterday…The whole family, from grandfather down, were exemplary Christians, their piety proverbial…”(4)
John and Nancy Ann Carlton had nine children, (1) Rev. Thomas (1799-1841), of which a branch settled in Plant City; (2) Mary “Polly” (1801-90, Mrs. John Chastain of Thomasville, Georgia); (3) Alderman (1803-56); (4) Stephen (1805-86, who eventually settled in Polk County); (5) William Carlton (1807-75, of Fort Green); (6) Elizabeth (1808-62, Mrs. John Simmons of Taylor County); (7) Lydia (1812-98, who married James Edward Hendry and Benjamin Moody of Riverview and Homeland); (8) Rev. John Wright Carlton (1818-94, of Polk County); (9) Martha Ann (1820-1900, Mrs. Robert M. Hendry of Taylor County).(5)
Alderman Carlton, son of John and Nancy Ann, was born January 4, 1803 in Sampson County, North Carolina. In Duplin County, North Carolina on September 27, 1822, he married his first cousin, Martha Maria Alderman, born March 3, 1806, Duplin County, North Carolina, daughter of Daniel and Mary Wilson Alderman. About 1825, Alderman and family moved to Thomas County, Georgia. During the Second Seminole War, Alderman was a member of the companies commanded by Capt. Tucker and Capt. Browning, which were raised in August and September 1836. He participated in the Battle of Brushy Creek in Lowndes County, Georgia.(6)
Alderman, under provisions of the Armed Occupation Act of 1842, received on May 10, 1843 at Newnansville, Fla. permit # 414 for land, which was probably in Alachua County. Alderman later removed to the Alafia Settlement in Hillsborough County where he was a planter. During the Indian trouble in 1849, he served as fourth sergeant in Capt. John Parker’s Company, organized July 1849. In 1851 city commissioners of Tampa deeded to L. G. Lesley, Dr. F. Branch, W. B. Hooker, Alderman Carlton and C. A. Ramsey, trustees for the First Methodist Church of Tampa, Lot 3 of Block 14 of the survey of 1847. On July 3, 1852, he registered the following mark & brand: undersquare and underbit in one ear and undersquare in the other brand “C.”(7)
Alderman in late 1854 or early 1855 moved his family near the Campground branch on the Fort Meade and Fort Frazier road. During the Third Seminole War on December 29, 1855, he was mustered into service as second lieutenant in Capt. Francis M. Durrance’s Company. In the spring of 1856 he was commander of the garrison at Fort Meade and led six men to the defense of the Indian-besieged Willoughby Tillis family. In so doing, he was slain, as were two of his men, William Parker and Lott Whidden, while his son, Daniel W. Carlton, John C. Oats and John Henry Hollingsworth, were wounded.(8)
Rev. J. M. Hayman was the administrator of the estate of Alderman Carlton. A partial inventory included in part: 32-year-old Negro woman named Charity, 4-year-old Negro boy named Joe, several houses at Fort Meade, corn mill, crop of corn in the field, 140 head of cattle, 30 head of hogs, 5 head of sheep, 2 yoke of oxen, 1 gray mare, 1 colt, 1 single horse buggy, saddle and bridle, large wagon, lots of books. In October 1856 this notice by Rev. J. M. Hayman was published: “Will be sold to the highest bidder before courthouse in Tampa on 15th of November next, one negro woman, age about 35 years, good house or field hand-also with her, a boy about 5 years old-very smart healthy child-will be sold together, as boy is her child. Estate of Alderman Carlton for benefit of heirs.” In July 1859, Hayman gave notice that he was to sell belonging to the estate which included 161.5 acres in the Alafia area and 160 acres near Fort Meade.(9)
After Alderman’s death, Martha M. Carlton lived in Tampa with her daughter and son-in-law, Martha Jane and J. M. Hayman. On September 1, 1857, she registered her mark and brand: crop half crop in one ear, undersquare & underbit in other-brand “Z.” In the fall of 1858 yellow fever broke out in Tampa, and Martha Carlton died from it on December 13, 1858.(10)
Alderman and Martha Carlton had 14 children, Daniel Wilson (1823-91); (2) Mary Ann (1825-93, Mrs. Timothy Alderman of Ga.); (3) William Thomas (1827-91 of Alachua Co.); (4) Martha Jane (1829-95, Mrs. J. M. Hayman of Bartow); (5) Elizabeth (1831-31); (6) Manerva (1833-42); (7) Isaac (1835-97 of Hillsborough Co.); (8) Priscilla (1837-1919, Mrs. Eli English of Wauchula); (9) Susannah (1839-78; who married G. H. Johnson and Rev. Robert N. Pylant of Bartow); (10) Missouri (1841-43); (11) Sarah (1844-87, who married Stephen P. Hooker and William C. Hayman of Owens); (12) Georgia Ann (1846-?, Mrs. Robert A. Carson of Immokalee); (13) Thomas C. (1850-50); (14) Nancy (1851-51).(11)