Brickernal Pomeroy Edge: Was a member of the Masons and Niceville Post Master - 1910, General Store and Hotel Owner - 1920. He was an Okaloosa County Commissioner. BP raised his Great nephew Henry Hanford Edge.
Early, Jacob E. - Lot 4 Sec. 19, T1S, R22W HE 31175-Gainesville, November 15, 1901
Patented August 0, 1907 PC March 25 1907 (before organization of Forest) County records of Sales, Leases, etc., show:
No sales, except E 51 acres of Lot 4 to BP Edge.
Homesteader is a native of Florida; has lived here all his life; lived on place 3 years after proof; a crop has been made each year until this year of peas, corn, potatoes, beans and garden for home use; improvements not maintained after proof; no part of land used for farming at the present time; house used by fisherman; timber boxed 1909; lives in Niceville, Fla.; works turpentine for living; leased the timber when sold land; received about $900 for place and bought home at Niceville, Fla. Accession/Serial #: 0628-062 BLM Serial #: FL NO S/N
Niceville grew as roads were improved. In 1916 Congress passed the Federal-Aid Road Act but the beginning of World War I took priority for federal funding. In Okaloosa County elected officials and citizens took it upon themselves to build and improve existing roads. Instrumental in this effort was Niceville's County Commissioner, B. P. Edge.
Brickernal Pomeroy Edge: Was a member of the Masons and Niceville Post Master - 1910, General Store and Hotel Owner - 1920. He was an Okaloosa County Commissioner. BP raised his Great nephew Henry Hanford Edge.
Early, Jacob E. - Lot 4 Sec. 19, T1S, R22W HE 31175-Gainesville, November 15, 1901
Patented August 0, 1907 PC March 25 1907 (before organization of Forest) County records of Sales, Leases, etc., show:
No sales, except E 51 acres of Lot 4 to BP Edge.
Homesteader is a native of Florida; has lived here all his life; lived on place 3 years after proof; a crop has been made each year until this year of peas, corn, potatoes, beans and garden for home use; improvements not maintained after proof; no part of land used for farming at the present time; house used by fisherman; timber boxed 1909; lives in Niceville, Fla.; works turpentine for living; leased the timber when sold land; received about $900 for place and bought home at Niceville, Fla. Accession/Serial #: 0628-062 BLM Serial #: FL NO S/N
Niceville grew as roads were improved. In 1916 Congress passed the Federal-Aid Road Act but the beginning of World War I took priority for federal funding. In Okaloosa County elected officials and citizens took it upon themselves to build and improve existing roads. Instrumental in this effort was Niceville's County Commissioner, B. P. Edge.
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