Oh Mike, there's so many things we all want to do and it's easy to get sidetracked.
So much to do, so little time.
The one I got today, is sort of a puzzle. I really thought I'd hit the proverbial brick wall and this just fell into my hands on a table at Sam's Club of all places. Once I saw one photo I knew it needed to be checked out. I think I told you that Stephen's wife Angela Moreno Mallory ( from one of Pensacola's oldest family lines) ran a sort of inn or hotel later in life. The picture I found list one house in the photo as the home of William Chase, the builder of the forts in this area and others. The caption under the photo said later it became a hotel. Chase had a 'plantation' on the site of old Warrington that is inside what is now NAS Pensacola. He and his family were buried there in a family burial ground. The headstones from the family graves were moved to a small cemetery set up just going into Ft Pickens proper. His headstone is not there. All my life I've been told that Chase was buried under the now asphalt in the parking lot at Chevalier Field on the base. They never moved his remains nor did they remove any others in the family cemetery. Just the headstones for a little 'exhibit' for the tourist at Ft Pickens.
Chase had a home in downtown Pensacola too. It seems to be the one right next door to the Mallory House. At least that is the info I'm getting from the census. The house right next to the Chase home in the photo doesn't say who the neibhor is but the census will.

I'm going to our Genealogy Library the first of the week to check some files and records.Their homes faced West on the Northern end of Palafox St. and were at the SE corner of Palafox and Wright Street. Anyway, I'm going to try to round up as much info as I find and hope that gives a legitimate source to back up the local 'stories'.

Some photo's of troops at Ft Barrancas, they think one is of the 19th Mississippi, and a few others look new to me. There's one they believe has a group of Confederats at the very beginning of the war in camp on Bayou Grande. As fas as I know, there were a couple of them on the bayou and I have heard one was Camp Jackson. That is another thing I'm going to try to verify again. With all of the 'Camp Jackson's' around here, the date on that one seems to fit but it does not say Camp Jackson. That is another 'local' legend that we never really questioned. Guess I'll be busy checking that out while I'm checking the other.

You will be the first to hear if I've struck paydirt.

Pam