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Sheriff Thomas W. Johnson. I'm not sure when this portrait was made, but he died in 1928, at only 48 years old, of pneumonia. His wife, Myrtie Armella Dancy Johnson, died six weeks later of complications from childbirth. (This child was born 4 weeks after his father's death). The couple left 5 orphaned children who were raised by their maternal grandfather, James E. Dancy, until his death in 1934 and then by their Aunt Pearl Dancy Herring. Thomas Washington Johnson was son of General Lafayette Johnson and Martha K. Stafford Johnson of Hurricane Creek, Holmes County, FL. His son, Park Earl Johnson, was my husband's father. (Photograph submitted by Sherrie Johnson .)
Sheriff Jesse Brown on the right with one of his deputies. Circa 1945 - 1949.
(Photograph courtesy of the Florida State Archives Photographic Collection.)
J R Chance, Sheriff, Holmes County, 1949 - 1953
(Photograph courtesy of the Florida Photographic Collection)
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