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Note: N458 1850 Coffee Co., Alabama census, HH#771 Stephen Gavin, 22, farmer, b. SC Ann, 17, Georgia Charles W., 2 mos., Alabama
1860 Holmes County, Florida, HH#120 census Gavin, Stephen 32 years of age Farmer born South Carolina “ , Anna 28 “ Wife “ Georgia “ , Lanier 12 “ Son “ Alabama “ , Wm. Charles 10 “ Son “ “ “ , Stephen Green 4 “ Son “ “ “ , James J. 10/12 “ Son “ Florida Gavin, Nancy Ann 71(?) “ Mother “ South Carolina
1870 Holmes Co., Florida census, HH#242 Stephen Gavan, 42, farmer, $250, South Carolina Adeline, 32, Georgia Susan E., 5, Mary E., 3 Roda J., 2 Frances A., 1 All children b. in Florida Next household: Lanier Gavan, 20, farm laborer, $200, b. Alabama William E., 17 Stephen G., 13 James J. 10
1880 Holmes Co., Florida census, HH#315 Stephen Gavin, 52, farmer, South Carolina, SC, SC Adoline, 40, wife, Georgia Susan, 15 June, 13 Ellen, 11 Emily, 10 Rebecca, 3 Ally, 3 mos., b. Feb All children b. in Florida. Son Green Gavin, 24, living next household with wife Caroline, 19 Son, Lanier Gavin, 30, 6 households away, farmer Camilla, 28, wife William 8, Frances, 6 Julia, 4 Caroline, 2 All b. in Florida
1900 census Holmes Co., Florida, Newton pcnt., HH#307 Stephen Gavin, June 1828, 71, married 52 years, farmer, b. SC, father NC, mother SC Anna, wife, Aprl 1856, 44, married 52 years, mother of 16, just 8 living, b. Georgia This census is SO confusing! There is no way a 44 yr old woman could be married 52 years, yet the census clearly states that. Could she be yet another wife, the 3rd one, and the census taker recorded the 52 in error?
Stephen Gavin’s pension application records the “B” for his middle initial. Other family genealogies record that to be “Blocker”.
He was in the Co. E, 6th Florida Regiment and was wounded, resulting in disability. He received a gunshot wound in the left lung through the body and near the spine, resulting in loss of muscle and partial paralysis to his shoulder and left arm. He first filed for pension 1887. His “widow” filed for his pension benefits Aug., 1909.
By 1898 he tesitified that he had lived in Holmes Co., Florida for 41 years, making his arrival there about 1857, according to papers found in his pension application.
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