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Evelyn Rees Burt Collection, 1866-1969, Date acquired: 00/00/1970

 

Summary

Extent:
680 items
1.5 Linear Feet 3 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], Evelyn Rees Burt collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-0-40

Background

Scope and content:

Genealogical materials, family and business papers and correspondence, pictures, tax and receipts, mortgages, a will, old newspapers and clippings.

Biographical / historical:

Mrs. Evelyn Rees Burt served in the US Navy during World War II as a WAVE officer. She served in Jacksonville, Florida and Hawaii. Her related oral history describes her experience of serving in the Navy as a female during the war.

Mrs. Evelyn Rees Burt's grandmother was Anna Amelia Schlemmer, who married George Otto Adicks of Lake City, Columbia County, Florida. The Rees family originated in Southern Georgia, Virgina, and Carolina, and settled in Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida. The head of the Schlemmer family (native of Prussia, naturalized in 1866 in the Circuit Court, Perry County, Indiana) settled in Cedar Key, Levy County, Florida ca 1888.

Men of the Rees family were plantation owners and business owners; Confederate officers and soldiers in the Civil War; and served in the Spanish American War, and Army and Air Force officers during World War I and World War II. The Schlemmers were leading citizens, real estate owners and developers of Cedar Key and the surrounding area.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Mrs. Evelyn Rees Burt
Processing information:

Processed November, 1967.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Cedar Key (Fla.)
Names:
Adicks Family
Places:
Levy County (Fla.)

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open to all researchers.

This collection is in an offsite storage location. Please contact lib-specialcollections@fsu.edu with requests for access or for more information.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections and Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], Evelyn Rees Burt collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-0-40

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA