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Sometime between the l8lj0 and 1850 censuses, Ann and Nicholas Mitchell moved to Hancock County, Mississippi, with their children and, apparently, their slaves. Records at the Hancock County Courthouse, which might have revealed Nicholas Mitchell's business ventures and ownership of property, were destroyed when the courthouse in Hay St. Louis burned near the end of the last century. The 1850 census shows that at that time, Nicholas Mtchell owned Ii7 slaves, man?/- of them children in the slave families, ^Laura Leonard Crawford says that Nicholas Mitchell was in the lumber business. ^Tt. is interesting that the 1850 census shored Ann Mitchell's age as Ii6, when she actually was 51, having been born in 1799. Did Ann fib a little?)
Ann died in Mississippi in 1856 and a year later f,ficholas brought her back to Pensacola to be buried in the Bright plot in St. Michael?s Cemetery, fhn compiler has the original funeral notice:
The Friends and Acquaintances of M. H, Mitchell, and those of Mrs. Bright and family, are request r-d to attend the Funeral of Mrs, ANN H. MTTCH5LL, from Christ Church, to-morrow, the 8th inst., at li o'clock, P. M.
Pensacola, February 7th, 1857
Nicholas Mitchell died in Mississippi in 1871 and is buried in an immarked grave in the -itti-Napoleon Cemetery in Mississippi. According to *Laura Leonard Crawford, this grave is next to that of her grandfather, Dr. Thomas Leonard. Nicholas Mitchell was her great grandfather, and years ago her father showed her where he was buried.
8. & 9. George Henry Bright was bom in the Territory of Florida in 182Ii. After the 1830 Florida census, where he is listed in his father's family as **1 male" under the column "over 5". George Bright	is not listed in	any	Florida	or
Mississippi census under the name of Bright until 1870.
Tn Civil War records, George Bright	listed his residence	in 1865	as	Scott
Count}*-, Mississippi, His three children	were born during	the	Civil War,	and
he seems to have entered Confederate service late in the war. The only record of his service shows that in 1865 he was a sergeant in the Mississippi Cavalry Reserves, in the company commanded by Captain J. B. Mitchell fhis cousin and brother-in-law.) This company was among those of the Mississippi-Alabama troops, under command of Lieutenant General R. Taylor, which was the last part of the Confederate Army to surrender, on May 15, 1865.
Tn the 1870 census of Mississippi, George Bright and his family are listed twice in Hancock County, obviously having moved during the census year. George Bright is shown once as living in Pearlington, where he is listed as a carpenter, and once as living in Gainesville, where he is listed as a farmer.
Julia Mitchell, daughter of Nicholas and Ann Mitchell, was born in th? Territory of Florida in 18?6. Sometime after I8ii0, she moved with her parents and eight brothers and sisters to Hancock County, Mississippi. Before the Civil War, she married her first cousin, George Henry Bright and, as mentioned above, their children were born during the war. The 1870 Mississippi census lists their children as Snma Elizabeth, John M., and Ann Heritage.
Julia Mitchell died in 1075 and is buried in the ^Napoleon Cemetery in an unmarked grave next to that of her father, according to *Laura Leonard Crawford,
George Bright apparently continued to live in the Napoleon-Gainesville area. He was still there in 1885. Sometime after 1885 he moved to or near Purvis. Later he died at Okahola, which is near Purvis.