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Haddocks of Wiregrass, the history and images of Florida's pioneering Haddock family from Kings Ferry, Florida. BelleAire Press is a Gainesville, Florida-based independent publisher of hard copy and on-line works of historic fiction, non-fiction and military history. Recent publications—hard copy and on-line book published content—include: Baited Trap, the Ambush of Mission 1890, the Korean War’s deadliest helicopter rescue mission; Love, Midgie; Truckbusters From Dogpatch, the Combat Diary of the 18th Fighter-Bomber Wing in the Korean War, 1950-1953; and Flavors of the Fjords, the Norwegian Holiday Cookbook. BelleAire Press is an American book publishing company whose services include: book publishing, providing book publishing information and book publishing services, children's book publishing, ebook/e-book publishing, internet publishing, and online publishing. Our editorial staff provides help and support for the book publishing industry and authors in such areas as: children's book publishing, cookbook publishing, historic fiction, military history, custom publishing, getting published, on-demand book publishing and printing, publishing a book or “how to publish a book”, getting published, and how to publish a work on-line or on the internet.

"...let it be our pride that we ourselves may put meaning into our lives, and sometimes a significance that transcends death. If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children."
- Will and Ariel Durant


The Haddocks of Wiregrass

William Vanzant and his wife, Ernie (Libby), and little Ernest (who died in 1978). This photograph was made just three weeks before Mary Jane Vanzant Haddock (right front) died on February 17, 1906, her daughter Eva's fifteenth birthday. She had been taken into Jacksonville to see the doctor by her brother,
William "Willie" Vanzant and his wife, Ernie (Libby), and little Ernest (who died in 1978). This photograph was made just three weeks before Mary Jane Vanzant Haddock (right front) died on February 17, 1906, her daughter Eva's fifteenth birthday. She had been taken into Jacksonville to see the doctor by her brother, "Uncle Willie,” Mary Jane’s daughter Eva Haddock Connors remembered. Uncle Willie "was always trying to help her." One doctor said "it was her kidneys. I don’t know. She had a lot of trouble with headaches...so severe...she had a fall. She fell on some steps and hit the stair railing. It cut a big place on her forehead. After that healed she began to have headaches. Sister Zona used to say ‘I believe mother must have had a tumor probably, to have had those headaches.’ She would nearly go out of her mind those headaches would be so severe. The doctor said it was kidney trouble, but I don’t know. In those days they didn’t make tests and they didn’t have anything like they have now." 

Mary Jane Vanzant Haddock was born March 22, 1860 in Nassau Co, Florida. Her father was William Martin VANZANT (1837-1899)and her mother was Eliza Ann HADDOCK (1842-1917).

William had been born in 1837 in Ware County, Georgia and married Eliza born in 1842, a daughter of Joseph and Sarah Jane Tompkins Haddock about 1859.

Mary Jane was the oldest of nine children born to William and Eliza, including: Lavinia “Poss” Vanzant (married Harley Jones), Eliza Sophronia (“Phrone”) Vanzant (married Paul Colson Haddock), Joseph William (“Willie”) Vanzant (married Ernie Lorene Libby); Jeanie Idalie Vanzant, David Miller Vanzant (married Myrtle Hancock), Irene “Rene” Vanzant (married James William “Little Jim” Vanzant, Jr.), Henry Harrison Vanzant (married Ella Marie Braddock) and Carl C. Vanzant (who died at the age of twelve in 1899).

Mary Jane was born on March 22, 1860 in Nassau County, Florida, probably near Kings Ferry.

She married Rufus Goldwire Haddock, the son of Zachariah (“Zach”) Haddock on September 19, 1875 in Nassau County, Florida.

On Eva’s fifteenth birthday, her mother, Mary Jane, told those nursing her to “tell the girls to come here,” she wanted to talk to them. “She told us to be good,” Grandma told her grandson, Tracy. “I never thought about her dying, you know, then, we thought she was just sick.” Mary Jane died that February 17th in 1906 after asking Eva to take good care of her younger brothers, Paul, Harley and Miller. She did as her mother asked…she was a good wife, mother and Christian…and throughout the rest of her life she shared a special bond with her three younger brothers. At right, Eva (center), with brother David Miller and sister, Jennie.
On Eva’s fifteenth birthday, her mother, Mary Jane, told those nursing her to “tell the girls to come here,” she wanted to talk to them. “She told us to be good,” Grandma told her grandson, Tracy. “I never thought about her dying, you know, then, we thought she was just sick.” Mary Jane died that February 17th in 1906 after asking Eva to take good care of her younger brothers, Paul, Harley and Miller. She did as her mother asked…she was a good wife, mother and Christian…and throughout the rest of her life she shared a special bond with her three younger brothers. At right, Eva (center), with brother David Miller and sister, Jennie.

She and Rufus had seven children that lived to adulthood, including: Mary Elizabeth Haddock (married Edward Curtis “Boss” Campbell), Arizona “Zona” Haddock (married John Willliam “Will” Walker), Zachariah “Zach” Haddock (married Polly Ann Braddock), Jennie Haddock (married Jesse Rowe), Eva May Haddock (married Archibald “Arch” Connors), Paul Goldwire Haddock (married Jennie Jones), and David Miller Haddock (married Lilian McIntosh and later, Blanch Smith).

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