The following excerpt is from an article written in 1908 by Benjamin F. Blount, a grandson of Readding Blount. To see more about this Blount family, go to the following selection taken from the Blount section of Parker and Blount in Florida at this site.

In October, 1851, my grandfather, Readding Blount, with four sons, viz.: Riley R., wife and four children, Owen R., wife and two children, Nathan S., unmarried, and John J not grown, Streaty Parker, his son-in-law, wife and two children, John Davidson, wife and on child, making 21 whites and about a dozen Negro slaves constituted our colony that came from near the town of Alligator (now known as Lake City) and located about one mile west of the present courthouse in Bartow.