Remembering Suwannee: Dr. Silas T. Overstreet

Eric Musgrove Contributor The lives of Suwannee County frontiersmen fascinate me for some reason. Something about the early settlers of a virgin land braving the wilderness, establishing communities and then thriving within them despite hardships and heartaches brings to memory the fiery spirit of American individualism and exploration. Dr. Silas Taft Overstreet is one of those men. The following is quoted from the “Biographical Souvenir of the States of Georgia and Florida: Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and many Early Settled Families in These States,” which was published in 1889: “Dr. Silas T. Overstreet, the subject of thi