Remembering Suwannee: Sheriff Potsdamer was an ex-convict

Gus Potsdamer (Pottsdammer) was born in 1853 in Germany. He died on Friday, Jan. 4, 1918 and is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in Jacksonville, Fla. Jacksonville Florida Times Union obit, Saturday, Jan. 5, 1918: Gus Potsdammer, 63, a well-known resident of Live Oak, died in this city early yesterday morning, after an illness of over a year's duration. He was formerly Sheriff of Suwannee County and for many years was engaged in the undertaking business at Live Oak. The funeral took place yesterday afternoon, Rabbi I L Kaplan, of the Temple Ahavath Chesed officiating. The interment was in Temple cemetery. The 1880 Census for Suwannee County shows Gus Potsdamer at 26 years of age as wor