TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI

In 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act and authorized the relocation of all the Southeast Native Americans to federal territory west of the Mississippi River.  This forced removal, which occurred throughout the late 1830s, became known as the Trail of Tears. From 1827 to 1838 about 23,000 Creek people were forced into Indian Territory, thousands of whom died on the three-month journey. In all, more than 46,000 to 60,000 Native Americans were forced—sometimes by the U.S. military—to abandon their homes and relocate to “Indian Territory,” which became the state of Oklahoma. 

In the early years of settlement, European-Americans named this town "Gum Pond," supposedly due to its numerous tupelo trees, known locally as "blackgum." The city still hosts the annual Gumtree Arts Festival.  During the Civil War, Union and Confederate forces fought in the area in 1864 in the Battle of Tupelo and the Battle of Old Town Creek.  Designated the Tupelo National Battlefield, the battlefield is administered by the National Park Service (NPS.)  With expansion, the town changed its name to Tupelo, in honor of the battle. It was incorporated in 1870

MILTON HARVEY MABRY Sr.
Father of Giddings, Jesse, Milton Jr, John, Dale, Eloise, and Harton Mabry
 

1885 Members of the Florida State Senate on the steps of the Capitol, Tallahassee.
Lt. Governor and President of the Senate Milton H. Mabry on front step, left.

ELIMINATION OF THE OFFICE OF LT. GOVERNOR The 1885 Constitutional Convention of Florida which met and revised the laws of the state during Governor Perry's administration eliminated the office of Lieutenant Governor and prohibited the governor from succeeding himself with a consecutive term.   MILTON MABRY ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL In 1888, Mabry toured the state campaigning for the Democrat ticket with G.B. Sparkman and Circuit Judge Joseph Baisden Wall.   THE MABRYS IN PASCO COUNTY In 1890, Mabry began having a 10-room residence built on a hill two miles north of Dade City in Pasco County, .

 

	FLORIDA SUPREME COURT JUSTICE FIRST TERM In August 1890, Mabry served as a delegate to the Florida state Democratic convention in Ocala. Without solicitation from himself, his name was placed in nomination for justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, and on the final ballot he received the nomination over eminent but aged incumbent, Justice Maxwell.  In Nov. 1890, Mabry won the state election and served his first term on the Supreme Court from Jan. 1891 to Jan. 1897, during which time he served as Chief Justice from 1895 to the end of his term under the governorship of Francis Philip Fleming (1889-1892) and Henry Laurens Mitchell (1893-1897.)  During the terms of Supreme Court years, Milton lived in Tallahassee and maintained his home in Dade City, where his family remained. FLORIDA SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SECOND TERM In Oct. 1896, Mabry was the Democrat nominee for Supreme Court Justice again. Winning the election again, he served from Jan. 1897 to Jan. 1903 for a total of two terms for 12 years.
Image courtesy of Florida Memory, State Archives and Library of Florida, but ultimately, the image comes from the National Cyclopedia of American Biography, (Mabry bio written in 1893) published in 1907
	RETIREMENT In Feb. 1902, Milton Mabry announced he would not run for a 3rd term on the Supreme Court. Yearning for retirement, he declined re-nomination for the Nov. 1902 election and retired in 1903 to his home in Dade City, making way for his former law partner, William A. Hocker, to join and serve in the Supreme Court from 1903 until 1915. MILTON MABRY JOINS SON'S LAW PRACTICE IN TAMPA AS MABRY & MABRY In Dec. 1902, Milton Mabry announced his desire to move to Tampa from Dade City.  He arrived in Tampa on Jan. 1, 1903, established a home on Bayshore Blvd.,  and began practicing law with his eldest son, Giddings Eldon Mabry, as Mabry & Mabry; Giddings having established his lone law practice in Tampa in Oct. 1901.  Image courtesy of The Treasure City, Tampa by Gary R. Mormino and Anthony P. Pizzo, 1985.

 

Milton's wife, Ella Dale (Bramlett) Mabry, died in 1904 at their Bayshore Blvd. home after suffering for some time with severe headaches.  The announcement of her passing mentioned her surviving husband, "four sons and one daughter" with subsequent specific mention of sons Giddings and his brother, Dr. Jesse Mabry, a physician in Norfolk, Virginia.

Justice Mabry soon decided that the private practice of law was not for him.  The death of his wife along with persuasion from friends convinced Milton to return the Supreme Court.  He moved back to Tallahassee in 1904 and accepted the position of Clerk of the Supreme Court from March 31, 1905 until 1915.   

SECOND MARRIAGE AND BIRTH OF SON HARTON W. MABRY

On Nov. 15, 1906, Milton Mabry married in a private ceremony at her home in Louisville, Kentucky-born Miss Irene Washburne, a young lady of charm, beauty and refinement, one of Kentucky's loveliest girls.  She proved herself a most devoted wife and loving mother.  She was one of six children of Louis Jermaine Washburne and Mary Ann Rudy, The couple made a southern tour before settling in Tallahassee.  Their son, Harton Washburne Mabry, was born in 1908 in Tallahassee where they were living along with Milton's and Ella's son, Dale.

SECOND RETIREMENT AND DEATH

Milton Mabry retired from his position as clerk of the supreme court in 1915, spending some time at a beach house in Clearwater, in hopes that the sea air would improve his health.  He relocated a final time to his home at 210 Fielding Ave. in Hyde Park, Tampa, before passing away of tuberculosis on March 3, 1919 at the age of 68.

In stature Judge Mabry was a tall man, six feet tall and of medium build.  He wore a mustache and his coal black hair did not have a streak of grey in it until well past his 50th year. While not an orator of the old school, his speech was pleasing and he was forceful, entertaining and logical.  In the months that preceded the general elections he invariably received invitations to canvass the state with other party leaders in behalf of the Democrat ticket.

In the National Cyclopedia of American Biography, (Mabry bio written in 1893) published in 1907, Justice Mabry is described as having a "sanguine, nervous, active temperament and a profound, earnest student of the law, a hard worker, a conscientious judge, and a forceful speaker.  His executive and judicial ability is recognized throughout the state, while his opinions are received with respect by all.  Physically, he is a man of commanding presence, although of slender figure, and has dark hazel eyes, brown hair, and a thoughtful face."

After Milton's death, Irene Washburne Mabry moved to Sanford in Seminole County by 1920 where she lived with her son, Harton, age 11, and with her sister Nellie and brother-in-law G.F. Smith.  By 1940 Irene had moved to Daytona Beach in Volusia County with her son, where she died on Jul. 5, 1943. Harton became a member of a prominent law firm in Daytona Beach.

Some information obtained from:
Cumberland University Archives.
He Was Florida's Last Lieutenant Governor by Thomas Lesley published Apr. 28, 1957 by D.B. McKay in "Pioneer Florida."
Various articles from newspapers in Mississippi and Florida.
U.S. Censuses and marriage records of Alabama, Mississippi and Florida
State Census of Florida, 1885
Florida Supreme Court
National Cyclopedia of American Biography

MILTON H. MABRY DETAILS AND SUPPORTING SOURCES

MILTON MABRY IS SECRETARY OF TAXPAYERS COMMITTEE

1875-01-07 The Lee County (Miss.) Clarion
The tax-payers of Lee county met in Tupelo on the 28th of December and proceeded to the permanent organization of a tax-payers convention by the selection of Capt. R.M. Leavell as chairman and M. H. Mabry, and S. Billingsley as Secretaries.
 

MARRIAGE LICENSE
1876-12-21 MARRIAGE TO ELLA DALE BRAMLETT

Milton Harvey Mabry married Ella Dale Bramlett on Dec. 21, 1876 in Lee County, Miss.  (Ella was b.ca.1856, in Pontotoc, Miss., a daughter of John Woodson Bramlett and Eliza G. Turner Bramlett).

Edward Aylesworth Perry, 14th governor of Florida from January 7, 1885 to January 8, 1889. Photo and info courtesy of Florida Dept. of State

FLORIDA CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

The 1885 Constitutional Convention of Florida which met and revised the laws of the state during Governor Perry's administration did not provide for the office of Lieutenant Governor to continue and among other provisions, prohibited the governor from succeeding himself with a consecutive term.

1887-04-05 The Palatka Daily News
The constitution does not contain this provision (Lt. Gov.) and it is therefore true that Mr. Mabry, the present Lt. Governor, is the "last of his line."  Nothing contained in this Constitution shall operate to vacate the office of Lt. Governor until the expiration of his present term."

1887-04-07 The Semi Weekly Times Union
The right of Lt. Gov. Mabry to preside over the Senate under the new Constitution will not be questioned since he was elected by the people themselves.
 

MABRY ENDORSES DEMOCRAT CANDIDATES ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL

ABOUT THE CAMPAIGNERS
1888-10-25 The Tampa Weekly Journal
Cordially Received in Every Precinct Visited Capt. Walton and Lt.-Gov Mabry Working For the Faith on the West Side.  Last Wednesday morning (17th) several carriages and buggies loaded down with Democratic orators left the city for Peru (original name for Riverview) where the first gun of the campaign was fired...In the party were Dem. Exec. Committee chairman G.B. Sparkman Esq.,  Candidate for State Senate Joseph B. Wall; S.M Sparkman, Lucius Finley, C.W.Stevens, Lamont Bailey, G.M. Mathes and W. A. Givens.
 

At the close of his term (as Lt. Governor) in 1889, Mabry turned his entire attention to his law practice in Leesburg which by an act of the 1887 legislature had become part of newly-created Lake County. With no thought of again holding public office, Mabry withdrew from the political arena to spend the remainder of his days in quiet, unostentatious retirement of a country life.  (1957-04-28 The Tampa Tribune - "Pioneer Florida" by D. B. McKay, provided by pioneer Tampa historian Theodore Lesley.)

DADE CITY ITEMS - MILTON MABRY BUILDING HOME IN PASCO CO.
1890-05-29 The Semi Weekly Times Union
Lt. Gov. Mabry is building a residence two miles north of Dade City in Pasco Co. This is the last reference found referring to Mabry as Lt. Governor, even though his term ended on Jan. 8, 1889.

FIRST REFERENCE TO MABRY AS EX-LT. GOVERNOR
1890-06-22 The Florida Times Union -
A party of six or seven families from Leesburg are negotiating for summer quarters at Clear Water.  Ex Lt Gov Mabry and family will be in the party.  (This indicates Mabry was still living in Leesburg at this time.)
 

THE MABRYS MOVE TO DADE CITY, PASCO COUNTY

In 1890* Milton Mabry relocated with his family to Dade City and [soon] built there on a hill overseeing the town a large 10-room house.  Close by he planted and developed three orange groves each of sizeable acreage.
(*This date was originally 1889 in the 1957-04-28 article in the Tampa Tribune - "Pioneer Florida" by D. B. McKay, provided by Tampa historian Theodore Lesley. TampaPix has changed it to 1890 according to information found in several articles indicating Mabry returned to his home in Leesburg at the close of his term and STARTED building his home in Pasco Co. in 1890. )

Call for a State Democratic Convention at Ocala, Fla., on Wed. Aug. 13, 1890
1890-07-01 Florida Times Union
The Democrat convention is announced to be held in Ocala on Wed., Aug 13 at 12 noon for the purpose of nominating a candidate for the office of justice of the supreme court and for the office of comptroller, to fill the vacancy cause by the resignation of Hon. W. D. Barnes, and to conduct other business.
 

MABRY NOMINATED FOR SUPREME COURT JUSTICE

1890-08-13  Milton Mabry was sent as a delegate to the state Democratic convention in Ocala. Without solicitation as to himself, his name was placed in nomination for justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, and on the final ballot he received the nomination over eminent but aged incumbent, Justice Maxwell. (1957-04-28 The Tampa Tribune - "Pioneer Florida" by D. B. McKay, provided by pioneer Tampa historian Theodore Lesley.)

Bloxam nominated for comptroller by a rising vote
1890-08-14 Pensacola News
Triangular Contest for the Supreme Judgeship - Judge Maxwell's Name Withdrawn After Several Ineffectual Ballots, and Milton H. Mabry Nominated by Acclamation.  Judge Maxwell withdrawn, Milton Mabry is nominated for Supreme Court Justice.

THE MAJORITIES
1890-08-17 Pensacola News
Ocala - Democrats nominate ex-Gov Bloxam for Comptroller, Mabry for supreme court justice.
 

MABRY ELECTED TO SUPREME COURT

1890-11-22 Pensacola News
Florida election results: Mabry elected Supreme Court Justice with 23,644 votes, Ex-Gov. Bloxam elected State Comptroller with 24,530.

1890-11-27 The Semi Weekly Times Union
County by county totals for Supreme Court Justice:  M.H. Mabry vs. J.R. Challen, State Comptroller: Bloxam

1891-01-04 Pensacola News
M.H. Mabry, justice-elect, arrived in Tallahassee with his family.

MABRY'S FIRST SIX-YEAR TERM AS SUPREME COURT JUSTICE

1891-01-09 Polk County News
Mabry to begin when Supreme Court meets in January.

MABRY CHOSEN AS CHIEF JUSTICE

1895-01-09 Pensacola News
The Supreme Court began its January term today...by choosing a new presiding officer.  The state constitution provides that the chief justice shall be designated by lot (random selection) by said justices, and shall be such during his term of office...and the lot fell upon Mr. Justice Milton H. Mabry, who will be chief justice during the remainder of his official term.

1897-01-15 The Florida Times-Union -  A history of the supreme court of Fla.
1895 - January term, Reorganization of court, Milton H. Mabry chosen chief justice, B.S. Liddon and R.F. Taylor associate justices.

MABRY CAMPAIGNS FOR A SECOND TERM AS SUPREME COURT JUSTICE

STATE CANDIDATES
1896-06-18 Weekly Tampa Tribune
...for supreme justice, Milton H. Mabry, of Pasco (the present incumbent), and T. M. Shackleford, of Hillsborough, have been suggested.

1896-10-01 The Pensacola News
Democrat ticket nominees: For Governor - William D. Bloxam, for Supreme Court Justice - Milton H. Mabry

MABRY ELECTED FOR SECOND TERM SUPREME COURT JUSTICE

Milton H. Mabry, justice, elected for six more years in Oct. 1896 [starting Jan. 1897 term.]  (1897-01-15 The Florida Times-Union -  A history of the supreme court of Fla.)

1896-10-15 The Weekly Press
Lee County results: The entire Democrat ticket for the state was elected and the constitutional amendments all carried.  Gov: W.D. Bloxham, Supreme Court Justice: Milton Mabry.

Milton Mabry served on the Supreme Court for a total of 12 years from 1891 to 1903; as justice from 1891 to 1897, as chief justice from 1895-1897, and 1897-1903 as justice.

Florida Supreme Court - Justice Milton Harvey Mabry
 

Ella Mabry was the mother of 9 children, with 6 still living at this time, so the Mabry children in the home are all of the Mabry children still living. Notice Brarmlette who was 2 on the 1885 census is missing.  This was John Bramlett Mabry; he would have been around 17 on this census. Children born after the 1885 Census were Milton Jr.1888, Dale 1891, and Elyse 1895.  Dale was no doubt named for his mother's middle name.

MILTON & ELLA MABRY VISITING IN TAMPA

1901-08-07 Tampa Tribune
Judge Milton Mabry of the supreme bench, and his estimable wife, are guests of the hospitable Trice residence in Hyde Park.  Judge Mabry and Mrs. Trice were children together and attended the same college.  Judge Mabry enjoys the enviable reputation of being one of purist jurists in the South, and is a gentleman universally admired and esteemed by all who know him.

Milton and Ella return home to Dade City
1901-08-08 Tampa Tribune
Judge Mabry and wife, who have been guests of the hospitable Trice residence in Hyde Park, leave today for Dade City where Judge Mabry owns one of the finest homes in Florida.

JUSTICE MABRY WILL RETIRE 
1902-02-19 Tampa Tribune
Hon. W.A. Hocker will seek to succeed him on the Supreme Bench.
Tallahassee, Fla. Feb. 18 - It was given out authoritatively this afternoon that Hon. M.H. Mabry for the past twelve years Supreme Court justice, will not be a candidate for re-election, and that Hon. W. A. Hocker, formerly judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, and now Supreme Court commissioner, will offer for the position made vacant by the retirement of Judge Mabry.

1902-02-25 Tampa Tribune
Judge Jos. B. Wall for Supreme Court - Circuit Court Jurist yesterday announced his candidacy to succeed Justice Mabry who resigned.  Sure Winner. The other candidate is Judge W. A. Hocker of Ocala. (Further endorsements and praise for Wall.) Read about the hot-tempered Joseph Baisden Wall and why he was disbarred from practice in the Federal Courts.

Read more about Judge Hocker in the article from which the above was excerpted.

JUDGE MABRY MOVING TO TAMPA

1902-12-12 Tampa Tribune
Judge Mabry of Tallahassee will come to Tampa later in the season and will make this city their home.  They will be welcome new-comers.

MILTON MABRY COMING TO TAMPA
1903-01-01 Tampa Tribune
 Giddings.E. Mabry has returned to Tampa from Tallahassee, his father Judge M H Mabry will arrive in a few days to locate here for the practice of his profession.

A Distinguished Acquisition
1903-01-01 The Tampa Tribune
Judge Mabry who retired from the Supreme Court today has already arrived in Tampa where he will make his future home. Judge Mabry will practice law in this city and the acquisition of himself and his estimable family is greatly appreciated by Tampa.  He is considered on of the shrewdest and most successful lawyers in this State, and the Tribune is confident that his most sanguine anticipations will be more than realized in his new home.

Judge Mabry has moved his family to Tampa. 
1903-01-04 The Florida Times Union
His term as a Supreme Court Justice having expired, he locates at Tampa for the practice of law.  Judge Mabry and his family made many friends in Tallahassee during their stay here who regret to see them leave the capital.

1903-01-07 The Florida Times Union
The Supreme Court met on Monday with Judge Mabry as member.  Today the court organized with Judge Hocker in the place of Justice Mabry, whose term expired yesterday.

THE MABRYS RETURN FROM THEIR WEDDING TRIP
1906-12-2 Florida Times Union
Judge Milton H. Mabry and Mrs. Mabry returned Saturday from their wedding trip and are making their home with Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Gilmore.  Mrs. Mabry has a host of friends here who remember her as a charming visitor of last season, and who are delighted that she has returned to make her home in Florida as the wife of one of the state's most distinguished men.

BIRTH OF HARTON WASHBURN MABRY
1908-09-21
Harton's birth date comes from his Oct. 16, 1944 WW2 draft registration in Daytona Beach.

DEATH OF JOHN BRAMLETT MABRY, son of Milton and Ella Mabry
1909-10-22 Tampa Tribune
John B. Mabry was 23 years old and well-known in Tallahassee.  He died of "hemorrhage of the heart."  He had come to Tallahassee just a week earlier on a train from Newport News, Va with his brother, Dr. Jesse Hughes Mabry.  On the train he had several "attacks of his ailment" and was immediately taken to the South Florida Sanitarium upon arriving.

John was one of the brightest and most promising young men in the State.  He was well-known in Tallahassee having formerly lived there with his father and for a while was secretary to Hon. Don C. McMullen.

SECOND RETIREMENT- MABRY RETIRES AS CLERK OF THE SUPREME COURT

1915-06-06 Tampa Tribune
Is succeeded by Talbot Whitfield, Governor's secretary.  Judge Mabry's health is reason for change. TALLAHASSEE, JUNE 5 - Hon. Milton H. Mabry has resigned as clerk of the Supreme Court.  The statement is made that the probable reason for the resignation is the Judge's health. Hon. Talbot Whitfield, private secretary to the Governor, has been named as Judge Mabry's successor. The retirement of Judge Mabry marks the ending of a long and enviable record in the service of Florida, and those who have known and learned to love him express for him the wishes for peace and prosperity as a reward for his fidelity.

THE MABRYS IN CLEARWATER
1915-06-10 Tampa Times
Judge Mabry and family of Tallahassee have located in Clearwater for the summer, and probably will make this their permanent home.

MABRY'S CONCLUSION OF AFFAIRS IN TALLAHASSEE
1915-07-04 The Florida Times-Union (Tallahassee)
Judge Milton H. Mabry...turned over the jurisdiction of his office, clerk of the supreme court, to Hon. G. T. Whitfield.  Judge Mabry will remain in the city for a week or two winding up his business and then will enjoy a much deserved vacation, a part of which he will possibly spend at Clearwater.  His son, Dale Mabry, has been here for a few days assisting his father in the conclusion of his affairs.  He returned to his home in Tampa Thursday.

IRENE WASHBURNE MABRY MOVES TO TAMPA
1917-01-31 Tampa Tribune
Mrs. Milton H. Mabry, Sr., (Irene) is the wife of Judge Mabry and has recently moved from Tallahassee to Tampa.  She is a charming woman and will be an asset to Tampa's society.

DEATH OF MILTON H. MABRY, SR.

1919-03-03 Milton H. Mabry, Sr.
Milton Harvey Mabry died at his residence at 310 Fielding in Tampa from pulmonary tuberculosis on March 3, 1919, at age 68. His length of time in this location was 18 years.  His date of birth was June 17, 1850 in Alabama, occupation Lawyer.  Parents Jesse H. Mabry of SC and Sarah Prude (no birthplace given).  The informant was his widow, Mrs. Milton H. Mabry, of 310 Fielding. The place of burial was Dade City Cemetery.  See his death certificate.
 

MILTON H. MABRY OBITUARIES

Obituaries are rarely 100% accurate as they depend on the information of relatives and/or friends.  For example, the press constantly refers to him as "Milton Harze Mabry" or Milton Harse Mabry.  The listings below describe the errors in each article.

MILTON H. MABRY DIES AT HIS TAMPA HOME
1919-03-04 Florida Times Union See the whole article.
Tampa, March 2 - - One-Time Lt. Governor of Fla., justice of the State Supreme Court and later Clerk of That Court.  Errors:  "Milton Harze Mabry".  ...became Lt. Gov. a position he filled until 1888.  Mabry held this position to the end of his term in 1889. Survivors: wife, five sons, and a daughter.  The sons are "C.E. Mabry, Jr." (Should be G. E. Mabry and not a junior) and Narton Mabry of Tampa" (should be HARTON Mabry), J. M. Mabry of Newport News, Va. (Should be Dr. J. H. Mabry - Jesse Hughes Mabry, "and Lt. Dale H. Mabry" (NO source ever attributes a middle name or middle initial for Dale.  Not even his Jan. 28, 1921 application for a passport which bears his own signature.)  OMITS MILTON HARVEY MABRY JR.
 

MABRY FUNERAL OCCURRED TODAY
1919-03-04 Tampa Times See the whole article
Former Justice of Supreme Court Died at Home Here.
Errors: Judge Mabry was born Jun 17, 1851...(b. 1850). In 1883 he was elected as a member of the house of representatives from Lake County. Mabry was born in 1850, he was a representative from SUMTER COUNTY.  Survivors are correct. G.E. Mabry, M. H. Mabry Jr, Harton Mabry, all of Tampa, Dr. J. H. Mabry of Newport News VA, Lt. Dale Mabry with expeditionary forces in France, and daughter Mrs. Taver Bayler (Bailey) of Clearwater.
 

JUDGE M. H. MABRY DIES FOLLOWING LONG ILLNESS
1919-03-04 Tampa Tribune See the whole article
Spent several years at Tallahassee, Former Justice Supreme Court, Lt. Gov. and Representative Lake County (NO, Sumter County.)  Judge Milton HARZE Mabry...born Pickens Co., Alabama June 17, 1851 (no, HARVEY, born 1850).  67 years old (no, 68) He was elected in 1883 as a member of the state house of representatives from Lake County..(NO, elected 1882, started 1883, represented SUMTER Co.)  This obit is almost word-for-word from the Times obit.

JUDGE M. H. MABRY DIES IN TAMPA
1919-03-05 Tallahassee Democrat See the whole article
Same errors as above: - Milton HARZE Mabry.  Born 1851, Elected 1883...was Lt. Gov. until 1888 when office was done away with. NO, was Lt. Gov until Jan. 8, 1889.

1919-03-05 Tampa Tribune - All correct, has no dates.  See the whole article

1919-03-06 Tampa Times - All correct
Judge Mabry's Funeral Was in Dade City - Dade City, March 6 - Several prominent attorneys of Tampa, besides all the attorneys of the Dade City bar and old-time friends of Judge Milton H. Mabry, attended his funeral here Tuesday.  The services, which were conducted by Rev. C. W. Duke of Tampa, were simple but impressive.  Interment was made in the Dade City cemetery.

MANY MEMBERS OF BAR ATTEND MABRY FUNERAL
1919-03-06 Tampa Tribune - All correct
Late Judge Interred at Dade City.
Dade City, March 5 - The remains of Judge Milton H. Mabry were laid to rest in the municipal cemetery here yesterday.  The funeral services, conducted by Rev. C. W. Duke of Tampa, were extremely simple. All the attorneys of the Dade City bar, several prominent attorneys from Tampa and many of the old time friends of the judge, who once lived here, were present.

DRAW RESOLUTIONS RESPECT TO MABRY
1919-03-11 Tampa Times
Circuit Judge F. M. Robles (Francis Marion Robles, son of Tampa pioneer Joseph Robles)today named a committee of seven old lawyers who during the time Judge M. H. Mabry practiced were members of the Tampa bar with him, to draw up suitable resolutions and present to the court Saturday morning at 11 o'clock.  Lawyers asked to serve on the committee are Judges James F. Glen, S. M. Sparkman, Tom Palmer, H. C. Macfarlane, C. C. Whitaker, H. P. Bailey and Wm. Hunter.  Judge Robles said this morning that he thinks it fitting that the local bar association and courts remember the distinguished judge and local lawyer.

1919-03-14 Florida Times Union
Same errors as before:  Milton Harze Mabry, born 1851 (1850), elected 1883 to state house, served as Lt. Gov until 1888 (1890) when office was abolished (no) survived by sons C.E. Mabry Jr (NO, G.E. Mabry)., Narton (HARTON) Mabry, Lt. Dale H.(no) Mabry. Missing Dr. Jesse Hughes Mabry.

Judge Milton H. Mabry
1919-03-15 Tampa Tribune from the Gainesville Sun
When this distinguished Floridian passed off the state of action a day or two ago, he practiced law with William A. Hocker at Leesburg.  Both these gentlemen represented Lake county in the state legislature.  (NO, both represented Sumter County). and both became judges of the supreme court of Florida.  Judge Mabry (like his friend and co-partner, Judge Hocker) was a lawyer in whom there was neither guile nor deception.  He was a profound lawyer; a gentleman of the old school. Courteous always and a scrupulous disciple of the code of honor. His whole life was one that those coming after him may emulate with profit to themselves and to their country.

SPLENDID TRIBUTE IS PAID TO JUDGE MABRY
1919-03-17 Tampa Tribune See the whole article.
RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY BAR ASSOCIATION - Many Accomplishments of This Noble Citizen Reviewed in Memorial.
Accurate birth date. Mention of becoming mayor of Tupelo but says "twice." Mentions partnership with William A. Hocker for more than ten years. Accurate year of beginning as member of the Fla. House of Reps, 1883. Nominated and elected Lt. Gov. in 1884, (Nominated in 1884) Although a newcomer and stranger to the people and politics of Florida, so impressed his worth upon the thinking people of this state, that he was, without effort on his part (NO, he campaigned for this position, they are confused with his Supreme Court nomination) nominated and elected Lt. Gov. of this state in 1884. (NO, elected 1884, served starting 1885. ) This office he filled acceptably to the people until 1884. (NO, served to 1890.) 

RESOLUTIONS ARE ADOPTED
1919-03-18 Tampa Times See the whole article
Committee Meets in the Circuit Court Room to Honor Judge Mabry.
Resolutions: Accurate birth date, accurate name, Milton Harvey Mabry, again says "twice honored with election to the mayoralty of said town (Tupelo)"  This may be accurate if mayors served 1-year terms. nominated and elected Lt. Gov. of this state in 1884. (elected 1884, served starting 1885. ) This office he filled acceptably to the people until 1884. (NO, served to 1890.)  Tribute to character follows.