Here is a passage from the diary:
Friday, April 13th 1860. "Our baby is one week old today, he is still doing well and has grown a good deal since his birth, his name is John Everingham he is named for Mother's father."

• Steamer shipping and passengers - Florida advertisement.

• Savannah Morning News, June 9, 1881 (Savannah, Georgia).. "The Columbus Times reports that Mrs. J.J. Flanders, of Macon, met with a most painful accident on the steamer Rebecca Everingham last Sunday. While the boat was coming up the river, below Bainbridge, it became necessary, for some reason, for Mrs. Flanders to stand upon a camp stool, and while in this position the stool turned over and she fell to the floor, breaking her arm just above the wrist. Dr. Mitchell, of Eufaula, was on board and set the wounded limb and rendered all the necessary medical aid."

• Columbus Enquirer-Sun, November 12, 1881.. "Just as the steamer Everingham had cleared the wharf, and was turning around yesterday morning, a negro ran aboard the steamer Caddo Belle and attempted to jump aboard the former, but the leap was his last. The distance was too great for him, and he fell into the river. He floundered in the water, watched by fully fifty negroes and whites, not a one of whom made and effort to save him, and disappeared from sight. His name was Wiltz Porter, and he was employed by Mr. Benjamin Johnson, of Chattahoochee, Fla."

• Savannah Morning News, Dec 22, 1881 .. "Columbus, GA, December 21, passengers by the steamer Everingham, just arrived, say that William Mahone killed J.P. Moberg at Greenwood, Florida. It appears that Mahone was at Greenwood ten days ago and while drunk in Moberg's store was attacked by him and severely beaten with a rope. On Friday night Mahone went to Greenwood and at first opportunity attacked Moberg with a hickory stick. On Moberg's attempting to run he was shot by Mahone in the back of the neck and killed almost instantly."

• The Weekly Floridian, March 7, 1882.. "Last Friday there left from our wharf for up the river, two of the finest steamers of their size in the South - The new steamer Chattahoochee and the Rebecca Everingham. No other river in Florida can boast of two such splendid passenger steamers, so elegantly appointed and equipped as these two beautiful boats."

• Columbus Enquirer-Sun, May 11, 1882.. "Yesterday morning, when the steamer Rebecca Everingham arrived at the wharf, it brought the dead body of Mrs. I. Horseford of Cochran, Ga. Mr. J.M. Garrett, of Cochran, who was traveling with the lady, stated that she was subject to heart disease, and it was decided that it was of that disease that she died. Mrs. Horseford was an aged lady, probably more than seventy years old."

• Columbus Georgia Sunday Enquirer, May 21, 1882.. "The Eufaula Base Ball Club, Modocs, colored have challenged the Georga Champions, colored, of Columbus, for a game to be played at Eufaula. The Columbus boys will go down on the Steamer Everingham, Wednesday, and feel confident of becoming the victors in this important game."

• The Public Ledger Newspaper, Memphis, TN, July 19, 1882.. "Columbus, GA, A Southern Manufacturing City... Among the most extensive institutions of its class is the Columbus Iron Works, employing about 200 hands in making steam engines complete, and doing all kind of machinery and foundry work. They have also a boat building department. Now plying on the Chattahooche, between this point and Appalachicola are the steamers Wyly and Everingham, both built out and out from bow to stern, by the Columbus Iron Works."

• Tri-States Union News, Dec. 22, 1882.. (page 4) "William Dawkins, an old man, was robbed Wednesday night while asleep in his state room on the steamer Everingham near Columbus, Ga. Thursday he accused Howard Hogan, a deck hand of being the thief. Hogan denied the charge and knocked Dawkins overboard. Before assistance could be rendered he was drowned. Hogan was arrested on charge of murder. On being searched the stolen money was found on him."

• Savannah Morning News, May 21, 1883.. "Wellington Playter, Esg, Dear Sir, some three months ago you placed two of Fordon's Patent Automatic Boiler Cleaners on the steamer Rebecca Everingham, now running on the Chattahoochee river. Before placing the Cleaner on her boilers it was impossible to keep them from bagging from time to time. Since placing them on her we have had no trouble with them. All the old scale has disappeared, and the boilers look as clean as when new. You are at liberty to use my name as a reference. I will take pleasure in giving any parties the actual working of the machine now on the boat who will take the trouble to write at this place, Yours respectfully, Sam'l J. Whitesides."
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• Annual Report of the Supervising Inspector General of Steamboats to the Secretary of the Treasury (Government Printing Office)... "April 3, 1884, Steamer Rebecca Everingham took fire on the Chattahoochee river, a few miles above Florence landing. Five passengers and seven of her crew were lost."

• Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper, Friday, April 4, 1884.. "(current events) Eight Lives were lost by the burning of the steamer Rebecca Everingham, on the Chattahoochee River, forty miles below Columbus, Ga. yesterday morning. There were twenty-five passengers on board, most of whom escaped in their night clothes. Several of the rescued persons were badly burned."

• The Fredonia Censor, Wednesday, April 9, 1884... A Steamboat Horror Columbus, Ga., April 3 - The steamer Rebecca Everingham, Captain George Whiteside, burned to the water's edge at Fitzgerald Landing on the Chattahoochee river, 140 miles below this city. The fire originated in the stern of the steamer, and is thought from an electric lamp spark. Some passengers were saved and escaped in their night clothes. The boat was valued at $24,000 and is a total loss with no insurance. There were sixteen cabin passengers and nine deck pasengers on board. The steamer belonged to the Central Line and plied the Chattahoochee river between that city and Apalachacola Bay. A Macon dispatch says taht of thirty passengers, thirteen are dead and missing. Capt. George H. Whiteside was painfully burned. all the officers did their duty. The conduct of Pilot George Lapham and son, a lad of 14 years, is especially commended. They remained on board and materially assisted in landing the passengers.

• The weekly Gleaner, De Ruyter, N.Y., Thursday, April 10, 1884... A River Horror Burning of a Southern Steamer with Loss of Life. People Aroused from Sleep to Meet Death by Fire or Water. The steamer Rebecca Everingham was burned on the Chattahoochee river, at Fitzgerald's plantation, a few miles above Florence Ala., at an early hour and many lives were lost. About 4 o'clock A.M. the engineer on watch rang an alarm signal to the pilot, who called to the officers on watch and asked if he must go to the shore when he was at once ordered to do so. The pilot signalled to the engineer to work for the shore, but got no response. He then headed the boat for the Georgia side, and the momentum she had, carried her almost to the banks. The pilot on watch ordered his young son, Frank Lapham, a youth of sixteen years old, to jump overboard with a line and swim ashore and make the boat fast to a tree. The boy sprang into the river, struck for the shore, reached it safely and tied the boat up. In the meantime teh fire alarm was rung by Pilot George Lapham, and the passengers aroused from their sleep to find the boat in flames. All was confusion and disorder, but the officers of the boat were heroic in the performance of their duty. Nearly all of them were wounded or burnt. The flames wrapped the boat in their fiery embrace and seemed to lick it up.
  Those known to be lost are as follows; W.L. Kennedy, Spring Hill, Ala., deputy sheriff of Barbour county; Mrs. Avart, Cuthbert, Ga,; Miss Simpson, Fort Gaines, Ga.; J.B. Yates, Bainbridge; two white men whose names were unknown; Julia Adams, colored chambermaid; Dolph Thomas, colored, fireman; Randal Singer and Aaz Stevens, colored deck hands; Bob Griffin, colored, stevedore and a colored woman and child, name unknown. Captain G.B. Whiteside was severely burned on the face, head, and hands, E.D. Williams of Langrange, Ga. was thought to be fatally burned. J.T. Carey, assistant engineer, was painfully burned. There were 307 bales of cotton aboard the steamer, 216 of which were taken on at Eufaula. She was made fast to the shore by two hawsers, which were finally burnt. She remained tied to the bank about fourty-five minutes, when her moorings burned and the wreck floated out in the stream, drifted about one hundred yards, careened and sunk. The fire broke out among the cotton just aft midship. It is not known how it originated.

• Image of "Burning of the steamer Rebecca Everinghama at Fitzgerald's landing, near Florence, GA."... From the Daily Graphic, New York, Wednesday April 9, 1884.

• Savannah Morning News, April 10, 1884.. "Fire drills are being given increased attention on the Chattahoochee boats since the burning of the Everingham."