Early Life
His father committed suicide toward the end of the Civil War, when it became evident the south would lose. After the Confederacy lost the Civil War, Jeff Milton was raised on a once proud family estate called "Sylvania", near Marianna, Florida. At age 15, he moved to Texas where he worked as a cowboy, then lied about his age and joined the Texas Rangers in 1878.
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