he would get involved with real estate and farming there. On March 9, 1936, Catts died at his home, Sun Bright, in DeFuniak Springs, Florida. In 1979, the house he lived in from 1924 to 1936 was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Personal life His wife Alice gave birth to a son, Sidney J. Catts Jr. on July 22, 1894, in Fort Deposit, Alabama. Catts Jr. would become a lawyer and eventually go into politics just like his father did. One of his sons, Rozier would eventually marry a Catholic woman from Key West. Catts would accept her as part of the family and say that any father should welcome the wife of his son no matter what her religion is. When Catts moved back to DeFuniak Springs for the final 8 years of his life, he was known to distill and drink peach brandy. Catts was involved with Freemasonry. He was also a Woodman of the World and a member of the Knights of Pythias. Electoral history References Further reading Flynt, Wayne. Cracker Messiah: Governor Sidney J. Catts of Florida. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State U. Pr., 1977. 359 pp. External links Museum of Florida History: Sidney Johnston Catts Gov. Sidney J. Catts Inauguration Brief film clip from 1917. From the State Library & Archives of Florida. Sidney J. Catts's US Senate Democratic primary poster From Florida Memory, a website ran by the State Library & Archives of Florida. 1863 births 1936 deaths 20th-century American politicians Activists from Alabama Baptists from Alabama Baptist ministers from the United States Critics of the Catholic Church Cumberland University alumni Florida Prohibitionists Democratic Party governors of Florida Neo-Confederates People from Dallas County, Alabama People from DeFuniak Springs, Florida Prohibition Party state governors of the United States People born in the Confederate States