Download or read book Recollections of Pioneer Life in Florida written by John Francis Tenney and published by . This book was released on 1937* with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives written by James M. Denham and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together the reminiscences of two pioneers who came of age in antebellum Florida's Columbia County and the nearby Suwannee River Valley. Though they held markedly different positions in society, the two shared the adventure, hardship and tragedy that characterized Florida's pioneer era.
Download or read book Gaters Skeeters And Malary written by Judge Ellis Connell May and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man on the eve of his departure for Florida in the 1880’s would be met with something like the following from his elders: “Well, ye prob’ly won’t git back. Them there bad men’ll kill ye, er the ‘gators’ll eat ye, er the skeeters’ll give ye malary an’ that’ll kill ye.” Undaunted, and lured by the vast realm of unexplored territory to the south of him, Ellis Connel May struck out with the same resolve that had prompted his forefathers to pioneer the West a century before. He was twenty-four years old when he first arrived in Citrus County, there to begin a career which took him in successive stages from work as a common laborer to the legal profession, culminating finally in his election to the Florida House of Representatives. All the courage, the humor and the romance of pioneer days come to life in these tales. They are told with a vividness of detail and a warm gusto that carries the reader along. For every American who would know the glory of our country’s heritage, here is a flavorful slice of authentic American folklore. “Most interesting. One who has spent so many years in public life...will have many interesting incidents to relate and colorful situations to describe. Such books have always invited the interest and attention of a wide circle of readers.”—R. A. GRAY, Secretary of State, Tallahassee, Florida “Judge May is a respected patriarch of his profession and a dean of Florida judiciary. I can think of no one better qualified to draw on the richness of his personal experience in relating recollections of a pioneer judge...An interesting contribution to this field of literature.”—JACK F. WHITE, County Judge, Pinellas County, Clearwater, Florida “It is most gratifying to me and to thousands of others that Judge Ellis C. May has written this book....This volume may be read from the standpoint of history, sociology and genealogy.”—GEORGE A. DAME, M.D., Director, Florida State Board of Health
Download or read book Mattie Sams Diary written by Mattie Sams LaRoche and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sams family came to Brevard County, Florida from South Carolina in 1875 to take advantage of the 1860 Homestead Act. John Hanahan Sams died in 1923 and his estate was occupied by his descendants until 1995. The John Sams and James LaRoche families settled first near present-day Eau Gallie in 1875. in 1878, Mattie's family moved their house to Merritt Island and homesteaded north of John's brother, Seabrook Sams, at Courtenay. Mattie writes that "...they took our Eau Gallie house to pieces and rafted it to his landing." When Mattie was growing old, she wrote down memories of her life along the Indian River. Now we can sit under the ancestor oaks and read Mattie's recollections. These moss-covered oaks have shaded the Sams House for over a century. Mattie Sams and her brothers and sisters grew up here. Today the cabin houses a museum telling the story of these early pioneers of Brevard County.
Download or read book Pioneer Family written by Michel Oesterreicher and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1996-01-30 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early one morning in 1925, Hugie fell in love with a tall, brown-eyed girl as he passed her place on a cattle drive. He courted this girl, Oleta Brown, with no success at first, but finally they were married in 1927. Their daughter retells their story from vivid accounts they gave of their childhood, courtship, early years of marriage, and struggles during the Great Depression.
Download or read book Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives written by James M. Denham and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild and wooly recollections from the Florida frontier Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives brings together the reminiscences of two pioneers who came of age in antebellum Florida's Columbia County and the nearby Suwannee River Valley. Though they held markedly different positions in society, they shared the adventure, thrill, hardship, and tragedy that characterized Florida's pioneer era. With sensitivity, poignancy, and humor, George Gillett Keen and Sarah Pamela Williams record anecdotes and memories that touch upon important themes of frontier life and reveal the remarkable diversity of Florida's settlers. Keen's story typifies that of many "Cracker" families. Born in Georgia, he moved with his parents to the Florida Territory in 1830 in search of a better life. He grew up in a dangerous yet exciting setting, and as an old man at the turn of the twentieth century recorded his colorful memories with a verve and vernacular reminiscent of the Georgia humorist, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet. Keen writes about subsistence farming, cattle grazing, the Seminole wars, marriage customs, medical practices, politics, the abundance of wildlife, and the paucity of educational opportunities. Admittedly not a Cracker, Sarah Pamela Williams was the daughter of a nationally recognized man of letters. In 1847 she moved to Columbia County's seat of Alligator (Lake City) and later married into one of northeast Florida's prominent planter families. She recorder her recollections of a life brightened by social functions, travel, and cultural endeavors. Offering a rare glimpse into Florida's Civil War homefront, Williams tells of making clothes of homespun, tithing crops to the Confederacy, fearing hostilities just thirteen miles from her home, and surviving as a widow in the lean postwar era. Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives features biographical sketches of more than 280 persons mentioned by Keen and Williams in their writings, many of whom subsequently pioneered settlement in the Florida peninsula.
Download or read book Gaters Skeeters and Malary written by Ellis Connell May and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memories of Eden written by Lucie Richards and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters from Lucie Richards, daughter of Captain Thomas E. Richards, a Florida homesteader, to her mother and her best friend in Newark, N.J., describing in vivid detail what it was like to be a pioneer in the wilderness that was Florida in the 1880s.
Download or read book Recollections of a Pioneer Florida Judge written by Ellis Connell May and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slavery Secession and Success written by John Francis Tenney and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pioneer Life in Southeast Florida written by Charles W. Pierce and published by . This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Florida Pioneer written by Rebecca Weiss and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Florida Pioneer is a book about the adventurous life of Josef Henschen, Swedish immigrant to Florida in the 1870s. Henschen was a young medical student in Upsala, Sweden when, in 1871, he was asked to recruit and bring over a large group of Swedish laborers to Florida. The group he brought went to work at Henry S. Sanford's plantations in Seminole County. There the Swedes founded the New Upsala settlement, and many Swedish descendants in central Florida have their roots in this colony. Josef fell in love with Florida and stayed there for nearly sixty years, until his death in 1930. He became one of the four financiers of the Orange Belt Railroad, and he gave the city of St. Petersburg its name. This book contains many of Josef's letters and paints a fascinating picture of Florida pioneer life. Gary Momino, Professor of History at the University of South Florida, calls A Florida Pioneer "An extraordinary document...a historic treasure."
Download or read book Salvery Secession and Success written by John Francis Tenney and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide to Florida Pioneer Sites written by Rodney Carlisle and published by Pineapple Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guidebook provides a tour of more than twenty of Florida's historic pioneer and cracker villages. With more than 50 photographs, it is an indispensable guide for tourists as well as for parents and teachers looking for a meaningful glimpse of the vanishing lifestyles of Florida's pioneers.
Download or read book A Land Remembered written by Patrick D Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Land Remembered has become Florida's favorite novel. Now this Student Edition in two volumes makes this rich, rugged story of the American pioneer spirit more accessible to young readers. Patrick Smith tells of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family battling the hardships of the frontier. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias and Emma MacIvey arrive in the Florida wilderness with their son, Zech, to start a new life, and ends in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that his wealth has not been worth the cost to the land. Between is a sweeping story rich in Florida history with a cast of memorable characters who battle wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the Florida swamp. In this volume, meet young Zech MacIvey, who learns to ride like the wind through the Florida scrub on Ishmael, his marshtackie horse, his dogs, Nip and Tuck, at this side. His parents, Tobias and Emma, scratch a living from the land, gathering wild cows from the swamp and herding them across the state to market. Zech learns the ways of the land from the Seminoles, with whom his life becomes entwined as he grows into manhood. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series
Download or read book Southeast Florida Pioneers written by William E McGoun and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-10-17 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Palm Beach area, the Treasure Coast, and Lake Okeechobee is one of turbulence, growth, and especially change. Meet the visionaries and outlaws, physicians and poets who shaped this region of southeast Florida from the 1690s through the 1990s. Author William McGoun's stories are sometimes hair-raising, sometimes amusing, and always engaging. Well researched and dotted with photos from The Palm Beach Post archives, this collection of mini-biographies reads like a who's who of Florida history.
Download or read book The Pioneers of South Florida written by Richard M. Magers and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins in late 1800s Florida. Seminole Indians had welcomed blacks freed from slavery to join their tribe. When other tribes were sent west so white people could claim their land, Seminole Indians headed south and moved into the Everglades where at that time no other people had tried to live. As time passed, the Seminoles adjusted to life in the Everglades. Traders built trading posts on the edge of the 'Glades' and soon the Seminoles began making regular runs to the trading posts for supplies, guns and ammo for hunting food, feathers and pelts. Feathers and pelts were traded for more food, cloth to make clothing, hand-operated sewing machines to make the colorful clothing Seminoles wore. As white men became acquainted to the Seminole Indians, they realized they were honest, hard working people just like they were, and only wanted to be left alone to live their lives as they always had before white people came to the North American continent. The white pioneers were not the same kind of men they had encountered in North Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana. In time, the white pioneers and Seminoles lived in harmony with the Indians. Simply staying alive was a full time job in the primitive area and life that both had chosen. Today in 2016 the Seminole Indians are the wealthiest tribe on the planet. Their elders are not tossed into nursing homes to be 'cash cows' for those who keep them alive, whereas the Seminole elders remain in the tribe counseling the youth, and the young families. We could learn from them. This book was researched by the author who was raised in Miami, Florida on the Miami River. He went to school at Ada Merritt elementary in downtown Miami with several Seminoles. The events in this book are authentic and as accurate as possible, to portray the difficulty the early pioneers faced every day.
