Florida Pioneer Biographies

Submitted by Descendant:  Jeannette Marie SAY Agnes Myrtle Meares, known as Myrtle, was born 14 October 1901 in St Petersburg, Hillsborough County, Florida.  She was the tenth child born to George and Ellen Meares. Raised in St Petersburg, Myrtle graduated with the class of 1920 from St Petersburg High School. …

Submitted by Descendants:  Marguerite Jule Pacetty BROWN; Frances Mordina Brown EVANS; David William, Marguerite Marree Evans, and Robert Thomas MATHEWS Maria Moll was born in Ciudadela, Minorca, and the second largest of the Balearic Islands off the coast of Spain.  She was only fourteen, when in 1768, she and her…

Submitted by Descendant:  John Benjamin MOODY III Benjamin Moody, son of Samuel S. Moody and Sarah Lee, was born 15 April 1811, Telfair County, Georgia.  Samuel died 1815 in Camden County, Georgia, and in 1820 Sarah and Benjamin moved to Hamilton County, Florida.  There on 7 February 1833 Benjamin married…

Submitted by Descendant:  Sara Parham JOHNSON John Morrison was born circa 1807 in North Carolina.  He lived in Georgia, marrying Sibbiah Blair born 1801.  While living in Georgia, they had 4 children and then moved to Marion County, Florida.  There, two more children were born in 1846 and 1848.  John…

Submitted by Descendants:  Alexander P., Lindsay M., and Richard E. HADDEN Eliza Motes was born around 1821 in Georgia.  It is probable that her parents were John and Margaret Motes of Nassau County, Florida. On the 29th October 1840, Jackson Tynum, J.P. performed the marriage between Eliza and James M. Burnsed…

Submitted by Descendants:  Gregory N., Jon L III, and Jon L. COURSON Jr. Florida W. Murrhee was married at a young age to Joseph Alexander McIntosh.  Together they raised a large family and today have many descendants who meet each year to honor the family legacy we inherited. Florida endured…

Submitted by Descendant:  Jackson Lee LANDERS Mary Virginia Murray-Hall was born 13 February 1823 in Duval County, Florida. She married John C. Houston in Pablo Beach, Duval County, Florida on 22 September 1836 where they remained until 1842.  It was at this time the government was offering 160 acres of…

Submitted by Descendant:  William Thomas Tuttle Elizabeth K. Nathans was a blushing bride when she and her husband, Nicholas Grubb, joined her father, Isaac Nathans, and his family in Florida shortly after her marriage on 17 Dec 1829.  She was about age 20 at the start of her married life…

Submitted by Descendant:  William Thomas TUTTLE Isaac Nathans was born in Philadelphia.  At about age 46, Isaac settled in Quincy, Florida, sometime before the 1820 census, with his second wife and five children.  All counted, Isaac had three wives, seventeen children and at least five slaves.  He remained in Quincy…