Florida Pioneer Biographies

Submitted by Descendants:  Kathleen Alicia Tindell BOUCHER and Kathleen Elizabeth Hagan TINDELL Anastacio Mabrumati, son of Antonio Mabrumati and Maria Marcelino, born in Milo, Greece 1751.  At the age of 17 years he was picked up by Andrew Turnbull on a ship that left Mahon, Greece 1768, to New Smyrna…

Submitted by Descendants:  Daisy Webb, Jason Webb, and Madeline Mae KENNEDY Caroline E. Livingston was born in 1816 in Georgia and moved to Florida with her parents in 1830.  She was the daughter of William Livingston and Susannah Wesley Haynes, both Florida Pioneers. About 1838, Caroline married John Francis Webb. …

Submitted by Descendant:  Jeannette Marie SAY Born in St Augustine 21 January 1823, Vicente was of Italian and Menorcan heritage and second generation Floridian.  He was the third son and eighth child born to Bartolome Leonardy and Antonia Paula Bonelli.  The first record we find after his baptism is his…

Submitted by Descendant:  Jeannette Marie SAY Roque Leonardy was born 9 October 1741 in Italy.  Roque was baptized as Rocco Peligrino Leonardy.  Sometime after his arrival in the “New World” his name was Anglicized to Roque. During 1768 he set sail, from Mahon, Minorca to St Augustine, Florida as an…

Submitted by Descendant:  Jeannette Marie SAY Ellen Louisa Leonardy was the sixth child and second daughter of Vicente Leonardy and Venancia Andreu, born circa 1861 in Tampa, Florida. On 27 February 1878, Ellen married George Wesley Meares.  Shortly thereafter she and George moved to the recently purchased acreage located on…

Submitted by Descendant:  Jeannette Marie Say HENRY Roque Leonardy arrived as an indentured laborer under Dr. Andrew Turnbull and is considered the founding father of the Leonardy(I)s of Florida. Born on 21 September 1782 in St. Augustine, Bartolome Josef Leonardy was a first-generation child born in the united States and…

Submitted by Descendant:  Nancy Evelyn Strauss WHITTLE Bartolome Josef Leonardi was born 21 September 1782 in St. Augustine, Florida.  He is among the first generation of LEONARDI’s born in Florida. Bartolome is the son of Don Roque Leonardi and his wife Agueda (Agatha) Coll.  They arrived with the Turnbull Colony…

Submitted by Descendants:  Andrew Jason, Jason Ryan, and Ryan Samuel LAW Joseph Elliott Law was born 15 February 1799 in Liberty County, Georgia, and was one of four children born to Thomas Elliott and Sarah Sallens Law.  He received land grants in Hamilton County in 1836, 1839, 1852, and 1855. …

Submitted by Descendant:  Anisca “Nickey” Bronson NEEL Eliza Lanier was born 30 March 1859 in Polk County, the daughter of John Lanier and Margaret Hogan, who were both pioneers of Florida.  Eliza married John James Bronson on 24 December 1874 in Orange, now Osceola County.  To this union were born…