Florida Pioneer Biographies

Thomas Jefferson Land Submitted by Descendants:  Charles Edward and Scarlett Estella SCOTT Sumter Land may have been born in South Carolina, but Florida was his home for many years.  He is shown as a signer on an 1831 petition to the United States Congress requesting an arsenal be built near…

Submitted by Descendant:  Maurice “Pat” LaMEE Born in Brest, France, on 8 May 1812, William Lamee went to sea at the age of twelve and arrived on Florida’s east coast in 1835.  He settled in the Mayport area where he was part of the second wave of bar pilots at…

Amanda Cedelle KNIGHT & William Rogers DIXON Submitted by Descendants:  Charles Nicolas, Gunner Julian, Myra Marie, Sharon Baker ADERMAN; Victoria Lynne A Sarah Ann HARRISON der Sarah Ann HARRISON man LANGSTON; Erin Taylor, Steven F., and Suellen Baker PAIT; Payton Lane and Tina Pait PELLITTERI James Henry Knight, son of…

Submitted by Descendants:  Charles Nicolas, Gunner Julian, Myra Marie, Sharon Baker ADERMAN; Victoria Lynne A Sarah Ann HARRISON der Sarah Ann HARRISON man LANGSTON; Erin Taylor, Steven F., and Suellen Baker PAIT; Payton Lane and Tina Pait PELLITTERI Jonathan Knight was born in Cheraw’s District, South Carolina, on 14 February…

Submitted by Descendant:  Anne Hammond CONNELL Emily Joyner and John Martin Geiger moved to Florida about 1832-33.  She was born about 1804, possibly in McIntosh County, Georgia, and raised in Wayne County, Georgia, where her father Charles Joyner (b. 1778 SC – d. 1855-60 Wayne Co., GA) was a planter…

Submitted by Descendants:  Jeffords Donalson Jr., Laura Ruth Jones, and Mary Hannah MILLER Oscar Zachariah Jones was born April 4, 1894 in the small settlement of McCrabb.  At the time this area near Oldtown was considered Lafayette County, but would be cut out for Dixie County in 1921.  Oscar was…

Submitted by Descendants:  Jeffords Donalson Jr., Laura Ruth Jones, and Mary Hannah MILLER Aretus W. Jones was born in Alabama about 1827.  Prior to 1850 he moved with other family members to the Madison County area of Florida.  This area where he settled would be cut out to form Lafayette…

Submitted by Descendants:  Jeffords Donalson Jr., Laura Ruth Jones, and Mary Hannah MILLER Arial Travis Jones was born October 13, 1854 in an area then known as Madison County, Florida.  This area would soon become Lafayette County in 1856.  His father and grandfather came from Alabama to this part of…

Submitted by Descendant:  Pamela Newton MOORE Knud Sorensen Bie was born 12 May 1815 in Grimstad, Norway.  At an early age he knew that he would follow in his father, grandfather, and brother’s footsteps, one day becoming a captain of the large sea vessels that visited Grimstad.  He worked his…