Florida Pioneer Biographies

Submitted by Descendant:  Jo Anne ARNETT Kirsten Marie Brun was born in Fredericia, Denmark, left family and friends to marry Valdemar Gram 02/15/1899.  Their first daughter, Bertha (Birta) Christine, was born 11/16/1899, and second daughter Anne Margaret, was born 10/30/1903. Kirsten was an excellent cook and seamstress who was rarely…

Submitted by Descendants:  Jeannette Louise Saunders FLYNN; George, Sr., George Frederick, Jr., Rebecca Brown, and Robert Franklin SAUNDERS Sidney Ann Brownlow was born September 1846 in Florida to Joseph Brownlow, from North Carolina, and Frances Margaret Whitehurst from Florida.  We find from census records and homestead papers that Sidney Ann…

Submitted by Descendant: Thomas Edward BRONSON William Jasper Bronson was born abt. 4 July 1854 in Alachua County, Florida.  He married Easter Lucinda Waters on 7 February 1878 In Bronson, Levy County, Florida.  William Jasper was a farmer all of his life.  He appears on the Alachua County, Florida Tax…

Submitted by Descendant: Anisca “Nickey” Bronson NEEL “Ike”, also known as “Handlebar Ike” due to his mustache, was born 16 January 1876 in Osceola County.  He was the son of John James Bronson and Eliza Lanier, maternal grandson of pioneers John Lanier and Margaret Hogan and paternal grandson of James…

Submitted by Descendant:  Thomas Edward BRONSON Thomas Jefferson “Jeff” Bronson was the youngest child of William Jasper Bronson and Easter Lucinda Waters Bronson.  He was born abt. March 18, 1895 in Alachua Co., FL at this home near Trenton and Cherry Sink.  Currently this area is in Gilchrist Co., FL. …

Submitted by Descendant: Anisca “Nickey” Bronson NEEL Mary was born 11 March 1848 in Hamilton County, Florida, the daughter of James Robert Bronson and first wife Sarah Yates.  The family was listed in the 1850 Columbia County census. Mary married William Henry Yates circa 1867.  He was the son of…

Submitted by Descendant:  Anisca “Nickey” Bronson NEEL John James Bronson was born 3 February 1852 In Osceola County, the son of James Robert Bronson and first wife Sarah Yates.  He married Eliza Lanier on 24 December 1874 in Orange, now Osceola County.  Their children were William Isaac “Ike”, Edward Richard,…

Submitted by Descendant:  Virginia Caroline Bowman LAND Edwin Thomas Bowman was born 17 September, 1857 in Schuylkill Haven, PA.  When he was 21 he left his Pennsylvania relatives and moved to Florida, settled in Hernando County, at Fairmount.  There he built a wood-shingle roofed log cabin and planted an orange…

Submitted by Descendants:  Barnelia Woodward KRANZ, Charlotte Woodward STRUTH, Laura Woodward WADDELL, and Mary Elizabeth Bostick WOODWARD Tristram Bostick, Jr. was born in Darlington District, S.C.  He was the eldest son of Tristram and Nancy Thomas Bostick.  He married Ann R. Long in 1825 in Marion District. S.C. Tristram Jr.…