Florida Pioneer Biographies

Submitted by Descendants:  Thomas Edward BRONSON Eliza Allen was born about 22 November 1811 in North Carolina.  She married David Gornto in Irwin County, Georgia, about 20 November 1827. It is unknown exactly when she and David moved to Florida, sometime after 1841 – the birth of a son, Thomas…

Submitted by Descendants:  Arthur Wesley, Bennie James, Charles Kendrick, Creech Kindrick, Jack Eugene, Jack Eugene, Jr., and Roselle Grantham ALLEN Council B. Allen and his wife, Susan Elizabeth Creech, migrated to West Florida from the Barnwell, S. C. area in the late 1820’s.  Council’s brother Silas Decatur Allen came also. …

Submitted by Descendant:  John Albert BURNETT Hansford Alford was born circa 1812 in South Carolina as per the 1850 census for Columbia County, Florida.  Hansford Alford was evidently in Florida when he served as a 1st Corporal/Private in Day & Wilder’s Company of the 13th Regt. In the 1st Brigade of the Florida…

Submitted by Descendants:  William Gilbert ADAMS, Jr. & Ellie Ann ADAMS Thomas Joseph Adams was the son of Thomas Adams and Mary Elizabeth Roberts, and was the grandson of Jacob Adams and Wyannie Malone, loyalists from South Carolina, that fled the union after the end of the American Revolution for…