1 100 3 https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/files/original/c120e160eb2e8fc0ce6ac7264dbc12fa.pdf df7400b08bd76fd5ff1eea67da3d1323 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title Oviedo Collection Alternative Title Oviedo Collection Subject Oviedo (Fla.) Description Collection of digital images, documents, and other records depicting the history of Oviedo, Florida. Series descriptions are based on special topics, the majority of which students focused their metadata entries around. Oviedo began on the south shore of Lake Jessup as a settlement called Solaria's Wharf. Some of its early settlers include Dr. Henry Foster, Joseph Watts, and Steen Nelson. Citrus and celery dominated the area's farmland, although Central Florida suffered a severe freeze in 1894. Oviedo suffered another disaster in 1914 when a fire wiped out much of the downtown section. Disaster hit again in 1929 with the Wall Street Crash and the beginning of the Great Depression. That same year, Oviedo's fruit crops were decimated by a fruit fly infestation. Another fire destroyed the Wheeler Fertilizer Plant in 1946. Nonetheless, Oviedo continued to grow, with new paved roads going to Geneva and Chuluota and the opening of the Citizens Bank of Oviedo in 1948. In 1949, Oviedo began receing once-a-day bus serviece to Orlando from Greyhound Lines. By 1950, Oviedo was the second largest town in Seminole County, following Sanford. The Oviedo City Hall was built that same year and in 1968, Florida Technological University (present-day University of Central Florida) opened, bringing new residents to the area. Is Part Of <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/44" target="_blank">Seminole County Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida. Language eng Type Collection Curator Cepero, Laura Digital Collection <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a> External Reference "<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/2494" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 41: Oviedo, with Dr. Richard Adicks</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/2494. Robison, Jim. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/796757419" target="_blank"><em>Around Oviedo</em></a>. 2012. Adicks, Richard, and Donna M. Neely. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5890131" target="_blank"><em>Oviedo, Biography of a Town</em></a>. [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1979. "<a href="http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68" target="_blank">History</a>." City of Oviedo, Florida. http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68. "Oviedo Began as Solaria's Wharf." <em>The Oviedo Heritage</em>, June 30, 1977. Contributor Cepero, Laura Lynn Cepero, Nancy Lynn Cepero, Ray Coverage Oviedo, Florida Has Part <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/147" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society Collection</a>, Oviedo Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida. Moving Image A series of visual representations that, when shown in succession, impart an impression of motion. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title Oral Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin Wheeler III Alternative Title Oral History, Benjamin Franklin Wheeler III Subject Oviedo (Fla.) Citrus--Florida Citrus fruit industry--Florida Packing-houses--United States Agriculture--Florida Celery Description An oral history interview of Benjamin Franklin Wheeler III, a descendant of the Wheeler and Lawton families in Oviedo. The interview was conducted by Desta Lee Horner at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida, on June 18th, 2019. Some of the topics covered include the family history of the Lawtons and Wheelers, the significance of the pine timber industry in Oviedo, the career path of Benjamin Franklin Wheeler, Sr., the role of Benjamin Franklin Wheeler, Sr. in the incorporation and development of Oviedo, withstanding freezes and destruction of crops and trees, shipping citrus on the railroads and the decline of the citrus industry in Oviedo, working in packing houses, varieties of citrus production in Oviedo, transitioning from citrus to celery production, how packing houses served a social function, building a railroad on muck land and dealing with derailed trains, how Seminole County was formed and the consequences of its formation, George Kelsey and enforcing the law in a small town, eccentric characters and interesting stories from Oviedo, how churches influenced life in Oviedo, how the Oviedo lights became an urban legend, how being a bedroom community shaped the City of Oviedo, how the Oviedo Fire Department evolved, his experience with race relations in Oviedo, how Alafaya Trail became a paved road, deciding on where to build Florida Technological University, and his closing remarks. Table Of Contents 0:00:00 The family history of the Lawtons and Wheelers <br />0:02:58 The significance of the pine timber industry in Oviedo <br />0:03:38 The career path of Benjamin Franklin Wheeler, Sr. <br />0:07:30 The role of Benjamin Franklin Wheeler, Sr. in the incorporation and development of Oviedo <br />0:09:32 Withstanding freezes and destruction of crops and trees <br />0:10:24 Shipping citrus on the railroads and the decline of the citrus industry in Oviedo <br />0:14:30 Working in packing houses <br />0:16:35 Varieties of citrus production in Oviedo <br />0:18:11 Transitioning from citrus to celery production <br />0:25:25 How packing houses served a social function <br />0:26:35 Building a railroad on muck land and dealing with derailed trains <br />0:30:51 How Seminole County was formed and the consequences of its formation <br />0:39:08 George Kelsey and enforcing the law in a small town <br />0:40:41 Eccentric characters and interesting stories from Oviedo <br />0:43:32 How churches influenced life in Oviedo <br />0:45:17 How the Oviedo lights became an urban legend <br />0:47:10 How being a bedroom community shaped the City of Oviedo <br />0:48:29 How the Oviedo Fire Department evolved <br />0:50:46 How being a bedroom community shaped the City of Oviedo (continued) <br />0:53:14 His experience with race relations in Oviedo <br />0:57:25 How Alafaya Trail became a paved road <br />0:59:19 Deciding on where to build Florida Technological University <br />1:01:28 Closing remarks Abstract Oral history interview of Benjamin Franklin Wheeler III. Interview conducted by Desta Lee Horner in Orlando, Florida, on June 18, 2019. Type Moving Image Source Wheeler III, Benjamin Franklin. Interviewed by Desta Lee Horner, June 18, 2019. Audio record available. <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>, Orlando, Florida. Requires Multimedia software, such as <a href="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/" target="_blank"> QuickTime</a>. <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html" target="_blank">Adobe Acrobat Reader</a> Is Part Of <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/collections/show/128" target="_blank">Oviedo Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES. Has Format Digital transcript of original 1-hour, 3-minute, and 31-seconds oral history: Wheeler III, Benjamin Franklin. Interviewed by Desta Lee Horner. Audio record available. <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES</a>, Orlando, Florida. Coverage Five Points Operations Complex, Sanford, Florida Florida Technological University, Orlando, Florida Holler Chevrolet, Winter Park, Florida Memorial Building, Oviedo, Florida Nelson and Company Packing Plant, Oviedo, Florida Oviedo, Florida Oviedo Depot, Oviedo, Florida Oviedo Drug and Meat World, Oviedo, Florida Creator Wheeler, Benjamin Franklin III Horner, Desta Publisher <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES</a> Date Created 2019-06-18 Date Copyrighted 2019-06-18 Format video/mp4 application/pdf Extent 1.83 GB 281 KB Medium 1-hour, 3-minute, and 31-seconds audio recording 31-page digital transcript Language eng Mediator History Teacher Civics/Government Teacher Provenance Originally created by Benjamin Franklin Wheeler III and Desta Lee Horner and published by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES</a>. Rights Holder <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES</a> Accrual Method Item Creation Curator Cravero, Geoffrey Digital Collection <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a> External Reference Robison, Jim. "<a href="https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1991-01-27-9101260420-story.html" target="_blank">War Forced Lawtons to Leave Georgia Children's Families Played Big Role in Building Town</a>." <em>Orlando Sentinel</em>, January 27, 1991. Accessed July 23, 2019. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1991-01-27-9101260420-story.html. "<a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>." Oviedo Historical Society, Inc. http://oviedohs.com/. Adicks, Richard, and Donna M. Neely. <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/oviedo-biography-of-a-town/oclc/5890131" target="_blank"><em>Oviedo, Biography of a Town</em></a>. S.l: s.n.], 1979. Robison, Jim. <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/collections/show/147" target="_blank"><em>Around Oviedo</em></a>. 2012. Click to View (Movie, Podcast, or Website) <a href="https://youtu.be/J4b2TL_y3oM">Oral Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin Wheeler III</a> Transcript Horner My name is Desta Horner from the Oviedo Historical Society and I’m here with Ben Wheeler, whose family had been residents in Oviedo for many generations. We’re gonna talk about the history of Oviedo. This interview is being conducted at the University of Central Florida in collaboration with the RICHES program. Ben Wheeler’s been around a long time. Tell me something about you and your family. Wheeler Well, my earliest ancestor t—to come here was a Civil War widow named Narcissa Melissa Lawton . She had several children, one of which married my great-grandfather, John Thomas Wheeler. Um, they moved to Dade City and he had a stroke. He was a sawmill man. And he had a stroke and died. So R. W. Lawton, who would have been Narcissa’s brother, sent one of the Aulins—I think it was Theodore —to Dade City with a two-wheel oxcart. And loaded them up, whatever little bit they had, which probably wasn’t much, and brought ‘em back to Oviedo [sniffs]. Horner Who married Wheeler in order to get the Wheeler in your name? One of the Lawtons married a Wheeler? Wheeler Yes. Clara Isabelle Lawton married John Thomas . Um, she was—no. She wasn’t a widow. Narcissa was a widow. Horner Mhmm. Wheeler And this was her daughter. Horner So she married a Wheeler. Wheeler Yes. Horner And that—was that Ben Wheeler I? The Ben Wheeler? Wheeler His name was Benjamin Franklin Wheeler, Sr. Horner How many more Benjamin Franklin Wheelers are there? Wheeler Two more. Horner Two [laughs]. Wheeler My father and me. Horner Oh. Okay. So the, uh—so the Whee—how did the Wheelers get here? I mean, the Lawtons got here after the Civil War. Where did B.F. Wheeler, Sr. come from? Wheeler W—w—well, John Thomas, who was B.F., Sr.’s father,… Horner Ah. Wheeler …came here after the Civil War. And he claimed a homestead and sawed all the timber off of it. And once the timber was gone, he let it grow back. And that’s when he moved to Dade City[, Florida]. Horner Well, the timber was always a big—particularly pine timber… Wheeler Mhmm. Horner …was always important in Oviedo. What did they do with the pine—with the pine? Cut it up? Saw it up? What do you do? Wheeler It was used mostly for lumber. The first thing they did was chip it for turpentine. And once the trees had g—given up all their turpentine, then they would cut ‘em and make lumber out of ‘em. Horner Were there a lot of sawmills? I read one place where there were five sawmills in the area. I… Wheeler I couldn’t swear to the number, but there were several. Horner In order to slice those into planks for… Wheeler Right. Horner …houses. Wheeler Mhmm. Horner Kay. Well, Wheeler set up a business. Who did he set up a business with? What—what business did he get into? Wheeler Well, his father died when he was 11. And he had a younger brother and a mother to support. And R.W. Lawton brought him back here. And he just took any kind of work he could get [clears throat]. One of the things he said he did was hoe orange trees. There was a big grove out there where Winter Springs High School is now. And he said he would walk out there, hoe trees all day and walk back for a penny a piece. And there was a—the Coast Line—the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad had a—a depot agent here named Mr. Crutchfield. And he and my grandad took a shine to each other. And he let him hang around the depot. And he taught him Morse code. Let him help sweeping[sic] and whatever needed to be doing[sic]. And my grandfather ended up being the depot agent when Mr. Crutchfield retired. Well, as depot agent, he made a princely sum of $15 a month, which r—really—a lot of people couldn’t even get a job. But he got that. And that’s when he endeavored to buy the property on—south of Lake Jesup, where the big brick house is. Horner Where the Evans-Wheeler house … Wheeler Right. And he obliged to pay $5 a month on a mortgage. Well, he said there were a half a dozen old tangerine trees on the place. And started taking care of ‘em. And about the second year he was attending to ‘em, they yielded six boxes—which, a box is two bushels—of tangerines. And he took ‘em down to Nelson Brothers Packing House and sold ‘em and got $5 a box for ‘em. Now, that’s like six months’ worth of mortgage payments. And he said that got his attention. And as time went by, um, Mr. Fred Nelson wanted to get out. And so, my grandfather bought his portion of Nelson Brothers. And later, Mr. Steen Nelson wanted to get out. So he bought his portion and then he named it Nelson and Company. Horner But, actually, it was Wheeler who owned it. Why didn’t he change the name to Wheeler? Wheeler Because the brands they had were already established. And he didn’t want to start over. Horner So everybody up North that this was—the fruit was shipped to… Wheeler Right. Horner …knew that name: Nelson. Wheeler The brand name was White Rose. Horner When there was a White Rose label… Wheeler Mhmm. Horner …you knew it came from a good place [laughs]. W—well, what business did your—your grandfather get into if he owned a—the citrus packing house, Nelson and Son—and Company? What else did he do? Wheeler He was a real forward-thinking man. And he saw opportunity where a lot of people didn’t. He, um—he was instrumental in getting Oviedo incorporated as a city. It was one square mile. Horner [laughs]. Wheeler But the relations with Sanford as the county seat were such that he didn’t foresee Oviedo getting a fair shake out of the county. And so, he got it—got Oviedo incorporated. He was also on the county commission. He, um, was the driving force behind the county buying what’s now called the—well, what is it called? The Five Points Complex ? Eh, the original purpose of it was to have, um, indigent home and, um, pauper’s cemetery. That grew into being an old folks home. And they grazed—they raised all their own food. And then years later, the—the county began moving their facilities out there. Their fire department and courthouse and jail and animal control. Horner And sitting in the middle of all of that official administration is still what was the old folks home. Wheeler Yes. Horner It’s still there. Wheeler Yes. Horner It’s never demolished. Wheeler It’s now part of—it’s now the home of the Museum of Seminole County History. Horner One of the things about the citrus industry in Oviedo was the freezes that would happen regularly. How did people withstand the destroyed[sic] of—of their crop? And sometimes even destruction of their trees? Wheeler Well, all of ‘em didn’t stand it. Um, there was a disastrous freeze in 1890-f—December of ’94 and February of ’95. And i—it was—it was destructive enough that a lot of people just gave up and moved. Uh, there are stories about houses with dishes still on the table and food in ‘em. And th—they were just left. People just le—just lost heart and left. B—but the—the few that remained eventually did come back. Uh, my grandfather being one. Mr. Lee—C. S. Lee being another one. And there’s probably some names that I don’t recall now. Horner What about the Clonts’s? Were they doing c—uh, cel—um, citrus at that time? Wheeler No. The Clonts’s came in 1924. Horner Mkay. Mm. Well, when you have this packing—and Wheeler—I mean Nelson and Company packed fruit… Wheeler Mhmm. Horner …in these crates to send north. Um, how could you send them north? On the steamboats that originally plied the s—Lake Jesup? Or how did they get them up north to New York? Wheeler I’m sure at some point they shipped ‘em on a steamboat. But my recollection is the railroads. Horner And which railroads did… Wheeler Well, there were two that came to—to Lake Charm. That was the Atlantic Coast Line and there was the Seaboard Air Line. And they both had s—spurs that went down into Black Hammock to the celery pre-coolers and washhouses. At one time, there was[sic] two trains a day—one on each railroad out of Oviedo—of nothing but produce [sneezes]. Excuse me. Horner [laughs]. Wheeler There’s a lot of, uh, confusion about the two railroads because they later merged and became Seaboard Coast Line. And then they was[sic] incorporated into the family lines. And then it was Seaboard’s system. And then it became CSX [Corporation], which is what it is now. Horner When did those trains stop running through Oviedo? ‘Cause there’s no trains there now. Wheeler I’d say in the early eighties. Horner Why didn’t we need the trains anymore? Wheeler Well, all the produce traffic had gone to trucks. The—the railroads were so contrary about the service that people got tired of it. And, uh, at that time [sniffs], the Northern railroads—the Pennsylvania, the B&O —those lines were having terrific union problems. And our stuff would get to Washington, D.C. and sit. Horner So Oviedo was in trouble. They couldn’t get it to market. Wheeler Right. Right. Horner Well, there was another train in Oviedo. The Dinky Line. Wheeler That was the Seaboard. Horner Was part of the Seaboard. Wheeler Yes. Horner Mm. Wheeler It had previously been the Florida Central and Peninsular [Railroad] [sniffs]. And the tracks were so raggedy that they were forever and a day getting derailed. Horner [laughs]. Wheeler And the local folks nicknamed it “The Friends Come and Push” [laughs]. Horner [laughs]. Wheeler But a lot of people think the whole system was the Dinky Line and it was not [sniffs]. Horner Just the part that ran from Oviedo to Orlando. Wheeler Right. Horner Okay. How long did the Dinky Line last? That’s not… Wheeler Well, it became part of the… Horner Ah. Wheeler …CSX. And so they all came up about the same time. Horner Okay. Why did our—we don’t do and sell and pack citrus anymore in Oviedo. And it was the big moneymaker. What happened? Wheeler Because of the freezes and the greening virus [sniffs]. Horner Shut down the whole citrus… Wheeler Shut… Horner …part. Wheeler … down the whole thing. Statewide production is down 75% now. Horner Um, you were talking about—the trains would go to the packing houses. What—how were the packing houses run? Who did the—you just bring it in from the fields and what do you do with it? Wheeler Bring the fruit it from the field? Horner Mhmm. Wheeler Yeah. Horner Just pluck it off the tree? Wheeler And picked and—and put in boxes. Those two bushel boxes. Brought to the packing house. And then it was graded. And washed. And cleaned. And packed by size into shipping containers. And those went on the railroad. Horner Just loaded them up on the railroad. Wheeler Mhmm. Horner But it—yeah. I heard about that. Putting them in by size. Wheeler Mhmm. Horner If it was a bunch of tangerines, you could fit 120. Wheeler So many. Depending on the size. Um, and that was determined by the USDA . Horner Mm. Wheeler You had to have an inspector all—all the time. And the sizes were [sniffs]—on tangerines they were 80s, 120s, 176s, 210 and 246. Horner Wow. They must have been small tangerines. Wheeler They were. They were little bitty fellas. Horner [laughs]. What if you had a grapefruit? Wheeler Now, we didn’t pack many grapefruit. I’m not real up on the s—sizes on them. I know there was a 40. And a 48. I think the other one was 72. Horner [Inaudible]—those are the small grapefruit. Get 72. Wheeler Oranges—round oranges were 80s, 100s, 120s, um… Horner Did that mean that we had different varieties of oranges? Wheeler Oh, yeah. Horner We do. Wheeler Sure. Horner What varieties did we make—did we s—grow? Wheeler Well, we had tangerines. Dancy tangerines. Later, they developed the Orlando tangelo. And we had a world of them. And then, there was the early oranges like the Hamlin. And the pineapple. And the Parson Brown. And the Valencia. But they all come off at different times [sniffs]. Horner Well, that’s nice. You don’t have to pack ‘em all at one… Wheeler No. Horner …time. Wheeler No. You can’t pack ‘em all at once. Horner [laughs]. Who did the work? Who w—who worked in the packing house? Who picked the—the fruit? Wheeler Well, you had picking crews. And you’d have a foreman. And he’d go out and recruit help to pick the fruit. And then, the packing house had their own crew that packed. And graded. And put crates together. And everything that it takes to run a packing house [sniffs]. Horner Did they live in Oviedo? Wheeler Everybody did. Oviedo was never—until this latter day—a bedroom community. If you l—if you lived in Oviedo it was because you worked in Oviedo [sniffs]. Horner Something to do with agriculture. Wheeler Unless you were a merchant or a preacher. Or something like that. Yes. Horner Um, but by the mid—beginning of the twentieth century, there was a shift from citrus to celery. Who brought celery to Oviedo? And why was Oviedo such a good place to grow celery? Wheeler Well, the first place it came to was Sanford. And at that time, they di—they thought that you couldn’t grow celery on muck. It had to be grown on sand, which that side of Lake Monroe there where Sanford is was ideally suited to that. And then the King Brothers decided they were gonna try it in Oviedo. And we had some sand land, but we had more muck than we did sand. And so when they found out they could grow it on the muck, then—it expanded rapidly then. And celery was high dollar crop. Number one: it was considered kind of exotic [sniffs]. And number two: once the [Great] Depression hit, there was a tremendous dis—demand for celery because they used it in soup kitchens. It was, you know—it’ll stretch anything that you put it with [sniffs]. Then, about the time the Depression was over, World War II came along. And for reasons that I never understood, celery was not considered, um, necessary for the war effort. And so they didn’t impose any price ceilings on it. And the price of celery just went through the roof during those war years. And people made money just like going to town on a Saturday. Um, in 1929, Seminole County’s celery crop was worth about $15 million. Just the celery crop. Horner Well, I’d heard we’d been called the C—Celery Capital of the World for—[laughs]. Wheeler Well, we were. They didn’t—there was no, uh, Zellwood. There was no everglades. The celery came from Seminole County. Horner Well, when you’re growing celery—it sounds like celery is a rather delicate… Wheeler It is. Horner …crop to grow. Wheeler And it takes a lot of water to grow it. And we had ample water supplies. We had the flowing wells, uh, to keep the fields wet. And it did well here. Horner And there were plenty of celery fields around Oviedo. Wheeler Oh, yeah. Horner [laughs]. Well, when you, uh—when you laid—put the celery out—I’ve heard that you have to put the celery out first in small plots. Then you pick ‘em up and replant them. Wheeler Yes. You plant seed beds and raise the plants up until they’re big enough to set out. And then you transplant ‘em to a—to the field. Horner And let ‘em grow. Wheeler Mhmm. Horner Well, how did they get enough water to handle? Wheeler They developed a system of subsurface irrigation, which simply put was r—r—rows of tile under the ground. And the tile was not cemented together. It was just joint to joint. And you’d turn those wells on. And anywhere that there was a joint, water would seep out. Horner Sort of like a drip line… Wheeler Yeah. Horner …only large and… Wheeler Mhmm. Horner underground. Wheeler And you could raise and lower the water level by, um, a system of stops. At the end of each row you had a—a concrete pocket and holes every so often. And however high you wanted the water to go, you stopped off the holes. And, of course, it would seek its own level. Horner Um, [inaudible]. [laughs]. Well, once your celery is grown in this muck land and you decide to harvest it, then what do you do with it? Wheeler You harvest it. Horner [laughs]. Yep. You’re gonna harvest it. What—but you gotta get it up north. How you gonna do it? Wheeler Well, [clears throat]… Horner Get to market [laughs]. Wheeler …for many years, it was cut by hand, uh, and put in boxes. And then it went to this celery washhouse, where it was washed and packed. And, again, there were sizes for it. And then they would put it through a precooler bath to get it cold. And pack it into boxcars [sniffs]. And those boxcars had bunkers. One at each end. And they’d load it down with ice. And then they had a chipper there. And they would blow chipped ice all, eh—all over the top of the celery. They didn’t—they didn’t—a car wouldn’t hold it to the ceiling. There was about three feet from the top tier to the ceiling. And they’d blow that full of that chipped ice. And the cars had fans on ‘em that ran by a belt drive. And that circulated the cool and kept ‘em cool until they could get where they were going [sniffs]. Horner So the celery was crisp when it got there. Wheeler Yeah. It had to be. Horner Otherwise, it would be all wilted. If you take it out of the field and you stuff it in a crate and haul it north, it’s gonna be all wilted [inaudible]. Wheeler Oh, no. No. They didn’t do that. Horner [laughs]. You mentioned that there was a, um—a celery packing house out at Lake Charm. And then there was another celery packing house in Oviedo. Wheeler Mhmm. Horner So you had two of them operating at the same time. Is that because there was so much celery? Wheeler Yeah. And there was[sic] more than two. Um, there were at least two more in Black Hammock. I’m not sure exactly—there might have been three. But, yes. There was a—well, how many pre-coolers would it take to make a trainload of celery [inaudible] every day? Horner I don’t know. Wheeler Well… Horner [laughs]. Wheeler …just imagine. Horner How many cars would there be in a train? I mean, do they haul a hundred cars? Or… Wheeler It’d depend on the time of the year. But the trains weren’t near as big as they are now. There’d probably be ten or twelve. Horner Y—you told me that you used to go over to the packing house yourself when you were a young man. Wheeler Yeah. Horner What did it—what was it like? And what were the trains like? Wheeler Well, the packing house was just about the nerve center of town. If you were looking for somebody, you’d meet ‘em at the packing house. ‘Cause there was always somebody there. And we didn’t have, you know, City Hall and police department. And fire department. And Town House Restaurant. And all of that. You went to the packing house. You’d buy you a soda and sit down and sit down there with a package of Lance crackers and wait for ‘em to come if they wasn’t[sic] already there. Horner [laughs]. And the—and so they’d come and load the train. The packers would load the train. Everybody else is sort of sitting and, uh—or—and coming and going. And socializing. Wheeler But it was the same when the packing house wasn’t running. It was a meeting place. Horner Ah. Well, what about the trains themselves? Were they modern and useful? Wheeler Well, they weren’t modern like what we have now. Um, like I said, they had fans and belt drives for refrigeration [sniffs]. The… Horner You—you told me that the—the trains were—uh, the t—the tracks on the trains weren’t that good. Wheeler They weren’t. One of the big obstacles to settling this area was, um, wet, low ground. And the tracks—if you see the route of either one of those railroads, they snake like this. Because they go from one high spot to the next to stay out of that muck. And they put the ties down on the bare sand. They didn’t have any ballast or anything. And, uh, the rail was light [sniffs]. So the trains were slow. They did often times get off the ground—get on the ground. But that’s all there was. Horner Well, when the trains would get on the ground or derail like that, what do you do? I mean, everything stops [laughs]? Wheeler Until they get it back on the rail. Back then, they didn’t have cranes. And, uh, that’s—railroad had some wreckers, but they were too heavy to come out there on that light track. So it was a matter of a gang of big, strong men. And jacks. And wooden blocks to jack that wheel up. And then the locomotive would pull it just enough to get it guided back over on the track [sniffs]. Horner So the boxcars had to be lifted up, so to speak. Wheeler Yeah. Horner And then placed back on the track. Wheeler Yeah. And oftentimes there would be, um, places that were missing spikes and things like that. They’d have to nail it back down so it wouldn’t roll again. It wasn’t—it was a case of the rails rolling over—is what derailed ‘em. Horner No wonder the trains stopped coming [laughs]. Wheeler Well, that’s a—that is an ironic story. From the time the rails were laid in the 1880s until about 1980, those rails were the same rails that they put down originally. And rail is measured by the weight of a three-foot section. And those light rails were—some of ‘em were sixty pounds and some of ‘em were seventy pounds for three feet. And after all that time, they decided to re-lay the rails. And they put hundred-pound rail all the way from Sanford to Oviedo. Now, the Seaboard had done theirs earlier. But this was the—the Atlantic Coast Line. And we found out later the government gave ‘em a grant to upgrade this line. And then like two or three years later, they got approval to abandon it. And they took all that up. And took it and moved it. Used it somewhere else [laughs]. Horner [laughs]. So the whole tra—the whole tra—rail line from Oviedo to Sanford… Wheeler Yeah. Horner …was torn up. Wheeler Yeah. Horner [inaudible]. Um, when we talk about Oviedo and we talk about Seminole County, neither of them used to exist. You were mentioning, uh, that your—was it your grandfather who helped get Oviedo… Wheeler Mhmm. Horner …incorporated as a town? Wheeler Mhmm. Horner Where did Seminole County come from? ‘Cause it wasn’t originally Seminole County. Wheeler Well, you have to understand that because of the citrus and the celery and the other farming, Sanford swung a pretty big stick at that time. And they had tried [clears throat] two different times with a referendum to move the county seat from Orlando to Sanford. And failed. And Sanford—the people in Sanford thought that world emanated from Sanford. They were conceited and, um—I don’t know what else to call it. They… Horner Arro… Wheeler …thought… Horner … —arrogant. Wheeler They thought—yeah. Arrogant. And Sanford was supposed to be it. And it was it, as long as the things were coming by the steamboat. ‘Cause that was as far as they could come. But when the railroads came, that changed. And then along came Colonel Henry Sanford . And he was determined he was gonna make Sanford something. And in 18—about 1875, there was an infamous murder trial in Orange County that was coming up between the carpet baggers and the locals. The carpet baggers had imposed a head tax on cattle. And this is right after the Civil War, now. And [clears throat], of course, a carpet bagger was in power. They had—they were the sheriff and done all of that. And he sent out some men to the outlying areas to collect that cattle tax. Well, they took the sheriff, tied him to an old bottom plow and dropped him in Lake, uh, Kissimmee. Horner So the sheriff’s now dead [inaudible]. Wheeler Sheriff’s dead. And there’s this murder trial coming up of who supposedly did that. And all of a sudden, the courthouse burned down. Horner Now is this the courthouse in Sanford or the courthouse in… Wheeler No. It was… Horner …Orlando? Wheeler …Orlando. There was no courthouse in Sanford. Horner Oh. But now it’s burned down. Wheeler And it burned down on the eve of this trial. Well, whatever evidence they had, of course, was gone with it. So the question arose as to building a new courthouse. And Henry Sanford went to Orlando to the Board of County Commissioners and proposed that, uh, the courthouse be built in Sanford, inferring that that’s where it should have been all the time. And he would give the land for the courthouse. Provided, of course, it was built in Sanford. Well, Mr. Jacob Summerlin , who was a leading citizen there, stood up and said, “Well, people are used to doing business in Orlando. And I think they ought to continue to do business in Orlando. And I’m gonna loan the county $10,000 to build a courthouse. And they can pay me back or not.” Well, of course, that dashed the hopes of—who wouldn’t turn—who wouldn’t, in that day and time, turn down that kind of money for a courthouse? Well, that was the second time—no. That was the third time they had been thwarted. There were two referendums before that that didn’t garner enough support. So the courthouse was built in Orlando. And, not to be outdone, they formed—Sanford formed a Divide the County committee. And there were six or eight of the real prominent citizens in Sanford that spearheaded it. And they elected Forrest Lake as the, um, Representative for Orange County. Horner To the State Legislature. Wheeler To the State Legislature. And in 1913, he had gathered enough support that he put a bill through to create Seminole County. And according to the f—r—record, it passed way in the middle of the night on a—almost the last day of the session. Horner [laughs]. Wheeler And [clears throat] he rushed it over to the governor for f—signature before anybody could catch on to what was happening. And, uh, that became Seminole County. Well, Orange County was fit to be tied because it—he was their representative, too. But he didn’t let any of them know [laughs] what he was doing. So that’s how Seminole County got here. Horner So we became our own county because we were a piece of Orange [County]. And then we tricked ‘em into letting us have our—into having our own county. Wheeler And in the effort to get that done, uh, there was a group of citizens in Oviedo, including a former c—Orange County commissioner, who did not think it was a good idea. And didn’t support it. And when [clears throat] the thing passed, the new commissioner set out to exact retribution from all the outlying areas that didn’t support it. Horner Uh, oh. Wheeler And… Horner [inaudible]. Wheeler … that’s why we had the kind of roads and schools we had. Because they didn’t get any money. Horner So they—they strangled Oviedo… Wheeler Yep. Horner …in effect… Wheeler Yep. Horner … from all the county money… Wheeler Yep. Horner …for improvements. Wheeler Oviedo. Chuluota. Geneva. Horner They didn’t get any road money. Wheeler No. Horner No school money. Wheeler And that did not change until the Supreme Court got into the segregation issue. And took the funding authority away from the—from the county commission and the school board. And mandated that they had to make a level playing field. And that was in the late sixties. Horner Well, Oviedo was a pretty small town well into the seven—the… Wheeler Yep. Horner … seventies. I mean, 800 people. Maybe 1,000. Wheeler Oh. Horner Small town. Wheeler It was about 2,500. Horner By the time we get to late-seventies. Wheeler Right. It was one square mile on the map. Um. Horner We didn’t even have a police department. Or a fire department. Wheeler We had a volunteer fire department. And we had one policeman. And he was also the constable for the unincorporated areas. He was empowered to enforce the law. Horner So what we called today a sheriff. He would have been a deputy sheriff for this area. Wheeler Probably. Yes. Horner But now we don’t use the term co—constable. Wheeler No. They’ve outlawed that office. Horner Who was the constable? Who was this… Wheeler George Kelsey . Horner Ah. He’s pretty much of a, uh—a legend in Oviedo. Wheeler Yeah. He—he served for a long time. Uh, and he was also the city police. Horner And did he do a good job? Wheeler He knew what was going on. Horner He knew what was happening. Wheeler Yeah. Horner And everybody’s family. And everybody’s [inaudible]… Wheeler Yeah. He had eyes and ears everywhere. Horner [laughs]. Um, he was a character. Are there any other important people in Oviedo that ought to be mentioned? Any other eccentric characters? Wheeler [sniffs]. Well, there was a few of ‘em that were kind of humorous. But n—none to the extent that George was. Mr. T.L. Lingo had an insurance agency in the back of that, uh, building that they just tore down on Broadway Street. What used to be the drug store. And he would send his bird dog across the street to the post office to get his mail. And they’d tie it up and put it in the dog’s mouth. And he’d bring it back over there to him. And, uh, he’d send a note down to the grocery store in the middle of the block for a pound of steak. Or for hamburger or whatever. And they’d wrap it up and give it to the dog. The dog would bring it right on back there to him. Horner Didn’t eat the steak? Wheeler No. No. Horner Well, you’re a Lawton way back along. What about the Lawton family? You’re related to them. A couple of generations ago. Wheeler Yeah. Well, Professor Lawton—T.W. Lawton , for whom the school is named, uh, was the—probably the first person to get a college education in, uh, Oviedo. And he rode the Dinky [Line] back and forth every day to get to school at Rollins [College] [sniffs]. Now, I don’t know whether he bummed or if he bought a ticket but… Horner [laughs]. Wheeler …that’s how he got there. He became, I think, the second superintendent of schools for the county. And he… Horner Yeah. The first elected one. The first one was appointed by the governor… Wheeler Right. Horner …when we finally became the… Wheeler Right. Horner …the county. But… Wheeler And, uh, he served until about 1953. So it was thirty-some years. When he got ready to retire, somebody figured out that if each child in the county would give a penny, they’d have enough to buy him a new car. And so they all put their pennies in and bought him a brand new Chevrolet sedan when he retired. Horner Appreciated gift. Wheeler I’m sure. Horner Where’d—where did the people in town go to church? ‘Cause I’ve always heard that the churches were very important in Oviedo. Wheeler If the churches were behind it, it would happen. Well, [clear throat] there’s two things that a—any little small town has a plethora of. And that’s churches and gas stations. They might not have a grocery store. And they might not have doctor. But they’d have churches and gas stations. Horner [laughs]. Wheeler There was the First Baptist of Oviedo, the First Methodist of Oviedo [sniffs]. And then there was, um [clears throat], Church of God, um… Horner And, of course, the black churches [inaudible]. Wheeler I’m trying to think of the name of the one—oh. Mission Road Baptist Church. Antioch. Fountain Head. Um, there were two more down in Lawtonville, but I can’t think of the names of either one of ‘em. One of ‘em’s still operating. But church was a—a big, uh, factor in what went on in town. Horner D—did the Methodists and Baptists cooperate? I mean, they lived—they were… Wheeler Yeah. Horner …fairly close together. Wheeler Yeah. The early days, they had service every other Sunday. And whatever Sunday it was—that the Methodist Church, everybody went there. Then the next week, they’d go to the Baptist Church. Horner [laughs]. [clears throat]. Well, to get on a bit of a lighter side, uh, when it comes around Halloween, we always hear talk about the spooky Oviedo lights. Wheeler Yeah. Horner We’re famous for having the spooky Oviedo lights. What were they? Or are they, if they still exist? Wheeler There are [clears throat]—they still exist. But the reality of ‘em has been blown way out of proportion. Back then, if you went down there to the bridge on a bright moonlit night, you could see a sparkle in the water. And it was phosphorous. And that became i—i—it was just a curiosity to go and see. And, of course, that bridge is way out beyond anywhere. And the kids’d like to go there. Um, but then it got to be the Oviedo lights. And if we went to Winter Park or Sanford, we’d hear the kids talking about the Oviedo lights. And, oh, there was this ball of fire coming down the road. And, um, there was somebody hung in the water tower. Um… Horner Was that true? Somebody hung in the water tower? Wheeler No. Horner [laughs]. Wheeler None of that was… Horner None of… Wheeler … true. Horner …that. Wheeler None of that was true. But you couldn’t convince anybody that i—I’d say there was more chemical enhancement… Horner [laughs]. Wheeler … that went on than anything else. Horner [laughs]. Oo. Okay. S—Since you are so knowledgeable—mm—uh, lived in Oviedo and your family lived there, is there anything else that’s unique or special about Oviedo that you remember? Wheeler [sniffs] Well, it’s kind of lost this now, since we’re not a bedroom community any more, but there was a community that engulfed everybody. And there were any number of things that were citizen-initiated that we would’ve never had otherwise. The swimming pool for one. The Memorial Building for another. The doctor’s clinic for another. The Woman’s Club started the first garbage collection. The Woman’s Club funded the first, um—I don’t know what you’d call it now. We called it a rescue wagon. You know, a van with oxygen and sh— Horner Ah. Wheeler First responder kind of thing. Horner ‘Cause there was[sic] no EMTs… Wheeler No. Horner …so… Wheeler The firemen manned it. Um, you were asking me a while ago about how did you reported[sic] a fire. Well, there was a big whistle up on pole by the firehouse. And you went there and pushed the button. And you could hear it all over town [sniffs]. And, uh, people would come. The men would come and they’d tell ‘em where the fire was. And—and they’d go to it. It usually amounted to saving the house next to the house that was on fire. Horner [laughs]. Wheeler Because a lot of those houses were tarpaper and wood and all. And they just went up like a box of matches. Horner Mm. So do you just come up—the old fashioned thing. Do you come up and pump the pump? And spray the water on the house next door? Wheeler Well, not quite that primitive. Horner [laughs]. Wheeler Um, in 1947, the City bought a Ford truck. It was the first one they could get after the war. And the young returning veterans built a tank—a water tank on it. And put a pump on it. And that was the first firetruck. And then, in 1957, the City bought another, uh, commercial-grade firetruck. So we had two. But it wasn’t uncommon at all for a fire whistle to blow and somebody to rush down there who didn’t know where the fire was. And didn’t know how to operate the pump. And they’d get in the firetruck and go dashing off somewhere. Somebody’d have to catch ‘em and bring ‘em back [laughs]. Horner [laughs]. Eh, they c—they couldn’t pick up the microphone and say… Wheeler No. Horner …“Dispatch. Where you going?” Wheeler No. There wasn’t any of that. Now, George Kelsey did have a radio connected to the sheriff’s department. But that was it. Horner [laughs]. Well, I was trying to think if there was anything else I didn’t—it is interesting that Oviedo was so close-knit that they did sw—the swimming pool, the Memorial Building in f—in memoriam to the Second y—World War people. And, uh, the canning m—m— Wheeler Yeah. Horner …kitchen. Wheeler That was a… Horner The community canning kitchen. Wheeler …a thing for the war effort. But that Memorial Building and the clinic—both were built with as much donated labor and materials as there was p—probably more than what was purchased [sniffs]. Dudas gave the lumber. Um, Bob Ash was a brick mason. He laid all the block. Joe Leinhart had lumber that he had cut in Black Hammock years ago. He furnished all the w—trim and the woodwork for the inside of the building. He probably put it up, knowing him. Um, it was a—it was a concerted effort because Dr. Martin had retired. And he had to move to Orlando in order to retire because people wouldn’t quit coming. Horner [laughs]. Wheeler His office was right beside his house up there where the Baptist church is now. And people just wouldn’t take no for an answer. And so finally, he moved. And that was another thing my grandfather was a[sic] instigator in. He called together the leading businessmen in town. And they said, “The only way we’re ever gonna get a doctor is to build a place for him to practice.” And so, the major—mostly the major farmers in the area went together and raised some money. And then set the volunteers to work. Horner And they built the clinic. Wheeler And they built the clinic. Horner You know? ‘Cause the—the farmers at that time would have been the leading lights… Wheeler Yeah. Horner …of the community. Wheeler Yeah. Oh, yeah. Horner ‘Cause they were the ones bringing in the income. Wheeler Mhmm. Horner How did the African-American community and the white community get along with each other? Wheeler [sniffs] I don’t ever remember any—any discord of any kind except for that one incident in high school. And that was quickly put to rest. And we all just got along. Horner I heard a story once from a—a man who said that, uh, Benjamin Wheeler bought him a car. ‘Cause he was—he didn’t have the money. And he needed it because he was the crew chief. And he needed to get the guys to work. Do you remember that story? Wheeler Oh, yeah. Yeah. That was Buster Garrison. And he—he was an entrepreneur. He hauled his crew to the grove. And then he’d put sides on his truck and load it with oranges. And haul ‘em to the juice plant. And, of course, old trucks were always… Horner Breaking. Wheeler … something wrong with ‘em. And he finally went to my dad and said, “Mr. Frank. I mean I need me a new truck. And I ain’t got no money. And I don’t want you to tell me no [laughs].” Horner [laughs]. Wheeler And what did—what did Frank Wheeler say? Horner He got him a truck. Wheeler [laughs]. Horner I don’t know what their arrangements were. I’m sure he paid some on it. But Buster was a, um, hugely industrious person. To work night and day. Do anything you want him to do. Gladly. And my dad just saw the worth of it. He sent him over to Holler Chevrolet. And I’m sure he called Mr. Holler and said, “Get this man a truck.” That’s the way things worked back then. Um, years later—years later, I had a mirror get knocked off of my Chevrolet truck. One of the outside mirrors. And I went to the place to get it seen about. And I was in my work clothes. And I had my little dog with me. And the only thing I had for a leash was a piece of hay bailing twine about so long. So I made a leash out of that. And me and her were walking around outside. And the—the service writer said, “Well, I don’t know if we’ve got the part. And I don’t know if we’ve got time to put it on.” And all this, that and the other. I said, "I’ll wait.” ‘Cause this was in Winter Park, now. And there was—I’ll never forget this. There was a salesman. He had rose-colored glasses and a pink ultra-suede coat on. Wheeler [laughs]. Horner And he came out there to smoke a cigarette and took one look at me and my dog and wheeled around and went back inside [laughs]. Wheeler [laughs]. Horner And so help me, it wasn’t a minute or two, Mr. Holler came out. And he walked over there to me. And we shook hands and started talking. You know, just passing the time. And all of a sudden, that service writer came out there and said, “Mr. Wheeler, we gon’ get you taken care of [laughs].” Wheeler [laughs]. Horner You looked like you didn’t have two nickels to rub together. Wheeler That’s… Horner He didn’t… Wheeler That’s… Horner He didn’t know who he was dealing with. Wheeler That’s what they thought. Horner [laughs]. And you’re one… Wheeler I… Horner … one of the most important families in town [laughs]. Wheeler Can’t judge a book by its cover. Horner [laughs]. Wheeler I guess the one story I would tell again, because it’s so funny to me. Horner [clears throat]. Wheeler Our county commissioner in this district was B.C. Dodd . He lived out there in Goldenrod. And at that time, the commissioner got to say where the road money was spent in his district. Well, I want so and so fixed. Or it’s—you know, whatever. So Mr. Dodd stood up and he said, “I wanna pave that road from the city limits of Oviedo to the county line.” Which is now Alafaya Trail. It was just dirt before that. And the commissioner from Sanford jumped up and says, “I don’t know why you wanna do that.” Said, “Ain’t nobody ever gonna use it.” [laughs]. Horner [laughs]. Wheeler And he says, “You hush, Pope. I didn’t say anything about what you did in your district. And this is what I wanna do.” And how prophetic that decision turned out to be. Because where Mitchell Hammock Road crosses Alafaya was the city limits. And from there on out this way was dirt. Clay. Horner And he was the only one that was farsighted enough to see you’re gonna need her. Hm. Wheeler That was—that was in the early sixties. We had heard about what was gonna be the new space university, but nothing had actually happened. Horner Ah. Yeah. ‘Cause they hadn’t chosen the site yet. Wheeler Right. Horner Boy. He was taking a gamble. Wheeler Yeah. He was. Horner Maybe that’s why Dodd Road is named after him. Wheeler Well, he was a—he was a prominent figure. And he was huge. He was, uh, like 7 foot something tall. And he wore—they’ve got one of his shoes in the Goldenrod Museum. And it’s—I’m not kidding. It’s like that. Horner [laughs]. Wheeler He was a giant. And, of course, that went along with his demeanor. Horner [laughs]. Wheeler At that time, they were trying to decide where to put FTU . And one of the sites they looked at is where Seminole Community College is. And another site they looked at was there at—across from Lockwood Road and [County Road] 419. And Mr. C.S. Lee offered to give ‘em the land if they’d put it there. Horner [laughs]. Wheeler But Mr. Billy Dial in Orlando, and a few more like that, th—they wasn’t gonna have that. So FTU got put where it is. And as a conciliation prize, we got the Iron Bridge sewer plant and Seminole [State] College. And where they are is no accident. Horner Uh huh. Wheeler There is still some animosity there. Horner So we’re here at UCF. And it’s out of the farsightedness of Mr. Dodd. And… Wheeler Well, he… Horner …we got a way to get here. Wheeler …he played a role in it [sniffs]. Horner Well, is there anything else that you would like to add about Oviedo? Something that you really appreciate about living in that town. Growing up in that town. Wheeler The people. I had so many good friends. And—and a lot of people worked for my dad. And, of course, I got to know them. And, uh, I miss ‘em tremendously. And I miss that sense of community. Horner The whole downtown is gone now. Wheeler The whole downtown is gone. But what’s really gone is that fellowship. If you needed something that somebody in the community was—that was their forte, you just went to ‘em and said, “You know, I need a well put down.” “I need a survey made.” “I need, you know, whatever it was.” And, uh, they all worked together [sniffs]. I wrote a column for The [Seminole] Voice one time about they all worked together. And I can’t find it anymore. But I named a couple of dozen things that happened that way in Oviedo. Horner Somebody needed their fellow man. Wheeler Well, we need a clinic. We need a city hall. We need a swimming pool. We need garbage service. There was just a—a lot of things that—and they would have never happened any other way. Because we weren’t going to get any support from the county. And the city didn’t have any money. Horner Hm. Yeah. Well, thank you, Ben, for talking to us. And letting us… Wheeler My… Horner …know… Wheeler …pleasure. Horner …about Oviedo. And you’re—you’re a fount of knowledge. Wheeler I’ll probably go home and say, “Dang. Why didn’t I tell ‘em that?” Horner [laughs]. I’m sure you will. 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Lingo Theodore “Judge” Aulin, Sr. Thomas Willingham Lawton turpentine University of Central Florida Wheeler-Evans House William Henry “Billy” Dial https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/files/original/9c860166ad137a06a0838273e32484f3.pdf fbf68a2af501f3fa2fc6f078f82b5872 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title Oviedo Historical Society Collection Alternative Title Oviedo Historical Society Collection Subject Oviedo (Fla). Description The Oviedo Historical Society Collection encompasses historical artifacts donated for digitization at the Oviedo Historical Society's History Harvest in the Spring semester of 2015. The Oviedo Historical Society was organized in November 1973 by a group of citizens. The society is a 501(3) non-profit organization. Its purpose is to help preserve the community identity of Oviedo by collecting and disseminating knowledge about local history, serve as a repository for documents and artifacts relating to Oviedo history, promote the preservation and marking of historic sites and buildings in the Oviedo area and foster interest in local, state, national, and world history. Is Part Of <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/128" target="_blank">Oviedo Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida. Language eng Type Collection Coverage Oviedo, Florida Contributing Project <a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a> <a href="http://history.cah.ucf.edu/staff.php?id=304" target="_blank">Dr. Connie L. Lester</a>'s Introduction to Public History course, Spring 2015 Digital Collection <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a> External Reference "<a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>." Oviedo Historical Society, Inc. http://oviedohs.com/. Adicks, Richard, and Donna M. Neely. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5890131" target="_blank"><em>Oviedo, Biography of a Town</em></a>. S.l: s.n.], 1979. Robison, Jim. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/796757419" target="_blank"><em>Around Oviedo</em></a>. 2012. "<a href="http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68" target="_blank">History</a>." City of Oviedo, Florida. http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68. "<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/audio/Ep41-Oviedo.mp3" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 41: Oviedo, with Dr. Richard Adicks</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/audio/Ep41-Oviedo.mp3. Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format 127-page book Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title Lawton Family History Alternative Title Lawton Family History Subject Oviedo (Fla.) Description The family history the Lawtons of the Summer Oaks plantation in Thomas County, Georgia. This family history centers around Alexander Benjamin Lawton (1809-1861) and his wife, Narcissa Melissa Lawton (1817-1883). Together, the couple had seven children: Alexander Cater Lawton (1841-1921), Winborn Theodore Lawton (1843-1892), Clara J. Lawton (b. 1845), Robert W. Lawton (b. 1847), Benjamin F. Lawton (ca. 1848-ca. 1853), Thomas J. Lawton (b. 1851), and Emma Lenora Lawton (1853-1907). Lawton also had three children from his previous marriage to Elizabeth Brisbane Lawton (1808-1839): Mary Jane Lawton (b. 1832), Martha S. Lawton (b. 1834), and Eusebia Lawton (ca. 1836-ca. 1850).<br /><br />Part I on the book focuses on the Lawton family background, highlighting William Lawton, Joseph Lawton, Benjamin Themistocles Dion Lawton, and Winborn Asa Lawton. Part II details the immediate family of Alexander Benjamin Lawton and his family while living in South Carolina, while Part III discusses the family's migration to the Summer Oaks plantation in Georgia. Part IV describes the location of Summer Oaks and Part V discusses theories about the location of Alexander Benjamin Lawton's resting place. Part VI details the descendants of the Lawtons of Summer Oaks. This family history was compiled by the great-great-great granddaughter of Alexander Benjamin Lawton and Narcissa Melissa Lawton, Stacey Allene Church and her father, Gerald Marshall Church. Many of the descendants of the Lawtons migrated to Oviedo, Florida. Type Text Source Original book by Stacey Allene Church and Gerald Marshall Church: Private Collection of Bettye Reagan. Requires <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html" target="_blank">Adobe Acrobat Reader</a> Is Part Of <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/147" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society Collection</a>, Oviedo Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida. Is Format Of Digital reproduction of original book by Stacey Allene Church and Gerald Marshall Church. Coverage Edisto Island, South Carolina Mulberry Grove Plantation, Walterboro, South Carolina Black Swamp, Robertville, South Carolina Lawtonville, South Carolina Bluffton, South Carolina Summer Oaks Plantation, Thomas County, Georgia Oviedo, Florida Monticello, Florida Caddo Parish, Louisiana Creator Church, Stacey Allene Church, Gerald Marshall Contributor Reagan, Bettye Jean Aulin Date Created ca. 1984 Date Copyrighted ca. 1984 Format application/jpg Extent 26.4 MB Medium 127-page book Language eng Mediator History Teacher Provenance Originally created by Stacey Allene Church and Gerald Marshall Church. Rights Holder Copyright to this resource is held by Stacey Allene Church and Gerald Marshall Church, and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only. Accrual Method Donation Contributing Project <a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a> Curator Cepero, Laura Digital Collection <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a> Source Repository Private Collection of Bettye Reagan External Reference Johnston, Coy K. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4930219" target="_blank"><em>Two Centuries of Lawtonville Baptists, 1775-1975</em></a>. 1975. Lawton, Edward P. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1634384" target="_blank"><em>A Saga of the South</em></a>. Ft. Myers Beach, Fla: Island Press, 1965. Rogers, William Warren. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1441638" target="_blank"><em>Ante-Bellum Thomas County, 1825-1861</em></a>. Tallahassee: Florida State University, 1963. Rogers, William Warren. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1395550" target="_blank"><em>Thomas County During the Civil War</em></a>. Tallahassee: Florida State University, 1964. Rogers, William Warren. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/658147" target="_blank"><em>Thomas County, 1865-1900</em></a>. Tallahassee: Florida State University Press, 1973. A. B. Lawton A. B. Lawton and Company A. C. Lawton Abraham Lincoln Adam Fowler Brisbane African Americans Albany, Georgia Alex Lawton Alexander Benjamin Lawton Alexander Cater Lawton Alexander J. Lawton Alexander James Lawton Alexander Robert Lawton Allen Hagen American Civil War. American Revolution American Revolutionary War Anderson Peeler Andrew Aulin, Sr. Anglicanism Anglicans Anna Lawton Annie Elizabeth Miller Annie Narcissa Lawton Long Arcadia Archibald T. McIntyre Asa Lawton B. F. Porter B. S. Fuller Baker County, Georgia Baptists Battle of New Orleans Benjamin F. Lawton Benjamin Lawton Benjamin T. D. Lawton Benjamin Themistocles Dion Lawton Benny Lawton Beulah Lawton Hughes Birdie Lawton Grogan Black Swamp Academy Black Swamp Company Black Swamp, South Carolina Bluffton, South Carolina Bobby Lawton C. J. Lawton C. J. McDonald Caddo Parish, Louisiana Carolyn L. Harrell Cassandra C. Tillman Charlotte Ann Lawton Charlotte Esther Lawton Peeples Chattahoochee Cheshire churches Clara Curtis Lawton Lienhard Clara Isabella Lawton Wheeler Clara Isabelle Lawton colonial colonies colonists colony Confederacy Confederate Army Confederate States of American Confederates corn Coy K. Johnson Cuthbert David Montague Laffitte Dower E. H. Peeples E. Haviland Hillman E. L. Lawton Edisto Island Plantation Edisto Island, South Carolina Edward P. Lawton Edward Peeples Elizabeth Mary Brisbane Emma Lenora Lawton Emma Lenora Lawton Aulin Episcopalians Eusebia Lawton farmers farms Francis McLeod Friske Frog Legel, Louisiana Gary Lawton Grogan George Mossee Georgia Cavalry Regiment Gerald Marshall Church GloriAnna Lawton Brisbane Godfrey Grooverville, Georgia Hanahan's Hector Irving Cook Henry Carter Henry Clay Henry Clay, Sr. Hepsibah Baptist Church Hernando County Hilton Head Island, South Carolina I. Clayton Ramsey Inabinett, E. L. indigo Isadore Perry Lawton J. A. Malette J. A. Mallett J. L. Simkins J. T. Herring James Clark James Connell James K. Polk James Knox Polk James Stoney Lawton James Tillman Grogan James Tillman Grogan, Sr. James Wilburn Grogan Jane Ann Grogan Church Jane Mosse Lawton Jared Everitt Jefferson County Jefferson Davis Jefferson Finis Davis Jeremiah Clark Jeremiah Lawton Joe Lawton John C. Cochran John Calder John Grimball Ann Grimball Robert John Hanahan John Hughes John Lawton John N. Dugger John Seabrook John Sealy John Sheffield John T. Lyons John Thomas Wheeler Joseph James Lawton Joseph Lawton Joshua B. Everette Josiah A. Everette Josiah A. Flournoy Josiah Everett Josiah Flournoy Josiah Lawton Josie Adams Judson Lawton Kathryn Lawton Lawton and Allied Families Association Lawton, Dowell, and Company Lawtonville Baptist Church Lawtonville Cemetery Lawtonville, South Carolina Lebanon Cemetery Leonard Tuggle Liberty Baptist Church Lona Lawton Lona Lawton Aulin Louisiana Purchase Lucina Walker Lawton Lucinda Walker Landrum Macon, Georgia Margaret Grogan Martha Lawton Martha S. Lawton Martha S. Lawton Gwynn Mary Ann Mosse Mary Ann Whaley Lawton Mary Cater Lawton Mary Cater Rhoades Mary Cater Rhodes Mary Clarke Lawton Mary Edla Laffitte Mary Elizabeth Lawton Mathews Mary Gwynn Lawton Mary Hannah Aulin Grogan Mary Harris Mary Jane Lawton Mary Jane Lawton Laffitte Mary Lawton Mary Martha Grogan Lundy Mary Mathews Lawton Mary Stone Fickling Mary Stone Grimball Lawton Mary Winborn Lawton Mattie Lawton May River Baptist Church Monticello Moses Linton Mulberry Grove Plantation My Husband My Little Daughter Clara N. Dudley N. M. Lawton Narcissa Melissa Lawton Nine Mile Post Road Oglethorpe, Georgia Oliveros On the Death of Littly Benny orange county Oviedo Oviedo Cemetery Pages Home Place pastors Paul Grimball Phoebe Norton Mosse Phoebe Sarah Lawton Willingham Pierre Robert pioneers Pipe Creek Church plantations planters poems poetry preachers Presbyterians Prince William's Parish Providence Grimball Mikell R. W. Lawton rice Robert E. H. Peeples Robert Hurst Robert Lauder Robert Themistocles Lawton Robert William Lawton Robertville, South Carolina Ruth Miller Thomas Ruth Thomas s. Manning Samuel Fickling Samuel J. Ray Samuel L. Dowell Samuel Perry Sanford Bason Sarah A. Godfrey Lawton Sarah Lawton Sarah Mathews Sarah Roberts Lawton Sarah Seabrook SavAnnah River Association Savannah, Georgia settlers slavery slaves South Carolina Militia St. John's Parish St. Marks St. Peter's Parish Stacey Allene Church Steamboat Landing Road Summer Oaks T. Willingham The Death Bed The Georgia Telegraph The Lawtons of Summer Oaks The Level The Southern Enterprise Theodore Dehon Mathews Thirza Lawton Polhill Thomas A. Bailey Thomas County Historical Museum Thomas County, Georgia Thomas Grimball Thomas Hill Thomas J. Lawton Thomas O. Lawton, Jr. Thomas Polhill Thomas Rhodes Thomas Willingham Thomas Winborn To My Babe To My Old Album Tom Cobbs Tom Lawton Tommie Lawton Tommy Lawton Two Sister's Ferry U.S. Census of 1860 Union W. A. Cumming W. J. Lawton W. S. Lawton W. T. Lawton Walker Gwynn Walter Gwynn Wiley Blewet William Henry Brisbane William Henry Lawton William Hilliard William Lawton William Lawton, Jr. William Mathews William Peeler William S. Lawton William S. Lawton and Company William Seabrook William Seabrook Lawton William Stegall William Tilly William Warren Rogers Winborn Asa Lawton Winborn Benjamin Lawton Winborn Joseph Lawton Winborn Lawton Winborn Lawton, Jr. Winborn Theodore Lawton Winnie Lawton Winny Lawton https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/files/original/7aa802afa4dac1c624612a3ff70e89b9.pdf d7733f35da3196cf96e4f6fc9bda38ea Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title Oviedo Historical Society Collection Alternative Title Oviedo Historical Society Collection Subject Oviedo (Fla). Description The Oviedo Historical Society Collection encompasses historical artifacts donated for digitization at the Oviedo Historical Society's History Harvest in the Spring semester of 2015. The Oviedo Historical Society was organized in November 1973 by a group of citizens. The society is a 501(3) non-profit organization. Its purpose is to help preserve the community identity of Oviedo by collecting and disseminating knowledge about local history, serve as a repository for documents and artifacts relating to Oviedo history, promote the preservation and marking of historic sites and buildings in the Oviedo area and foster interest in local, state, national, and world history. Is Part Of <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/128" target="_blank">Oviedo Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida. Language eng Type Collection Coverage Oviedo, Florida Contributing Project <a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a> <a href="http://history.cah.ucf.edu/staff.php?id=304" target="_blank">Dr. Connie L. Lester</a>'s Introduction to Public History course, Spring 2015 Digital Collection <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a> External Reference "<a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>." Oviedo Historical Society, Inc. http://oviedohs.com/. Adicks, Richard, and Donna M. Neely. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5890131" target="_blank"><em>Oviedo, Biography of a Town</em></a>. S.l: s.n.], 1979. Robison, Jim. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/796757419" target="_blank"><em>Around Oviedo</em></a>. 2012. "<a href="http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68" target="_blank">History</a>." City of Oviedo, Florida. http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68. "<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/audio/Ep41-Oviedo.mp3" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 41: Oviedo, with Dr. Richard Adicks</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/audio/Ep41-Oviedo.mp3. Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format 17-page booklet Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title The Lawtons of Summer Oaks Alternative Title Lawtons of Summer Oaks Subject Oviedo (Fla.) Description The family lineage for the Lawtons of Summer Oaks in Oviedo, Florida. This family tree begins with William Lawton, who was born in England, and continues through to the family of Betty Jean Aulin Reagan. This booklet is missing pages 2, 3, and 5. Joseph Lawton (1753-1815), the son of William Lawton of England and Mary Sams, was the patriarch that began the native-born Lawton legacy. Lawton was born on his father's Plantation, Steamboat Creek, on Edisto Island, South Carolina on October 18, 1753. By 1774, Lawton moved his family to Black Swamp, where he established a plantation called Mulberry Grove Plantation. Lawton married Sarah Robert (d. 1839) on March 18, 1773, and together they had seven children. <br /><br />The best-known of the Lawton family was Thomas Willingham Lawton (1882-1963). T. W. Lawton graduated from Rollins College in 1903. He later received his master's degree from Andover Newton College in Boston, Massachusetts. Following college, Lawton returned to Oviedo, where he married Charlotte "Lottie" Lee (1887-1984) and served as the principal of the Oviedo School from 1905 to 1907. In 1916, he became the first elected Superintendent of Schools of Seminole County. He held that post until 1952 and passed away 11 years later in 1963. Lawton Elementary School is named in his honor. Type Text Source Original 17-page booklet: Church, Stacey Allene and Gerald Marshall Church. <em>The Lawtons of Summer Oaks</em>. Lawton and Allied Families Association, 1984: Private Collection of Betty Jean Aulin Reagan. Requires <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html" target="_blank">Adobe Acrobat Reader</a> Is Part Of <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/147" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society Collection</a>, Oviedo Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida. Is Format Of Digital reproduction of original 17-page booklet: Church, Stacey Allene and Gerald Marshall Church. <em>The Lawtons of Summer Oaks</em>. Lawton and Allied Families Association, 1984. Coverage Summer Oaks Plantation, Thomas County, Georgia Oviedo, Florida Creator Church, Stacey Allene Church, Gerald Marshall Publisher Lawton and Allied Families Association Contributor Reagan, Bettye Jean Aulin Date Created 1984 Date Copyrighted 1984 Format application/pdf Extent 5.74 MB Medium 17-page booklet Language eng Mediator History Teacher Provenance Originally created by Stacey Allene Church and Gerald Marshall Church, and published by the Lawton and Allied Families Association. Rights Holder Copyright to this resource is held by the Lawton and Allied Families Association and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only. Accrual Method Donation Contributing Project <a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a> Curator Cepero, Laura Digital Collection <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a> Source Repository Private Collection of Bettye Jean Aulin Reagan External Reference Robison, Jim. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/796757419" target="_blank"><em>Around Oviedo</em></a>. 2012. Rajtar, Steve. "<a href="http://www.geocities.ws/krdvry/hikeplans/oviedo/planoviedo.html" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Trail</a>". Steve Rajtar. http://www.geocities.ws/krdvry/hikeplans/oviedo/planoviedo.html. "<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/5657" target="_blank">History of the First Baptist Church, Oviedo, Florida: First 100 Years, 1869-1969</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/5657. Alan Denise Evans Alan Laurie Alexander Benjamin Lawton Alice Irene Barlett Alice Kathryn Aulin Alice Kathryn Aulin Bunch Allen Baker Grogan Allene Baker Allie Belle McLeish Allie Belle McLeish Lawton Allison Susanne Taylor Allyson Clare Kinsey Allyson Clare Kinsey Evans Almarion Lorraine Colquitt Almarion Lorraine Colquitt King Alton Asa Dunaway Amber Miller Amy Clark Lawton Amy Louise Hendrix Amy Louise Hendrix Steil Andrea Nicole Phillips Andrea Nicole Phillips Hendrix Andrew Aulin Andrew Scott Reagan Andy Aulin Ann Neely Lawton Ann Reagan Anna Leola Hats Anna Leola Hays Miller Anna Lona Miller Anna Lona Miller Johnson Annabelle Linger Annabelle Linger Lawton Arthur Frank Evans Audrey June Wilson B. F. Wheeler, Jr. B. F. Wheeler, Sr. Ben Franklin Wheeler Benjamin F. Lawton Benjamin Franklin Wheeler III Benjamin Franklin Wheeler, Jr. Benjamin Franklin Wheeler, Sr. Benjamin Themistocles Dion Lawton Bennett Jay Johnson Betty Joan Ottalani Betty Joan Ottalani Freckelton Betty Lou Brau Betty Lou Brau Miller Betty Sue Terry Betty Sue Terry Lawton Betty Virginia Miller Bettye Jean Aulin Bettye Jean Aulin Reagan Beulah Lawton Beverly Elaine Hughes Beverly Elaine Hughes Evans Billie Beatrice Bunch Billie Beatrice Bunch Dingman Bird Mary Lee Birdie Lawton Birdie Lawton Grogan Brandi Lawton Tolar Brandon Wayne Langham Brett Thomas Lawton Brian Douglas Swank Brian Keith Leibfried Brian Ottalani Brooksville Buddy Keller Calhoun Wilson Hendrix Carol Lorraine King Carol Lorraine King Rhyme Carole Joan Norton Carole Joan Norton Berrong Caroline Elizabeth Evans Caroline Elizabeth Evans Leibfried Casey Dyan Carron Casey Dyan Carron Keller Catherine Elizabeth Long Catherine Elizabeth Long Evans Charles Aulin Charles Hampton Harris Charles Homer Colquitt Charles John Lawton Charles Warren Aulin Charles William Evans Charlet Sue Genton Charlet Sue Genton Wheeler Charlotte Lee Charlotte Lee Lawton Charlotte Lee Lawton Mikesell Chester Lee Phillips Christopher Kevin Grogan Christopher Leon Christopher Wilson Cindy Deborah Church Cindy Deborah Church Hunt Claire Lee Wheeler Claire Lee Wheeler Evans Claire Marena Leinhard Claire Marena Leinhard O'Brien Clara Curtis Lawton Clara Curtis Lawton Leinhard Clara Isabelle Lawton Clara Isabelle Lawton Wheeler Clara Lawton Clara Lawton McKinney Clara Lee Wheeler Clara Lee Wheeler Evans Clara Lillian Adams Clara Lillian Adams Sullivan Clara Mattie Colquitt Clara Mattie Colquitt Allen Claude DeWitt Moore Clifford Lilburn Rhyme Connie Lawton Connie Lawton Griggs Connor Lucas Keller Courtney Ann Erwin Craig Allen Berrong Dan Lloyd McKibber Daniel Blaine Mikesell Daniel Lee Reagan David Guy Ottalani David Lee Evans Dawn Michelle Grogan Debbie Lynn Reagan Deborah Bailey Deborah Bailey Lawton Debra Jane Harris Debra Jane Harris Matkin Dee Royston Allen Diana Leigh Evans Diane Jean Berrong Diane Sue Aulin Diane Sue Aulin Keller Diane Sue Aulin Pentz Donald Henry Stiel Donald T. Reagan Donna Lee Barrack Donna Lee Barrack Evans Donna Neely Donna Susan Miller Doris Arine McKinney Doris Arine McKinney Lawton Dorothy Louise Stone Dorothy Louise Stone Grogan Dorothy Virginia Lawton Dorothy Virginia Lawton Johnson Doyle Dauphin Dustin Chavallier Edisto Island Plantation Edward Paul Chavallier Edwina Tuggle Edwina Tuggle Lawton Eldred Pierce Bruce Eliaine Allison Grogan Elizabeth Ann McKinney Elizabeth Ann Moon Elizabeth Ann Moon Aulin Elizabeth Joan Freckelton Elizabeth Joan Freckelton McGowan Elizabeth Lawton Andress Elizabeth Mary Brisbane Elizabeth Mary Brisbane Lawton Elizabeth Moon Elizabeth Moon Aulin Emily Wilson Emily Wilson Lawton Emma Lenora Lawton Emma Lenora Lawton Aulin Emma Marie Aulin Eric Lawton Grogan Ethel Elizabeth Kramer Ethel Elizabeth Kramer Colquitt Eusebia Lawton Evelyn Wheeler Evelyn Wheeler Kemp Fannie Pearl Colquitt Florence Wheeler Florence Wheeler Campbell Frances Carden Frances Carden Bernreuter Frank Wheeler, Jr. Frank Wheeler, Sr. Fred Emmett Hamiter Frederick Clinton Berrong Freida Lou Guy Freida Lou Guy McKinney G. Douglas Swank Gary Lawton Grogan Geneva George Beauregard Wilber George Joseph Lawton George L. Simpson George Lee George Lee Wheeler George William Martin Georgia Lee Georgia Lee Wheeler Gerald Marshall Church Glenda Lawton Gloria Lewis Gloria Lewis McKinney Glorianna Lawton Glover L. Bernreuter Grace Marie Smith Grace Marie Smith Lawton Greta Lynn Simpson Guinever Elizabeth Morgan Lawton Guinevere Elizabeth Morgan Guy Adams Ottalani Guy Felix Ottalani Guy Nixon Lawton Guy Wayne Langham Harrison Jean Laney Hazel Pamela West Hazel Pamela West Martin Helen Bernreuter Helen Lawton Helen Lawton Bernreuter Henry Franklin Colquitt Henry Peyton Colquitt Henry Wilson Keller Herb Bickers Hugh Benjamin McKinney Hugh Clifford McKinney Ida Jane Carson Ida Jane Carson Lawton Ida Lawton Ida Lawton Colquitt Ida Peyton Colquitt Ida Peyton Colquitt Wilber Irene Lavelle Lawton Irene Lavelle Lawton Sibley Jack Lilburn King Jack Todd Miller Jackson McGowan Jacksonville James A. Miller James Alexander Graham James Barry Freckelton James Clayton James Elbert Moncrief James Garrett Lawton James Guy Freckelton James Longeran Sullivan James Lutellus Nichols James Richards James Russell Lee James Theodore Aulin James Tillman Grogan James Wilburn Grogan Jane Ann Beauregard Jane Anne Grogan Jane Anne Grogan Church Jane Kathryn Polk Jane Kathryn Polk Beauregard Jane Lawton Moncrief Jane Lawton Moncrief Miller Jane Mosse Jane Mosse Lawton Jason Bickers Jason Lilburn King Jason Theodore Aulin Jean Audrey Moran Jean Audrey Moran Wheeler Jefferson Miller Moncrief Jeffrey Martin Hendrix Jeffrey Neal Berrong Jeremiah Lawton Jeremy Dauphin Jill Lawton Jo Ann Miller Jo Ann Miller Nichols Jo Lynn Moncrief Jo Lynn Moncrief Laurie Joan Berrong Joan Berrong Anderson Joan Lareatha Bernreuter Joan Lareatha Bernreuter Trowbridge John Arthur Evans John Cater Lawton John Joseph Leinhard John Kinglsey Lawton John Lilburn King John Marion Miller John O'Connor Adams John Raymond Shearer John Settle John Thomas Wheeler John Wesley Evans John William Martin John Winborn Miller Joseph James Lawton Joseph Lawton Josephine Lawton Josiah Lawton Judge Aulin Judi Berrong Julia Ann Hamiter Julia Ann Hamiter Andress Julia Lawton Julia Lawton Hamiter Julia Nadine Davis Julia Nadine Davis Aulin Julie Karen Reagan June Ann McCary June Anne McCary Mitchell Justin Miller Katherine Louise McKinney Katherine Louise McKinney Chavallier Kathleen Reagan Kathleen Susan Bernreuter Kathryn Eileen Phillips Kathryn Eileen Phillips Berrong Kathryn Elizabeth Beauregard Kathryn Elizabeth McKibber Kathryn Lee Wheeler Kathryn Lee Wheeler Leon Kathryn Louise Lawton Kathryn Louise Lawton Varn Kathy Ann Harris Kathy Ann Harris Langham Kathy Irene Johnson Kathy Irene Johnson Steen Kathy Irene Johnson Wilkerson Kathy Lee Wheeler Kathy Lee Wheeler Leon Katie May Adams Katie May Adams Phillips Kaylin Marie Evans Kenneth Mitchell Griggs Kevin Ottalani Kevin Raymond Berrong Kimberley Louise Morris Kimberley Louise Morris Miller Kirk Ashley Grogan Kissimmee River Lane Palmer Lundy Lareatha Tonguet Lareatha Tonguet Bernreuter Larry Clinton McKinney Laura Harmon Laura Harmon Ottalani Laura Lee Evans Laura Lee Evans Neil Lawrence Clifford Rhyme Lawrence Wayne Hamby Lawton and Allied Families Association Lawton Gwynn Bernreuter Lawton Smith Berrong Lee Burton Hunt Lee Holley Mitchell Letcher Burton Hunt Lillian Della Lee Lillian Della Lee Lawton Lillian Elizabeth Lawton Lillian Elizabeth Lawton Laney Lillie Clara McKinney Lillie Clara McKinney Mitchell Lily LaVange Neil Linda Etel Colquitt Linda Etel Colquitt Taylor Linda Lou Davis Lisa Ann Robinson Lisa Ann Robinson Andress Lisa Jane Lundy Llewellyn Roberts Barlett, Jr. Lona Kathryn Johnson Lona Kathryn Johnson Clayton Lona Kellam Colquitt Lona Lawton Lona Lawton Aulin Lona Pierson Lawton Lona Pierson Lawton Miller Lorene Aulin Lori Anne Roussell Lori Anne Roussell Aulin Lorraine Lawton Lorraine Lawton Berrong Lottie Lee Lottie Lee Lawton Lucille Adams Lucille Adams Ottalani Lucy Nell Wainwright Lucy Nell Wainwright Colquitt Margaret Elizabeth Grogan Margaret Ellyn Barlett Margaret Ellyn Barlett Torrence Margaret Emily Lawton Margaret Emily Lawton Dunaway Marian Lee Swank Marilyn Lee Mikesell Marilyn Lee Mikesell Swank Marissa Jane Hunt Marjorie Lee Simpson Mark McDannald Martin Marlin Leon Smith Marsha Greer Mikesell Marsha Greer Mikesell Bremerkamp Marsha Greer Mikesell Simpson Martha Ann Bruce Martha Ann Bruce Wilson Martha Ann Colquitt Martha Ann Colquitt Erwin Martha Lawton Martha Lee Courier Martha Lee Courier Wheeler Martha Lenora Aulin Martha Lenora Aulin Wheeler Martha S. Lawton Martha S. Lawton Gwynn Martin Leon Smith Marty Ann Bruce Marty Ann Bruce Wilson Mary Alice Powell Mary Alice Powell Aulin Mary Ann Lawton Mary Ann Lawton Harris Mary Ann Lawton Smith Mary Anne Martin Mary Anne Martin Hendrix Mary Clarke Mary Clarke Lawton Mary Elizabeth Hamiter Mary Elizabeth Matkin Mary Gwynn Mary Gwynn Lawton Mary Hallie Colquitt Mary Hallie Colquitt Settle Mary Hannah Aulin Mary Hannah Aulin Grogan Mary Jane Lawton Mary Kathryn Bunch Mary Kathryn Bunch Hamby Mary Lawton Mary Leonora Aulin Mary Leonora Aulin Barlett Mary Lina Lawton Mary Lisa Lawton Mary Lorraine Cox Mary Lorraine McKinney Mary Martha Grogan Mary Martha Grogan Lundy Mary Mathews Mary Pauline Wheeler Mary Peyton Hendrix Mary Ruth Griffin Mary Ruth Griffin Lawton Mary Sams Mary Sams Grimball Mary Sams Grimball Lawton Mary Sams Grimball Lawton Fickling Mary Stone Grimball Mary Stone Grimball Lawton Mary Winborn Mary Winborn Lawton Mattie Clifford McKinney Mattie Clifford McKinney Lee Mattie Josephine Lawton Mattie Josephine Lawton Adams Melanie Sommer Miller Meriwether Blair Dickinson Merle Lynn Eldridge Grogan Merle Lynn Eldrige Michael Douglas Berrong Michelle Moran Bruce Michelle Moran Bruce Piper Miriam Ann Wheeler Miriam Ann Wheeler Bruce Miriam Louise Wheeler Miriam Louise Wheeler Martin Mulberry Grove Plantation Myatt Bernard Johnson Nancy Ann Barlett Narcissa Melissa Lawton Neal Erwin Nettie Dorcas Jacobs Nettie Dorcas Jacobs Aulin Nicole Leigh Aulin Nicole Leigh Aulin Jakubcin Noah Benjamin Wheeler Novella Almarine Carter Novella Almarine Carter Aulin Olan Ray Lundy orlando Oviedo Oviedo: Biography of a Town Pat Warren Pat Warren Wheeler Patricia Carol Dunaway Patricia Carol Dunaway Shearer Patricia Eileen Barlett Patricia Eileen Barlett Armstrong Patricia Gray Garrett Patricia Gray Garrett Lawton Patrick Kelley Reagan Patrick O'Brien Patrick Reagan Patsey Louise Grogan Patsey Louise Grogan Richards Paul Campbell Paula Jeanne Abbott Paula Jeanne Abbott Martin Pearl Allison Pearl Allison Lawton Peggy Ottalani Phoebe Sarah Lawton Pierce Sutherland Graham Pierre Robert Polly Wheeler R. Edward Bremerkamp Rachal McKinney Ralph Raymond McKinney Ralph Waldo Lawton Randall Michael Miller Raymond Christian McKinney Raymond Winborn Lawton Rebecca Ann Smith Rebecca Ann Smith Tolar Rebecca Carol Miller Reid Gregory Hendrix Richard Adicks Richard Bickham Miller Richard Burdette Bunch Richard Eugen Anderson Richard Roderick Jakubcin Rita Catherine Robinson Rita Catherine Robinson Grogan Robert B. Trowbridge Robert Charles Lawton Robert Charles Matkin Robert Edward Pentz Robert Franklin Harris Robert Gary Taylor Robert James Lawton Robert Kenneth Miller Robert Lee Kemp Wheeler Robert Lee Wheeler Robert Themistocles Lawton Robert Torrence Robert William Lawton Robin Clara McKinney Roma Ann McKinney Roman Ann McKinney Martin Ronald Furman Lawton Ronda Lawton Ronda Lawton Dauphin Rosemary Phillips Rosemary Phillips Harris Rowan Alexander Piper Ruth Ida Aulin Sandra Aulin Sandra Elizabeth Procell Sandra Elizabeth Procell McKinney Sarah Lawton Sarah Lucille Lawton Sarah Lucille Lawton Dickinson Sarah Marshall Sarah Marshall Lawton Sarah Robert Sarah Robert Lawton Scott Lawton Scott Reagan Sean Edward Piper Shelley Moran Bruce Shelley Moran Bruce Piper Sherrie Gail Lawton Sherrie Gail Lawton Bickers Sherry Smith Sheryl Guy Lawton Skip Hendrix St. James Island Stacey Allen Church Stacey Allene Church Steven Aulin Steven Kendall McKinney Summer Oaks Susan Denise Miller Susan Denise Miller Evans Susan Elaine Johnson Susan Elizabeth Colquitt Susan Elizabeth Colquitt McKibber Susan Kathleen Perham Susan Kathleen Perham Laney Susan Ottalani T. W. Lawton, Jr. T. W. Lawton, Sr. Ted Aulin Terrell Hugh Mitchell Thelma Lee Thelma Lee Clonts Thelma Louise Wheeler Theodore Aulin Thirza Lawton Thomas Charles Lawton Thomas J. Lawton Thomas Wayne Armstrong Thomas Wilkerson Thomas Willingham Lawton, Jr. Thomas Willingham Lawton, Sr. Timothy Miles Matkin Tina Grace Dunn Rogers Tina Grace Dunn Rogers Wheeler Todd Christopher Keller Tom Lawton Velma Leonora Grogan Virgil Guy Martin Virginia Olive Lawton W. J. Lawton, Jr. W. J. Lawton, Sr. Walter Gwynn Walter Gwynn Lawton Walter Harold Varn Walter Kenneth Neil Wilber Gerald Beauregard Wilber Lamar Sibley Wilburn Aulin Grogan Wilburn Michael Grogan William Alex Colquitt William E. Dingman William Edward Lawton William Henry Lawton William Henry Martin William Lawton, Jr. William Lawton, Sr. William LeRoy Mitchell William Steen Willie Knox Andress Winborn Joseph Lawton, Jr. Winborn Joseph Lawton, Sr. Winborn Lawton Winnie Evelyn Colquitt Winnie Evelyn Colquitt Moore Yvette Lorraine Anderson