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Noy 106 19301
Mrs. *AU° Ja4kson. (01)
Volusia uounty Plower
"The uedars"
-tone Bauch, florida
(Cedur-st. Set. beach
and PulMetto-ets.)
Hose Shepherd, writer.
34R. MATTI', JACKON
Mrs. Jackson, considered the most reliatle saurus of the
authentio hist ry of this seetion of Volusia vounty, was inter-
viewed ut her home "The uedare" a feemerly prosperouS tourist
hotel, the appointment huving been muds by Mr. Fitzgerald, pub-
lisher of the lavtona Aeull ubserver. Mrs. Jaokson unswered the
bell.Che is a slight woman, burely five feet tull, mild weighs
a little over one hundred polinds. Alo moves 411 talks quiokly, but
without amvousnePs.
"Yes, I am a pioneer," she said simply, 'a.nl Uhout the only
one ieft of the early settlers.
"1 wus born Jsuiuury gl, 18b8, in isodney, u small town flour
villiamsoort, rennedlvuLia. y futher waif J. C. Maley, u nuteh
emigrant, while my mother wue of Irish uncestry. Iwus the eldost
of ufi1y oi five children.
"Iu the surly pu.t of 1867, mr. J. Mohan, u neighbor of
mire, mud() it trip to Ploridu in seureh of u milder climate end 4.
business location in this frontier country, irld found ',hut he de-
sired ut rem. Park, litter known as kart vrange, on the malifux
reninsulu, whe-e about u yer before pr. J. m. Hawks Akti eetublished
a sawmill. Thia section it that timak) hi murvelous stunds of live
(mats. Hexing made arrangemonte with Dr. Hawks to work ut the saw
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Sri. mekttio Jaekson 2.
mill, ha r)turned to Yennsylvania, persuading my father to amnia
puny his baok with his wife and two ohildren. I was eight yours
of age at this tine.
"We embarked on a steamer at bultimore for davannah, which
we reached in the course of eight &ay e after having been oonsid-
*rubbly tossed about by a severe storm. At uavannah we boarded
the steamer Darlington, coming through the second stage of our
journey on the inland waterway to Yernandina, to Jaoksonville,
then via the bt. Johns to anterpriss, (now known as banson
sprinap). We spent the night there vegy oomfortably at the
brook Roues, owned by Jacob brook, an surly ut. Johns River
steamboat uaotain. The steamboat Darlington wus one of a libe
of river boats he also owned and operated. 'rho next day we
tent by wagon trail to new myrna and from there to our destina-
tion on the Halifax Yaninsula to Ponce rark, abit six miles
north of hare. Two weeks had elapsed since we left our home in
?enneylvania.
"The sawmill neYer wus a suooess as a business venture,
because it was toOldifficult to market the lumber thew had to
depend on intarmittent sohooners to oarry the ourgo to coastwise
ports. They were none too sturdy, and more than one was beached
in heavy storms, or wreaked by the heavy. lumber shifting oausing
the bouts to °opals*, se that many months of work and effort
became a prey to the angry (wean, with no finanaiel riturn. How-
ever, those pioneers wero hard w and persistent, and in the next
few years three sort) families had been added to the settlement,
and or. Hawks established the post office, which ho named rort
nrangs, on account oi the groves which were being set out in
mrs.. Jwakson Daytona 3.
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this seotion and also the preva3.enoe of sultaiy of the/aOur orange
trees. ur. Hawks claiirod that a letter siLtply addressod 'Port
urunge wouli. bo delivered promptly to this Florida poet office,
as it was the only oneso named in the entire United :Autos. in
yryar or so 9,2.. Hawks s:bandonod the sawmill business, lcaving
this locality and founding the town of Hawks i-oint, nos known as
.dgewator, farthor down the ooast. kio v•rota a most authentic)
his tory of thie sect ion, now out of print, entitled The :last
uosst of tolorida.' ritsgeraldoeto huAe authored a most orodit-
abls history of Yolusia county, has my cory of la. Hawks' book,
irOi whi. ho used a good rtualy exoerpts, taid I must got it buck,
i.axou:,.d not port i th it for anything.
"UritttjAtIlAylinEllieUMIPWrOKR8
Attnti, tidal rprise
when the ottv..mbout/Litrived from Jacksonviall with a passengor who
wao to IYIJODIO famous as th-1 devolOpor o. this territory -L Mr. De.Y.
or Hansfield, uhio. Ho was, lookin!7 for location to establisji
oolon,y. Wi drove over to kort orange with my father, spending 4b
1Vi)Ok or so in our home, during whioh he scd fathor went up u.nd
down the Halifax Hivor looking for spot for t o loca.tion
of tho propos/3d colony. This section rit7ht here, a rt of the
old iiliamecn qrant of ;,)pani$h days, was filially soleoted, and
in tho f.11 of 1870 Dtora nisnod for mr. pay. of Mansfield,
uhio, ni not for the to of paiton, uhio, us is soteeti7.08 er-
roPe.ously stated was establi shod with nino fsmilios from the
uhio city.
"ouring tho summer .ay iraoted u sawmill nearby, had lumbar
cut, and built a large building out of thip native product of his
mill, riamincr it the suolony House' in whi3h the colonists wore to
mos. Jaakson oaytona 4
live until they were 61,blo to Yet Rattled in that r own homes.
zsin!e then we have tdv,ays had a hotel of some El o...t in ps,ytorsk
called the 'uolony house.' are. Mary Hoyt bought the original,
°hanged the .1 41)10 to the lealmetto House' said operated it as a
small hotel, the first hostelry by the way, of Volusia uounty.
it burned down about twelve years ago, everythint being totally
destroyed. he buildiagwa vaount at the time, wid it is sup-
posed .the fire was started by tramps or other vagrants sleeping
temporarily in the building, it e lams too bad, as it was such a
famous landmark 4i4 _:onneeting link via. the o u ny d
"Mr. tray alid my father beearie fir-, friends, and a year later
he induoed ay father to leave ro t urange which bud beamse almost
ttepopult.ted after the decline of the local sawmill, so in 1871 we
came to iruytonu.
"I forgot to say that pr. Hawks' company was oulled the Florida
Ikand and ilumber uompally, and the sawmill WWI kncon as the rort
orange mills. ?here %Aore a few negro laborers who ease down with
the sills. er. Hawke' depatture, the post office was dis-
eontinued, ,331 the llama given to another post office six miles
south of here. previously known as 'HoDaniels.' So the original
rort vrange and the rresent town of that name, were really twelve
miles apart.
"In the ien4ultime, our old l,ennawlvania neighbor, mr. Witohell,'
bought an orange rove at oak mill below now smyrna, und located
there.
"Tuktons. prospered from the first. Mr. Day was a fine bust
a good mitnager, and seemed to think of everything. Pty
father built a splendid, hone for that 'eeriest right on the oorner
of this street Uedar street awl what is now Reach Venue.
The buildimr was oonstruoted of lumb3r from the looal mill.
Mre. Jackson vaytena b.
"The next year, Captain swift, u eontraetor Xer the Unite&
btatos government, (sumo dmn from ROW beilfort, massaohusetts,
with a ere* of between four and five hundred mon liveoak cutters.
The gov)rnment had some sort of a oontraet, perhape such as is
known as 'timber righta,' for the Williamson grant. Largo s'
mills ire established, and this Lamy of men busied.:, themselves
for u number of years during the full and winter period in out-
ting a4d sawing into lumber the liveouk timber for government
ship -building. The men lived in camps, and oaptain swift operated
a oommiesarg from which they obtained their food supplies.
"My ft4ther worked ut anything he oould get to do. Re *as
ourponter, aso u bluokemi'h, and between the two trades be k)pt
fairly busy. Then, too, he set out an orange grove, *Ilia) he
tended himself, soiling the fruit at fair prioes. Like the.other
early settlers, he had to adapt himself to many situations then
it am* to ao.rning a living in thiv new 3ountry. If ho had been
likl some people today, vith only one trade, *o woula have had a
hard time getting along.
"The fir t sehool *ad established in 1872, taught by J. W.
Smith. hie daughter, bertha, tUrs. Charles :smith she ma,ried
al matt of the sumo LUmei is still living hero. She is a few years
older thar: I, and is the only one of the early settlers besides
myself xftmg living here. Her grandeon is it. L. smith.
"imong the other 41eidents when we eume here were: Miley
Vick and family, .he sulkers, the burdieks, t;aptain K. H. MoIntyre,
Arthur west; an Angliehmun, John Trist and his family, Dr. Coleman
ant his family, vith sir. Johnson, are. Coleman's father. Mr.
Chambirlain, botaniat, ha.i a piaci)) witL greenhouses on beach
tors. Jaakson .aay tons 6.
btrast whero he bad e splendid eollaction of native Alorida
plants srid flowers. It WQ4 Just a hobby with him, as ho Lovor
pretended to oommaroialihe on his collection.
"Then thorow was mr. Day's couoln, vaivib yay, tith his two
eons, nattio and J,comis Loomis Jivenuo is named for one son.
"Mr. George Woodruff wae another early settler, and Geer*
and vharley vith thole sister, fors. Townsend all from
Ohio.
"Mrs, 7,4)lie Ling 6wett, of mow omyrna, ie u desoendallt of
one of th) Pion)er families the hol one who went from
oit veange to that oeution. ho is a great-granddaughter of
sirs. ui hes lots of historioal data, gra. A. r. Lou,
daughter of are. t:heldon, is aleo living.
"Wi...lime king *Lis another early 'Attie:, he was is. tacholor.
On the othor site of the river was J. H. Betephuer, unothor of
the konnsylvania Dutch.
"My husband, villiam Jaokson, ww, a nut ve at Glasgow,
Scotlamd. He oame to Jacksonville in 1872, and was a bookkiepor
for John Olarko,oporating a general merohandise and liquor =,tore
on bay streort, serviLg mostly as a ship shandler, 45 the Jacksonvill
hurbor was alive with stoamboats in those days, ai ho hud 44 mod
businees. Ha lived with tho ()larks family on seWnah Artist. Ho
knew Judge John Looke yoggott, and othors of the pioneer families
of Jacksonville.
nAr. Jaikson came to veytona early in 1876 and he ad *erdo
ma,..ried that same year. We had a big wedding, everybody oame,
and etiLl had u good time. tie, they did not oherivari us, but there
wail a weddin,g dinner and ohampagno anA plenty to eat. We lived
with my father's family for *seven :ieurso until vs built this home
Mrs. &mason 41- Daytona T.
Mere in the middle of the bleak on velar Street, alijoining My
father's place on the earner of beach ntreet. When we went to
housekeeping, my mother ':ave as ay sister, Nether, the youngest,
and twin of my brother John. Maley. She said, 'You huve her,
ae we have so nee/ ether, to take cure of.' Nether hes bon a
greet help and of mu<sh sonfort to ms during the long years past.
There she sits, always 'busy at something,' she said, direating
her eyes to a slender white-haired woman sewing by the window is
the adjoining roan.
"Mr. William P. Burr 11,4 the fispt store in PaYtosa. He ilea
shortly uftur my husbancl and I wore married in 1874, and Mr.Jacklen,
bought it, operating it for a veat many years. Is oarried geser..
al moruhandise, dry goois„ boots., shoes, hurdin.re, groceries aid
provisions of all kinds.
"MY husband beacma -prominent in thebueiness a:fairs of the eity,
was OLA the euhool hoard, a mumbr of the heard of 4tty 0Onmiesioners,
and was postmaster whoL he died in 1917. Mt mother *ea postmistress
first, he eating .o ho: leputy, ;_aa vihnn sho PUSOia on, he °beeline
postMastery We had five daughters two lying in infancy. I re...
member my youngest daughter, Isabel, saying one lay to a visitor
who patted her on the YAWL and asked if she ht ax y brothers, and
she answered: °N0, sir, putt us three girls, and not 4 boy anon,
'em.' Isabel th, nam) your ao ny husband, and another laugh
1
ter tmo 4ears later. *sideline, a clerk in the naytona Nook and
Ltationcry titers, 232 Louth beach treet, is the only one of my
children left.
"Nitre is a picture of the first,store Kr. Jackson owned,"
she said, returning' from tho bookease with u bundle of faded photo
"And this is the ens he built a fors yeurs.latet &essoit-
levier builtIng, es the Iowa fiber was a hall where all ogle..
arstifflas yore halo in fast, it was
Ars. JaJkoon ouytonu5.
tha only place i21 the 1880'e Ikhare public Aatherinvi could be
a0commodatod. The first sasoniu lodge WWI organised and mot hors
_ragaurly for many i044.441.
"You .nay bo internoted in thin the sense of tha banquet
:tendered tho officials o: the t. Johns and Halifax uiver niilrotd
on vs.:ember 2, 1886, upon the extenoion of tho live to thica
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oxtail
IWAST
Perkey rituffed Ursnborry rAtuce
Kentucky sutton aapor diA1100
Bow York beef Irish qravy
VoluSia vounty near
VIIMPUS
A.t.ahed ;ut4tole kakad w3ot otatooe- ziquasn Turnips nests
karsnips 'Jarrote otiatona Suet Coast
4rnon ?sus
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Llystes Tongue Cold Ham
1214i:14:13
uolory Lottnes audishos Aoki's Jollies
FIV-Ma
iQoareaci ACIAGL ioacream orargno Arploo,- auto
bananas uoffne Tea
(Printed bi tho Halifux P:inting uompany).
Ai
"On) 1,hing Aot on the menu, of %MLA Olari was thn retest
abu4Antle, %%43 Champagne. it was waito u big affair.
Mrs. isbokson ”aytona
9.
"The et. Johns and Halifax uivor nailrnad isotor beethrLe uu
important link in the rlorida soot uoast or rlastor oyatum.
"At Om time of the banquet, an i.e faotory had boon in oper-
ation here for a short time previous. It was established by a
Mr. Bush In 1686 on North touch treet. before that, mr. Jaci.son
supplied tho town's require -onto by having ice vhi9ped by schooner
daily from Ja4Lvonville. !,eople learned quiokly to mako and freoss
iusorsam, which wav always u feature at picnics and parties.
Ao not know just what the 'Roman' cream was, listed on the monu,
unless it was flavored with Italian wine.
"This iv u riuture of the old Uolony House; and this is the
(mean View, a later hotel, incorporated now in the frince 400rge.
This is Nr. Jackson', old store, fad this the new one, shioh he
sold the (14 'fors he died. This 13 Ovi firnt home of my father,
J. C. Maley, on the Jorner of.heach L.,ad usdor ;Areet. ihis is
my hueband's ple:.su,..7e bout, the cteumer is. Whits, which lived
to run between Yore and the indian miver. At was too early, how-'
evor for such large water °raft to be popular, anti in 18V6 he sold
it to the Jaoksonville, *pa and Loy west noilrood, .;:or'uss in
their service at Key West.
"All those photographs were made by s. 4. Nartflp,tho first
photographer to locate in vigitona. mr• Harries be Nassed usay,
but his daughter, miss Uslia Harris, still lives here uud may
have other' early pictures of this section.
"Wait until I Alet my other glasses I have nevAr had bi-
foculs, as 4 nevrir thought A would like than so i use ilia separate
reading glases and SOO if I can't locate Mli old paper.
Mrs Saekeen inky tens 10.
nee, here it to the sunder #eytona smash pews Animal,
February 19, 19$0, giving a write-up of the first train into
imytena assah tide was when they hell the celebration and
banquet in neoember, 1094y, with 00111 of the old photographs
ill,strating the artiele.
"You oan see in this pleture of Mr. Amok/ones first store
how oleo* it was to the river, with a rowboat beached right in
front. that was. the *ay we used to travel in the early days.
Seek family had a beats and they used to row up and .down the river
on tinniness and to vieit eaoh other. eome had eailloets. Cs *eat
to the teach in or boats, as there were only sand traile over the
peninsula, ,ad it vas hard eolnuto drive there.
"We had good times in the old days we were all oath.% same
sooial level, and financially, toe. there *Ire no eliques or elan.,
everybody was sociable, one mould not afford, tots 'high -bat' as
it meant isolation.. nits was not so momplioatet, and pearl° did
not have so muoh to worry about as they do now. iolittoiane emd
grafteruhad not oomm into tha pieture, gambling Oha ether vices
were taboo. was wants were simple, our pleasures were wholesome,
and,our parties aud dame* wore grand' we enjoyed genies on the
beach, eaming our lunehes over with um in tho rowboats.
"There was alwais plenty to eat, irat sometimes not a .rreat
variety. ln some seasons would run mompletely out of wheat
flour,, but there was always morn to be 'had. sac& family hail a
small grist mill, the oorn\was ground sad sifted, the finer part
being used for bread...making, and the grits for ehleken feed. If
vve had no °efts!, vi,e 'smoked morn and wheat and brewed that to drink.
Mrs. 47u,skion inhytona 10.
"Yee, here it is the unday Dayton,* beaoh mews Journal.
February 19, 1926, giving awrite-up of the fir t train into
Jaytonis. smack this was when they held tha:= celebration and
banquot in December, 1886 with some of th.) old photogral..hs
ill strating the artiole.
"rm.. can see in this picture of mr. Jackson's first store
how- close it was to the river, tNith rowboat beachod right in
front. that was the way Nke used to travel in the early
ch fandly ,_ad a boat, and th.ly lqled to row up urt i tho river
on business ttliii to vi ui t t94/011 other. oome had sailboats. to slant
to llot b3aoh in our bocte, as there lucre only sand tr.iis ovor the
rstlinsulu, nd it t,a, h. rd .;roing to drivLo tA)re.
"1-.-0 had geo4 tizAs in tho Old d44.ys -0 ure au 014 th-.1 MO
social level, awl financi,illy, too. There ix -re no cliques or clans,
everybody was sooiable, ono etn.I.J. net 441:ford te 'high -ht' al
it meant isolation. not so complicated, antk -oorlo did
net o nah to worry about ao thri. O 1OW. :-olit to iti.be Lund
gra.fters had not ,,ome into 014 ,)ioturo, &Ambling ana other vices
',Jiro taboo. uur wants *ore silarle„ our 71-ow:lures were mholasame,
anti our m.xties liances 'Nero ,trand: ffr) enjoyed pinion on the
beach, curring our lunch's writ vith us in 1-,h3 rotbot4t3.
"There WW1a.L%a,u 1.011%; to t, somotiAos not i.'A..lat
variety. iL ome sealunlif run somfdt4lj oat oi wheat
flour,, but there no.:.,s 4.1v.ays '.;orn to be had. !such family hi.04 a
small grist mill, the corn *ad groun& aitd sifted, ti linor Part
bling used or bread -making, th-3 grits for chicken food. If
vno Lai no eoiiie, o parcheu corn brewed th..t to drink.
Mrs. Jackson
Daytona 11.
Toa we im=.14 ty steeping buy leavos. There weri acOra4o vegetablos,
anA v.4 raised qua..titios of *waist potatoss. aeafood fish,
er4bs and shrirp, wore nlentiful, and oucaeionally we had oysters.
Venison *as not taro, and sometime v., had bear moat. Thou onus
in a vstile a settler would kill a beef and we had to Livia. it up
..mougth ifferent faallies so it mad be udod right &Melly, winos
%and ic toe, und rofrigeration was unknown then.
c"comen sewed and knit and mude the fumily's clothing. a. haws
made almost 44 ry garment %.ern by men, viomon, or uhildren. we
would get dry ?moa4 cotton, gingham, sheeting by the bOlt,
making it into elothing and household tarnishing. ha would get
jauns and tailorge *applies and makesuoats, vests, and pants for
tha mon and boys. We would take the palmetto bugs bleaoh it, out
it into strips and braid it, and mother would fashion it into hats
by sowing it into stripe. Eon, women and ohildren *oro these, they
were eomYortable and most eorvioeable.
"OaPtain MUM when the winter's work was completed, would
ship the livooak timbor north to the United ntates mavy lard at
vorielk j have e'en ten or tvolve large suhoonors anahored here
in tha Halifax savor loading this lumber aboard. Then before he
would loaNa with his several hundrld nelpers, he would close out
tha eommiseary, and Lho settlers would Le tibl-ci to paruhaso quanti-
ties of firiad and smoked meat, flour, salt, aass or half biwrels
or maokerel, 4.,n‘l other food wunplioe at va* reaaonablo rates.
bohoonare would deck at Anterprise, uomin,7 from banfor(i or Jack-
sonville with FrouJrias and dry goods, but it wam forty milee to
ant rnrise and a long hiArd tri in those days to go shopping. I
remember one tiiv* started in a wagon which broka ctown und we
finiahod the journey in a borrowed cart.
Mr*. Jeikekson ttraii. 1/:
"The weather vlia about tho name then as now I to not see
wAy 'Aiffronoo in th-1 a.imute• i remembor one very oold winter
whorl te livod ut ronoe rurk, or rort urunge.
"the mosquitoes were telvus Lud, but wo bud nets. he sound.,
flios, howevor, worn the most annoying, und every family had to
supply its beds sith note of real fino mesh,o4lled sandfly netting,
us a -proteotion.
"Thlre wt*P1 4-reat aoa o siokneos -ohills fevers, ad
thore were one or two deuths from yellow fevor. re had poor drink..
ingwuter, just dug wollv or surfaoe water, but 1.uter on artesian
wells wxo born4, and us soon us flawing wells were established,
th4 tho L:okarann“., Lotcun to improve.
"or. Uoleman wum thn first physioisn. He was ..era when we
oune, und later a Dr. Gordon loouted in Iniit-ona, but he did not
stay long, roturnini; to Olio.
"In tho ourly 1890's, Dr. G. Klook built the first hospi-
tal, nrivnte one. It is small, but is still in existenoe.
"The Holifam aonnral aospital is more reonnt, and is probably
lur34r thuii our requIramoata (sun for °von now.
Tho firut newspaper was the Halifax Journal, ostablished in
tho ourly laidO's by Mr. Y. Mann.
"Tha first amatory was out on miigewood Avenue. mr. J. W.
zklaith, tho first sohool toucher h,lro, entlred a horesita in that
section, un v,hon livtlo duughtor cf hi* died she was buried on
the pluon. Th 1ot *as set aside us 44 community buryinfr und
unit Qulled 'aersonto,. 1;ost of tho early settlors were buried
thoro when thoy nassAd away. It is now culled 'Pinewood,' and is
1,eurly oomplotely filled.
JAWAUOU DOmitOlig12.
"There were two log housee in this section who v oamo here
ih 1871. Onn true on befall tr:int, and tbm other was flArthar don
where !twee etore now is looated, und it W 4.3 used ae u store build-
ing.
"Ito had ("toms tha equinootial period then, tha same
43 now, but thie seation has never suffered so VW, rely us Palm
Beuuh und Miami.
"I remember end terrible storm on August 16, 1871, altays
referred to us thn iLadona storm' beeauee a steer named Liadona
went ashore that night at Oupe Canaveral. It wua bound from
Saw York to Oalveston. The :Arohants of the Texas oity had. ion=
to tha north and PItgie their winter Htook purchases, which were
loaded in the ill-fated iihir for delivery. hhen the tide wont
out the shir was high und dry oh tha Cam aonsidorally damugnd,
but without loss of life to her utiin und crew. tord soon
spread through the east ucuet ecr:tion of the wreck, and all
the wagons uni trtain9 poseible to amour. !aro headod towards the
point. Ladders were platted up aesii c 1: the ahip, and T:,x,:ole
just helped therneelVaa to quantities of hi.te, boots, shoes, and
bolts of dry goods ehirtiag, dress; goods, bleuahed &Ltd Wibletiuhed
muslin, etc.
"Yes, ma;;;•be if we had hud the orose-stute useatl tat that tine
the ,1111.p wou.3.1, h va abia t‘, ride out the utormilnd save its
vqiuuble outgo of 7c411„ I hopa ilorida gets this
()anal. There seems to ba a diZfarati.:i of opihion as to ith3thlr
it youl dam a our splo-did supply of water from flotling
but experts have testified both for and ao,stinst this question,
too its oostmeroi..1 voilue to florid& and other wult States in the
Mrs. Osokeon Dsk ona P.14
matter of JOUVOU13034 aud money saving in shipping say offset
other objeotienable conditions.
"Bee there wore no Indians in this seotion when we looated
hJra in MOIL Many of the Old plantations had been aiandoned
during the Seminole war period this old Williamson Oraat wus ens
of them and the Lndlans had been taken eith=lr to the Indian
Territory or those wko refused to go, had taken up reisidaao• in
the gvorgladee of Aortae.. I remember onoo siestas t.wo zeminolee
on the train going in to Jadkoonville where they were to take part
in the Upoeition, as one of the attraetions there.
'This hotteews, built by ay -husband in 1802 and wo have lived
hero eines. Tt Is really u small. hotel uud has nlwa)s been knots
as 'The OedarIW named by sy husband for tha oodare which tormarli
grew in the yard and were planted along tho front walk. It afford..
.for twenty yours, ox
ad ttLi. splendid living' until tho beaeh sideway developed, when
peorle started going ovr there, so us to La afur the Gowan. I
elosed my dining room two yours ago. We have several pormarient
roomers, told have ohanged the titiei of the house into small apart-
ments for which th9re is ready demand, end oeoasionaily have tour
lets for short time, But times have 'hanged people to not went
to oat Where they sleep, aud do LOt talIt to stay anywhere ovor a
night or so. The aatcaotila has broaght this ohange, and they
park and out in drug stores, or in the 5-a1.4101 stores, or at
wagons or filling ligation* aletI the road. They take thoir noels
Just wherever the) happen to be.
"MA I don't ever want to see another boon.. It gave norida
such a t,ad nem* ant ruined cc !:A.1.4" people. Some of our friends
soli their property on a down payment, and what thew oonsitore4
an onenseue return on their Investnent, but after the new owners
Mrs. fa4Lson Daytona Le.
had sooupied the Yroporty for) a few years, they were unable to
(orgy ee6 and the property went bask to the original owners. The
furnishing. were worn out or destroyed, the properly in bad re*
pair, tho taxes unpaid it was terrible. One map told ne it cosi
kin 066000 to restore his pines to its former condition.
daughter •mad I spent the summer of 1924 in the Morth,
and we had trantie telegrams one after mother iron an melted
real estate operator to name a prioe on our hoist but we stead-
fastly retested awl I have teen glad a hundred tines that we did
not bargain to sell it then, althoug, it is a cie.etion now what tO
do with a throe -story house with such large roons.
sly daughter sad I, when the slump came the seeond year after-
tardsolost all our money in the puitoui bank failure our savings
which had been put aside to take care of us in later yours. It was
pretty hard sledding for a while, but we have managed to got along.
and one thing, we have never loot faith in our neighbors nor in
Daytona mooch am a leae to live. Our finansial disasteiswere
gauged, for the most part, by total outs/lire and speoUlators.
"Before you go, A want you to come pith mo to the nook yard
and see our noyel Palm, the only one here."
Os wont threagh the largo living room, doom the hall, and
through a screened -in porch to where the baskyard with its many
trees, vines an i flowers ,;ould be voen, and there by the kitchen,
on the southeast side of the house, where it would be pretested
rron the cold north winds, a tall Imre' rain reseed its smoift,
polished body thirty foot upwards, extending beyond the high roof.
"Twentr-five years ago a friend brought it to my daughter,
Isobel, from Miami. 'It was tiny little plant in a flower pot.
It. Outgrow the pot end we put it in a bucket, it outgrow the basket
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and we visaed it in a tub. Then when the tub got too heavy to
lift, we JUA1 set it out in the yard, and there it hard grOwn
to our wonder and delight. BoietiSee the louveo frowas instate,.
but new ones so ne out -in the spring., deeayed spot developed,
as on øsø, o. a lime with the eaves of the house, but we hut a time
surgeon come and patoh it up, and now It Seems as'etrong me evils.
"And did you over see anything like this wisteriar she
quarried, milling attention to a pergola next door ueverod with
a speoial imported spool's of Japanese wisteria. "leu will byre
to (some upstairs to let e.good
Back along the porch, through the hail, up the marrow stairs
to the second -floor hall, mni out through sereenod-in *looping
porch di.i duplioate of tho ono downstairs to the side of the
house, whero .on glancing down ye baheld the top of the pergola
solid mass of green vine uud tarkto-lightd-purple blooms liko
an arm boquet a foot &arose.
IA thing of beauty is a Joy forever,' quote& Mrs. ieukson.
a marvelous plant, and i. never sit tired bf looking at it."
As we Said goodbye, she said: "I wish i had kept diary,
1 had plonty of time, unit it ifotal helm hmlpsd as now to verify
dates. I used to 1.4ve a good memory, but in later years um
not so sure of myself. I:know that tomorrow a. will remember a lot
or interostioe thing I might have told you, 60 ir you think of
.04 other queetioue, just let we know and I'll be glad to give any
other information possible."