Gummy's story

Publication

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Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

Gummy's story

Entry/Object ID

Library.2384

Description

various pagination: photos, newspaper clips: 28 cm Gummy's story by Laura Santo This is a memoir of Katherine Joyce Sheddan's paternal great grandmother, Laura Koerner Halliday Santo, started in 1935 and finished in 1936, of life in Jacksonville and elsewhere in Florida. Typewritten memoir. Selected names, buildings or events mentioned include: Thomas Bellows (p.1+) -- Mary of the Snow aka Maria de las Nievas (daughter of T. Bellows) -- Peter Koener (p.2-3) -- Sheldon home in New Smyrna burned by the Indians (p.4) -- Battle of Olustee (p.5) -- Description of Jax in 1866 "deep sand with an occasional plank next to the fence to walk on" (p.1 of 2nd section) -- Ritzwalla's, Cohen's, & Furchgott's were dry good stores -- St. James Hotel (p.1 of 2nd section) -- Armsmere, a side wheeler, started as a ferry boat -- River steamers Dictator & City Point -- 1888 Yellow Fever Epidemic -- Big freeze killed orange groves -- Snowstorm of Feb. 1895 -- Merchants National bank failure (p.21) -- Great fire of May 3, 1901 including Henry Bonetheau (p.2, 2nd section, 19) -- Race riot threatened due to Jim Crow law (p.15) -- Stories of Hamp & Mariah, Black servants (p.15-16,18) -- Marriage to Uncle Joe (p.20) -- Fairfield (p.21) -- Christmas (p.22). Includes genealogy and section on Louise M. Sheddan-Evert who was the director of the 100th Battalion Hospital in Normandy, France, during WW II, later director of nursing for Duval County Health Department. Includes FTU article, undated, about vandals desecrate historic cemetery, St. Nicholas Cemetery.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Memoir

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Literary Works

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Great Fire, Jacksonville, Fla., 1901., Yellow fever -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- 1888., Fairfield (Jacksonville, Fla.)., Merchants National Bank (Jacksonville, Fla.).

Publication Details

Author

Santo, Laura Koerner

Publisher

[publisher not identified]

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Jacksonville, Florida.

Call No.

CS 71 .S26 1936