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worked for the Seaboard Coastline Railroad. He came with the railroad to Florida in the early 1900s. His family lived in Arcadia (where my Father was born in 1907), Enterprise Junction, in Volusia County, and then in Bradenton, in 1922, where he served as station master. He married a lady from Melrose, Putnam County, about 1900. This is mentioned only to footnote the fact that my grandchildren are at least fifth generation Floridians. It may be more, but I never could find out where her parents were born. Her name was Ellen Alexandra Fletcher and she is buried in a cemetery in Arcadia, Florida.

While in Enterprise Junction, Dad and his brother Gene rode to grammar school in Sanford on a “side or pump” car. They pumped to school on the railroad tracks and when they got to school they put the little car on a side track and then pumped back home after school. My Mother, Rebecca Jane Murray was born in 1911, in Indianapolis, Indiana. She and her family moved to Bradenton in 1924. Her father was a college educated draftsman who worked for the Bradenton Abstract Office where, among other things, he drew the first official plat map of Bradenton. I still have a copy of that map. When the Murrays first got to Bradenton, they lived in a large tent for a year or so until they built their house on the property they homesteaded. For Rebecca Jane’s first Christmas in Indianapolis, her parents bought a Christmas tree imported from Germany. It was about three feet tall and had wire limbs. On their way to Bradenton from Indianapolis, they stopped at a Georgia cotton field and let Jane pick one boll of cotton to put on the tree. One hundred and one years later we still put up that tree including that same ball of cotton every Christmas.

Information on Fernald genealogy can easily be overdone. Therefore, I am placing, in the Appendix, an additional couple of pages on the Fernald family tree, which includes the information that Dr. Renald (Reginald) Fernald, a surgeon, surveyor, judge and city clerk, came to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1635, from England. Jean Kathryn has become very 4