Hooker
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Nancy Hooker Frain Stevens Memorial
Written by Fern Augusta Frain Whitehead about her mother A special lady, valued above the price of rubes and then some. A loving wife and mother, much loved grandmother, and very huggable great-grandma to six little munchkins. Grandpa Hooker built the farmhouse. His friend Oscar Frain pitched in to help and fell in love with his winsome 16-year-old daughter Nancy. Like her mother, petite Nancy was a fine cook, with bright blue eyes and ready smile. The house overlooked Trout Lake, which is right behind the present Milwee Middle School, which originally was Lyman, grades 1 through 8, until they…
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Heath/Driggers/Arnett/Eckles Genealogy
Family Bible Presented to Harriett Drusilla Driggers Heath from your brother Augusta (?) March 9, 1889 ~~~~~~ Family Record of Births Deaths
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Letter from Fern Augusta Frain Whitehead
Narrative of remembrances by “Grammy” (Fern Augusta Frain Whitehead, typed by Janet Whitehead). Written to her great-granddaughter in December 2014. Dear Grace, I was born January 28, 1914. I was so glad to receive your letter asking questions about my life. It was nice of you to be interested. I’ve heard you are very good at reading & writing, just like your Mother. Mostly, though, I was just happy to hear from my great-granddaughter, because I love you very much. I was a very good student like you, but now that I’m past 100, it’s getting harder to think about…
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The Old Hooker Place
As told to Janet A. Whitehead on January 1, 1998 by Fern Augusta Frain Whitehead It was April 2, 1896, when David and Mary Hooker first greeted their newborn daughter, Nancy Flora, in one of the bedrooms. She was to grow up to be the mother of Mrs. C. A. Whitehead, Fern Frain, a longtime Longwood resident and our historian on this old house. The family home was nothing fancy, no gingerbread or ornamentation, just an old Florida-style single-story Cracker home. Built up on high posts, with board and batten siding and wood shingles for its roof, it was built…
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Hooker Homestead
This is the 1870s built home of the Hooker family, early settlers of the Concord community (now Casselberry). The modern home actually was two houses on the Hooker estate that were combined into one home. The primary living quarters was the main house, which at one time was a smaller building but was added on to over the years. Another section was previously the guest house. The Hooker family originally settled in the area, along the shores of Trout Lake in the 1850s. They farmed the land of a 40 acre homestead that included the land that Milwee Middle School…
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Spencer and Janet Whitehead, Oral History
Jason Byrne and Tracy Putnam of the Longwood Historic Society interviewed the Whiteheads at their home on Maine Avenue in Longwood on February 6, 2020. The property has been in the family for around 100 years and Spencer first moved there in 1946. In total Spencer’s family line has been in the area since the 1850s. The home was torn down in 2022 to build apartments. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
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Stephen John Levi Hooker
Stephen John Levi Hooker was born to a pioneer family in Alachua County in 1837. Among his other siblings he was especially close to older brother William Pearch Hooker. It was a hard life on the Florida frontier, especially growing up without a father. James Tarpley Hooker was killed serving in the Second Seminole War in 1836, just months before Stephen’s birth. Though their line of the Hooker clan wasn’t especially wealthy, their uncle William Brinton Hooker was once dubbed the “cattle king” of Florida. He had extensive cattle holdings in the open range of Central Florida ranging from Arcadia…