Quinn family Redhead family Redman family GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL See Arnold, Barnett GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL See also Forgue, Lough, Nash, White, Wintersgill GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL See Leigh Renney family GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL See also Greene, Nash, Schoenfeld, Sjustrom, Slaughter, Webb See House Files, 5005 25th Avenue South; possibly 4919 27th Avenue South Newspaper Articles: “Drastic Retrenchment Policy Held Necessary by Councilmen,” photocopy, c. April, 1930 “Pioneer Resident Claimed by Death,” obituary, photocopy, November, 1931 “Gulfport Girl on Delivery Truck Replaces Youths Gone To War,” photo, photocopy “Navy Reveals U-Boat Attacks Around Florida During War; 111 Ships Attacked, 882 Casualties,” June 5, 1945 “Renney, Owenby Wedding Friday,” Gulfport Citizen, June 11, 1948, photocopy “Mrs. Dorothy Morrison,” obituary, March 9, 1953, photocopy “Mrs. Schoenfeld, 89; Here 30 Years,” obituary, 1956 “Edgar Renney; Developed Smoked Fish Spread,” obituary, 1957 “Renney, Russell D.,” obituary, 1969 “Renney, Eugene M.,” obituary, 1973 “Fred Renney,” obituary, 1975 “Katherine Renney,” obituary, 1978 “Renney, Mrs. Dorothy Elizabeth,” obituary, 1981 “Renney, ‘Bill’ William H.,” obituary, 1981, Gulfport Gabber “Christine Renney Reaches 100,” Gulfport Gabber, February 11, 1988, photo “Christine Rebecca Slaughter Renney, 100, was descendant of Gulfport’s first family,” obituary by Craig Basse, St. Petersburg Times, April 17, 1988 “Renney, Richard D.,” obituary, November 18, 1995 “Lost but not Forgotten,” by Andrew Meacham, St. Petersburg Times, May 2, 2010 Photocopies of articles about Russell Renney being struck by a car, undated Documents: Photocopy of birth announcement of baby girl to Mr. and Mrs. E.W. Renney, July 9, 1928 Poll Tax Exemption Certificate for Russell Renney, October 10, 1929, photocopy Voter Registration certificate for Russell Renney, October 10, 1929, photocopy Photocopy of receipt for $50 bond received from Russell Renney, in payment of a speeding offense Application for Membership in American War Mothers for Aleta Waneta Renney, February 5, 1952 Notes made by Rita Leggette from conversation with Christine Renney, 1980s “Renney Connections” and “Fire Department Information” Two copies of “Renney Family of Gulfport Florida” by J. ‘Charlie’ Grandmaison, April 2000 Correspondence: Photocopy of guest list from wedding of Sam and Dorothy Renney, January 14, 1928 Photocopy of Marriage Certificate for Sam and Dorothy Renney, January 18, 1928 Letter to Fire chief and Members of Fire Dept. from Town Council, August 17, 1929 Letter to “Rita and Bo” from Catherine Renney Young Letter from Walter P. Fuller to William S. Renney, September 22, 1971 Letter from Catherine Renney Young to Catherine Hickman, 1988 Letter from Catherine Hickman to Catherine Renney Young, July 31, 1988 Letter from Rita Renney Leggette to Bob Lee, July 14, 1997 Letter from Rita Renney Leggette to Nathan White, July 14, 1997 Letter to Board of Directors, Gulfport Historical Society, from Rita Renney Leggette, February 9, 1999 Photos: Sam Renney as Chief of Police Sam Renney’s shop on Shore Blvd. Mark Girard and Billy Renney Collecting scrap metal during World War II Plus photocopies of pictures of George Wesley Curry and Helen Renney, William Andrew Renney and Elvira Elizabeth Dixon, Russell and Eleanor Renney, and Rita Leggette et al Claudette Renney Dean Typed transcript of talk at Gulfport Historical Society meeting of November 9, 1992 “For Gulfport’s historian, ‘the people are the history’”, by Nichole M. Christian, St. Petersburg Times, March 31, 1994 Nomination form for Golden Rule Award, July 6, 1994 “Curator and history buff Claudette Dean,” by Romaine Kosharsky, obituary, St. Petersburg Times, May 16, 1998 Articles: “The House on the Bluff” “Gulfport and Independence” “Gulfport, How it Came to Be” “Crackers, Cattle, and Disston City” “First Settlers of St. Petersburg” “A Gulfport Landmark in St. Petersburg” “How Many Cans?” “Alvah Curtis Roebuck” “The Babe and the ‘Gator,” printed in Gulfport Gabber, December 10, 1992 “Our Man on the Tightrope,” printed in Gulfport Gabber, December 31, 1992 “The Mary Disston,” printed in Gulfport Gabber, January 14, 1993 “Brent T. Rodd, Franciscan Artist” printed in Gulfport Gabber, February 16, 1995 “Richard Charles Grey, Artist-Painter-Designer” printed in Gulfport Gabber, March 2, 1995 Rhodes family GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL See also Barnett, Greene/Williams, Thompson, White Roberts family GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL (William Roberts and descendants) See also Barnett, Bethell, Holland See City Officials, Wintersgill file See House Files, 2421 49th Street South, 2232 Beach Boulevard Leonardy, Meares, Nash, Sawyer, Slaughter, Stefanski, Wells, White, Wintersgill, Young Newspaper Articles: “Virginia A. Roberts, resident here 50 years, dies suddenly,” obituary, 1928 “It was 1902. . .” photocopy “Mayor Looking into his Right to marry Them,” July 12, 1938, photocopy “Mrs. Roberts, Native of City, Taken by Death,” obituary, 1939, photocopy “Rites Today for City Pioneer,” obituary, 1939, photocopy Documents: Program from memorial service for Walter Minton Roberts, February 2, 1966 Text of interview with Phyllis Roberts Holland, April 16, 1983 Program from memorial service for Ione V. Worthington, February 26, 1988 “Former fisherman well know[n] here,” obituary, December, 1990 (has several photocopies of family photos) Genealogical material from Roberts family “Dad’s song,” by Elizabeth Brown-Worthington, June 6, 2010 Photos: Fern Roberts (Long), 1938 A Morris Rubin photograph of Virginia Roberts and her granddaughter Brenda Byrd, January 11, 1965 Rubin photo of Jan Roberts, age 11, 1967 Capt. John W. Roberts at the helm of the “Nick”, 1969 Plus a photo of Jan Roberts laminated to yellowed cellophane, and a photocopy of a picture of Margaret (“Maggie”) Slaughter Roberts. See City Officials for photos of Walter Milton Roberts. Roberts, T.C. and family GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL See Wintersgill Documents: Interview with Thompson C. Roberts, Jr. and Helen Ross, April 14, 1983 Historical Houses by T. C. Roberts, Jr. Correspondence: Letter from Lynne Brown to T.C. Roberts, September 22, 2000 Photos: T.C. and Muriel Roberts Thompson C. Roberts, Jr., outside Casino, 1917 Also color photos of Charlotte Roberts Merrill Robbins, Dr. J.J. See House File, 5208 27th Avenue South Documents: Death Certificate of John A. Tabor, June 3, 1912 Letter from Dr. J.J. Robbins to U.S. Pensions Office, 1920, photocopy Statement from Councilman George C. Lewis to Pinellas County, December 16, 1921, photocopy Correspondence: Letter to Lynne Brown from Mary Ryan, November 7, 2007 Rodd, Brent Newspaper Articles: “Seven Miles of Paving, Costing $250,000, Under Way in Pasadena,” 1926, photocopy, photo “Brent T. Rodd, Franciscan Artist,” by Claudette Renney Dean, Gulfport Gabber, February 16, 1995 Roebuck, Alvah See House Files, 5201, 5214, and 5226 30th Avenue South; 5221, 5223, 5319, and 5320 DeLett Avenue Books “The Pruitts of Henderson County, Kentucky,” by Sandra Kennedy Newspaper Articles: “Former Mail Order King Now Building Homes Here,” St. Petersburg Independent, January 30, 1926, photocopy “Roebuck of Sears-Roebuck Fame,” by Marybelle Jones, photocopy, undated “A.C. Roebuck Dies; Store Co-Founder,” obituary, New York Times, June 20, 1948 “Independent Action” column, March 24, 1971 and at another time, undated “Alvah Roebuck Before Sears,” by Paul Davis, St. Petersburg Independent, February 1, 1969 “Alvah Roebuck’s Workshop Visited,” by Paul Davis, St. Petersburg Independent, March 26, 1969 “Alvah Curtis Roebuck,” by Claudette Renney Dean, Gulfport Gabber, December 15, 1994 “Roebuck Appears in Gulfport Without Sears,” by Dennis Rhodes, June 13, 1997, photocopy “Home’s history never far away,” by Susan Eastman, St. Petersburg Times, September 6, 1997 “Mail-Order Mansions,” by Roger Turner, Gulfport Gabber, December 23-29, 1999 “Gulfport owes it all to catalog mogul Roebuck,” by Scott Taylor Hartzell, St. Petersburg Times, February 2004 “A famous craftsman left mark on Gulfport,” by Scott Taylor Hartzell, St. Petersburg Times, 2005 “Homes, made to order,” by Carolyn Quinn Documents: Excerpts from “History of Pinellas County, Florida,” page 434 Collection of articles and fact sheets by Sandra Kennedy U.S. Public Index Records on Lola Dusenbury Notes from Encarta 98 Roebuck and Lett family genealogical group sheets Plats: Plat of Roebuck’s Replat, July 1925 Round family GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL See also Aylesworth Rousseau family See House Files, 2819 52nd Street South GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL See White Documents: Bound information packet by Claudette Renney Dean Roush, Dr. Franklin and Virginia See also Schools, Country Day School Newspaper Articles: “An ordinary woman who did the extraordinary,” by David Kirby, St. Petersburg Times, July 23, 2006 “Homegrown Courage,” by Susan Aschoff, St. Petersburg Times, July 24, 2006 Rubin, Morris Newspaper Articles: Article from the Gulfport Gabber, January 20, 1972 with information about accession of camera to Museum collection “Camera’s One Of A Kind,” by Hazel Geissler, St. Petersburg Independent, March 4, 1972 “This landmark stays on the business end of the camera,” by Peter B. Gallagher, St. Petersburg Times, March 27, 1978 “Gulfport Photographer Made Instatnt-Print Camera Years Before Polaroid,” by Anne L. Hall, Gulfport Gabber Photos: Mounted photo of Edward McCue, taken by Morris Rubin, March 23, 1950 Morris Rubin at work, 1950s Slides: Three slides similar to above. Plus several Rubin photos on display in the Museum Sackrider family GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL See House Files, 2525, 2701, and 2707 Beach Boulevard See also Overheul Sawyer family GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL See also Arnold, Barnett, Bozeman, Girard, Nash, Roberts, Slaughter, White Newspaper Articles: “John T. Sawyer, Former Well-Known Business Man, Died Yesterday,” obituary, 1930, photocopy Legal notice re Sawyer estate, June 16, 1930 “She has Key West history in her . . .” photocopy “Teenage couple slain in Dunedin Beach area,” by M.P. Fleischer and William Nottingham, St. Petersburg Times, August 28, 1975, photocopy “Teenage victims reported shot at close range,” St. Petersburg Times, August 30, 1975, photocopy “Tom Sawyer beats Capt. Tony in runoff for Key West mayor,” photocopy “They restored the house that John T. Sawyer built,” Miami Herald, April 18, 1982, photocopy Documents: Certificate of naturalization, John T. Sawyer, November 8, 1892 Excerpt on John T. Sawyer, photocopy Genealogical material on Sawyer family Excerpts from “Memoirs of Florida, Vol. II, by Rowland H. Rerick, 1902, photocopies Flyer for “Hopkins Prairie” by Rose Marie Otten, October 15, 2000 Correspondence: Letter from Sarah Sawyer to JudyRyerson, undated Letter from Rose Marie Otten to Family and Friends, October 5, 2000 Photos: Castell Sawyer Herman and Castell Sawyer Courtney Sawyer and the “Sandra” Plus photocopy of City of Key West steamer, postcards to and from Sawyers Schludecker family See also City Officials See House Files, 1000 block 49th Street GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL See also Strada/Steinwinder Newspaper Articles: “Rites Today for Mrs. Schludecker,” obituary, 1940, photocopy “39-Year Resident Succumbs Here,” obituary, St. Petersburg Times, 1946 “Charles Schludecker,” obituary, Gloucester Daily Times, July 27, 1977 Documents: Norma Potts birth certificate, photocopy Genealogical material on Schludecker family Emma Schludecker death certificate, photocopy Excerpts from diary of Albert Schludecker, 1910-1912 Correspondence: Letter to Lynne Brown from Alfred L. Hammond, Jr., April 30, 2000 Email to Lynne Brown from Frankie Hammond, June 6, 2000 Letter to Lynne Brown from Frankie Hammond, August 21, 2000 Photos: Albert and Emma Schludecker Several photocopies of Schludecker family and property photos on Zip drive Photocopy of Graduating Class of May, 1914 Schoenfeld, Dorothy GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL See also Girard, Renney Sjustrom family GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL See also Renney Documents: Text of interview with John Sjustrom, April 16, 1983 Photocopy of Chimney flue cover (hanging in museum) with card of explanation Slaughter family GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL See also City Officials See also Arnold, Leonardy, Morrison, Nash, Nobles, Renney, Roberts, Sawyer, Webb, Wilson, Young See House Files, 5001 25th Avenue South and 2417 49th Street South Newspaper Articles: “Popular Local Couple Wed,” Colleen Wilson-Cecil Slaughter, 1945, photocopy Photo of Willis Irving Slaughter, Gulfport Gabber, April 21, 1983 “Man recalls his days as a deckhand on Gulfport ferry,” by Bette Smith, St. Petersburg Times, September 18, 1983 “Descendant of Gulfport’s first family of settlers,” obituary by Craig Basse, St. Petersburg Times, January 16, 1987 “Ruth G. ‘Ted’ Alderman of Gulfport’s first family,” obituary by Craig Basse, St. Petersburg Times, October 21, 1997 “Christine Rebecca Slaughter Renney, 100, was descendant of Gulfport’s first family,” obituary by Craig Basse, St. Petersburg Times, April 19, 1998 “Renney, Christine Rebecca Slaughter, 100,” obituary, Gulfport Gabber, April 21, 1998 Documents: Marriage Certificate of Samuel Slaughter and Rebecca Arnold, March 5, 1854, photocopy Military records of Samuel B. Slaughter, 1862, photocopy Marriage License of Henry Slaughter and Mary Nash, August 28, 1880, photocopy Marriage Certificate of Frank Futch and Sarah Mellisa Slaughter, May 15, 1883, photocopy Marriage Certificate of Thomas Nobles and Clara Slaughter, December, 1895, photocopy Death Certificate of Henry Slaughter, January 7, 1929, photocopy Program from Memorial Service for Henry Slaughter, January 7, 1929 “Early History of Gulfport,” by Florence Slaughter Jarrett Excerpts from “Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters,” Text of interviews with Cecil and Willis Slaughter and Helen Ross, April 14, 1983, July 7, 1983, and October 21, 1984 Genealogical material on Slaughter family Signed list of donations to the Museum by Cecil Slaughter Correspondence: Email from Mary Linda Bell Fussell to Ted Fussell Photos: Cecil Slaughter, 1980s Plus photocopies of several family photographs and color snapshots of parts of photos once belonging to the museum Smith family GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL See Slaughter Stefanski family See also City Officials GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL See also Roberts, Young Steele/Drumm families Photos: Sisters Shirley Steele (Riske) and Jean Steele Steinwinder/Perry family See House Files, 2855 51st Street South GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL See Schludecker Newspaper Articles: “Review of Gay Nineties,” January 23, 1948, photo, photocopy “Gulfport has busy day; auctions off old city hall,” photos, 1953 Any Memories of Boom Die With Mrs. Steinwinder,” by Paul Davis, May, 1960 “Gulfport to celebrate a town lost to time,” by Bette Smith, St. PetersburgTimes, April 9, 1984, photocopy “Richard Strada 1843-1940 Master Sculptor,” by Claudette Renney Dean, Gulfport Gabber, 1990s Documents: Note from Frances Purdy to Helen Ross re interview with Joe and Bernice Perry, July 28, 1984 Photos: Joe Perry, Bud Markham, Dee Skinner Plus photocopies of photos of Richard Strada c. 1907, Rusha Steinwinder Blackshear, Pauline Steinwinder Coleman, Ora Steinwinder Sims, and Kenneth Perry and his delivery truck. Strada family GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL See Schludecker, Steinwinder Strauss family GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL See House Files, 5110 26th Avenue South See also Leonardy Newspaper Articles: J.E. and Eva Strauss voter registration cards, 1932-40, photocopy “Making Hats from Palmetto Buds is Odd Hobby of Gulfport Woman,” undated, 1943?, photocopy “Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary,” with photo, 1943, photocopy “J.E. Strauss, 84, Pioneer, Dies,” obituary 1947, photocopy “Funeral Set Tomorrow for Mrs. Strauss,” obituary, St. Petersburg Times, August 26, 1955 “Couple Honored on 50th Wedding Anniversary,” with photo, 1965, photocopy Obituary of Bertha Strauss Wells, St. Petersburg Times, July 30, 1968 Documents: Marriage License of Joseph Strauss and Evelena Leonardy, November 10, 1884 Death Certificate of J.E. Strauss, March 3, 1947, photocopy Death Certificate of Evelena Strauss, August 24, 1955 “Some Joys of my Family History 1868-1966” by Bertha Strauss Wells “A Strauss Family of Florida,” by Nancy Strauss Whittle, 1998 Genealogical Material on the Strauss family Correspondence: Letter to Mary Atkinson from Nancy Whittle, May 3, 2000 Letter to Nancy Whittle from Lynne Brown, May 13, 2000 Letter to Lynne Brown from Nancy Whittle, August 9, 2000 Sweat family GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL See Nash Swift family GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL th See City Officials; See House Files, 3009 54 Street South Newspaper Articles: “Smiling girl of 22 Wins Gulf Beach Swim Contest,” 1931, photocopy Tabor family See City Officials See House Files, 5521 28th Avenue GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL Documents: “Brief Tabor’s [sic] Family of Gulfport History, folder “Descendants of Archie Lorin Tabor (US Army WWI) and Mabelle Ella Ranney” Genealogical material on Tabor family Correspondence: Note from Richard Tabor to Gulfport Historical Museum, November 8, 1999 Letter from Carol Valdes to Mrs. Mike Slicker, December 19, 2001 Photos: Henrietta Henderson at the Henderson/Tabor house, 5521 28th Avenue South Tabor family at dedication Scout Hall, then known as the Archie Tabor building Photocopies: Archie, 1941 and 1942; War Mothers, Tabor family, Legion Auxiliary, Legion, with Tabor Memorial stone; house painting by unknown artist 1936; house photo 1936 Robert and Mabelle Tabor; Robert and Richard Tabor, 1942 Taylor, Jack Newspaper Articles: “Home Development Attains Highest Point at Pasadena,” St. Petersburg Independent, photo, photocopy “Pinellas History: Breaking ground for a new hotel,” St. Petersburg Times, photo, photocopy “Old Pinellas Press: The Downfall of Handsome Jack” by Tom Carney, 1992 Documents: Genealogical and Census records See Rolyat Hotel file for issues of Pasadena Progress and other photos Photo: Plus photocopy of photo of Taylor home on 1st Avenue South Taylor, Dewey and William GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL See also White Thomes family See House Files, 5111 29th Avenue South and 5414 30th Avenue South GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL See also Daniels, Webb Photos: Charles and Elizabeth Daniels Thomes Charles, Elizabeth, and Linwood Thomes Rose Thomes, 1930 Thompson family See House files, 2401 Beach Boulevard Newspaper Articles: GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL See Redhead, Rhodes “Thompson, Jack Hale,” obituary, September 3, 2007 Photos: Jack Thompson at right, with Charles Baker and Mary Lou Knight Sam and Clara Redhead Benn Thompson Thompson-Hudson-Trudell group Thorne, Harry and family See House file, 5325 31st Avenue South GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL See Folger Newspaper Articles: “Harry C. Thorne 1880-1953, Photographer,” by Claudette Renney Dean, Gulfport Gabber, February 9, 1995 Documents: Application for Membership in American War Mothers by Kathryn Thorne, October 1, 1956 Photos: The Thorne Studio, 5325 31st Avenue South Harry Thorne Kathryn Thorne and Marie Wilson with tarpon Kathryn Thorne and Jo Auble with Robert and Barbara Thorne Ladies gathering, Kathryn Thorne at left Torres, Joseph R. GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL See Nash Newspaper Articles: “The House on the Bluff,” by Claudette Renney Dean, Pioneer Sun, 1993 Documents: Purchase deed for Lots 1and 2 by Joseph and Leonisa Torres from Hamilton Disston, March 12, 1884, potocopy Marriage License of Joseph R. Torres and Georgia Nash, August 29, 1886, photocopy Plat: Subdivision of Lot 5, Hotel lot and Torres Orange Grove Travis family See House Files, 1525 52nd Street South GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL See Girard Trudell family GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL See Redhead Turpen family GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL See Leigh
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