LIVING HISTORY
LOSING THE COMPOUND
Jo Ann’s time with Honey would be one of her last visits to
Fort Pierce and the Raulerson house, the 1922 home she grew
up in. Five months after Honey’s death, Citizens Federal Savings
and Loan forecloses on the Orange Avenue compound.
The Raulerson house had been the site of countless post-
Cattlemen’s Parade parties. When he created the compound,
TL also built a large pool in the shape of a cloverleaf, the Cow
Creek brand. The compound and pool had been the site for
many gatherings of family and friends over the years. Robin
and Darren both had their wedding receptions there.
“All my birthdays were there because they had that big pool,’’
says Jamie Percy, son of Cow Creek manager Jimmy Percy.
Before the foreclosure, TL and Diane ship much of the
furniture from Jo Ann’s grandparents’ house, which included
bedroom sets, dining tables, oriental rugs and various other
furniture, to North Carolina.
Meanwhile, TL and Diane move to a house on North Indian
40
River Drive in St. Lucie Village purchased by Diane. >>
GREGORY ENNS
Jo Ann Sloan lost her ancestral home, the 1920s-era Raulerson house, in a
1991 bank foreclosure.
ROBERTSON FAMILY ARCHIVES
The sprawling Sloan compound on Orange Avenue in Fort Pierce was the site of Darren Robertson’s wedding to Alana Conrad in 1983, photo at left, as
well as the marriage of Diane’s daughter, Robin Robertson, to James Longstreet in 1988. The compound was the site for many family events over the years.
Kathy Sloan’s daughters, from left, Alexis, Myrna, Tara and Grace, at the
Orange Avenue compound around 1984.
ROBERTSON FAMILY ARCHIVES
TL Sloan and Diane Robertson moved into this home in St. Lucie Village
owned by Diane when the bank foreclosed on the Sloan compound.