LIVING HISTORY
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boating to the area, and that was the downfall for fishing in the
Indian River. He went on to operate a marine construction business,
building docks and bulkheads. He’s retired now, but the
business remains in the family.
He says he’s had a good life, but that the turn of the last
century must have been an ideal era for Florida settlers like
his grandparents.
“People didn’t want for anything,” he said. “They could get
all the food they wanted and they didn’t owe anybody. They got >>
JUAN DALE BROWN
Fred Moore and Jan Summerlin-Hagan fry hush puppies for the reunion.
Edward Cabell Summerlin and Polly Ann Summerlin pose with their 11 children
in this Christmas portrait taken in 1902.
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