Seeing Queen Elizabeth in person in 2007 was a pleasure and then again in 2001 when Kate married the future King of England, William. There she was in her gold carriage bumping along with horses-a-pulling. I really wondered then how much she enjoyed that ride because it appeared so bumpy. I suppose watching all of the watchers was her most fun part of the trip. There I was on a 6 foot ladder that I had brought from America. Actually, I had two ladders; the large one and a smaller kitchen-type whereby the top would round out and you’d just plop upon it.
Will and Kate after the wedding. 2011
My sister and I went to the edge of Buckingham Palace to get the royals coming in and out of the gate. The girls, Katie, Kristie and friend, Rachel went to see the “kiss”. Yes, after me getting ribbed all a long about carrying a ladder, they took that one. “Bawwwwww!”. We were able to see so many things including the Queen and her husband, Philip.
Queen Elizabeth and her husband, Philip.
That was a great day in all of our lives as we saw first-hand the wealthiest of people sporting for the “folks”. It is God who sets up Kingdoms. While we think we’re all in charge of things, it is clear from God’s Word that ultimately, He is in charge.
My sister, Kathy and I went to the funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth II. We are now up for the coronation coming in May, 2023.
Long Live the King and Flat Stanley. I took him to Buckingham Palace and he’ll go again to the coronation.
Robert James Bateman was born in Bristol, England. He met and married Emily Hall Bateman in Britton on February 9, 1880. It is said he was returning to Jacksonville, Florida where he was the founder of the Central City Mission.
Bateman was returning from England when the Titanic Ship hit an iceberg and sunk on April 14,1912. People were relegated to getting on life boats to save their lives. Because the ship was deemed “unsinkable”, the White Star Line did not put enough life boats on the ship. Bateman is said to have stayed behind, lead the band in the song “Nearer My God to Thee” as the ship went down. 1,523 people lost their lives on that fateful night in the North Atlantic Ocean.
There is evidence that he gave his Bible to Aida Balls, his sister-in-law. His Bible was put on display in the Baxter Seminary Library in the 1940’s and later is said to have been put on display at the Titanic Museum in Tennessee. It is now at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC.
Titanic Museum Display
Bateman’s lifeless body was returned to his wife in Jacksonville. His service was held at the First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, Florida on May 12, 1912. Bateman( 1860-1912) is buried at Evergreen Cemetery off of Main Street in Jacksonville, Florida. There are five memorials tied to the Titanic at Evergreen Cemetery.
Bateman found by the Mackay-Bennett group
Bateman was known as a true Christian with many articles quoting his love of Christ and desire that people be saved.
Notes in Bateman’s Bible (J. Cowart collection)
See you tomorrow,
Nan
Sources: Florida Baptist Historical Society, Voice of the Martyrs, Cowart, Old newspapers in public domain, Scottishrite.org, Evergreen Cemetery, Personal visit to Evergreen.
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Springfield Elementary School, “Mattie V.”, as it has often been called, was one of the first schools of Duval County, Florida. According to the 1987 school listing, the original school building was built in 1898. The current facility has been in operation since it was built in 1912. According to Beth Learn, whose Mother worked with Mrs. Rutherford, she was a strict disciplinarian but a kind soul.
Mattie Estella Van Sickle Rutherford was born October 12, 1872 in Clinton City, Indiana. She met and married Robert Burns Rutherford on June 30, 1897 in St. Johns, Florida. She taught in school # 1 in St. Augustine for a short while. Her husband, Mr. Rutherford was principal in that “Old Orange Street” school for at least 3 years in the early 1900’s.
Mattie V. was principal of the Springfield school, later called Mattie V. Rutherford for 34 years with Katharine Bagaley her aide in the mid 1930’s. About 1936, Joan Thomas would hold that position. Over the years there have been other principals: Nellie Elizabeth Cooke(1890-1959). Juanita Kerce Wilson(1918-2002) who held the position for 17 years, J. S. Wheatley, Maurice Nesmith, Sadie Milliner-Smith and others.
Mattie V. Rutherford School, 1930’s-Beth Learn Photo
It is said that Mrs. Rutherford served 34 years as school principal and often visited the school after retirement calling it “My School”. When she died on March 16, 1931, she “lay in state” in the auditorium and was later buried at Evergreen Cemetery.
Mattie V. Grave-Evergreen Cemetery
At present, Mattie V. Rutherford is an “Alternative Education Center”.
See you tomorrow,
Nan
Sources: Beth Learn, Find a Grave, St. Augustine Schools System, Joel Mceachin; Planning and Development Dept. Duval County, “List of Schools and Year Built”, Florida Memory.
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Shuttered-Corner of West 33rd and Pearce Street. 1955
The Duval County School Board purchased 14 acres of land in 1955. An elementary school was built and named Mary McLeod Bethune. It opened, and operated for over forty years, closing in 2001 due to concerns of contaminated property.
Mary McLeod Bethune School # 157
The land had once been known as Brown’s Dump located at 4330 Pearce Street which included some 50 acres. The school had been built on a parcel of that land.
In talking with Anthony who lives behind the school on Bessie Street, the land was tilled, new dirt brought in and the area cleaned up which he said he watched over the years from his own back yard. The school remains closed and use of the property is still being discussed in 2023. There is a “for sale” sign on the corner of the land.
In happier days, the school was a welcome organization when it was built in the mid 1950’s offering hope for the future of the children in the area. It’s name sake had a history of giving and caring which honoured the community.
Mary McLeod Bethune was born in South Carolin on July 10, 1875. She died in Daytona Beach on May 18, 1955 and is buried there in Volusia County, Fl. She is credited with having been an educator, and “most influential” woman. In 2022, a statue of her was unveiled in the National Statuary Hall inside of the United States Capitol.
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Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune sitting in chair, 3/4 length frontal, wearing striped suit with corsage. Scurlock # 41883
The National Women’s History Museum wrote the following about Mary Mcleod Bethune:
“In 1904, her marriage ended, and determined to support her son, Bethune opened a boarding school, the Daytona Beach Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls. Eventually, Bethune’s school became a college, merging with the all-male Cookman Institute to form Bethune-Cookman College in 1929.”
The school merged with the Cookman Institute of Jacksonville in 1923 thus known as the “Bethune-Cookman University”.
Florida Memory notes that when she began her school she had “$1.50 in her pocket.”
See you tomorrow,
Nan
Sources: Wikipedia, Florida Memory, Duval Public School system post re:” “Browns Dump”, Personal visit
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His famous photograph called the “Kiss of Life” was labeled “dramatic” and it was. Rocco Morabito was a Jacksonville Journal photographer for 42 years beginning in the late 1960’s. The Florida Times Union reported that his daughter said “he smelled of newsprint”. He was a “hawker”, selling newspapers before he was even a teen. When I met him he was still offering his gifts by sharing with my 4th grade class his Pulitzer Prize winning photograph. He brought with him newspapers, his Rollieflex camera, and his prize-winning photograph, “The Kiss of Life”. He lined a string of photos from that monumental day up on the chalkboard and explained the event moment by moment. It was truly dramatic.
Kiss of Life Photo- Given 1994 (Ramey Collection)
After 27 years, he was still willing to spend time with the community. On that Wednesday, he gave me an 11 x 14 sized photo and even signed it.(The photo was damaged by moisture in storage after retirement). All of the children celebrated this exciting event in the life of this man. He shared the event so real that we each felt as if we had been a part of it and in a sense, we had. Life lessons in real time.
Morabito had taken this famous photograph July 17, 1967 after leaving a photo shoot for the Journal and on his way back to the newsroom. He explained to the Greenland Pines Elementary students on September 14, 1994 that he was always looking for the next photo, the next story, the next opportunity to put into print some important event using his camera to preserve history. On that July day, he did just that. He not only preserved an iconic moment but he helped save the life of a JEA worker, Randall Champion by using his car radio to bring an ambulance to the scene. That event on that day forever changed the lives of at least three men, Champion, J.D. Thompson and Rocco Morabito.
On that day in 1967, Morabito was on West 26th Street in Jacksonville, Florida, when he saw a JEA linesmen high in the sky working an electricity pole. He explained that before he could hardly park and get out of his car one of the linesmen yelled at him regarding a dire situation with his co-worker who was dangling from the next pole. Morabito radioed a dispatcher who sent an ambulance.
Meantime, J. D Thompson gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to Randall Champion saving his life. Morobito took photographs of the event. In my view, God had something else for Champion to do. He lived for over 35 years past that day.
Rocco Morabito went to school in Jacksonville, graduating from Andrew Jackson in 1938. He served with the Army Air Corps in 1943 serving as a sergeant. He was a Jacksonville photographer for over four decades.
Rocco Morabito, Find a Grave Photo
Mr. Morabito won a Pulitzer Prize for his incredible photograph. It was called “The Kiss of Life”. This photo has been published and printed world-wide. It was on the wall of my classroom until I retired in 2012. He also won the hearts of the children with whom he shared his incredible story. I personally was touched and will forever be grateful for his time with us.
Rocco Morabito died on April 5, 2009 and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Jacksonville, Florida.
Recently, I read on a blog that Annie Lytle Housh, former teacher and principal of School number four, which was once called Riverside Park School and now called “Annie Lytle”, lived so close to the school that she could see the children at play. Unable to find that home in any records under her single or married name, I did research to find that Anne Housh lived off of Post on Hershell Street. The more I thought about it, stood on the street where she once lived, and looked towards the school, the more I realized that it could be true that she could see “children at play” on the school yard if…. Yes, children could be seen and heard by her from her front porch if the present walls of Interstate 10 were not there, no trees blocked the school yard and the homes in front of her house on Hershell were not there at the time.
Annie Lytle School # 4- Interstate 10 above(Ramey Collection).
In many descriptions the school is said to “overlook Riverside Park”. That being the case, Annie Lytle could indeed watch and even listen to the children on the playground as she lived in the house overlooking the park from north to south in the neighborhood of the school in which she taught and was principal for over 35 years.
Annie Lytle (Yearbook Photo)
Even now, the Riverside area of Jacksonville, Florida is a quaint area with unique homes and many with sustaining presence for our city. Many important and upstanding people of Jacksonville’s history have lived in and around the Riverside area over the years such as former Mayor Jonathan Greeley, Captain William James, millionaire John Murray Forbes, Art collector, Nina Cummer , Senator Wilkinson Call and more. Annie Lytle would have good company in the Riverside area going forward.
Annie Lytle House 1940( Ramey Collection)
Mrs. Annie Lytle Housh was by the account of the 1940 census record at least 62 when she lived at that address on the North side of the Hershell Road address with her older sister, Elenor Lytle, and her younger sister, Mary with her husband Charles Roberts.
Lytle lived in the center of this Hershell Street. The school is to the northeast of this photo.
Riverside Park School has had quite a history over these more than 100 years. Prior to a school named in the former principal’s honor, there was an 1891 wooden schoolhouse at that location and was referred to as, Riverside Grammar school. There is a park in the front yard of the school thus the name “park” fit it perfectly.
In 1915, the Duval County Public Schools set up a bond program of $1 million to build new schools. Public school number four was one of them and artchitect Rutledge Homes would complete the job in 1918.
Annie Lytle (Preservation Office Photo)
Annie Lytle became principal at the school and in the 1950’s its name was changed to Annie Lytle Elementary School Number Four. The school rocked along for many years but when the busy interstate was literally built in its front yard, the noise from all of the traffic caused educators to realize the school was no longer usable for learning. The children could not hear themselves think.
Very recently I dropped by to take some photographs of the old school. I walked the entire outer premises of the fenced building. I myself could hardly think due to the tremendous noise from traffic, fast-paced cars and automobiles zooming past above where I stood.
Annie Lytle school served the Riverside area for many years until an interstate road would disrupt its success and bring about great loss. At one time, the building, programs, events for learning was on a grand scale. The beautiful façade and the stately columns would serve the Jacksonville area well until it was closed in 1960. For at least a decade after closure, it was used as storage for the school system. It was condemned in 1971 and yet still some thought they might could rescue it from demolition. In 1980 the Ida Stevens Foundation bought the dilapidated school for $168,000 in hopes to put condos or living space there but eventually let it fall to tax default where it was picked up by Tarpon IV LLC in 2011 for a tax deed sale of $86,600.
Annie Lytle school was given the designation of an historic building in the year 2000. There were hopes someone would save it. In 2005, a team lead by Tim Kinnear, was formed calling themselves the “Annie Lytle Preservation Group”. For years they cleaned and did what they could to hold on to the dream to save the school but of late, the property seems too far gone and while many tried to save it, nothing substantial has come to fruition. From numerous break-ins, horrible graffitti, a fire, torrential rain coming onto the roof and it caving, the school is in such disrepair it is unfortunately, more than likely it is doomed.
Annie Lytle House was born in Ohio on December 31, 1871. She began her teaching career at Riverside Grammar School at the age of 17. She would teach and become the principal spending at least 35 years there. The school closed some three years after her February 21, 1957 death. She is buried at Evergreen Cemetery.
Annie Lytle House Grave (Ramey Collection)
We’re still hoping for Annie Lytle Public School Number Four.
The Woodstock Park area where Annie R. Morgan School sits is bounded by McDuff Avenue, Commonwealth Avenue, Edgewood Avenue and West Beaver Street. Because of the outgrowth of the resurgence after the 1901 Great Fire of Jacksonville, neighborhoods around the city began popping up and the Woodstock area was one of them . It was located west of the city and platted in 1917.
Annie R. Morgan- School # 21
According to “thejaxsonmag”, there were “three major rail yards and shops operated by the Seaboard Air Line, Atlantic Coast Line, and Southern Railroads”. It was beginning to be a busy neighborhood with a need for homes and schools.
Annie R. Morgan Class Ms. Padgett, teacher (Paxon Facebook)
In 1915 Duval County voters approved a $1 million bond issue to build a dozen elementary schools. In 1919, School # 21 was built at 964 St. Claire Street. It was known as the Seaboard Shop School. According to the obituary of longtime principal Ruby Johnson, “there were four rooms, which now house the principal’s office, media center, teacher’s lounge, and the classroom adjacent to the principal’s office and auditorium”.
Annie R. Morgan, (Ramey Collection)
According to Ms. Johnson, Maida Lipscomb was the first principal assuming the position on May 8, 1917. On May 10 that same month, Miss Annie R. Morgan “was appointed to fill Miss Lipscomb’s place.” The details of this are unknown.
Records indicate that October 8, 1926, the Woodstock Parent-Teacher Association began. The name was changed in 1959 to Parent Teacher Organization with Mrs.Frances Austin serving as the first president.
Mrs Ruby S. Johnson came to the Woodstock school in 1935 and became principal upon the retirement of Miss Morgan in 1945. Ms. Johnson served Annie R. Morgan from 1945-1971.
She was followed by Mrs. Mildred Marshall. Other principals serving at Annie R. Morgan school were: Jon Thompson (1974), John Grieder (1976), Christine Solomon (1987-1991, Doris Deprell, Skip Hatcher and others.
It is believed that Annie R. Morgan was born in 1880. She graduated from Quincy Academy Teacher’s Institute as discovered by Richard Gainey the admin for the Annie R. Morgan Alumni Facebook page. Her relatives were as found by Mary Browning, an Alumni member, were Robert Marcellus Morgan who is buried at Evergreen cem, F. F. Morgan of Quincy, Fl. , George M. Morgan of Mobile, Al, Sister- Eva M. Blalock, Tallahassee, Fl.
Annie R. Morgan-2nd left (Florida Memory), (Richard Gainey Collection).
She lived at 305 East Duval Street when she was teaching and later lived on Wolfe Street in the Murray Hill area when she served as principal.
The homes at 305 East Duval are gone. The YMCA is being remodelled.( Ramey Collection).Homes just down from 305 Duval are still standing. (Ramey Collection).Homes in the Murray Hill area on Wolfe Street. ( Ramey Collection).
Ms. Morgan retired in 1945 at the age of 65. Her date of death and burial is unknown.
Tiffany Green began her teaching at Annie R. Morgan, taught at Woodland Acres Elementary School became an Assistant Principal and Principal. She is the current principal of School number 21, Annie R. Morgan.
If you have any details to add to this school history, please contact me.
See you tomorrow,
Nan
Sources: Paxon Facebook page, Sources: Ruby S. Johnson obituary, Ennis Davis of The Jaxson Magazine, United States Census, Richard Gainey, Mary Browning, Christine Solomon, Personal visit.
Please contact me if you have any additional information to add to this history. TY.
In February of 2014, the portraits of three Jacksonville residents were re-discovered, improved upon and placed in a primary place on the walls of a Jacksonville Northside library. According to the Florida Times Union article, the staff at the Dallas James Graham Branch Library took special interest in the portraits of Mary McLeod Bethune, Mary White Blocker and Dallas James Graham, cleaned them up and had a ceremony to give them new prominence on the walls of the library.
The wall in the Dallas James Library (Ramey Collection).
I visited that library on Tuesday and a most kind person, Christina showed me their place on the wall. The frames looked new, the portraits large and a description highlighted all three people.
It was reported The Jacksonville Myrtle Avenue Library Branch opened in 1964. There was not even a plan for integrating Duval public schools until 1967. May 27, 1999, 28 years later, a judge indicated that the Duval Public School System was in “unitary status”. Progress was being made.
Just down the street from the library was Mt. Ararrat Baptist Church whose pastor was the Reverend Dallas Graham. Mr. Graham was known for being a pastor, owner of a funeral home and one outspoken about important social justice issues. He was the man who filed a lawsuit with the Duval County courts to allow Blacks to vote in either/or Republican or Democrat primaries. The judge ruled in his favor and in 1946 allowed Blacks to vote for either party. Mr. Graham died in April of 1976 and a year later, the library was named in his honor.
Dallas James Graham. ( Ramey Collection).
Mary McLeod Bethune was born in South Carolina “to parents who had been slaves”. Through a turn of events and with the help of someone, she attended college in hopes to become a missionary. Now living in Florida, she began a school for Black girls which over time merged with the Cookman school for boys of Jacksonville in 1923. Mary was president of Bethune-Cookman College from 1923-1942 and from 1946-1947. There is so much more about her life which begs attention including the fact that President John D. Roosevelt donated $62,000 to help her in her progressive network. Also, while serving as President of Bethune-Cookman she made the school library of use to all people. As a result, it became the first free library to Black Floridians.
Mary McLeod-Bethune (Ramey Collection)
Mary White Blocker was born in 1871. She was the daughter of William and Josephine White. She died in 1965 but not before making a huge difference in Jacksonville, Florida. In 1941, Ms. Blocker filed suit in Jacksonville, Florida “on behalf of herself and Duval County COLORED TEACHER’ ASSOCIATION and others similarly situated, in the Jacksonville courts so that Black teachers could be paid the same salary as White teachers. Of course.
Mary White Blocker (Ramey Collection).
When I read the article about these people, I just had to go see for myself the tribute, read about it and then share it.
According to Google’s question area, Florida inmates still make license tags. Their labor today is not so much “car tags, cheap labor and chain gangs” like it once could have been but prisoners still make tags that ride on the back of today’s autos. And upon their death, a tag is placed on their tombs. The prison system as we know it began after the Civil War somewhere about 1868, long before autos but the basic human behavior has stayed consistent. Man needs limits.
Early example of Fl State Prison
As Florida began to grow, workers were continually needed and the prison was a crowded place where businesses went to “lease laborers”. In 1877, Florida Governor George Drew and the first President of Jacksonville’s board of trade, ensured a leasing program whereby private businesses and industries could get the workers needed to move forward their workforce. To lease workers they would need to house them, feed and clothe them.
In 1911 the legislature began providing funds for establishing an actual prison farm which was completed in 1914. Prisoners were leased out to help build the new Florida growth. By 1915, prisoners grew crops on the prison farm, tended to animals and more. The prison was a working Florida farm. Men tended to harder labor and women to cooking, gardening and sewing.
According to Scott Winters’ article, “Do Prisoners Really Make License Plates?”, the answer is that about 80% of plates made in the U.S. are made by about eight prisons.
The Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles indicates that “its first motor vehicle registration certificate” was on August 1, 1905. With popular demand, over the years the department has “developed ways to regulate the motor vehicle industry”. From paper file to micro-film and now online
First tag issued ( Dept corrections)
With the onset of the new automobile, a man from Jacksonville and also the 19th Governor of Florida, Napoleon Bonaparte Bowden signed new laws requiring residents to pay a $2. registration fee to register their vehicles. The first tag was made of leather and issued in 1906. Some people made homemade tags at the onset but by 1915 certified tags were required and by 1907 Florida had 132 automobiles registered.
Tag office- Florida Memory
In the 20th century it is said that the early prison system could be harsh and unreasonable to inmates so by 1923 reforms were made. In 1927 the Florida Department of Corrections built an auto tag plant thus giving inmates clear work schedules and ways to pay their debt to society. Over the years there have been continued reforms for inmates but making tags is still an option.
Making Tags ( Florida Memory)
The PRIDE(Prison Rehabilitative Industries and Diversity Enterprises) program began in 1981 and a rehabilitative program for prisoners. For years, prisoners made license plates for PRIDE’s prison work program and they were sold to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. Scott Winters of FGR radio, says when he was small “his parents would tell him that if he didn’t behave he’d end up having a life in prison making license plates”. I’m glad to see he must have paid attention being at a broadcasting business when his article was written.
In 2013 a program run by Prison Rehabilitative Industries and Diversity Enterprises ( PRIDE) continues to organize work efforts for inmates and tag making is one of the tasks. On their website it says: “PRIDE is a self-funded enterprise whose mission makes a positive difference in Florida. We make communities safer and save taxpayers money by training eligible inmates in vocational skills and transitioning them into the job market upon completion of their sentences. This job-centered approach lowers the number of repeat offenders and reduces criminal justice costs for all citizens.”
One of the few women inmates at Raiford Cemetery
When an inmate dies in the Union County prison, a tag is made for the tomb stone of the inmate. The cemetery is located on the grounds of the prison just down the road from the front gate to the prison. The tag is simple, has the name of the inmate, the inmate’s prison number and DOD (Date of death).
There are some former Jacksonville residents buried there such as Frank Johnson, Will Champion, Roy Dunwood, John Simmons, and Lloyd Odell Salter, to name a few; all convicted criminals. Donald Davidson died at Union Correctional Institution in Raiford this week. There is no word if a tag was made for his grave. If and when it will say “Donald Dillbeck, 068610, DOD-2-23-23 (DOD-date of death).
Tags that were detached from graves. Raiford
At the time of death, nothing matters but the relationship to one’s Maker. Of course, we hope rehabilitation for each person in the cemetery has taken place with God. May we all realize- “There go I save the grace of God”. Trust Him today.
See you tomorrow,
Nan
“Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked. Exodus 23:7”
“Thou shalt not kill.” Exodus 20:13
Sources: Bible, Florida Department of Corrections , Rob Goyanes, Wikipedia, dc.state.fl.us- Personal visit.
It is unclear when this tile flooring was put down at the address of 17 W. Union in Jacksonville, Florida. It could have been when the building was built in 1914. The ground tile remains even today in 2023 after the 2021 demolition of the downtown property once, a two-story, approximately 9,000 square foot funeral parlor.
Entrance to old funeral home demolished 2021- Ramey Collection
Robert Peeples, Jr. owned the building and property which he bought in 1992. His current funeral home is located out North Main Street. Moulton- Kyle caught fire in January of 2021 and was removed shortly after. Hauled away also was a black 1967 hearse.
The building had been one of Jacksonville’s oldest which was once the funeral home business of Calvin Oak. It was later owned in 1909 by Harry S. Moulton and Samuel A. Kyle funeral home establishment .
Built in 1914- S. A. Kyle- Moulton & Kyle- Photo- Florida Memory
H. S. Moulton died on October 21, 1939. S. A. Kyle in 1969.
William F. Miller & Co did the tile work.
All that’s left of the once brick building is a line of brick bounding part of the old structure and the front entrance decorated tile floor. I wonder if the new builder will preserve it?
