Ellen Priscilla Dicks

1892 - 1970  (78 years)

• Name	Ellen Priscilla Dicks  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	30 Sep 1892	Columbia, Florida, USA   [1, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Also Known As	Dodie
  Name	Ellen D. "Dodie" Stewart  [4]
  Residence	1900	Columbia, Florida, USA   [3]
  	Precinct 9
  Residence	1910	Anclote, Pasco, Florida, USA   [1]
  Death	2 Nov 1970  [4]
  Burial	Hopeful Baptist Church Cemetery, Columbia, Florida, USA   [4, 5]
  Person ID	I1379	tng Genealogy

  
  

  Father	James P Dicks,   b. 6 May 1852, Georgia, USA d. 24 Nov 1924, Columbia, Florida, USA (Age 72 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Ellen P Smith,   b. 9 Apr 1860, South Carolina, USA d. 20 Feb 1927, Clay, Florida, USA (Age 66 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	9 Mar 1876	Columbia, Florida, USA   [6]
  Family ID	F40	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Pasco Philmore Johnson,   b. 23 Mar 1893, Florida, USA
  Marriage	5 May 1915	Bradford, Florida, USA   [2]
  Children	1. Geneva Johnson,   b. 1 May 1916, Lake Butler, Union, Florida, USA d. 1 Dec 1998, Shands at Lake Shore Hospital, Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA (Age 82 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 2. Ellen Lee Johnson,   b. 21 Aug 1921, Tarpon Springs, Pinellas, Florida, USA d. 19 Feb 1995, Gainesville, Alachua, Florida, USA (Age 73 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Thomas Philmore Johnson,   b. 20 Oct 1918, Florida, USA d. 3 Feb 1976, Jacksonville, Duval, Florida, USA (Age 57 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 4. Willie Lee Johnson,   b. 21 Aug 1921, Tarpon Springs, Pinellas, Florida, USA d. 15 May 1997, Duval, Florida, USA (Age 75 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F585	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Living
  Family ID	F584	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Ellen P Dicks Johnson Stewart gravestone

  
  

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  [S356] Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census, (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;). Database online. Year: 1910; Census Place: Anclote, Pasco, Florida; Roll: T624_166; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 136; Image: 1091. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1910USCenIndex&h=3074914&indiv=try [ View Federal Census Document] Anclote - Pirate Town The following article appeared in the St. Petersburg Times on May 5, 1946. By HOWARD MILLER Deep into the roots of Florida history, when Spanish conquistadors stalked the land, when pirates ravaged the Spanish main and plundered heavily laden galleons, when later buccaneers preyed on merchant shipping of the infant United States, goes the area where the little community of Anclote now stands. On the north bank at the mouth of the Anclote river, this quiet, shaded town was the original home of the sponge industry in Florida before Tarpon Springs was ever settled. Before the first Greek dived off his sponge boat based at Tarpon Springs, sponge “hookers” were fishing the sponge beds and selling them at Cedar Keys and farther north. Popular legend has it that the early buccaneers watered their ships at the “Spanish Well,” a clear sparkling spring only 25 feet from the beach at the river’s mouth. Certain it is that Spanish explorers touched there. The “Spanish Well” was probably discovered by Vasco da Gama and Pinida who landed in Clearwater Bay-the whole bay north to Anclote Key was called Clearwater bay-early in the 16th century. In 1528 Pantilo Narvez, who seemed to be more humane than the average conquistador, attempted to water his ships at the “Spanish Well.” Since the Spaniards had treated the Indians with merciless ferocity, the Indians fought back with ever weapon they could. Narvez, to show his peaceful intentions, sent men ashore in small boats, two at a tie at intervals. By the time the eighth man had disappeared into the jungle without a sound Narvez gave up and sailed away. The town of Anclote as we know it now was settled first in 1866 by Fred Meyer and the Harrison and Cobb families who came from Marion county. They purchased a box of oranges at Brooksville, ate the oranges and planted the seed in Anclote. Some of these trees still bear fruit. A year later Fred Meyer’s brother, Frank, came to Anclote. Both the Meyers died two years after coming to Anclote, leaving their widows with small children and a wild unsettled country to call home. Fred Meyer’s grandson, Grady Thompson, a boat builder just returned from five years of navy service as a shipyard inspector, still lives in Anclote with his wife, Ellen. Mrs. Thompson declared they wouldn’t live anywhere else. “Quiet, peaceful and beautiful-what more can anyone want?” she asks. First land purchased at Anclote, however, was bought by Capt. Samuel E. Hope of Brooksville in 1861, although Hope didn’t come to Anclote until the 1870’s. A hero of the war between the states in which he organized a company in Tampa and was attached to General Lee’s staff, Hope owned most of the land along the river. At one time there was a thriving English community in Anclote, complete with three-story houses, coal fireplaces, butlers and afternoon tea. Many of Capt. Hope’s descendants still live in Pinellas county. His daughter, Mrs. Clara Baggett, now 84, lives in Tarpon Springs, his only living child. She recalls the days when Anclote had all the little social graces-hardly expected in what must have been considered a frontier town-of parties, music, schools. Life was very pleasant there. But as Tarpon Springs built up, Anclote declined. The railroad went through Tarpon and sounded the death knell of Anclote as a growing community. The river channel was deepened and Greek divers came to Tarpon Springs and quickly put the “hookers” out of business So many more sponges and better sponges could be gathered by a diver than by hooking them from their beds. Today, Anclote’s quiet shady streets have no traffic problem. Fishermen still go out to sea to set their nets and Anclote’s people picnic and fish, sailing their boats on the broad bosom of the river. They’re satisfied with their town. They like it as it is. http://www.fivay.org/anclote.html [S601] Ancestry.com, Florida, County Marriages, 1823-1982, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2016;), State Archive, Tallahassee and clerk of courts, various counties; Tallahassee, Florida; Florida, County Marriages, 1823-1982. Record for Ellin Dicks https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=61369&h=900160568&indiv=try Name: Ellin Dicks Gender: Female Marriage Date: 5 May 1915 Marriage Place: Bradford, Florida, USA Spouse: P P Johnson Film Number: 002032043 [S340] Ancestry.com, 1900 United States Federal Census, (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;). Year: 1900; Census Place: Precinct 9, Columbia, Florida; Roll: T623_167 Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 9. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1900usfedcen&h=414609&indiv=try [ View Federal Census Document] http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1900usfedcen&h=414609&indiv=try [S541] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25013015. Record for Ellen D. "Dodie" Stewart https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=60525&h=80151876&indiv=try https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=60525&h=80151876&indiv=try [S142] Gravestone. [ View gravestone photograph] [S95] Columbia County, FL Marriages 1874-1893. View Marriage List