Seminole County FlArchives Biographies.....Stringfellow, Lucius G. August 15, 1848 - 
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Source: Vol. II, pg. 16   The Lewis Publishing Co., 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        STRINGFELLOW, LUCIUS GRAY of Sanford, was a useful soldier in the Civil 
war and has had a long and interesting experience since then, nearly all the 
years spent in Florida. He has been in the Government service, has been a 
farmer and business man, and has achieved an ample degree of prosperity for all 
his needs.

	He was born near Chester, South Carolina, August 15, 1848, son of 
ROBERT HENRY and MARIAH (GRAY) STRINGFELLOW, the former a native of South 
Carolina and the latter of Virginia, His father was a planter. In the family 
were six sons and three daughters, and all the sons became Confederate 
soldiers. LUCIUS G. STRINGFELLOW was sixteen when he joined the army, and he 
served during the last ten months of the war, in the Third South Carolina 
Infantry. Following the war he helped his father make a crop in South Carolina, 
and in the following winter he and his parents, a sister and two brothers 
started South. He rode horseback, and on December 24, 1865, they arrived at 
Lake City, Columbia County, Florida. Except for eight months in New York City 
Mr. Stringfellow has been a resident at Florida ever since. His extensive 
education has been acquired largely by experience, since he attended school 
only a few months before the war. For seven or eight years after coming to 
Florida he was engaged in farming, was in the livery business at Enterprise for 
about two years and then for two years was a general merchant there. In 1879 he 
came to Sanford and took charge of the orange grove interests of J. E. PACE for 
one year, and following that got into citrus growing on his own account. All 
that he accumulated in this line was destroyed by the great freeze of 1894-95, 
and following that he became a lighthousekeeper at Musquitte Inlet. Altogether 
he was in the service of the Government for nine years and ten months. When the 
Spanish-American war broke out Mr. Stringfellow came to Sanford and beat his 
way on a train to Tampa, where he was given a position in the quartermaster's 
department with the Fifth United States Cavalry. From Tampa he was ordered to 
Huntsville, Alabama, and remained there until the close of the war. In April, 
1899, he returned to Sanford, and among other connections was engaged in saw 
milling and in the grocery business. Mr. Stringfellow for over twenty years has 
been justice of the peace, holding that office by repeated reelections. He 
gives his business attention to real estate, and he laid out and sold the 
Stringfellow addition to the City of Sanford.

	Mr. Stringfellow is a democrat in politics. At Providence, Bradford 
County, Florida, in 1868, he married Miss REBECCA TURNER. She died leaving a 
family of six children. In 1902 Mr. Stringfellow married Mrs. GRACE B. 
(WILKERSON) ABBOTT.



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