Matthew's Place
Live Long And Prosper!
Hello to everyone, and thanks for visiting my home page. I appreciate the fact that you made it this far and your still reading. Hopefully we'll get a chance to know each other.I'm a 44 year old, 7th generation, Floridian. The odd thing is, there's not many of us left. My father's maternal family were considered "Florida Cracker's", and it's a heritage to be proud of.
I was born in Miami but raised mostly in and around the Bradenton - Sarasota area just South of St. Petersburg and the Tampa Bay region. I've lived on the beautiful Gulf Coast near Terra Ceia Bay since 1982.
Matthew's Story
Arlene's Story
I lost Arlene over 23 years ago when I went in the Navy. She has been my soul-mate as long as I can remember. I believe possibly in past lives.
My interest's are:
- Collecting antiques and other type of collectibles.
- Genealogy research.
- Camping & Fishing (fresh & salt water).
- Science-fiction like Star Trek, The X-Files, Sliders, Quantum Leap and etc.
- Musicals - Marla and I went to the Golden Apple Dinner Theater in Sarasota, FL. in Aug. of 1998 to see the "KING and I", and I was glad I went. It was geat!
- Music from the 50's, 60's, 70,s and some 80's. Very little 90's. Mostly 70's music. For example: (Old)COUNTRY, EASY LISTENING, POP, LITE-ROCK, MOTOWN and some (new) COUNTRY.
- Sports. For example: golf (I just started), baseball, bodybuilding, boxing, football, weight-lifting and wrestling. We've also both been known to watch and even attend professional wrestling matches off and on over the years (for strictly entertainment purposes only). I've got a great collection of Professional Wrestling Magazines all from the 1970's in mint condition.
The Reason For My Interests In Genealogy:
For finding our ancestors elusive pasts.
The description of my page is:
Genealogy Research (Most of my research is found in Florida. The majority of my father's maternal side of the family has been in Florida since before 1840).
Here are some of our family surnames:
Albritton, Bass, Bates, Bethea, Block, Clements, Coker,
Collins, Crews, Dicks/Dix, Douglas, Drake, Fewox/Foux/Fuox, Firhawks,
Forrest, Frye, Hammock, Horta, Hurley, Jernigan, Johnson, Keen/Keene, Kennedy,
Klinkenberg, Lackey, Lanier, Lindsay, Lisenby, McCullough, McInnis,
McMurl, Mercer, Mobley, Moore, Morgan, Murphy, Overton, Pelham,
Posey, Prine, Raulerson, Simpson, Starling, Stephey, Stillwell,
Summerall, Thuckles?, Tomlinson, Wagner, Webb, Weeks, Weiss,
Whaley, Whidden, William, Williams, Wood, Worley et al.
Locality #1:
Florida- Columbia, DeSoto, Escambia, Hamilton, Hardee, Highlands, Hillsborough, Manatee and Polk Counties;
Locality #2:
Illinois- Alexander (Cairo) and Pulaski (Villa Ridge) Counties;
Locality #3:
Virginia- Richmond
Other Localities Are:
Georgia, USA; Little Rock, Arkansas, USA; Upper Sandusky, Ohio, USA; Lincoln, Pennsylvania, USA;
International Localities Are:
England; Germany; Hungary; Ireland; Romania, Russia; Scotland;
Please come back soon and visit me. My new home page will be under construction for a long time.
To see some of the work I've done so far you can go to
Matthew Lindsay's Home Page
The Mercers of Florida
Some Tragic Stories About The Mercers
DeSoto County, FL.-Early Marriages
The Matthew Lindsay Home Page from Family Tree Maker
The Matthew Lindsay Home Page was made possible with the help of
Family Tree Maker 4.0 for Windows.
The Lackey Surname in the 1880 Illinois Federal Census- For Alexander and Pulaski Counties.
Richard Mack Lindsay's Record of Death
Joshua Creek Cemetery- DeSoto County, FL.
Oak Ridge Cemetery- Arcadia, FL.
[DeSoto County] Tombstone Inscriptions
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