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From: (Russ Hummerick)
Subject: Re: [FLHILLSB] After Shrimping, Some family history
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 21:16:14 +0000


This is all I have on my Great Grandfather and hope that in these parts of news paper could leed to his grave site.

Moseley, George P; 75; 1947
Publisher: Tampa Tribune (microfilm)
Date: 1947 10 13

Page: Deaths-p.2
Moseley, George P; 75; 1947
Publisher: Tampa Tribune (microfilm)
Date: 1947 10 14
Page: F.N.-p.2

Moseley, George P.; 75; 1947
Publisher: Tampa Tribune (microfilm)
Date: 1947 10 15
Page: F.N.-p.2

Russ Hummerick


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>
> Sue,
> What happen to us in the 70's and after.
> James E. Hummerick Jr. went to Oklahoma for years. Then he moved back to his
> home town Tampa in 1988 and is still there today working as a car salesman.
>
> John P. Hummerick after being the Road Manager for the Bellamy Brothers. He was
> with them until the 80's and now also a car salesman and lives in Titusville
> today.
>
> Russell G. Hummerick left the boats after two years and went on to become a
> Mechanical PKG. Service Engineer for Weyerhaeuser Paper Company out of Tampa,
> Florida from 79 to 87 work all of Ruskin, Tampa, and Florida, and the Eastern
> U.S.A. Designing, Building, and Installing Machinery for Produce and Meat
> Companies also Famers. Was on call 24/7 and had to fly at any time. (Did you
> know that the gas that is used for Tomatoes come bananas?). Got away from
> fishing. 87 is when I got off the road so I could helped my Mother as she was
> dieing from Brest Cancer until 88. 89 is when I blow out my back and became a
> feed store owner in Riverview, Florida until 91 met my second wife and moved to
> Ohio went back into Designing Machinery until I plow out my neck. (Then
> retired). Became a BSA Venture working with Disable Children teaching them how
> to river and lake fish like I did today. (Isn't funny how ones life can go in a
> full circle). I went back fishing again. LOL (It's Safer)! Now fi!
> ghting MS.
>
> I just tell there school teacher if one kid can remember how to fish then what
> the old timers on the Tampa Shrimp Boats & my Grandfather & father teached me is
> not wasited. One School Teacher asked me this morning. What do I need to catch
> shrimp with? When I go to Florida. All I told him was a very big boat! Or go to
> the store and buy wild shrimp not POND raise shrimp. That is what killed us
> shrimpers.
>
> Ron E. Hummerick became a High Rise Welder and is in Zephyrhills fighting
> Cancer now.
>
> Tina L. Hummerick became a happy home maker in Jacksonville..
>
> Mary K. Hummerick became a happy home maker and now runs a very big store in
> Jacksonville.
>
> Dad, Jamse E. Hummerick Sr. died in 1998 from long cancer worked as a salesman
> to the last two weeks in Zephyrhills, then I was called to his side for those
> two weeks. That is when he passed on to me three very big boxes packed full of
> family information and photos that no one in the family has ever seen before and
> I have been working on them sense then.
>
> Mom, Barbara L. Sharpless died in 1988 from brest cancer on 22nd street in her
> Mother's and Grandmother house.
>
> Who am I researching?
>
> Ralph Sharpless Death date: 29 May 1968 in Lutz. Don't know where has grave
> site is.
>
> George Preston Moseley Death Date: 13 Oct 1947 in Tampa he had a store in Tampa
> I will have to look at the photo of the store to see where in Tampa it was. Hope
> to find his grave site and the information that is on his death certificate some
> day.
>
> Sue, it has been good for my brain cells also thing back in my life. I have not
> done that in years! I also think that at sometime we could have very well walked
> right by each other at any time in our life on 22nd street or the drive-in.
>
> I was giving that boat history of that time in my life for someone to keep. Then
> I got to talking to you and found out that it is not time for me to give up on
> my family history yet. I owe it to my kids!! Thanks Sue! For that.
>
> I will not let the MS win! ;-)
>
> Russ
>
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>
> > In the 80s, I worked for a naval architect/marine surveyor. He was from a
> > long line of sea men and told me that in the 1920s, his father sailed a
> > beautiful wooden sailboat from New England to the Tampa Bay area. He'd
> > heard so much about it, he had to see it. He looked over the side and the
> > water was like clear blue ice, the prettiest water he'd ever seen, like the
> > Bahamas today. He could see the size, shape and colors of the fish in the
> > water, many he'd never seen before. He thought he had come to paradise, so
> > he stayed.
> >
> > In the 1950s, we scalloped in the bay. I dove back then without goggles or
> > fins - can't do that today - chasing down a fleeing scallop. The sea floor
> > was full of them amongst the sea grass and white sand. I know they all
> > taste the same, but as a little girl, I loved to go after a pink one. Of
> > course, the bay went to pot and no more scallops. By the 70s, we had to
> > drive up to Tarpon Springs to find scallops, and they were tiny. Some
> > years, the catch was not worth the drive up. Several years ago I read how
> > they were reintroducing baby scallops into the bay, then later, about the
> > success of the program.
> >
> > Quahog clams as big as a grapefruit! There's still a few spots you can find
> > them in the area, mostly off the skyway, but they aren't that big anymore.
> > Or as plentiful.
> >
> > A girl on our street got polio in the 50s, and we heard she was in an iron
> > lung. I was so afraid, as we'd all played with her. I felt so sorry for her
> > family, as everyone avoided them. No one knew.
> >
> > About once a month, mom took us to the big white tb hospital on Dale Mabry
> > and Tampa Bay Blvd. Eucalyptus trees grew, and we stripped the leaves from
> > the trees and put them in burlap bags. The hospital crushed them and
> > stuffed pillows with them. The scent helped the patients breathe. I
> > remember the faces of the patients in the windows, watching us. Especially
> > the children. It made me feel good but also bad. NY Yankee stadium is there
> > now.
> >
> > We went to the shrimp docks often, to buy fresh shrimp. The docks were
> > around the corner from our house, so we had fresh shrimp often. It was
> > "cheap food." I loved it when the shrimp boats came in, even tho' it did
> > stink. There was so much excitement, with everyone going down to the docks,
> > hugging, waving, laughing, hollering conversations off the boats as they
> > worked. I liked to watch the dripping nets, the way they folded and hung
> > them was so cool. I liked to see the odd things they caught in the nets.
> > The guys would keep a baby shark or octapus or something, to show us kids.
> > I don't know where the memory is from, but I recall watching brown shrimp
> > and ice chunks flow like a river down a flume or tube, coming off the boat?
> > I was five. That's one of those memories you say, "Where did that come
> > from? A brain cell just woke up."
> >
> > We grew up on fresh caught fish, grits or fried potatoes, mom's home baked
> > bread, dad's collard greens from the garden, oranges, grapefruit, kumquats,
> > lemons and tangerines from the yard. We always thought, "Man, when I grow
> > up, I'm going to eat GOOD, like the other people do. The rich people."
> > Little did we know we were eating the best.
> >
> > When sliced white bread was first sold, all our friends had it. I loved to
> > eat lunch at their house, their bread was a treat. At our house, mom made
> > our bread. Dad couldn't have salt. Our bread was dark and rougher in
> > texture than our friends' thin-sliced white store-bought bread. Coming home
> > from school to that bread-in-the-oven smell - nothing like it. We'd run in
> > the door and she'd cut us a thick slice of hot bread, slather real butter
> > on, and with her lemonade or orangeade - heaven.
> >
> > Dad had a heart condition from rheumatic fever in Pearl Harbor, so we had
> > no salt in our home. Every Friday we drove to a little Spanish grocery
> > store on Broadway in Ybor City, the only place in town that carried
> > salt-free butter. The owners were our friends and treated us like their
> > grandchildren. Eventually, we learned each other's language. I can't read
> > or write it, but I can sure understand it. We loved our Spanish
> > grandparents, the only grandparents we had in Florida. Dad died in 1961 and
> > it was about that time the chain stores began carrying salt-free foods.
> >
> > The main thing I got from the Montel show was that MS was a multi-pronged
> > fight. It took medical doctors, alternative medicine, food/diet/nutrition,
> > positive thinking, accupuncture, music therapy, exercise, on and on. He
> > said he was on a 7-phased treatment, some his doctors said
> > shouldn't/wouldn't/couldn't work, but did for him, as it did for others on
> > the show. Check out his web site. Can't hurt!
> >
> > What are the Tampa name lines you seek? If I can help you with cemetery
> > photos, I do that, and I have some on-hand Tampa reference books. The
> > downtown library is great for research, just a bear to park and get to.
> >
> > Has anyone guided you to Sheila's site?
> > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hillsfacts/
> >
> > I find her site easier to navigate than Cindi's. Let us help you with your
> > Tampa lines. That's why we're here. Sounds like we were neighbors at some
> > point.
> >
> > Sue
> >
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