We were running an errand downtown this week, and stopped by Greenwood Cemetery and Francis Eppes' gravesite.
Eppes was Thomas Jefferson's grandson, born at Monticello in 1801. A controversial figure (like his grandfather, he was a slave owner), he was instrumental in the formation of West Florida Seminary - a precursor to Florida State University.
Eppes settled in Orlando in 1869, where he lived the rest of his life. He died in 1881.
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Brownbird - Throwback Thursday
*All photos this blogger (we visited Monticello in the 1970's)
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A man of his time...controversial only by today's standards
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