Title Preferred Citation Clarence A. Vandiveer Clarence A. Vandiveer, Archive Center, Indian River County Main Library, Vero Beach, Florida. Donation Linda Gayle Rowell Brown Date: March 2003 Accession No. 2003.1 Acquisition Information / Provenance Many of the photographs and photocopies were donated by Linda Gayle Rowell Brown of Plant City, Florida, March 2003, a great-grand niece of Clarence Vandiveer. Creator Repository Location Linda Gayle Rowell Brown, Vandiveer family Indian River County Main Library, Archive Center 1600 21 st Street, 2 nd Floor Vero Beach, Florida, 32960 Telephone: 772-770-5060 x5 Email: genealogy@irclibrary.org Archive Center and Genealogy Department, 2 nd Floor Indian River County Main Library Extent ½ Linear Foot - 1 ms. case 39 x 27 x 13 cm., with 8 manila file folders, 1 divided section of sleeved newsletters, 1 sleeved hardbound book. Arrangement Language 1 ms box organized into 8 folders by name and subject content, 1 section set off by dividers with sleeved contents, book English Dates 1881-1971 Historical Note Clarence A. Vandiveer was born in Ohio in 1881. He arrived in Indian River in 1908, and built a two-story home in Wabasso in 1910. He was an author of books and Mimeo News, a local newspaper. In 1968 he moved to Sefner, and died in 1971 in Plant City. He never married. Scope and Content Contains originals of Wabasso Mimeo News in sleeves, from 1953-1956, the book Fur-trade and Early Western Exploration by Clarence A. Vandiveer, family genealogy information, newspaper articles, poems by Clarence A. Vandiveer, reviews, family correspondence, 35 photographs, and 7 postcards which are kept in the Miscellaneous Postcards Collections - Indian River County. Index Terms Vandiveer Family Vandiveer, Clarence A., 1881-1971 1.
Wabasso (Fla.) History - Photographs Wabasso (Fla.) Genealogy Pioneers Florida - Indian River County. Postcards Florida - Indian River County. Indian River County (Fla.) Genealogy Indian River County, (Fla.) History Access Unrestricted. The entire collection is open for research. Gloves and clean hands are required. 2.
Photographs MSS-VAN-001 MSS-VAN-002 MSS-VAN-003 MSS-VAN-004 MSS-VAN-005 MSS-VAN-006 MSS-VAN-007 MSS-VAN-008 MSS-VAN-009 MSS-VAN-010 MSS-VAN-011 MSS-VAN-012 Clarence Vandiveer, son of Arthur Washington Vandiveer and Laura Belle Groby Vandiveer. Clarence Vandiveer WWI Charles Person Vandiveer, son of Arthur Washington Vandiveer and Laura Belle Groby Vandiveer. Husband to Martha Elizabeth Bessie Bacon Vandiveer, children: Hazel, Fannie (Died Young) Robert, Bob, Jennie Vandiveer. Arthur Washington Vandiveer, Husband of Laura Groby. William, Will Early, husband of Allie Vandiveer, son-in-law to Arthur Washington Vandiveer. Cora Alice Allie Vandiveer Early, Daughter of Arthur Washington Vandiveer and Laura Belle Groby Vandiveer. Hazel Vandiveer Snyder Skinner, daughter of Arthur and Laura Vandiveer. Martha Elizabeth Bessie Bacon Vandiveer, daughter of David and Mary Bacon (first cousins), wife of Charles Charlie Pearson Vandiveer, children: Hazel, Fannie (Died young), Robert Bob, and Jennie Vandiveer. Laura Groby Vandiveer, wife of Arthur Washington Vandiveer. Lula Frances Hazel Barker, wife of William Jordan Adkins Barker (groundskeeper for many years to the Michael family, Orchid Island). Lula and Will Barker raised their family on Orchid Island before the bridge was built. She had cheesecloth for windows and cooked on an open fire outside. An artesian well supplied water. She once chased a panther out of her home with a palmetto broom. Her small baby was asleep on their rope bed at the time. Life was hard for the small family and Lula divorced William as soon as her children could take care of themselves. Their child, Forest, was my grandfather, he married Jennie Vandiveer, daughter of Pearson Vandiveer. Robert Bob Vandiveer, son of Arthur and Laura Vandiveer. Picture of E.E. Smith s Store, Wabasso, Fl. Seminole Indians often traded with Mr. Smith; Far right, Bessie Vandiveer, next to her was her sisterin-law, Allie Early. Center of picture, behind female Indians is Laura 3.
Groby Vandiveer holding her grandson, Robert Bob Vandiveer. Photo taken 1908, Wabasso, FL by John Cates. MSS-VAN-013 MSS-VAN-014 MSS-VAN-015 MSS-VAN-016 MSS-VAN-017 Orchid School term 1917-1918 Easter M. Russel, teacher, Robert Vandiveer top, second from right ( notice outhouse in background, smaller children no shoes). Orchid School Term 1918-1919- Robert Vandiveer (Bob) seated second from left Jannie Vandiveer seated, far right. Arthur and Laura Vandiveer, taken 1906 at home site in Wabasso, FL where US1 is today in front of old Methodist Church. Untitled Clarence Vandiveer, Mrs. Early and adopted daughter Robbie Lee, Wabasso, Fla. MSS-VAN-018 Early get together, Wabasso, FL about 1909-1911. MSS-VAN-019 MSS-VAN-020 Clarence A. Vandiveer on left. C.A. Vandiveer is second from right, others unknown. MSS-VAN-021 C.A. Vandiveer right side with lady standing behind him, Feb 13 th 1910, Picnic at Michael s. MSS-VAN-022 MSS-VAN-023 Arthur W. Vandiveer in Wabasso, FL. Howard Cail, 4 years old, 1909, from Wabasso, FL. MSS-VAN-024 Charles Vandiveer extreme right, Arthur Vandiveer next to him; no hat : Bessie Vandiveer; directly behind her is her mother in law Laura Vandiveer. MSS-VAN-025 MSS-VAN-026 MSS-VAN-027 MSS-VAN-028 MSS-VAN-029 Clarence A. Vandiveer with mother, Laura Groby Vandiveer in upstairs Bedroom, Wabasso, FL. Unknown Farmers in Wabasso, early 1900 s. Unknown in Wabasso, January 3, 1909 Unknown in Wabasso Train accident 1917, Wabasso. 4.
MSS-VAN-030 Grace M.E. Church Wabasso, and Parsonage taken 1925. MSS-VAN-031 MSS-VAN-032 MSS-VAN-033 MSS-VAN-034 MSS-VAN-035 MSS-VAN-036 MSS-VAN-037 MSS-VAN-038 MSS-VAN-039 Allie Early; lifesaving station, Wabasso. Along the Indian River, Fla. Grave s Orange Grove. In Wabasso, early 1900 s. Vandiveer House, used to be right on US1, Methodist Church in front of it, Wabasso, FL. Wabasso. Unknown, Wabasso. Methodist Church across the street was the Vandiveer s house. Not: car is the first car in Wabasso, owned by Will and Allie Early. Pavilion, New Smyrna, FL. 5.
Vandiveer Images on CD s numbered consecutively within the 17 groups provided by Gail Brown Disc # Image # 1 01-0001 02-0046 2 03-0047 03-0089 3 04-0090 04-0130 4 04-0131 05-0180 5 05-0181 07-0240 6 08-0241 11-0313 7 11-0314 12-0380 8 13-0381 13-0459 9 14-0460 15-0560 10 15-0561 16-0618 11 17-0619 17-0646 6.