Cherick Lynne Lasbury

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• Also Known As: Cheri

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Residence:
Cherick Lasbury 3816 1st Av West Brandenton, Florida 34205 USA

Family/Spouse: Malcolm John Pitchford Jones. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Kimberley Jones

Family/Spouse: Bruce Harford Cope. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As: Penny
• FindaGrave ID: 100128968
• Alt Birth: 17 Aug 1915

Clyde married Leah Jeanne Bartlett on 16 Sep 1940 in Sanbornton, Belknap, New Hampshire, USA. Leah (daughter of James Ellwood Bartlett, Snr. and Nellie Bethune Allen) was born on 11 Apr 1915 in Boca Grande, Lee, Florida, USA; died on 7 Jun 2009 in Englewood, Sarasota, Florida, USA; was buried on 12 Jun 2009 in Englewood, Sarasota, Florida, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave ID: 100129497

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Theodore Strongin - Good friend and companion to Leah Jeanne Bartlett

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/03/arts/theodore-strongin-79-a-critic-championed-contemporary-music.html

Died:
Leah Bartlett Lasbury 94, departed this life for her next adventure on June 7, 2009.

Leah was born in Boca Grande, Fla. in 1915 to James and Nellie Bartlett, early real estate pioneers in the area.

She graduated from Rollins College in 1936 and attended Simmons College in Boston, Mass.

Leah and her husband Clyde P. Lasbury came to Englewood in 1951 and established the first real estate business in Englewood, "Lee Lasbury Real Estate."

Her interests varied from accomplished artist to community activist. Her many years of involvement and leadership in local organizations include the Englewood Area Chamber of Commerce, Woman's Taxpayers League, Business and Professional Woman's Club, Englewood Area Board of Realtors, Elsie Quirk Public Library to name a few. She also was involved in the Ringling Museum Members Council and Board of Directors, Asolo Theatre Festival Association Board of Directors and the Florida Artists Group. She was especially proud of her "Secret Society of Smoked Mullets" recognition in 1999.

Leah was married to her best friend Clyde P. Lasbury for 49 years and spent her later years with her friend and companion Theodore Strongin.

She was also a cherished member of her Slick Rock Mountain community in Brevard, North Carolina.

Leah was mother to three daughters Cherick B. Cope, Dana L. Meeks and Leah J. Lasbury, Jr. She was "Mimi" to four grandchildren and six great grandchildren.

Leah lived her life with enthusiasm, optimism and a great sense of adventure. Even though her health declined over the past few years, Leah handled life with courage, grace, humor and dignity, while still bringing joy and love to others as she always did.

She will be dearly missed by not only family but all the people she touched in her life.

Memorial services will be held at the Englewood United Methodist Church on Friday, June 12th at 1:00 p.m. Contributions may be made to the Elsie Quirk Public Library, Englewood, Fla.

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• Also Known As: Ralph Cherokee Lasbury
• FindaGrave ID: 62058813
• Occupation: Tobacco Grower
• Military Service: 12 Sep 1918, Broad Brook, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Notes:

NOTES FOR RALPH CHERECK LASBURY:
1910 CENSUS East Windsor, hartford, Connecticut 158A
Lasbury, Ralph, head, 36, married 9 yrs, CT, Eng, NY, tobacco farmer
Eloise, wife, 34, married 9 yrs, CT, CT, CT
Ralph jr, son, 3, CT
Lilly, dau, 2, CT
Lurah, dau, 1, CT
1920 CENSUS East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 132B
Lasbury, Ralph C, head, 45, CT, Eng, NY, tobacco farmer
Eloise J, wife 43, CT, CT, CT
Ralph C. jr, son, 13, CT
Lillian S, dau, 11, CT
Lura T, dau, 10, CT
Ardella S, dau, 8, CT
Clyde P, son, 5, CT
Walter T, son, 2, CT
Thrall, Clyde, brother-in-law, no age, CT, CT, CT
Catherine, sister-in-law, 45, CT, CT, CT
1930 CENSUS South Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 238B
Lasbury, Ralph, head, 55, 1st married at 26, CT, Eng, NY, tobacco farmer
Elloise, wife 52, 1st married at 23, CT, CT, CT
Lillian, dau, 21, CT
Lura, dau, 19, CT
Ardell, dau, 17, CT
Clyde, son, 14, CT
Theodore, son, 11, CT
Thrall, Clyde, brother-in-law, 59, CT
Katherine, sister-in-law, 55, CT (Clyde and Katherine Thrall are Eliose's brother and sister)




Died:
OBITUARY
New York Times, February 12, 1944
RALPH C. LASBURY SR.
Connecticut Tabacco Grower, 69, Owned Light-Harness Racers
Hartford, Conn., Feb. 12 Associated Press
Ralph C. Lasbury Sr., South Windsor tobacco grower and packer, and owner of many light-harness racing horses, died yesterday in the Hartford Hospital. His age was 69.
Starting as a grower at at 14, while yet a schoolboy, Mr. Lasbury developed a 200 acre plantation, employed sixty field hands and had a payroll of 100 packers. In 1924 he entered the real estate business in Florida but five years later resumed tobacco growing on a 500 acre tract.
He was the owner of Earle Jr., familiarly known as the "War Horse", said to have been the most consistent horse ever to run on a track in this country. His time was 2:04 1/4.

Ralph married Eloise Jane Thrall in 1900. Eloise (daughter of Moses Thrall and Adelaide S. Pinney) was born on 31 Mar 1874 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 27 Mar 1954 in South Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Windsorville, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As: Louise
• FindaGrave ID: 62058827

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• FindaGrave ID: 24195459

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James Ellwood Bartlett

It was still the horse and buggy era. Fuel for the horses, of course, was needed on a daily basis. The feed and grain trade was a lucrative profession, if you were a shrewd merchant. James Elwood Bartlett was certainly such a businessman. He owned feed and grain mills, retail stores where he sold his finished products and grain elevators.

He was the largest individual feed and grain operator in the state of Michigan. Being the astute merchant that he was, maybe he foresaw the horseless future that was rapidly approaching. Or maybe he was just bitten by the warm weather sunshine bug.

Whatever the reason, in 1915, at the age of 43, he sold his large and tremendously successful business and said to his wife Nellie, "Let's take the whole winter off and go down to this place we're hearing about, Boca Grande." The Bartletts arrived in Boca Grande with their four children and another on the way.

Leah Lasbury, longtime Englewood resident, is the youngest daughter of Nellie Allen and J.E. Bartlett. She recalls her father was immediately taken with Florida. He travelled all over the state, exploring different areas before he started investing.

He bought extensive orange groves in Fort Ogden, property in Venice and Winter Park. He opened offices in Tampa, Sarasota and Winter Park, but he was most partial to the Lemon Bay area. He thought the bay spectacular and the fishing fabulous. So in the early 1920s, as the Florida boom was going strong, he started buying land here in Englewood. At one point in time, he was one of the largest land owners in our area. He owned about 40,000 acres altogether, some of which is now Manasota Key and Casperson Beach.

One part of his holdings included 16,000 acres that started on the north side of Dearborn Street and meandered unevenly northward beyond Forked Creek. On the east side of State Road 776, there still is an area that is on the record as Bartlett Subdivision. He owned the 5,000 acres that today is platted as the Overbrook Gardens Development. It was probably 1922 when Bartlett bought that piece of land for a total of $700,000 or about $43 an acre. "His land also encompassed what is now Englewood Isles and Alameda Isles" says Leah Lasbury.

"But then the debacle hit Florida in 1927. Everybody in Florida lost everything. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the BLE, went broke also. They had built the town of Venice, and the town really became a true ghost town.

"Now this is really interesting," continues Leah, "There was one master mortgage on the town. All of those little houses and all the various component parts were included in one mortgage. So, when things began to pick up a little bit, nothing could be purchased because of this one mortgage. My father found out Kingsbury Curtis, he owned Curtis Publishing Company that put out the Saturday Evening Post, held the mortgage. He lived somewhere in the east and my Dad went up there and explained to him that the whole town was being held back. Not one piece of property could be released. Well, my dad got him to agree to break the condition and release individual parcels.

"I think that was my father's greatest contribution to the area. He was the one who broke the log jam and opened things up in the whole Venice area."

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The Bartlett Family

James Elwood Bartlett was the largest individual feed and grain operator in the state of Michigan. Being the astute merchant he was, maybe he foresaw the horseless future that was rapidly approaching. Or maybe he was just bitten by the warm weather sunshine bug. What ever the reason by 1915 he had sold his very successful business and relocated with his wife Nellie and their four children to Boca Grande.

Soon another child was born who would later become a prominent Englewood citizen, Leah Bartlett Lasbury. She said her father bought extensive orange groves in several parts of Florida, hotels and in the early 1920s started buying land here in Englewood. At one point in time, he was one of the largest land owners in our area. He owned about 40,000 acres altogether, some of which is now Manasota Key and Casperson Beach.

One part of his holdings included 16,000 acres that started on the north side of Dearborn Street and meandered unevenly north beyond Forked Creek. It encompassed what are now the residential areas of Alameda Isles, Englewood Isles and Overbrook Gardens. Mr. Bartlett once took Sgt. Alvin C. York, the famous W.W.I hero, on a fishing trip out of Englewood.

Dearborn Street and Olde Englewood Village
http://www.oldeenglewood.com/site/history/pioneers/258-the-bartlett-family.html

A Legacy Continues

James Elwood Bartlett was the patriarch of the Lasbury-Tracy family, one of the early pioneers of Englewood.

J.E. and his wife Nellie took the daring step of moving to Englewood from Michigan in 1915 after selling his successful tackle and feed stores. J.E's adventure south lead him through several Florida communities of interest where he purchased land but it was Englewood and Venice that finally settled him down. No one is really sure what the final attraction to Englewood was. The people? Lemon Bay? Or was it simply the price and availability of land that hooked J.E.

Family stories totaled J.E.'s land purchases as well over forty thousand acres that included large tracts of Venice and Englewood. Manasota Key was purchased but quickly resold because of the limited access and the rugged environment. Venice airport military bunkers were purchased and moved into Englewood for housing. Subdivisions were platted, lots were sold while family members grew up and moved away to pursue higher education, marriage and raise families. J.E. had five children, two boys, James and Alan and three girls, Leah Lois and Ruth. Leah B. Lasbury, Ruth Kuykendall and Lois B. Tracy returned to Englewood years later.

Leah Lasbury founded Englewood's first Real Estate office in 1951 called Lee Lasbury Realty later purchased by Red Branning then Nathan B. Tracy III and renamed to Lasbury Tracy Realty Inc. Leah was a very active supporter of the Englewood community: she served as the president of the Chamber of Commerce, was one of the founders of the Elsie Quirk Community Library, the Englewood Water District and was actively involved in many organizations, including the Business and Professional Women's Organization and many other community and art organizations. Ruth Kuykendall, the youngest of the family settle into Venice working with her father J.E. as his personal secretary and married Kirk. Lois B. Tracy became a renowned abstract painter. Her artwork and her musings made her one of Englewood's most celebrated citizens. Some of Lois' works inducted into the Smithsonian and Metropolitan Museum of Art. Read more about Lois Bartlett Tracy.

Blood lines may thin but in print, photos and canvas, the Bartlett's, Lasbury's and Tracy's will always be part of Englewood past, present and future.

James married Nellie Bethune Allen on 16 Aug 1898 in Jackson, Jackson, Michigan, USA. Nellie (daughter of William Duncan Allen and Ella Maria Wood) was born on 27 Apr 1875 in Lodi, Kalkaska, Michigan, USA; died on 11 Oct 1977 in Sarasota, Sarasota, Florida, USA; was buried in Winter Park, Orange, Florida, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave ID: 53450255

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• FindaGrave ID: 61079886
• Baptism: 27 Dec 1819, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England, UK; Address:
  Holy Trinity Church, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England, UK
• Occupation: 6 Jun 1841, Hilperton, Wiltshire, England, UK; Millman
• Residence: 6 Jun 1841, Hilperton, Wiltshire, England, UK; : 20y
• Occupation: 21 Aug 1842, Beckington, Somerset, England, UK; Millman
• Emigration: Abt 1843, UK
• Immigration: Abt 1843, Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA
• Naturalization: 22 Jun 1848, Webster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
• Residence: 1850, East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
• Residence: 1860, East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
• Residence: 1870, Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA
• Residence: 1880, Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA
• Residence: 1900, East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Notes:

George Lasbury, above mentioned, was born in England, October 25, 1819, and died in 1906 at Broad Brook, Connecticut.

At an early age he left home and school to help his parents, as he was the oldest of a large family of children. He was employed in the woolen mills of Bradford, England, his native town, and by his industry worked up until he became overseer of fulling. He learned the trade of finishing.

He married (first) in 1840, in England, Fannie Sylcox, and came to this country alone the following year. Speaking the same language, feeling the brotherhood in our Common ancestry, he became an American in the best sense of the word.

His wife and son arrived in America a year and a half later, and they located at Webster, Massachusetts. Mr. Lasbury worked first in the mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, then later removed from there to Broad Brook, Connecticut, where he resided for about fifty years.

By industry and economy he saved enough from his modest income to buy a farm in the southern part of Broad Brook. Enjoying the respect and confidence of the people of all the vicinity, he spent his last years on this place, and his memory is still honored by all who knew him.

By his first wife, who died in 1852, there were the following children: Edward G., married Jeanette Guernsey, Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Morgan, of New York; Emma, married Oscar Willey, of Broad Brook; Addie T., wife of Gilbert Nabel.

Mr. Lasbury married (second) in 1854, Sarah Morgan and their children were Mattie M., resides in Redding, Massachusetts; William Morgan, the subject of our sketch; and George B. of Omaha, Nebraska. Mrs. Sarah (Morgan) Lasbury died in September, 1865.

George Lasbury married (third) Mrs. Esther Allen., and their children are: Charles, who lives in Cleveland, Ohio; Ralph C. of further mention; James N.; and Harry L.

The family have long been members of the Congregational church of Broad Brook.

1850 CENSUS East Windsor twp, Hartford, Connecticut
Lasbury, George, 31, faller in factory, England
Fanny, 34, England
Edward, 8, England
Elizabeth, 4, Connecticut
Mary, 17, England (Mary is George's sister)

1860 CENSUS East Windsor twp, Hartford, Connecticut 107B
Lasbury, George, 40, faller, England
Sarah, 40, England
Edward, 17, clerk, England
Elizabeth, 14, Massachusetts
Emma, 12, CT
Adeline, 8, CT
Martha, 4, CT
William, 2, CT
George, 2/12, CT

1870 CENSUS Broad Brook PO, East Windsor twp, Hartford, Connecticut 247B
Lasbury, George, 50, farmer, England
Esther, 34, NY
William M, 12, CT
George B, 10, CT
Joseph, 1, CT

Allen, Clara, 10, CT (step daughter)
John D, 7, CT (step son)

1880 CENSUS Broad Brook, East Windsor twp, Hartford, Connecticut 484B
Lasbury, George, head, 60, married, farmer, Eng, Eng, Eng
Esther, wife, 40, married, NY, NY, NY
Emma, dau, 32, married, works in post office, CT, Eng, Eng
Martha, dau, 24, single, dress maker, CT, Eng, Eng
Charles, son, 8, CT, Eng, NY
Ralph, son, 6, CT, Eng, NY
James, son, 3, CT, Eng, NY
George B, son, 20, CT, Eng, Eng

Allen, John D, step son, 17, CT, CT, NY
Willey, Fanny, 6, grand daughter, CT, CT, CT (Emma's dau)

1900 CENSUS East Windsor twp, Hartford, Connecticut 312B
Lasbury, George, head, Sept 1819, 80, married 30 yrs, immigrated 1841, Eng, Eng, Eng
Esther, wife, Aug 1839, 60, married 30 yrs, 5 births 4 living, NY, NY, NY
Ralph, son, Feb 1876, 24, single, CT, Eng, NY, farmer
James, son, March 1878, 22, single, CT, Eng, NY
Harry, son, Jan 1880, 20, CT, Eng, NY

Lasbury, Martha, head, Jan 1856, 44, single, CT, Eng, NY (mother actually born Eng)

1910 CENSUS East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 156A
Lasbury, Esther, head, 70, widow, CT, CT, CT, tobacco farmer
Harry, son, 30, single, CT, Eng, CT, farm labor


Residence:
Living next door to his sister Mary Ann lasbury and John Bailey

George married Esther M. Schoonmaker on 7 Apr 1867 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Esther (daughter of Charles Schoonmaker and Elizabeth Palmatier) was born in Aug 1839 in Knox, Albany, New York, USA; died on 14 Dec 1916 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave ID: 75714255
• Baptism: 30 Aug 1839, Knox, Albany, New York, USA

Notes:

Esther appears in the 1850 CENSUS census as follows:

1850 CENSUS Knox twp, Albany, New York 655A
Schoonmaker, Elizabeth, 59, farmer, NY
Elizabeth, 17, NY
Dinah, 19, NY
Hannah, 14, NY
Esther, 12, NY
Charles, 10, NY

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• FindaGrave ID: 62360611

Moses married Adelaide S. Pinney on Yes, date unknown. Adelaide (daughter of Loren Pinney and Susan) was born on 10 Jun 1842 in Connecticut, USA; died on 17 Dec 1930 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Windsorville, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave ID: 62360622

Wright married Rachel Pamelia Ellwood on 6 Sep 1870 in Royal Oak, Oakland, Michigan, USA. Rachel (daughter of Hiram Ellwood and Phoebe Hall) was born on 26 Apr 1848 in Royal Oak, Oakland, Michigan, USA; died on 28 Jul 1935. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Ella Maria Wood on Yes, date unknown. Ella was born on 27 Jun 1853 in Sharon, Washtenaw, Michigan, USA; died on 24 Sep 1935 in Lake Wales, Polk, Florida, USA; was buried on 26 Sep 1935 in Venice, Sarasota, Florida, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave ID: 22381035