12 1 EALLOGICAL RMCORDS

TE E IR S0N FAMILY


_JOR AARON T. FRMIRSON was the first of the name that live
in Florida. He was a native of Sumtor County, South Caro-
lina, and was born December 3, 1806. He came to Florida in
1843, settling in the neighborhood of Spring Hill, near
Brooksville, in Hernando County. He .ras married three times,
the first time to Hester Mills, of South Carolina, in 1829.;
His second marriage was to Isabella Lowry, also of South
Carolina, in 1839. His third marriage was to Mary M. Wall,i
oldest daughter of Perry G. and Nancy (Ihnter) Wall. (See
all f airly. )
 By his first marriage Aaron T. Frierson vas the father
 of tliree sons-William, James and Samuel. By his second
 marria.-e orn daughter, named Sarah Jane, who married Joseph
 Taylor. Br his third wife he was the father of seven child-
 ren; but four sons died in infancy, only three children
 gro.'in up)--one son anitvo daughters.
 (1) Thoe rLtir child was Taylor, who n-arried Annie UaL~-
 enhardt, of Tampa. They had five children--Henry, rerry G.,
 Edwrard, Florence and :uth.
 (2) Julia, born December 13, 1857, m nrriod James E.,
the oldest son of Captain Francis Asbury Hendry, of Fort
!iyers, where they hcw reside. (See .Hendry fEamily. )
 (3) Ella, born uly 12, 1862, the youngest child of
 Aaron T. and Mary M. (Wal ) Frierson, married Louis Hondry
 in 1878, the youngest brot.r of her asiter's husband. She
 died August 4, 1901, leaving eight children. (See Hendry
 family.)
 James Frierson, the second son of Aaron T. and d -a-
 bella (Lowry) ,his;second wifo, was born in Sumter, South
 Carolina. He married Louisa Law, daughter of Captain Petea2
 'Law, a farmer of Hamilton County, Georgia, who cape to Flo*
 ida in the early forties. James Frierson came to Florida ;
 with his father and settled near him in Hernando County.
 Jams Frierson died in 1896; his wife had died twelve
 years before. They had eight children, four sons and four
 Daughters, named below: 1
 (1) William J., the oldest son of James and Louisa i
 S(Law) Frierson, was born in Hernando County, Florida, Oeto
 ber 14, 1858. He spent his early life on his father's fa,
 and in 1868 removed with the family to Hillaboroagn County
 i Attheoage of twenty-two years he. engaged in fanning on hi
 own account, and five years later took up his residence in
 i Taa,: where he engaged in the meat market business, which
 he followed very successfully for many years .i
 r G.- -aTbnMr^iiy->I &Mee iiay fdaughmiltey-.-
 Leroy G. and 'JOfe (SAndwich) Lesley. (See Lesley faiilyi.11