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- John Cleveland Boots was born 3 January 1885, in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, and died 14 May 1967, in Ocala, Marion County, Florida. He married 9 December 1909, in College Hill, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, Edna Inez FUNKHOUSER, daughter of William Thomas FUNKHOUSER and Rosena Mary ROBERTS, who was born 21 November 1888 in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, and died in Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida, 4 October 1978. They are buried in Candler Cemetery, Candler, Marion County, Florida.
John C. and Edna I. Boots moved to Candler, Florida around 1921, where he was a Citrus Grower. They were members of the Candler Presbyterian Church, in which church he served in the capacity of Ordained Ruling Elder for many years. They had two children.
From a 2001 interview with John R. Boots, Sr.:
"My grandfather (Amos C. Boots) resided in the Samuel Boots house. When my dad got married, a new house was built just on the other side of the hill (on present-day Czar Road) for him and his bride.
"Papa was the first in the family to acquire a milking machine for the dairy cows he kept. We used to send the milk in to Pittsburgh on the trolley. There was a special Trolley Car that picked up the full cans in the morning, and returned them empty in the afternoon.
"Papa's boyhood friend, Harry Baxter, had been required to move to Florida for his health some time earlier. When Harry came back to North Sewickley for his father's funeral, he spoke of Florida in such glowing terms that my father decided to move the family there. This he did, in 1921.
"My mother had to leave a nearly new house, outfitted with electricity, running water, and indoor plumbing, for a much more primitive existence in Florida. She hated it from the very first day. The house we purchased in Candler included several acres of producing orange groves, and several acres of vacant land. After a couple of years, she complained so much about the conditions in Florida that Papa felt it necessary to move back to Pennsylvania. He purchased a house on College Hill.
"After a year or so, he decided to go back to Florida. He and I went by car (it took six or seven days in the 1920's and we had to camp out along the way). We spent some time fixing up the house in Candler (Florida), and my mother and sister then took the train to join us."
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