listed in cemetery records as :
Lillian Pierpont Laurel Grove North 0 0 343 X22 07/14/1939 07/15/1939
Born in 1854, Elizabeth "Lillie" Pierpont was the oldest child of James L. Pierpont and Elizabeth Purse Pierpont of Savannah, Georgia. In the mid to late 1880s, Lillie joined her parents and younger brother, Juriah at the growing community in Winter Haven. In 1887, Pierpont wrote to Frances Cleveland, asking that she have President Cleveland intervene on behalf of the Seminole involved in a dispute at Titusville. Her plea was met in 1888 with an offer to serve as federal agent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Seminole. Lillie Pierpont was the first woman in Florida to hold this position.
Image Courtesy University of West Florida, John C. Pace Library
listed in cemetery records as :
Lillian Pierpont Laurel Grove North 0 0 343 X22 07/14/1939 07/15/1939
Born in 1854, Elizabeth "Lillie" Pierpont was the oldest child of James L. Pierpont and Elizabeth Purse Pierpont of Savannah, Georgia. In the mid to late 1880s, Lillie joined her parents and younger brother, Juriah at the growing community in Winter Haven. In 1887, Pierpont wrote to Frances Cleveland, asking that she have President Cleveland intervene on behalf of the Seminole involved in a dispute at Titusville. Her plea was met in 1888 with an offer to serve as federal agent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Seminole. Lillie Pierpont was the first woman in Florida to hold this position.
Image Courtesy University of West Florida, John C. Pace Library
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