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About Samuel Fullaway:
Florida State Census, 1867-1945 Name: Samuel Fullaway Age: 70 Gender: Male Race: White Birth
Place: England Est. Birth Year: abt 1875 Census Year: 1945 Locality: Precinct 28 County:
Polk Samuel Fullaway 70
About Eva Mae Eiland:
Eva Mae Eiland Walker Birth: Nov. 18, 1909, Spring Lake, Hernando County, Florida, USA Death:
Apr. 1, 2002, Lakeland, Polk County, Florida, USA
Eva Mae was born in Hernando County, Florida.
She was the first of six children born to Charles Edward EILAND and Zola Ophelia O'BERRY. She lived
the majority of her adult life in Lake Wales with the exception of eight years when she lived in Frostproof
with her second husband. In 1928, Eva Mae worked at the George Ridge Canners Company and later worked
for Florida Citrus Canners. Growing up Eva Mae spent a lot of time with her maternal grandparents, John
and Emily "Emma" (Morgan) O'BERRY where they homesteaded 100 acres between Brooksville and Dade City
and were self-supporting. As a young child, Eva Mae suffered from typhoid fever and there was no cure
and the only thing they knew to do back then that might help save your loved ones life was to boil rice,
oatmeal, or grits and then strain the liquid for those with the fever to drink. Between the ages of
16-18, Eva Mae once again came down with typhoid fever but this time her brother and sister came down
with it also and she not only nursed herself back to health but took care of her siblings too and got
them all well. Eva Mae enjoyed country living and says they went to town about once a month to get sugar,
flour, coffee, and salt and her grandmother ordered all the yard goods from the Sears catalog and made
all the clothes for the whole family. They made their own syrup and had their own smoked meat and raised
chickens, turkeys, and guineas; they had a garden and went to the grist mill and had their corn and
grits ground and gave the grist mill man corn in exchange for the grinding. As an adult, Eva Mae learned
to play the piano through a correspondence course and played by note. Her first husband, Sam FULLAWAY
came to Lake Wales at age 14 from England and they married 12 Jan 1935 in Lake Wales. Eva Mae seen much
in her life some good and some bad, bad enough she wished she could forget the bad things seen. Her
dad took her and her siblings to a Ku Klux Klan rally in Dade City and she seen both black and white
people lynched and her father told the children to always stay out of trouble and live right so that
would not happen to them. Eva Mae's first car was a 1926 Ford Sedan, she started driving when she was
about 12 or 13 years old; her dad would let her and her siblings drive out in the country. Eva Mae was
a tom boy growing up and enjoyed fishing and hunting.
Burial: Lake Wales Cemetery, Lake Wales,
Polk County, Florida, USA Created by: MEMORIES, Record added: Apr 02, 2010, Find A Grave Memorial#
50551522,
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 Name: Eva Eiland
Fullaway, [Eva Mae Walker] , [Eva Walker] , [Eva Eiland Eiland] SSN: 264018826 Gender: Female Race:
White Birth Date: 18 Nov 1909 Birth Place: Dade City PA, Florida Death Date: 1 Apr 2002 Father:
Charlie E Eiland Mother: Zola Oberry Disability Status: Disability denied - no record of type. Type
of Claim: Original SSN. Notes: Dec 1936: Name listed as EVA EILAND FULLAWAY; Jun 1959: Name listed
as EVA MAE WALKER; 05 Apr 2002: Name listed as EVA M WALKER
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