Hillsborough Co., FL history/genealogy- Van R. C. Wisner site
The Van Rensselaer C. Wisner Website
Hillsborough County, Florida
'Flowers', 1669 by the Dutch painter Otto Marseus van Schrieck, b. 1619/20 in Nijmegen, d. 1678 in Amsterdam; picture courtesy of Bernard Huyvaert - acquired from his website, Sept. 26, 2001, http://users.pandora.be/bernard/Artpics/Dutch.htm

Obituaries from The Tampa Tribune

Transcriptions of miscellaneous obituaries and funeral notices published in the Tampa Tribune from 1895 to 2001. As of July 2002, there are about 1,940 individual obituaries on this page.

Portrait of F. C. M. Boggess; picture courtesy of ???; acquired from his website, Sept. 27, 2001, ?

Autobiography of F. C. M. Boggess

Transcription of chapter four of Francis Calvin Morgan Boggess' Autobiography, narrating his arrival at Fort Brooke in Tampa and his account of events in south central Florida during the Third Seminole War (1855-1858), including the Payne-Whidden massacre in present-day Hardee County, Florida. Click here to see pictures of Paynes Creek Historic State Park.

A tombstone made of seashells, ?? Cemetery, eastern Hillsborough County.

Local cemeteries

Photographs of tombstones and cemetery entrances, cemetery inventories, directions to cemeteries, maps of cemetery grounds, in Hillsborough County and surrounding areas.

Aerial photograph of part of Limona, courtesy of www.mapquest.com

Limona

Information about a community about 10 miles east of Tampa, founded in 1876 by Judge J. G. Knapp.

Charles F. Sheskey's obituary in The Tampa Tribune

Charles F. and Mary Addie (Wynn) Sheskey

Bill-paying citizens of Tampa, Florida