Thomas Keith CLYBURN

Family/Spouse: Ruby SCARBOROUGH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Miriam CLYBURN
2. Meta CLYBURN

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From the "History of the First Baptist Church, Summerfield, FL"
From 1906-1912 the Clyburns lived in Pedro on Hwy 475 south of Hwy 42. They were not strangers to the residents of Summerfield since they had lived here before, and upon coming back they moved into the Kerby house on Newsome Street. The house was near where the post office is today, 1999. Across the street was a hotel. The next year the Clyburns built a beautiful two-story house facing the railroad track south of the hotel. In 1917 they bought the hotel named the National Colony House.
R.L. was in business with Nathan Mayo and tended to the grocery section in Mayo's Store. Later across the tracks R.L. built a two story brick store and was In business for himself. That particular store was lost to fire, and over the years he was the proprietor of other stores. Today we would call Mr. Clyburn a bivocational pastor. As early as 1911 he was an ordained minister and preached in our church. He was elected Sunday School Superintendent in 1912 even though he was not a member. This is an indication of how people held him in such high esteem and regard.
Before moving to Summerfield, Mr. Clyburn was preaching every third Sunday at the Longhammock schoolhouse. He was also Pedro's first pastor for three years. After they moved to Summerfield, Mrs. Russell as a little girl remembers her father hitching up the wagon on particular Sunday mornings and going off to preach for a morning and evening service. She and her sister Grace would sometimes go with him to Pedro. Grace liked to suggest to her father with whom they should eat lunch. Usually there was more than one invitation for the preacher. Grace preferred to go to a home where there was a baby so she could tend to it. After the evening service on the return trip home the girls often would go to sleep in the wagon. Upon arrival their father would gently wake them saying "We're home." Mrs. Grace told many times she knew what it would sound like when she got to Heaven. In that same manner her earthly father spoke, her Heavenly Father would say "Gracie, you're home."

Richard married Sarah E. PERRY. Sarah (daughter of Kieth Butler PERRY and Lucinda L.) was born on 2 Nov 1874; died on 2 Jul 1963. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Kieth married Lucinda L. on 2 Nov 1893. Lucinda was born on 28 Jan 1856; died on 29 Jan 1955. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Peter Boyer Perry served in Company F, 9th Regiment, State of Florida during the Civil War. He was paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on April 9, 1865.

"Peter B. Perry taught school in a log meeting house near the Crum cemetery, southwest of Summerfield, beginning in 1854, for a number of years." Excerpt from, "Gone with the Hickory Stick: School Days in Marion County 1845-1960," by Broward Lovell

The following article appeared in the Ocala Star Banner on 21 October 1998

"Founding Families still live in Pedro," BY CHRISTOPHER LLOYD, STAFF WRITER

Chances are if your family has lived near the comer of County Roads 42 and 475 for a long stretch of years, you had some Proctors or Perrys among your ancestors.

Those two families settled Pedro, a loosely defined community west of Summerfield, more than a century ago. They raised cattle, hogs and watermelon, and it wasn't at all uncommon for a Proctor gal to marry a Perry feller, or vice-versa.

"There's an old saying that if you see some guy on the street, you can say, 'Hello, Mr. Perry,' and if he doesn't answer you can come back and say, 'Hello, Mr. Proctor' and get an answer," said Ralph Hackett, 67.

Hackett, who lives across the street from his [grand]father's farmhouse where he was born, is a direct descendant of Peter Boyer Perry, who gave Pedro its name. His great-great-grandfather passed through the area in 1847 on his way to fight in the Mexican-American War.

Perry helped win the war, planting a flag inside Mexico City. He stayed there for two more years, friends with many of the Mexicans who used to be his enemies.

"He was called Pedro, which is Spanish for Peter," Hackett said.

As he prepared to return to the States, Perry's mind recalled the quiet open lands in Florida he had passed through, and thought it would be a great place to raise cattle. He became one of the first white men to settle the area, and gave it his Spanish name.

In 1849, when most people were going out West for the Gold Rush, he came to Florida," Hackett said. Don't make the mistake of pronouncing the name as "pay-dro," though it's "pee-dro!'

It would remain a spread-out farming community. In the early days the Perrys let their cattle roam free, rounding them up when auction time came. Occasionally the men would fight off roving raiding bands of Seminole indians.

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Peter married Elizabeth DUKE. Elizabeth (daughter of Robert DUKE and Nancy KING) was born on 25 Jul 1831; died on 18 May 1894. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]