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Identified in the photograph are Mrs. Bouie from England and Dr. Hall.
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Once the plantation of Governor John Branch, but his original home burned in 1894. Edmund H. Ronalds of Edinburgh Scotland bought the plantation in 1887, after 17 years ownership by the Case family of Pennsylvania. He spent his winters here and married Lisa, the 3rd daughter of J.J. Williams in 1891. He died in 1895 and Live Oak passed to Dr. Tennent Ronalds (never a practicing physician). He developed Live Oak as Leon County's first hunting plantation and built a golf course. He kept a flock of sheep to keep the greens and fairways trim. He committed suicide in February 1924. Hermann and Marie Fleitman, of Stamford, Connecticut, bought the plantation in 1925. Sold in 1934 to Leon Cheek of Jacksonville by then it was 2,815 acres but the house had burned. Sold in 1948 to A.M. Middlebrooks, but by then it was no longer a game plantation and partly absorbed by Tallahassee suburbs.
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House at Live Oak Plantation - Leon County, Florida. 1900 (circa). State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/130511>, accessed 9 June 2026.
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House at Live Oak Plantation - Leon County, Florida. 1900 (circa). State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/130511>
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