Fielder Harris was born into slavery near Abbeville, South Carolina 173 years ago in 1850. Mr. Harris found his way to Brooksville, Florida as a free man decades later in the early 1880's. It was here where he met 10 year old Chicago native Raymond Robins whom he befriended and mentored, teaching him how to fish, hunt, and the values of caring for nature. Robins would go on to become a world traveler, diplomat and advisor to seven presidents, from Theodore Roosevelt to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He traveled to France, Russia and other countries on numerous diplomatic missions. In 1905 Mr. Robins returned to Brooksville and with his sister, Elizabeth, an actress (She joined Edwin Booth's, the brother of John Wilkes Booth, theatre group) purchased the famed Chinsegut Hill Manor. He never forgot his childhood friendship with Fielder and asked him to be the impressive plantations foreman, a most gutsy request in the Jim Crow South. The following year, Robins fulfilled his youthful promise to take Fielder to New York. They traveled together by rail to Washington, D. C., and New York, where they visited Theodore Roosevelt who gave Fielder a
horseshoe which he nailed to the great Altar Oak at Chinsegut.
▪︎▪︎ Note: Fielderand his wife, Precious "Pet" Washington named their son, Raymond Robins Harris after his lifelong friend and their daughter, Margaret after Robins wife, womens rights acivist, Margaret Dreier.
I have so much more to tell and we will be doing so on our public social media, "The Good Cemeterian" in the not too distant future.
Fielder Harris... Beloved husband, father, renaissance man !!
horseshoe which he nailed to the great Altar Oak at Chinsegut.
▪︎▪︎ Note: Fielderand his wife, Precious "Pet" Washington named their son, Raymond Robins Harris after his lifelong friend and their daughter, Margaret after Robins wife, womens rights acivist, Margaret Dreier.
I have so much more to tell and we will be doing so on our public social media, "The Good Cemeterian" in the not too distant future.
Fielder Harris... Beloved husband, father, renaissance man !!
Fielder Harris was born into slavery near Abbeville, South Carolina 173 years ago in 1850. Mr. Harris found his way to Brooksville, Florida as a free man decades later in the early 1880's. It was here where he met 10 year old Chicago native Raymond Robins whom he befriended and mentored, teaching him how to fish, hunt, and the values of caring for nature. Robins would go on to become a world traveler, diplomat and advisor to seven presidents, from Theodore Roosevelt to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He traveled to France, Russia and other countries on numerous diplomatic missions. In 1905 Mr. Robins returned to Brooksville and with his sister, Elizabeth, an actress (She joined Edwin Booth's, the brother of John Wilkes Booth, theatre group) purchased the famed Chinsegut Hill Manor. He never forgot his childhood friendship with Fielder and asked him to be the impressive plantations foreman, a most gutsy request in the Jim Crow South. The following year, Robins fulfilled his youthful promise to take Fielder to New York. They traveled together by rail to Washington, D. C., and New York, where they visited Theodore Roosevelt who gave Fielder a
horseshoe which he nailed to the great Altar Oak at Chinsegut.
▪︎▪︎ Note: Fielderand his wife, Precious "Pet" Washington named their son, Raymond Robins Harris after his lifelong friend and their daughter, Margaret after Robins wife, womens rights acivist, Margaret Dreier.
I have so much more to tell and we will be doing so on our public social media, "The Good Cemeterian" in the not too distant future.
Fielder Harris... Beloved husband, father, renaissance man !!
horseshoe which he nailed to the great Altar Oak at Chinsegut.
▪︎▪︎ Note: Fielderand his wife, Precious "Pet" Washington named their son, Raymond Robins Harris after his lifelong friend and their daughter, Margaret after Robins wife, womens rights acivist, Margaret Dreier.
I have so much more to tell and we will be doing so on our public social media, "The Good Cemeterian" in the not too distant future.
Fielder Harris... Beloved husband, father, renaissance man !!
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